That is the nicest thing you have ever said about me, N.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
Bang go my space age batchelor credentials.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006AZE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
Innate sense of timing? Meaning it's got a clock in it as well as on it (I should flaming well 'ope so - digital, innit?)
Do not drape over (beige, elliptical) storage heater!
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
I want to buy a portable stereo that I can plug my iPod into, so that I can listen to music up on my swingingbatchelorpadroof. Can you recommend one? None I have seen seem to have analogue audio inputs.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago) link
There are also some Passive Speakers, but I think you want Massive Speakers.
Bass Reflex Technology?
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
There is now a space-age radio called The Bug. It has digital 'out' and much, much more.
http://www.radio-now.co.uk/images/m_thebug2.jpg
Sideline: John Lewis warranty depends on the type of equipment and doesn't seem to cover portable stuff like iPods. You'd have to check though. Staff much smarter than Dixons.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:26 (nineteen years ago) link
!!!
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.radio-now.co.uk/welcome.htm
Also, if you have a closing down Dixons nearby you might get lucky (although they'd been pretty emptied earlier in the week).
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 2 August 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 2 August 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Gaydar radio lasted about two minutes before the banging techno got on my nerves. Current top stations = 5 live, 5 live sports extra, BBCLondon and strangely last night we were listening to Capital Gold (good proper 60s stuff), also Radio 2 got a look in until Maconie went all prog, he played two tracks and I thought it was all one long noodle
There is a nice demo station too, the birdsong occasionally interrupted by gunfire!!
Pausing live radio is a natty trick, not sure when I'll use it, but being able to record to an SD card is ver ver good
My bug is lovely, and looks great next to the bed
― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 2 August 2004 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I bought a JVC UXHB4 (from Electrical Discount) after the AM radio finally stopped working on my fifteen year old stereo with one working speaker, broken turntable and two busted tape decks.
The new thing is pretty good. Though I can't pick up Xfm or LBC through DAB for some reason, and the clock, which is set via RDS, seems to think that it's Saturday and I have no idea how to change it. And the silly bugger who designed it saw fit to put the AUX output on the front, not that I currently have any use for it.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 31 December 2004 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 31 December 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
i still have the prob that digital broadcasts (at least when i listen to them on my PC) are compressed at a lower quality (and since national coverage isn’t yet total) so FM is still the audiophile option... or maybe i just miss that FM sound and hate the clinical sterile dAB sound.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
you have a DAB tuner in your PC?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i listen to radio from (bbc/lbc etc) websites.
are DAB radios able to access stuff that you would get online, like last weeks show of such and such DJ for example?
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
No. There are some expensive ones that let you tune into internet streamed radio though.
― Alba, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
no, they're just radios; they receive signals over the airwaves, but the signals are digital - it's basically freeview, but on the radio
xpost
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i see.
im going to get this one - http://www.ciao.co.uk/Panasonic_RFD3__6491694
its cheap on ebay.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
for anyone interested, this site might be handy -
http://www.radio-now.co.uk
as well as the panasonic, they recommend this one (which i did consider but it looks really cheap) - http://www.radio-now.co.uk/pure_one_dab_radio_review.htm
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Streaming radio doesn't have anything to do with DAB, Titchy. I just tried Late Junction on R3's Listen Again facility and it was running at about 90k - sounded fairly terrible. I think R3 DAB still broadcasts at 192k MP2 (not fantastic but better than online).
― Michael Jones, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
the pure DABs are nicely made and feel very solid. i have one.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
woops not that one, though. i have this one, which looks like it's available at half price from morgan's - http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3691&CategoryID=201&SubCategoryID=215&adnetwork=af
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the kind of expensive box that can play streamed radio. Didn't realise it can also do Listen Again stuff.
― Alba, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
what i worry about with things like that is that as streams change, and tech changes, this thing will be left behind. with something like a radio i like to at least pretend to myself that it's possibly a purchase for life.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
> Streaming radio doesn't have anything to do with DAB, Titchy.
otm
> I just tried Late Junction on R3's Listen Again facility and it was running at about 90k - sounded fairly terrible.
luxury. the other bbc streams, radio1 and 2 certainly, are roughly 32kbps. but these are realaudio 10 (aac with sbr? ps? dunno) and so are several times better that mp3.
that said, it's fine, i listen to it all day and it doesn't bother me.
― koogs, Friday, 7 September 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
this can record shows too but its about 90.00-100.00 - http://www.radio-now.co.uk/evoke_3.htm
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 7 September 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
one thing i dont like too much about the pure radios made from wood is that theyre trying to look like old traditional radios. i much prefer that 100% plastic look when it comes to DABs.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Friday, 7 September 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
plus they are mono. so 1960s.
― koogs, Friday, 7 September 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, me too, but remember some things can get firmware updates. Not sure if that applies to the AE box.
― Alba, Friday, 7 September 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link