Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Read that as “set sex timer for one minute” and wondered why you always did it twice.

Well, I do. Fortunately, the only voice recording anyone has of me stored in a server somewhere is 'Set x minute timer'.

What makes you think it isn't storing all of the other things you say that are not prefixed with "Alexa"?

The recent news articles were not about employees listening to people shagging after saying "Alexa". It was just people shagging.

I don't either. But it's also spy software.... Or is it AND.

All is recorded. Whether stated or not.

As(s) above. Your timer isn't everything. In fact everything is it. All conversations. All sex acts.

Worse of all is our private conversations.

Or was it just ppl shagging?

Sometimes I wonder about the conversations in here and then remember the time zone x alcohol combination.

I don't have that much sex in my kitchen. It's really small.

Not long after Alexa was released there were a fair few articles of people inspecting what was uploaded to Amazon and there was no suggestion that it was uploading anything other than what it was meant to. I'll see if I can find one

Well, I only use Google Assistant and I only have it on my phone. Google give you access to all of the voice recordings they have as they're stored in your Google Account - I have listened to them all.

@brm brought his new Bryston amp round and we had a bit of a party.

Stunning piece of kit.

It certainly sounded great through your speakers. I’ll have a little A/B with my dac and the internal dac to see if there is much difference.

A mate is going to lend me a super posh audio note dac, so I’ll hang onto the class a amp until then, but I think this Bryston may have cost them their job. Very different sound though.

Picked up this nice SL1300mk2 at the weekend. Can I just swap this plug for a UK one? It says 250v on it, possibly Italian?

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It looks like a type of plug I used to have on a rack of 80's hifi. They plugged into a mini 4 way adaptor. Probably best to check the deck has the correct power supply or that it's switched to 240v if it has 110/250v possibilities. On the 1210 that's pretty clear but the power supply switch is under the platter.

Ah cheers, yep, it was under there. It's in the 220-240 position. Will swap a new plug in and get it running. Hoping the auto cue still works, apparently these were problematic.

Apparently a bitch to fix too. I guess they sell for less than a 1200 otherwise why bother. The 1200's seem to be very reasonable now there's a whole range of new ones available.

Because I wanted something with auto return.

edit: a bitch to fix partly because of the unavailability of parts, I think, thankfully 3D printing has sorted that problem out.

It might, albeit a very old and illegal nowadays. Never seen one with the center longer than the other two

I think airhead's theory sounds most likely, it's quite small

Makes sense

I can understand the desire for auto return. It's not really an issue for me not to have it but it would help from time to time.

SL10!

t looks like a type of plug I used to have on a rack of 80's hifi. They plugged into a mini 4 way adaptor.

My folks had this on their Marantz, and I'm so sure I put it to one side but could never find it again. They're such a brilliant solution to the multitude of plugs that come with separates. Altho I wonder how many people have that many decks anymore...amp, tuner, CD, tape, MD, record anyone?

@Silly_Savage - When I put a new CD player and tape deck in for them I switched the stock UK plugs for those to match up with the rest of the system. Other than electrocuting myself by plugging a plug with the cover off to get a CD out, there were no problems. However, I never put a stock UK plug on any of the older separate components, so couldn't comment that way round.

But, won't it make it sound bad? I have got £5k mains leads powering all of my seperates. Haven't you?

SL1000R!

Only kidding, pure anti. I do like the look of the 1500c, still a bit steep for me though.

But, won't it make it sound bad? I have got £5k mains leads powering all of my seperates. Haven't you?

Well, as feared, the arm lift is borked. It's going to fun fixing that, but I can live without it for a while I guess.