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Tangent Tuner II
I was so impressed with the Tangent Ampster BT II I ordered the Tangent Tuner II. This tuner is DAB+/DAB/FM with stereo phono and Toslink optical output and F-connector aerial input. It didn’t take long to get the Tangent plugged in and switched on, at which point it did a scan of the available channels…
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Tangent Ampster BT II
After the update to the PMC 25.23’s the PMC 25.21’s were moved into the “office”, but with nothing to drive them they stood on the shelf gathering dust. Not wanting to spend a lot of money I came across the Tangent Ampster BT II at £159, I thought why not and ordered one. Specification:2 X…
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PMC Twenty5.23
Acquired these floor standing speakers second hand at less than half the price of a new pair of Twenty5.23i’s. I’ve had these speakers 3 months now and have no regrets in purchasing them. How to describe how good these speakers are, they add nothing and subtract nothing of note, the best window on the music…
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Fedora Linux Workstation 37
Finally got round to trying out this distro, all in all a very positive experience. Workstation 37 uses the Gnome desktop, which is a bit spartan looking for my taste, so I installed the KDE desktop, really no problems with this and now I can switch between the two when logging in. The package management…
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ROG Crosshair VIII Impact
I purchased this board as the basis of the PC I built after 10 years of using Apple Macs, with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900, Geforce 3070 GPU and 64Gigs of Corsair 3200 memory, using water cooling which the Asus supports out of the box.To power this lot was a Corsair HX750i PSU.Every thing worked…
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NAD T778 AV Receiver
Recently (22/07/21) obtained the NAD T778 AV Surround Receiver to replace the ageing Cambridge Audio CXR200. I have only ever used these two AV Receivers in stereo mode (have a centre speaker now, much better for video with surround sound ), the reasons being the greater flexibility in connecting the TV, CATV, Blu-Ray, AppleTV and…
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After 10 Years, A New PC Build
After 10 years having an iMac then a Mac Pro (trashcan) late 2013 the frustrations with the Apple universe were building up, cost being top of the list. Increasingly I found that a lot of the software I wanted to run was windows only, if there was a Mac version it was either very good…
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In Praise of the HP Envy 120 Series Printer & Scanner
Starting with the scanner I personaly think it is a good design, for a start the scanning mechinism is in the lid which means no greasy marks on the glass when placing or removing items for scanning. Second the lid has some weight to hold items flat and you can see whether it is straight…
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Panasonic DP-UB820 Blu-Ray Player
For a while now I had been considering replacing the Cambridge Audio azur 752BD with a machine that would play 4K Blu-Ray discs as well, but decided that I would keep the 752BD and buy a 4K Blu-Ray player. As the player would only need to play 4K discs its Hi-Fi credentials were not a…
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Clusterssh on Ubuntu 18.04
Having installed Ubuntu 18.04 on the HP Stream lappy I then had a look for some tools to make it easier to administer my Raspberry pi cluster and looking in the Ubuntu software tool I found Clusterssh. Now I already use this on a Mac and so did the configuration file as on the Mac,…