Happy new year for all!! She is Mininilla, one of the three cats of my girlfriend listening The Sisters Of Mercy on my Sanyo M-W1L.
Nice pic! Those 3D Hitachi's - do they sound good? I like their looks. I am now thinking to buy a box in Oxford out of the hobby habbit. Saw a couple of those Hitachi's on Ebay UK.
It depends on the model. If you look through the archives we used to have an expert who gave a rating for each one. http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/my-hitachi-3d-collection-2017-getting-there.1075/ I was pleasantly surprised by this one a 3D50 given that it is quite lightweight but disappointed by a 3D30 I had before.
Yes, I do remember that very interesting topic. Such a pity our colleague dropped out of sight So if I decide to score one 3D I'd go for a 80/88.
They seem to be fairly common over here with three 3D80s and a 3D88 on Ebay.co.uk at the moment, although the 3D80s are all collect only. They are quite a large box so people probably don't feel confident about packing them.
Yes. they are. Will see which box to score. Here in Oxford I was a bit surprised to find only a few FM stations in analogue broadcasting. Not many at all. 3 or 4 are BBC (why so many?) - too much of talk there, 2 news stations would be more than enough IMO, I did like only Classics Radio but nothing else. Almost nothing to listen to on the air. Maybe they have moved to DAB, dunno, will need to check. That leaves only Line in and tapes.
I suppose it depends where you are comparing it to. Back in the early eighties the UK FM band stopped at about 100MHz and BBC Radio 1 and 2 shared a frequency ! What might appear to be large gaps between stations is because the BBC stations are national ones with national coverage. With FM you can't put two transmitters on the same frequency adjacent to each other. In case you aren't aware: Radio 1 is modern Pop aimed at under 30s Radio 2 is still pop mainly pop music but aimed at a much wider age group so playing pop from the 1950s to the present day. Radio 3 is classical. Classic FM is a commercial station set up to compete for the same Audience Radio 4 is mainly all talk - news - current affairs etc - If you haven't noticed it is on LW as well, a novelty for those outside of Europe The reason that the complete switch-over to DAB was delayed is that they found it difficult to achieve the 90% + coverage that FM achieves. DAB is completely different. A quick scan gave 63 stations here although that includes the dozen or so you can get on FM. However that is about 5 miles mainly over water from the Rowridge transmitter. Drive towards Newbury and DAB will cut out half way there while local stations like Wave 105 on FM will continue to work all the way. Most of the others aren't worth listening to and are either extremely focused (there are two rival 80s stations) or minority interest - there is actually a Punjabi station. They are mainly broadcast at very low bit rates that means they are mono - so much for the once promised CD quality sound.
Thanks, that's interesting indeed! As for DAB - I am not going to give it a try in the near future - I have no DAB radio in my car. At home - IMO a quality DAB tuner will cost you, for me it's a waste of money as thousands of stations are now available in the internet. And that's IMO fantastic as I may chose whatever I want not only local ones + podcasts, etc. I can't listen to some fav programs during the day so podcasts are really of help here.
Recently I did see and passed on a DAB radio in a Charity Shop for about £5. The cheapest new ones are about £20 but I wouldn't expect much quality for that. I agree with your point about internet radio which should be much higher quality unless you are still using dial up
Yep, I saw those in Currys and Argos - unimpressive. When my family moved in here in Ox the first thing on my list was a high-speed fiber Internet. On the same level I have in St. Petersburg - can't live without at least 30-40 Mb/s these days as I sometimes work from home.
