Category: Hifi

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Records

I know a modest amount about hifi, especially the old stuff (nowadays it’s all sample rates and jitter and electronic engineering, of which I know nothing), but I’m not the sort of person who spends hours trying different combinations of tonearm and cartridge, or cabling or other fiddly things. I find something that works that I like, and I use it. Lack of funds puts limits on what I can use.

I have very many lps from the late 1960s onwards. I had a turntable, a Pink Triangle Little Pink Thing, and it sounded great but was so poorly built and was continually breaking down.

I gave up and it went into the trash, it was so unreliable.

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NAS

If you have a computer, or some other smart device like a tablet, a connection to the Internet though a modem or whatever, then you may find a NAS useful.

If you know what NAS is, or have one, then don’t bother about the rest of this. If you don’t, then…

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Hifi II

I don’t do advertising and I don’t recommend products. That’s not my job.

Sometimes people ask me “should I buy this computer or this camera” or whatever. Usually it’s a cheap thing, very easy to pick holes in.

Now, you can get devices that play LPs from a few pounds:

to several hundred thousand:

I can’t afford £650,000 for a turntable. maybe you can…I am sure it is wonderful though.

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