Tír Na HiFi

My parents had a (surely much cheaper!) radiogram that I used to play records when I was really young. I barely remember it now, but I can certainly remember lying on the floor in front of it so I could get right beside the speakers.

Speaking of BBC radio, I read in the Irish Times last night that the BBC Sounds app will not work outside the UK soon. The days of listening to live BBC radio 3 would seem to be drawing to a close, at least in terms of easy solutions.

I had a (significantly cheaper!) power regenerator on my CDP back in the day, and I found it genuinely very useful. Prior to its insertion I had very inconsistent sound, and at peak demand periods things would disimprove markedly. I told a story here before about listening happily one evening when s...

Absolutely, very well regarded stuff. Like has been said, I found this stuff great on front end equipment but not amps. In my mind you want to keep the signal clean but but get in the way of the grunt.

Nice problem to have either way!

Just bought John Grant tickets this morning, he's playing the National Stadium in October.

I love this idea! Of course, now you need to be sure the cantilever is square to the headshell... 😉

It was great to catch up with Seán again after all these years, and to be welcomed into his man cave! Thanks so much for the Arcam, Seán, it should see plenty of use here.

Well I'm certainly interested, Seán. I always feel slightly bad taking something free in case anyone else needs it more, but given that the radio is in all day in this house it would certainly get some use.

I can spin over to Templeogue some evening, that's no problem.

Am I correct in thinking this can output FM via digital as well as the usual phono leads? If so I'd be very happy to take it off your hands if nobody else wants it. We still listen to radio a lot in this house and I've been looking for something I can link directly to my Wadia powerdac.

Watching with interest. We need to do something!