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Reminds me a little of the Batmobile from The Animated Series. Live in fear, grass.

 

So I pulled the pin on one of these, been umming and ahhing for a while now.



10% discount off the retail price will cover the miriad of beans I'll be sampling.

 

Much to my annoyance, my wife sold our Delonghi Esam 4200 which was about 15 years old, and going strong, and replaced it with this. A very good machine, but i refuse to use it. It does nothing the Delonghi didn't do, however i don't want to pretend to be a Barista, with the resultant cleaning up to do. With the Delonghi, it was a genuine 1 button press, and empty the waste every 5 or 6th cup when it told you it was needed.

 

Slightly down spec on the coffee making front, but;



And a pair of walking about boots

 

Been using a hooked knife for deburring my prints and I always thought people who bigged up deburring tools for cleaning up prints were exaggerating. They are not.

 

How the turn tables... a Project Debut Pro B, S3B and the requisite mini-xlr cable.

Didn't do stacks of in-depth research as that seemed like a slippery slope, and this seemed about the right "good but still normal" setup so hopefully it ends well.





EDIT: And if any of you vinyl junkies out there have reason to believe I have made a mistake with this particular setup its okay if you keep me in the dark

 

I've got a Pro-Ject Debut Pro (the OG) and am happy as a clam!
I don't have the S3B, I just have a set of powered speakers, Klipsch R51pm

 

This is good to hear. I felt my inner monologue starting to try to justify ever-esoteric gear so felt the need to shut that right down. This isn't some audiophile pursuit at the end of the day and good enough is good enough.

I theoretically didn't need the S3B either, because I have phono-in capabilities already. Minor issue is all my AV in the house is co-located and this turntable will be living in the room where I'll listen to it for obvious reasons. A minimum 10m stretch buried in walls seemed like bad practice between turntable and phono preamp. And the "B" model was the extra icing on the cake for the very same connectivity reasons.

 

Seems like a good compromise to me, balanced XLR will be fine over 10 metres and, you can always upgrade the cartridge, to get more from the turntable.

 

Annual car insurance for £390. Cheap at twice the price . A few quid up from last year, but still the lowest I could get for comprehensive.

Having the car serviced on Friday too. This month is going to hurt financially.

 

A year's car tax for the first time since 2013!

(Because I've had 2x <100g/km ICE & 2x EVs)

Next, book an MOT...

 

This is a rabbit hole I've been wanting to go down for a while, my AV room gets started once the builder has finished doing my living room Can't bloomin wait .

 

The real rabbit hole I'm finding is rare/limited vinyl. Why would you want a boggo black vinyl when you can have a shiny and colourful one for only 4x the price, amirite?

 

I bought my son the LX310BT for xmas, a few year back - he's been very happy with it.

 

Forgot to post here

Philips Envia 3000 34" + another monitor arm (time to yeet those remaining stands)

Edit: Laptops Direct lost a customer who's made one order. Delivery got pushed to 27th which is too far away

 

This is very true , my local Vinyl shop is closing soon which is a shame as they always had some gems in there.

 

How did you know?! Were you just scrolling through my collection on discogs?