A HiFi tragedy from Suffolk announces his presence

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#1 A HiFi tragedy from Suffolk announces his presence

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Hello People!

I am Chris and I have been buying HiFi since Dad gave me £100 in 1967 (Should have been for an Austin 7, but a snow loaded roof saw and end to that dream) .

Really, truely, madly I LOVE music BUT the equipment inordinately fascinates me. So I live in a violently alternating world of A) This is MUsic first/ B) Lets get another bit of wire/cart/BOX etcetc. YOU know...don't you?!

As a fellow sufferer I decided to join this seemingly friendly forum, and not be alone out in the cold world.

One day I want to be able to have ONE system only and that based on the absolute minimum of BOXES and WIRES. All the music will in a network storage system.
To date each time I have tried to do this I have failed. I renovated by defunct father in laws 301, reclaimed my old GL75, and resentfully bought a 401 (I had one from new in 1972 but sold it for a LINN...stupid), and now have 3 full sytems around the house and a very grumpy wyffe. (Not that downsizing would make a lot of difference there I suspect!)

Alas I subscribe to the adage "HE (sic) with most toys wins".

Any help that can be given will be mulled over, filtered and acted upon only if it fits with my current psychopathology.

Alle blessynnges

Chris
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Hi Chris, welcome to the "nut-house". :wink:

What part of Suffolk are you, I'm in Essex but only 0.5 miles from the Essex/Suffolk border.
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Hi

Bramford near Ipswich is where I do rest my weary load.

Essex is another world though, isn't it?

This forum is going to waste away whatever little time I have on this Earth. I have just spent over an hour of time I should have devoted to worthy things reading fascinating posts!!

regards

Chris
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xwilliphant wrote: One day I want to be able to have ONE system only and that based on the absolute minimum of BOXES and WIRES. All the music will in a network storage system.
Welcome to a fellow sufferer, but if this is your true path, I think you may be led astray here. We're not noted for minimising wires, but we often don't bother with boxes!
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Hi welcome. Not very kind calling your father in law defunct, I must say. :D
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xwilliphant wrote:Hi

Essex is another world though, isn't it?

regards

Chris
Indeed, BUT it keeps Suffolk folk a good way away from those scallywags in Kent. :lol:
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There's a bit of Essex that was once Kent.
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nickds1 wrote:There's a bit of Essex that was once Kent.

Oh really ?
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pre65 wrote:
nickds1 wrote:There's a bit of Essex that was once Kent.
Oh really ?
Yep.
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nickds1 wrote:
pre65 wrote:
nickds1 wrote:There's a bit of Essex that was once Kent.
Oh really ?
Yep.
Well there you are. :)
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pre65 wrote:
nickds1 wrote:
pre65 wrote: Oh really ?
Yep.
Well there you are. :)
Really. There was. Look up "North Woolwich" - it was part of Kent from Norman times until sometime in the mid 1800s...
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Welcome Chris. Surely you've heard the old adage about 'less is more'...

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Welcome Chris, but if you think you'll find salvation here you're in the wrong place :-D
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nickds1 wrote:There's a bit of Essex that was once Kent.
must have been a dodgy bit we gave back.

Welcome Chris
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I know that bit of 'Kent', it has tattoo's and earring, an XR3i up on bricks in the garden and a mattress stuffed in the wheelie bin.

I call it home!

In the words of Rob Calvert... "You are welcome..." :-)

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