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Good morning anyone, I see Stormy has been in. I think I'll try out this stereo of his and see what Beetoven's fifth sounds like at full chat.

Golly, lots of switches, dials and buttons. (Click, press, stab, poke) Oh whoops, what does this message mean, "This stereo will self destruct in 20 seconds, 20, 19, 18.............).

Right, must go an urgent appointment I've just remembered, bye...................

Oh dear looks as though Socs tried 11 on the volume control before he went out, the contents of all the kitchen cupbords are all on the floor, what a mess !!!

I must admit I didnt think there was a level 12, I am aware that some very rare stage amps have level 11 as I remember Nigel Tufnel describing it ;-) in spinal tap :-

Nigel Tufnel: [pointing to a customized Marshall amplifier head unit] This is a top, to, uh, you know, what we use on stage, but it's very, very special, because, if you can see...
Marty DiBergi: Yeah...

Nigel Tufnel: [pointing to the control dials] ...the numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven...

Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.

Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is that any louder?

Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most... most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up... you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

Marty DiBergi: I don't know...

Nigel Tufnel: ...nowhere! Exactly! What we do is if we need that extra... push over the cliff, you know what we do?

Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.

Nigel Tufnel: ...Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder, and make ten be the top... number, and make that a little louder?

Nigel Tufnel: [pause, blank look and snapping chewing gum] These go to eleven.

Good evening anyone, place looks a bit of a mess. I wonder how that came about? I'll run the vacuum cleaner around, just to show willing. I wonder what this mangled pile of electronics is that's lying in the corner?

Evening Socs.
A40 closed, reletives returning from Cheltenham have been diverted to Stratford to pick up the M40

Well, it is Sunday Jeffers.

Guinness MUST be good in here...slept right through Socs musical efforts, that said it has been an exhausting week!

Socs,
Don't worry about the self destruct warning, it is a protection device to ward off the unwary, actually all the active safety mechanisms reside within the bomb-proof casing....to protect my valuable hardware automatically from...er....accidental twiddling...:-)
But you should have stayed for part 2, when the countdown reaches 10 secs the warning changes to one indicating that a motion detector giuded lazer will take-out anything that moves within arms length (it's calibrated for 8 feet..tee hee )
As a tribute to my sense of humour the second one is active....but it doesn't really matter, it's quite harmless.......after all the sound level that triggers the device would mash any brain tissue within 103 feet.
So I am quite safe...LOL

Spaceman,
I remember it well.....where are they now?....wistful stare...:-)
(Oh and regarding "12" this has been achieved using the liquid nitrogen cooled 3 stage pre-amp, this does necessitate EMP-rpoof connectors in the post-amp wiring, not so much to protect it from nuclear attack....er....more to protect nuclear attack from IT..LOL)
Incidentally while I am in geek mode, the speaker drivers are safe to level 13 (don't ask!!!), thanks to the Wolfram cores with passive ptfe lubication, and naturally only the best optimised / matched titanium speaker cones....
Except the tweeters...they developed an annoying tendency to generate lethal shrapnel when exploding in sympathy with second harmonics....so I can't actually tell you what they are constructed from, as I still hold an MOD security clearance....oops

Right, now for a bit of discipline, today marks the start of my first full week of leisure (unemployed bum..???), or put another way, my first full week as a "trainee trader"...ROFLMFAO....so must start properly....DP VIN '96 I believe to make the new week feel welcome..:-)
Cheers!

Morning All - bit grey out there today so far, bit chilly.
Fire's on, teas brewing and yes the toaster is fixed - yeah!!!

Morning all, sunny in Hastings at the moment.

Thanks for the tea bunny, any Danish available?

Morning, large tea with toast please.

Good morning from a grey Cheltenham, supposed to be bright and sunny but what the heck, this is England.

Tea and toast is in order, I think.

Spacie
You can't fool me with all the techno speak, I'm a retired electronics technician. You've been rumbled well and good, I know a number 10 Meccano set when I see one.

Tea, toast and danish chaps :>)

I'll have the tea and toast, but I'll pass on the Danish chaps thank you.

Sun trying to get through the clouds here now - I'll send it over to you Socs after we've warmed up a bit :>)
Quite understand about the danish chaps - that's OK they wont mind, I'll keep them behind the counter here for later ;>)

It's getting close to lunch so I'll prepare a home made chicken pie, chips and peas. Yes I know it's a bit basic but I'm feeling a bit lazy in this cold weather.

Still cold and grey here in the Wolds of Cot, supposed to be bright and cold but they got it wrong again dad.

Would love some chicken pie and peas Socs - cheers! :>)
Gone really cloudy here again now....

now dull and gray in Hastings ...

Time for a Latte ..

Still sunny in East Lothian.

I'll join you for a latte, Spacie :-)

Great here's me in Middx freezing to death and there's JJ in Scotland in the sunshine! LOL
Chocolate brownies for tea..

Freezing, bloody frezzing here in La La Land, eeh-oh.