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So the space is to accommodate the large transformer, and to dissipate heat from a couple of big heatsinks. Does the box get very warm in operation? I find it puzzling, a solid state tuner should use practically no power and generate little heat.

That tuner is huge (for a tuner). Is it mainly empty inside?

I was recently given a Beosystem 3300, which uses 7 pin DIN line connections for audio signal+'datalink' communication between components. It doesn't have an aux-in, but I would like to add one. On any other system I would simply add a 2-to-1 RCA switch, but in this case I still want the...

Thanks, that's interesting; I like the Spendor sound. Of course the RL45.2 speakers I passed up are newer/smaller/uglier, so I'm not going to change my mind and go get them, but when my Beosystem gets to its final home I will keep my eyes open for a pair of the MC120s

Yes, obviously a scam. Shipping center is in London, 'contact us' address is a 4-br house in Murfreesboro, TN. Home page pretends a connection to Home Depot.

My understanding is they are already just a label owned by Audiovox, with the electronics manufactured by Sharp.

Perhaps. I buy stuff from Europe pretty often, but the other direction might be worse.

This had usually been my experience in Norway, but a few years ago I was treated like slime at a B&W dealer in Oslo, even though I was actually planning to buy something. (an MM-1). After that I've given audio dealers there a wide berth, even for brands which I own (like Klipsch and B&O)...

I have a spare Roland/Edirol UA-1G you can try. I bought my first one to digitize vinyl, my second to get a variable input knob on a microphone, and then somehow ended up with a box of them. It does need a USB connection to a computer to work (I don't know if that can be bypassed on the PCB)...

How friendly were they to casual browsers? I used to stand out in front of the one near the skating rink when I was living in Oslo a few years ago, but didn't go in because I was certainly not going to buy anything and I didn't want to waste anyone's time.

Are they any good? I just turned down a pair of RL45.2 (without listening to them) because I am drowning in vintage speakers and because they look ridiculous. (I didn't turn down the now-functioning Beosystem 3300 that accompanied them, however.)

Beave's point is that that is an integrated amp, not a power amp.

When I was a kid I thought "Scarborough fair" was an olde way of saying "fair Scarborough". Then I moved to Hull, where the Hull Fair has been held annually since the 13th century, and learned it used to travel on afterwards to Scarborough (until the Scarborough Fair ended in the 18th century).

Watched this documentary series about Australian planning. Pretty depressing.

That dust cover is in amazing shape for its age!

OK, so here's another waste of time. Using data from the review index, eliminating data points for which either the price or the SINAD was not available, I made a couple of Price v SINAD charts. For one I classified any DAC costing over $6000 as "ludicrous", for the other I classified any DAC...

Better in what way?

You don't have a problem with curious bigfoots getting zapped by tube amps?

Yeah, I've got a speedometer from one of our cars that is full of gecko eggs. Made it impossible to pass the safety inspection. Really happy never to have encountered one myself. We caught one in a roach trap last year. Tells you how big our roach traps need to be. Again, the smell was the...

We had a gecko lose a battle with a Denon receiver a few years back. Tracked the smell down, found the poor guy's corpse stuck between the circuit board and the bottom of the unit.