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Graham Greene

MrLongbeard wrote: Tue Sep 02, 2025 2:09 pm Graham Greene

I was going to say that he's now 'The Quiet American' in a Grahame Greene type pun...

...but he's Canadian.

Dang!

Giorgio Armani, legendary Italian designer, dies aged 91! The man that inadvertently launched a million knock offs!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq25w34lv4o

I would have guessed he died years ago.

Makes me wonder what other famous people are still alive.

Eva Marie Saint is still going and has passed the 100 year mark!

Duchess of Kent.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-famil ... s-aged-92/

Angela Rayners career

v8-powered wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:40 pm Angela Rayners career

Inevitable outcome and stereotypical of all politicians by dragging it out needlessly rather than maintain an ounce of decorum by apologising and resigning at the first whiff of impropriety…

Silly Car wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:57 pm

v8-powered wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:40 pm Angela Rayners career

Inevitable outcome and stereotypical of all politicians by dragging it out needlessly rather than maintain an ounce of decorum by apologising and resigning at the first whiff of impropriety…

To be fair - if they did that, then none of them would make it past polling...

Rockburner wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 1:02 pm

Silly Car wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:57 pm

v8-powered wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 12:40 pm Angela Rayners career

Inevitable outcome and stereotypical of all politicians by dragging it out needlessly rather than maintain an ounce of decorum by apologising and resigning at the first whiff of impropriety…

To be fair - if they did that, then none of them would make it past polling...

Perhaps that should be introduced as an acid test of being fit and proper for the role…

Duchess of Kent has died today at the age of 92 apparently.

Rick Davies, founder, lead singer and songwriter of Supertramp. Cancer, 81.

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:40 am Rick Davies, founder, lead singer and songwriter of Supertramp. Cancer, 81.

He had a Marmite voice,but I loved Supertramp back in the Breakfast in America days.

Rest easy man.

Skub wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 10:33 am

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:40 am Rick Davies, founder, lead singer and songwriter of Supertramp. Cancer, 81.

He had a Marmite voice,but I loved Supertramp back in the Breakfast in America days.

Rest easy man.

I liked them too, although they never seemed 'hip' they were one of those bands with their own distinctive sound. Interesting beginnings - basically sponsored by a rich Dutch chap.

Another band from Swindon - that makes 2!

(XTC are the other one that I know).

Skub wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 10:33 am

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:40 am Rick Davies, founder, lead singer and songwriter of Supertramp. Cancer, 81.

He had a Marmite voice,but I loved Supertramp back in the Breakfast in America days.

Rest easy man.

Me too, but I prefer the earlier stuff even more.

Literally just noticed that they're the last thing I played on the weekend!

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:40 pm

Skub wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 10:33 am

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:40 am Rick Davies, founder, lead singer and songwriter of Supertramp. Cancer, 81.

He had a Marmite voice,but I loved Supertramp back in the Breakfast in America days.

Rest easy man.

Me too, but I prefer the earlier stuff even more.

Literally just noticed that they're the last thing I played on the weekend!

Ooh...what's the deck?

(He asks the chap that took the mickey because I still use CDs and DVDs )

Count Steer wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:50 pm

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:40 pm

Skub wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 10:33 am

He had a Marmite voice,but I loved Supertramp back in the Breakfast in America days.

Rest easy man.

Me too, but I prefer the earlier stuff even more.

Literally just noticed that they're the last thing I played on the weekend!

Ooh...what's the deck?

(He asks the chap that took the mickey because I still use CDs and DVDs )

It's a Pro-Ject Debut 2. You can't really see in that photo, but it's dark green to match the walls

In fairness, I do stream too, via a Sonos box to an Audiolab amp, but I have the deck (via a phono pre-amp and then into the same Sonos/Audiolab route).

The deck is stupid for all the obvious reasons, when I mainly buy albums I already have on CD, let alone via streaming, but it's all about the occasion, man!

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:59 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:50 pm

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:40 pm
Me too, but I prefer the earlier stuff even more.

Literally just noticed that they're the last thing I played on the weekend!

Ooh...what's the deck?

(He asks the chap that took the mickey because I still use CDs and DVDs )

It's a Pro-Ject Debut 2. You can't really see in that photo, but it's dark green to match the walls

In fairness, I do stream too, via a Sonos box to an Audiolab amp, but I have the deck (via a phono pre-amp and then into the same Sonos/Audiolab route).

The deck is stupid for all the obvious reasons, when I mainly buy albums I already have on CD, let alone via streaming, but it's all about the occasion, man!

It's all about the sound too, man! None of that nasty compression malarkey. (You need to spend a barrow-load of money to get close with a decently produced CD and CD player and streaming is waaaaay off - even Tidal).

Count Steer wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 1:11 pm

Slenver wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:59 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 12:50 pm

Ooh...what's the deck?

(He asks the chap that took the mickey because I still use CDs and DVDs )

It's a Pro-Ject Debut 2. You can't really see in that photo, but it's dark green to match the walls

In fairness, I do stream too, via a Sonos box to an Audiolab amp, but I have the deck (via a phono pre-amp and then into the same Sonos/Audiolab route).

The deck is stupid for all the obvious reasons, when I mainly buy albums I already have on CD, let alone via streaming, but it's all about the occasion, man!

It's all about the sound too, man! None of that nasty compression malarkey. (You need to spend a barrow-load of money to get close with a decently produced CD and CD player and streaming is waaaaay off - even Tidal).

TBH, when I could hear better I did the comparison of streamed vs CD vs Vinyl on my system. I still think CD - and you don’t have to tune it over every 20 mins.
Still have a Technics deck … but use it rarely (as I have to get up every 20 mins). Oddly I do buy vinyls every now and then - sort of for posterity

PS I hated Supertramp. Everything wrong with AOR !

Mr Moofo wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 10:15 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 1:11 pm
It's all about the sound too, man! None of that nasty compression malarkey. (You need to spend a barrow-load of money to get close with a decently produced CD and CD player and streaming is waaaaay off - even Tidal).

TBH, when I could hear better I did the comparison of streamed vs CD vs Vinyl on my system. I still think CD - and you don’t have to tune it over every 20 mins.
Still have a Technics deck … but use it rarely (as I have to get up every 20 mins). Oddly I do buy vinyls every now and then - sort of for posterity

PS I hated Supertramp. Everything wrong with AOR !

CDs with a good CD player (I was amazed by the difference a top end CD player was over a cheap one* - up until then I'd thought digital meant it was like a hard drive - it just read the disk and that as that) are probably better than most record deck/tone arm/cartridge combinations. What I found when was replacing my vinyl was that some CDs are horribly compressed and will never equal the vinyl. This was very apparent on several old records that weren't originally available on CD and they'd issued one much later. I don't know what technology they used to do the transcription but I suspect they'd lost the master tapes on a lot of them.

* chap in the hi-fi shop set up the listening room with a range of CD players. I just said 'take my money!' left with a new one and dumped my old one. I bought an even better one a few years later. (20+ years on I still have it).