Life is good right now

[xs2man]

Dec 25, 2015 14:48:43 GMT Bluefish said:

Got a new awesome sound system, listening to Eva Cassidy Nightbird on cd, drinking JD, and chilling, will save playing Floyd DSOTM till later on Vinyl obviously,Does it get any better? keep on keeping on folks, Happy christmas to all of you.

Being a bit of a geek for HiFi stuff, I'm looking for sound system specs here, lol.

And Merry Christmas

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I am odd, I love sprouts. Properly cooked, with chestnuts and a little bacon - just fantastic. Raw and grated into a salad they are really tasty. Now radishes, aubergines and couchettes. They are food of the devil

Nick

[Bluefish]

Dec 25, 2015 20:49:32 GMT xs2man said:

Dec 25, 2015 14:48:43 GMT Bluefish said:

Got a new awesome sound system, listening to Eva Cassidy Nightbird on cd, drinking JD, and chilling, will save playing Floyd DSOTM till later on Vinyl obviously,Does it get any better? keep on keeping on folks, Happy christmas to all of you.

Being a bit of a geek for HiFi stuff, I'm looking for sound system specs here, lol.

And Merry Christmas

Well not top dollar, but cost enough, a TEAC TN300 turntable in Burnt cherry or whatever they call it, a Yamaha CDS300 cd player, a yamaha RN500 Receiver Brilliant bit of kit, and wired to a pair of Monitor Audio Bronze 2 speakers, my house isn't big enough to turn it up very far lol, All in all a vast improvement over what we had before, TV has hardly been on been playing records CD"s and streaming from Spotify so much. Plus spent a reasonable amount on media lately, ELO's latest is waiting to go back as was a bit bent (LP) so Bought SGT Pepper yesterday LP along with 6cds, 3 for a tenner + 10% off off everything, we particularly liked BB King and Friends last night, was chill city

[Bluefish]

I like Sprouts too

[tomj777]

Yay! to Sprouts!
The Marmite of the unprocessed vegetable world (gedit?)
I'm a man of good fortune this Christmas.... The Double S version, from my lovely wife during one of Tim's sales (I've simple tastes, I have)

[xs2man]

Dec 27, 2015 11:39:38 GMT Bluefish said:

Dec 25, 2015 20:49:32 GMT xs2man said:

Being a bit of a geek for HiFi stuff, I'm looking for sound system specs here, lol.

And Merry Christmas

Well not top dollar, but cost enough, a TEAC TN300 turntable in Burnt cherry or whatever they call it, a Yamaha CDS300 cd player, a yamaha RN500 Receiver Brilliant bit of kit, and wired to a pair of Monitor Audio Bronze 2 speakers, my house isn't big enough to turn it up very far lol, All in all a vast improvement over what we had before, TV has hardly been on been playing records CD"s and streaming from Spotify so much. Plus spent a reasonable amount on media lately, ELO's latest is waiting to go back as was a bit bent (LP) so Bought SGT Pepper yesterday LP along with 6cds, 3 for a tenner + 10% off off everything, we particularly liked BB King and Friends last night, was chill city

Ha ha.  No worries.  I'm not really a "fan" of top dollar stuff either.  Nice system there though.  

I don't have a standalone cd player personally, but then I don't really play cd's, rather rip them to FLAC or V0 and stream over the network to either my amp (Onkyo 609's) or PS4 / Xbox One.  But the Amps (I have 2, one in the main lounge and one in the cinema) driving a pair of Bower & Wilkins 685's up front, with a pair of 686's doing rear duties.  I also have an HTM 61 in one room and HTM62 in another for center channel duties.  And relatively cheap subs in each room, one by B&W and one by Wharfedale.

That RN500 looks like a good bit of kit though.  I like it's feature set.  I should get on of them for my office.

[chykensa]

Ooo-er, with all this technical talk, I think I had better keep quiet about my new Sennheiser in-ear noise-cancelling earbuds then! With my rather, erm, eclectic tastes is music (Jazz, Brazilian Pagode, or funk!), I daren't pump my music around the house or I'll get the divorce papers delivered PDQ!
However, laying in bed at night (separate bedrooms, before you ask!), with my buds in, I'm in 7th Heaven

[Perpetua]

Dec 27, 2015 11:40:51 GMT Bluefish said:

I like Sprouts too

Me to . . . . whilst on a boozy night out some years back, we made a pit stop for some nosh at a pub - I ordered a bowl of sprouts, nothing else.

And they obliged!


 

[Bluefish]

Dec 27, 2015 16:23:42 GMT chykensa said:

Ooo-er, with all this technical talk, I think I had better keep quiet about my new Sennheiser in-ear noise-cancelling earbuds then! With my rather, erm, eclectic tastes is music (Jazz, Brazilian Pagode, or funk!), I daren't pump my music around the house or I'll get the divorce papers delivered PDQ!
However, laying in bed at night (separate bedrooms, before you ask!), with my buds in, I'm in 7th Heaven

Sat here now playing a Jam cd I got, with a pair of headphones I got today as Mrs is watching some screaming women programme, call the midwife lol. These headphones that cost 6.99 from Liddles made by Silvercrest, and they are better, clearer and louder than a 30 quid pair of supposed gaming ones I've been using!

[thatguy]

So good to know that Leslie and yourself are having a good xmas. Ilona and myself have been enjoying the holidays with each other and the kids, and we have continued a new tradition of cooking boxing day dinner and lunch for my mother. Just roast beef this year, but she was over the moon with how well cooked it was.

Merry xmas to one and all