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45 minutes ago, azda said:

Nice Jerry, out of cuoristy, how old is the building? Is it also listed?

Hi Dave, yes, House and barns are listed, grade 2, but we found Historic England and the planning department sympathetic to our wishes as fundamentally these involved undoing unsympathetic works from the seventies and restoration of original, so out with plasterboard and stud walls and in with wattle, lime and oak. A mate and I did everything apart from specialist plumbing and electrical work, the latter involving lots of wireless switching and the former some fancy kit such that the total bills for both together  came to over 50k.

The Historic England inspector declares the house to have originated as a late C15 Hall house, on the basis of smoked roof timbers supposedly from a central open fireplace, originally entirely oak framed but evolving through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the stone staired, massive fireplace and stone encased structure now standing.

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6 hours ago, jelida said:

House and barns are listed, grade 2

Does this mean you have to be quite good at say, piano?

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7 hours ago, azda said:

Well, the building on the far left in the pics contains several dozen early valve amplifiers from Leak, Quad, Pye, Pamphonic and many others, a dozen Quad ESL57, Lowther, Kef, Spendor and other speakers, valve testers and vintage TV’s and radios, you can hardly move! And valves by the hundred if not thousand.

OMG keep me away. 

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2 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

OMG keep me away. 

I can't use it anymore (disability) but I do have the Ion Obelisk amp - it's solid state but has a built-in quality that gives it a quasi-valve sound. Paired with a Denon moving magnet cartridge it's not half bad.

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Jerry

You have a place I dreamed of.I lost Mrs Peter nearly 4 yrs ago and the gas has run out of my bag...had the idea,funds were possible.

Going to be a Granddad in September so hey a different direction...a boy to inherit and learn from my cars/bikes/coins/fishing,history.

I may sell up everything and go around the world in a yacht crewed by me and a few (non tattooed,or surgically enhanced ladies).

Likely to stay here...but currently sniffing around a Jag,Porsche,Merc or unseating myself on a Jota.

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8 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

I can't use it anymore (disability) but I do have the Ion Obelisk amp - it's solid state but has a built-in quality that gives it a quasi-valve sound. Paired with a Denon moving magnet cartridge it's not half bad.

I worked with West Midlands Audio in Worcester in the late 80's- early 90's, and the nice guy from the company was always in having coffee.

We seemed the nearest dealer and we sold loads. Lovely sounding little amp. The only alternatives really were the Creek and the Nytech.

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19 hours ago, jelida said:

Hi Dave, yes, House and barns are listed, grade 2, but we found Historic England and the planning department sympathetic to our wishes as fundamentally these involved undoing unsympathetic works from the seventies and restoration of original, so out with plasterboard and stud walls and in with wattle, lime and oak. A mate and I did everything apart from specialist plumbing and electrical work, the latter involving lots of wireless switching and the former some fancy kit such that the total bills for both together  came to over 50k.

The Historic England inspector declares the house to have originated as a late C15 Hall house, on the basis of smoked roof timbers supposedly from a central open fireplace, originally entirely oak framed but evolving through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the stone staired, massive fireplace and stone encased structure now standing.

Jerry

History in coins and history in houses, love it :-)

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20 hours ago, jelida said:

Hi Dave, yes, House and barns are listed, grade 2, but we found Historic England and the planning department sympathetic to our wishes as fundamentally these involved undoing unsympathetic works from the seventies and restoration of original, so out with plasterboard and stud walls and in with wattle, lime and oak. A mate and I did everything apart from specialist plumbing and electrical work, the latter involving lots of wireless switching and the former some fancy kit such that the total bills for both together  came to over 50k.

The Historic England inspector declares the house to have originated as a late C15 Hall house, on the basis of smoked roof timbers supposedly from a central open fireplace, originally entirely oak framed but evolving through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the stone staired, massive fireplace and stone encased structure now standing.

Jerry

You've done a fantastic job Jerry. That's a really nice looking place in a perfect setting. Something to aspire to and well worth the cost.

 

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2 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

I worked with West Midlands Audio in Worcester in the late 80's- early 90's, and the nice guy from the company was always in having coffee.

We seemed the nearest dealer and we sold loads. Lovely sounding little amp. The only alternatives really were the Creek and the Nytech.

Wow - coincidence! That's where I bought mine from, as it was probably the highest rated hifi shop in the West Mids (travelling to Worcester from Birmingham was easy enough; they also had an absolutely superb cleaner for vinyl records in their basement, which made the excursion worthwhile). The only thing was, they talked me into replacing my Shure M75ED cartridge with a Linn K5, which I ended up thinking was actually worse, and got myself the Denon. 

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4 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

Wow - coincidence! That's where I bought mine from, as it was probably the highest rated hifi shop in the West Mids (travelling to Worcester from Birmingham was easy enough; they also had an absolutely superb cleaner for vinyl records in their basement, which made the excursion worthwhile). The only thing was, they talked me into replacing my Shure M75ED cartridge with a Linn K5, which I ended up thinking was actually worse, and got myself the Denon. 

I was the 'tech in the basement' most Saturdays....

I did the record cleaning on that Keith Monks machine. It made an indescribable difference.

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8 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

I was the 'tech in the basement' most Saturdays....

I did the record cleaning on that Keith Monks machine. It made an indescribable difference.

You may well have been the guy who cleaned MY records then! It was definitely the early 90s IIRC.

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I used to work for the MOV company who made the KT 66 and KT 88 vacuum  tubes and have always a bit of respect for vacuum tube audio amps they were well designed and mostly based on the Williamson amp published in Wireless World in 1951 along with the Baxandall tone control and preamp. One of the early designs using control theory.. The Williamson power amp employed the "ultra linear" design that introduced extra negative feedback using taps on the primary winding of the output transformer in addition to the normal negative feedback from the output transformers primary winding back to the input. It has to be said insulated gate FETS make very good power amplifiers  as they have a similar transfer characteristic to vacuum tubes as against BJTs (transistors) that have a different characteristic.

As an aside I should have brought a lot of KT 88s when I was at the MOV company and sold them to vacuum tube amp makers as they are very much sought after and they mainly use Russian tubes that are inferior to the original MOV ones.

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I was working at a Pro Audio dealer in London, and I told one of the Techs there

that the power amp on my studio monitors sounded fast and clean and happy one day, then would sound slow and unresponsive for ages....

 

I told him that I'd found out that they had bipolar transistors.

 

 

0.000001% of the population get this joke, and 0.00003% of them find it funny........

 

 

 

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That is soooo good!!

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A "welcome " garden visitor? A huntsman spider, a medium sized one as they can get much bigger but their venom is not dangerous although they can inflict a painful bite.

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That looks like a Garden Wolf to me....equally horrid.....

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10 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

That looks like a Garden Wolf to me....equally horrid.....

Yet spiders perform a great job. If they get into the house, I always let them be. I also leave a towel over the bath in case they get in through the plughole.

Although if the cat spots one that she can get at, she'll be on it and have it eaten within a few seconds. 

 

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1 hour ago, 1949threepence said:

Yet spiders perform a great job. If they get into the house, I always let them be. I also leave a towel over the bath in case they get in through the plughole.

Although if the cat spots one that she can get at, she'll be on it and have it eaten within a few seconds. 

 

Not sure if you would be too keen on this one as they can reach dinner plate dimensions. My wife was taking a shower and felt something and brushed it off not realizing the size of the spider. The next thing I heard was Johnnn! The best way to deal with them is a rolled up news paper  or a pint beer glass and a piece of stiff cardboard if you are charitable. not that they are dangerous. However a few years ago I had an encounter wit a funnel web spider which is deadly. I was down stairs where I lived and about to put my thongs on (flip flops) and this spider reared up at me. It was dispatched but it was a deadly funnel web. We have plenty of venoms animals here.

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6 minutes ago, ozjohn said:

Not sure if you would be too keen on this one as they can reach dinner plate dimensions. My wife was taking a shower and felt something and brushed it off not realizing the size of the spider. The next thing I heard was Johnnn! The best way to deal with them is a rolled up news paper  or a pint beer glass and a piece of stiff cardboard if you are charitable. not that they are dangerous. However a few years ago I had an encounter wit a funnel web spider which is deadly. I was down stairs where I lived and about to put my thongs on (flip flops) and this spider reared up at me. It was dispatched but it was a deadly funnel web. We have plenty of venoms animals here.

I’ve heard that these huntsman spiders have been deemed responsible for human deaths, although not from envenomation. Apparently when you leave your car with the windows open in hot weather they’ve been known to climb inside and find somewhere nice to hide, like behind the sun visor. When you drive home and make the turn into the setting sun, you flip the visor down and it drops into your lap causing you to panic and crash. 

Any truth or just urban myth?

Atrax robusta is a nasty piece of work, from what I understand. 

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1 hour ago, mrbadexample said:

I’ve heard that these huntsman spiders have been deemed responsible for human deaths, although not from envenomation. Apparently when you leave your car with the windows open in hot weather they’ve been known to climb inside and find somewhere nice to hide, like behind the sun visor. When you drive home and make the turn into the setting sun, you flip the visor down and it drops into your lap causing you to panic and crash. 

Any truth or just urban myth?

Atrax robusta is a nasty piece of work, from what I understand. 

Possible but I have not heard of an proven case.

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6 hours ago, mrbadexample said:

I’ve heard that these huntsman spiders have been deemed responsible for human deaths, although not from envenomation. Apparently when you leave your car with the windows open in hot weather they’ve been known to climb inside and find somewhere nice to hide, like behind the sun visor. When you drive home and make the turn into the setting sun, you flip the visor down and it drops into your lap causing you to panic and crash. 

Any truth or just urban myth?

Atrax robusta is a nasty piece of work, from what I understand. 

There was a very sad case near Lampeter last year where a 10yr old died,  due to mum losing control of the car under exactly these circumstances, so it does happen; not a huntsman as far as I’m aware, but certainly a spider. And I dare say from wasps etc entering the car too.

Jerry

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1 hour ago, jelida said:

There was a very sad case near Lampeter last year where a 10yr old died,  due to mum losing control of the car under exactly these circumstances, so it does happen; not a huntsman as far as I’m aware, but certainly a spider. And I dare say from wasps etc entering the car too.

Jerry

Can never understand why some people are so pathologically terrified of them. They've got infinitely more to fear from any person, than we have from them. A 3 year old child could kill one with ease.

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I used to be scared of spiders, a phobia I inherited from my parents. But I once kept scorpions, and by extension tarantulas. The worst I kept was a Pterinochilus murinus, known in the pet trade as an OBT - Orange Bitey Thing. The sod could teleport, I tell you, and it had to go. I had a cool Uvicularia metallica  called Lars though. :) 

After that your common or garden Tegenaria gigantea seems a bit tame. Dysdera crocata has a much better set of fangs.

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I still say it's a Garden Wolf, from that single picture.

- even if a picture doesn't show the markings, the front legs are a guide.

 

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