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If that doesnt fix it, a slightly less simple, but still very doable fix is to replace hinges.

Gotcha, makes sense - cheers!

I'll adjust tracking force later (this is also recommended in thr manual)

Didn't know you could run an MC cart into an MM stage if it's high enough output, I'll check the specs later.

@ChasnotRobert It's a wired input from Spartan to one of the A10s, which are connected to each other through WiFi rather than bluetooth. Would the onboard DAC contribute in some way to a dirty/distorted treble?

Look like the standard metal circlip type of thing, so if you can remove the plastic cover, you can squeeze those two metal prongs (at 5.30 and 6 o'clock in you image) together and bulb will come towards you.

First thing I'd try is cutting round the silicone and twisting the white plastic to remove it from the light housing and expose the prongs.

If its too stuck, I'd try a screwdriver behind the white cover and try to lever against the ceiling to take out the whole fitting.

Obvs turn off the fuse for the lighting circuit if you're sticking your screwdriver into places.

This is a great shout, I'll try this first.
It's not a large room so may need to think more about placement.

It's the second of the ground floor rooms of a standard victoriana terrace. Speakers currently wall mounted in each alcove either side of the chimney breast, TT sits on wall mounted shelf about 60cm below the left speaker. Could easily be getting some sort of resonance in that corner.

Stylus is new, as is one of the records which I've observed the effect, so less likely.

If speaket/TT placement doesn't change anything, I'll look in more detail at cart settings on the TT before trying a new cart.

Thanks all for contributions, shout if there's a decent t4p cart you'd recommend!

Cheers @Mr_Smyth.

Any recommendation for t4p cart? (and reliable place to source one?)

Hi!

Hoping for some advice/knowledge from the hive mind.....

I'm new to vinyl, got setup over Christmas and have started listening.
I'm not "audiophile", just starting out.

Most of the time we love the sound, but have noticed some aspect of recording at the top end are more "present" than their digital counterparts. Occasionally on busy/loud bits of tracks, the top end can get quite distorted (e.g. snares, kazoo, choral cresendos etc).

Any ideas if this is normal/expected when starting out, and any suggestions on how I might dial it in?
Anything I might be missing in terms of basics for setup and maintainance?

Technics SL-7 > Spartan 5 > Audio Pro A10 (pair)

Go easy on me as I'm new at this!

Cartridge is the original 202 with new tonar stylus fitted by previous owner.

Sporting some Blue Thunder today:

Don't know if there's appetite for this here. Looking to downsize for something more portable post kids.

Wex offer £430 cash for the body, lenses and flash.

If sold on here I'd also throw in the 2 bags, remote, a spare cell for remote, 3 camera batteries total, and 2 nikon bettery chargers.

Nikon D7100 - I need to check but I imagine <1000 shutter count. Old one got left underwater(!?! Not by me) Insurance replaced it, had kids, barely used since. Mint.

Sigma 17-50mm f2.8
Nikon 50mm f1.4
Nikon 55-200mm kit lens f4-5.6
Brand new, unused Sigma EF610 iTTL flash.

Accept offers in ballpark.

Not looking to split cos faff.

It's not easy to say publically that sometimes you you feel like a failure, so kudos for that.

Definitely worth exploring your reasons for doing it more deeply as its a bigger commitment later on in life both financially and personally.

E.g. You might think about the people in your life that mean the most to you, work, personal life etc. How much does them having or not having a degree feature into how important they are to you?

E.g. You could ask where you're going in your career and would some kind of development / education enable this.

Pursuing a degree might still be an important outcome for you. One of these maybe related to the fact that many employers are considering the future and how their industries and colleague skills will change in the face of AI...

In which case there's a few options.

Ask if your employer would consider sponsoring you directly (many templates online for writing to your employer)

You could also ask if they'd consider supporting you (time and money) for a degree apprenticeship where you study part time to grow appropriate skills for the organisation. They may already be contributing to the apprenticeship levy, but this is not a requirement for supporting apprentices.(https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-take-on-an-apprentice#using-the-apprenticeship-service)

Otherwise you could spread it out over time with someone like Open University. Or take a persoanl development loan if you want to jump in with two feet.

Apologies, I didn't mean to trivialise the work required to comply, this would deffo be an additional overhead but not impossible.

The benefit being that it would allow the forum to continue to exist in much the same format.

We've also seen a few people willing to step up amd help you with this, which we'd really love to do. It must all feel so overwhelming right now.

Re. CSAM,
I read that it is a requirement only for high risk sites, and I think it's reasonable to justify that this is not a high risk site.

Re. Mods, agree.
We'd need things like an admin email address, defined volunteers, moderator best practice guidance.

We'll also need to document things like complaints resolution process, appeals resolution process, details around age verification, SLAs for mod response, forum members terms of use etc etc etc.

Happy to start drafting some of this if it's an approach we want to explore, but feel like waiting until the Jan guidance seems sensible before making any firm plans.

It great to explore the offshoreing option, but realistically feels like we can't avoid the specified "significant number of UK users"

As such best bet feels to tackle it head-on: with a detailed risk assessment!

Also happy to help with some time and expertise.
I work in Risk/Business management in Financial services also with trustee experience (school governor - so covered things like child safeguarding etc)

Happy to join the Legally DM group if I can be of use with risk assessment process, documenting controls and action plan etc.

Who in their right mind owns and is parking fgss.com?

Why not make the L stand for something else...

Lawless
Leathery
Lazy
Lamentable
Lascivious
Latvian (perfect for relocating the forum...)

Just sent for a pack

Home grown, from earlier in the year...

Not rocket science.
We've had a couple installed, one in house, one in shed.

We asked electrician for their advice, they were able to get it under retail price.

It's really hard walking away, but sound like the right choice in this situation.

Been there in similar circumstances before.
Offer accepted, dogshit survey, seller wouldn't negotiate, withdrew.

Left it on a good note with the agent who understood our budget included works needed doing.
Was very picky about what we'd go and visit after that.
Hardly visited anything as we knew exactly what we wanted.
About 6 months later the exact something came up.
Same agent!

They knew we were serious so managed to get in as the first people to see it.
Offered and accepted under asking at a price we knew seller would accept due to good relationship with agent.

Note: I didn't like the agent AT ALL, but understood the value of being on the right side of them.

Lidl one is fine. Comes with a little tripod too.

Long time lurker, first time poster.
(Rookie error of knocking the date over just before taking photo...)

New prices to reflect keen-ness to shift.
Offers welcome for multiples.

I really like TM.

Brass Birmingham a good one too.

Played a kind of remembered kind of made up game at the weekend for an early Christmas party.

Name: Killer
Concept: Everyone draws a name and household item from a hat. You have to kill that person by giving them that object. If they take it from you, you have successfully killed them.
Killed person puts their target back in the hat to be redrawn next round.
Setup: 2 Tupperwares, one filled with a list of names of people at the party., one filled with various objects easily found around the house (spoon, pen, item of someone else's clothing, etc)
Management: When you're out, that's it. The number of people remaining reduces until there's one person left standing. This worked well over the course of a 5 hour party, but could work equally well over the course of days or even weeks.
Optional Twists:
Children can be used as assassins.
You might have a third tupperware with more difficult object for later rounds.
Time limit to encourage greater kill count and more frequent rotatation.

Nice!

Yeah agreed. Our site volunteers are pretty "on it", so I think mostly they leave us too it.

Where in Greenwich are you.

We've had a plat for about 5 years at Park Farm near Bostal woods.

From what I've seen Greenwich seem to run things fairly well. Regular inspection but not too strict, decent through put of plot holders where plots are not upkept. They seem to trust the guys that run the plot to keep things moving too.