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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I am looking to buy a new stereo.
Nothing too expensive - up to £300 or so.

May I have some recommendations please? I know nothing on this subject.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:46, 163 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
just use your phone on the bus like everyone else you tryhard

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:51, Reply)
I avoid buses at all costs. They smell of poor people & desperation.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:51, Reply)
and wee.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:53, Reply)
Like your carpet.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:55, Reply)
You know there is not one bit of carpet in my house, Dopey.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:57, Reply)
Yeah, my mum ate it all

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:58, Reply)
haha
I get this*

*Not rug munched from your mum obvs
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:02, Reply)
There are rooms in your place that I have dared not venture in to.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:58, Reply)
You can't have carpet in a sex dungeon!

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:58, Reply)
You'd know.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:01, Reply)
Get a Saisho wog box from Dixons.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:52, Reply)
Helpful as always.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:53, Reply)
If only Monty were here, he knows about this kind of stuff

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:54, Reply)
That'd be bigger than he is.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:53, Reply)
He could sleep in the battery compartment

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:55, Reply)
what is it, a walkman?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:56, Reply)
Or the Bixton Briefcase

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:57, Reply)
Is size a consideration, and do you need speakers and/or iThingy connection?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:56, Reply)
I have a sound dock for my iphone. I do need speakers.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:56, Reply)
I've got two spare pairs of speakers, one of which you are more than welcome to have

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:57, Reply)
Thank you. I may well take you up on that.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:59, Reply)
You should.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:00, Reply)
What sort of connectors etc?
I know fuck all about all this.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:00, Reply)
I'll ring you about this

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:02, Reply)
Thanks.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:03, Reply)
Nakers is your man for that Info.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:03, Reply)
I wouldn't trust anything recommended by that bender.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:10, Reply)
Wharfedale diamond speakers.
Amp, CD player. Job done.

Get your ass to Richer Sounds.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:58, Reply)
What brand of amp, DAB radio, CD player, remote control etc. could I get for my budget?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:00, Reply)
I got the Doris some sort of iDock thing in Richer Sounds.
Have a look there.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:58, Reply)
I've looked at Richer Sounds, problem is I don't know what makes are any good.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:59, Reply)
They are probably all made in the same place and rebranded
If all you will use it for is home use, will it make much difference.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:03, Reply)
^^^

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:04, Reply)
There is one at Livpool St and at London Bridge.
I want some stuff so am happy to have a look around with you.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:04, Reply)
Liverpool St & then beers in Dirty Dicks could be a plan one evening.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:05, Reply)
Done.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:05, Reply)
Let me know some dates.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:06, Reply)
June 3rd 1978, March 12th 355BC, January 23rd 2004.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:11, Reply)
idiot.
I've just realised I missed the third anniversary of Moaty's death. July 10th.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:13, Reply)
:o(

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:27, Reply)
Is there a Richer Sounds anywhere near you?
They have some decent deals, usually. Prob look to spend £100ish on the speakers and the balance on the unit, won't be spectacular but should be decent. I got a TEAC CD/amp/radio from them a couple of years ago and it's pretty good, and titchy to boot.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:02, Reply)
There is one at Swiss Cottage. I may well pop up there, but I don't know what brands to go for.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:03, Reply)
Cambridge Audio

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:04, Reply)
Thanks.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:05, Reply)
DING DING DING

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:05, Reply)
+1
There's a smallish Richer Sounds in Bloomsbury too.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:17, Reply)
alright? When are you around for beers?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:28, Reply)
Yeah man, not bad
Was just discussing with Lusty about drinks. Next week?
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:35, Reply)
Not Thurs pls

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:43, Reply)
I can't do Wednesday evening.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:54, Reply)
Richer MARRS
Makes for budget end hifi, Teac, Denon, Cambridge Audio.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:04, Reply)
For speakers, Wharfedale, Mission, Mordant-Short.
Or blow the budget and get Bowers&Wilkins...
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:08, Reply)
For mash, get Smash.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:15, Reply)
something about RichMARR Sounds

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:03, Reply)
B&O
shiney
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:58, Reply)
Out of my budget.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:58, Reply)
It's all Phillips parts.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 13:59, Reply)
Poor Phillip.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:03, Reply)
*One flippant racist joke to many*

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:07, Reply)
Something you don't understand about "budget of £300"?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:02, Reply)
something you don't understand about
"go and die of leaky bum rape" ?

besides there are literally loads of refurbed B&O systems out there.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:05, Reply)
a leaky bum rape dowwwnn

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:10, Reply)
downs more like

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:12, Reply)
My TV is B&O.
Ok yeah it's ten years old, but it's fucking stylish and I feel like a human when I watch it. How's your wipe?
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:03, Reply)

My TV is I have chronic
&
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:05, Reply)
My body smells like flowers, a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:07, Reply)
Yeah, the Rafflesia Arnoldii

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:08, Reply)
This is a very good joke, by the way.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:13, Reply)
is it also charming and witty?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:13, Reply)
Well 'charming' is pushing it a little far I fear.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:14, Reply)
as is witty
but hey, it's not rape if you push
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:15, Reply)
Ha, obscure.
Points if you didn't have to google it.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:13, Reply)
*checks in vain for points*

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:14, Reply)

that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. of my flaming fabulousness
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:09, Reply)
Indeed.
here
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:16, Reply)
FUCK my face is wonky

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:17, Reply)
I'd forgotten how truly ugly you are.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:20, Reply)
So had I.
How's it going?
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:21, Reply)
Getting divorced. Much happier than I was. Get to spend plenty of time with my daughter. Enjoying my new place.
7/10.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:25, Reply)
If things are better, that's great.
I don't envy you baring your life on here, that's why I vanished, shit came up and I knew I'd be an easy target at a vulnerable time. Kudos for you for pushing through it, I wish I had that motivation.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:28, Reply)
Just got to get on with it. Do what I can in the best interests of micro, both short and long term.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:30, Reply)
this is where deleting your account and killing yourself really would be for the best

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:42, Reply)
my wipe??

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:06, Reply)
Well yeah, why not.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:07, Reply)
OH, is it SWIPE?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:07, Reply)
those new glasses of yours want testing, my fine feathered friend

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:08, Reply)
Ha, have you seen them?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:09, Reply)
no, just your post referencing them earlier!

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:09, Reply)
Ahh balls wrong subthread.
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2020148
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:18, Reply)
HAWT

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:25, Reply)
Right back at ya cheeksweets.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:29, Reply)
The thing about Bang and Olufsen
is that they make stuff out of cheap Japanese components, then whack a massive fucking bill on top for a bit of fancy design work. They are bought by fucking iPod/Mac spastics with no idea at all of what they're buying, who're purely concerned with looks.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:27, Reply)
You can make nature's own sounds by simply
Screaming for as long as you can and as loudly as you can into a cardboard box.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:12, Reply)
You're a right old screamer. That's what I heard.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:13, Reply)
I've always believed that No Daddy No would be a good name for a punk band.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:19, Reply)
Oh really. You've always believed that, have you? Right. Course you have.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:21, Reply)
Well, since I first heard the phrase, anyway.
So NO, Mr Professor Of Fucking Linguistics, Semantics And Etymology, I HAVEN'T believed it "always".

Christ. Stop BULLYING me, you DICK.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:23, Reply)
The chances of me genuinely stopping are pretty much nil, I'm afraid.
Bully I may be - BUT, SIR, A LIAR I AM NOT.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:25, Reply)
So you've never, ever lied in your life, then?

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:32, Reply)
Not once

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:54, Reply)
I don't believe you, Sir!
Not for one minute, I don't!
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:59, Reply)
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Not _once_ ......
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:05, Reply)
I was going to suggest the Bose wave systems
as I have heard good reports about them, I didn't realise they were that expensive
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:14, Reply)
I was going to suggest that you 'fuck off', because you are a 'fucking wanker'

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:15, Reply)
I was going to second that suggestion.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:16, Reply)
He's such a bully Batts I really dont know understand why he hates me so much

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:18, Reply)
'because you are a 'fucking wanker''

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:20, Reply)
Yeah well YOUN is a Sphincter Spider

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:24, Reply)
:o
If you keep scowling like that you will never pick up any jobs as a Gary Oldman look alike
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:16, Reply)
Buy a guitar and play the music yourself

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:16, Reply)
Yeah TH, go on, play me the drum solo from Moby Dick on that guitar of yours IF IT'S SO GREAT

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:19, Reply)
Maybe I will smart guy
Maybe I will
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:22, Reply)
I could sell you my old one
60 CD changer, tape deck, radio, 2 speakers, bunch of holes on the back for I guess plugging other stuff in.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:19, Reply)
HAHAHA 60 CD CHANGER, GET WITH THE TIMES OLD MAN

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:20, Reply)
It's good if you have a lot of CDs
not so good if you don't. Unless you have pets, as the find the clunking of a disc change weirdly fascinating.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:24, Reply)
As a passenger there's something slightly wonderful about CD-changers.
There's tension when an album comes to an end, particularly if you've got it on random. The anticipation of what album will be next makes my nipples stand gently to attention, reaching forward like they're begging for more gruel. As the changer grinds and whirs under my buttocks, the whole process makes my hormones boil. The first few notes of the next album makes my labia shift slightly, my thighs rub together to encourage the stickiness. If the driver doesn't like the random choice, fantastic. Change it again, Mr Locomotion, make it different. Once they're satisfied I listen and listen and listen until eventually I squirt yellow liquid all over the ipod connector and glovebox.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:35, Reply)
Well, that escalated quickly

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:21, Reply)
I have a mix of B&W and Ruark speakers
with an Onkyo amp.

This isn't any help to you, I'm just bragging.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:21, Reply)

a mix of B&W and Ruark speakers with an Onkyo amp Hep C and bum-AIDS
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:22, Reply)
This is a subject area that I thought you'd be au fait with.
You with your CD mixer deck from Maplins.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:23, Reply)
ACTUALLY I have a Matsui midi unit SO THERE

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:24, Reply)
Cor, is it red?
PLEASE say it's red!!1
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:26, Reply)
Fuck yes is it red.
Redder than a Hiroshima dawn
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:28, Reply)
My first stereo was a matsui. Christmas present 1985 I think.
I know. CSB.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:26, Reply)
Mine was an Aiwa out of the Argos catalogue.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:27, Reply)
I bet you wished it was a Matsui.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:29, Reply)
Nope!
I love me a bit of Aiwa.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:30, Reply)
I still have an AIWA separate tape deck
Best under £100 at the time, natch.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:32, Reply)
MINE
was an Amstrad all-in-one unit with a fucking vertical turntable. It was a hand-me-down from my brother and, to my shame, it was still all I had until I graduated.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:30, Reply)
Vertical turntable? No, you just had it on the wrong side you bender.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:32, Reply)
It was truly pathetic.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:35, Reply)
Sony Music Centre
With 3 ft tall valve speakers (I wish I still had that the sound quality was beautiful)
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:33, Reply)
I built my first proper pair of speaker from a book I got from Maplins in the 80's
Funny enough I still have the book, but I left the speakers at my batshit mental ex's
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:43, Reply)
You should pop round double H and get them back

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:49, Reply)
I'm about 20 years to late for that one B-dog

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:54, Reply)
I fell asleep in the park

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:32, Reply)
Spastic.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:33, Reply)
it was warm and comfy though : (

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:35, Reply)
did you get park sleep raped

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:33, Reply)
No, he's going back tomorrow to try again.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:34, Reply)
If only he was pretty.

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:41, Reply)
i thought he was all pink cheeked and floppy
but he swears i am wrong
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:43, Reply)
You're thinking of Stunned poster's cock again aint ya

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:45, Reply)
she is only human mate...
I am willing to bet she is doodling it on a pad as we type
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:49, Reply)
resists.....obvious........strikethrough......

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:51, Reply)
Fuck it I went there

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:54, Reply)
Not there, there Obvs
I meant with the strikethrough
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:57, Reply)
Too late with the denial...

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:59, Reply)
Yeah......but......ermmmmm..................wellllllllll
OHHHHHHHH LOOK OVER THERE



*Runs off*
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:00, Reply)
Wha.. huh?
Oh well, move along, nothing to see here. As you were, etc.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:04, Reply)

doodling it on a pad flicking her bean faster than Sportcow was samba drumming yesterday
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:53, Reply)
making a noise like a crickets legs

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:54, Reply)
Ha ha

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:55, Reply)
V/good

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:56, Reply)
haha
a "cicadian rhythm"
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:57, Reply)
Forever known as "chirruping"

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:09, Reply)
Twoey I think you have just coined the ideal phrase for female masterbation

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:28, Reply)
where you having a crafty fag
on Mitcham common?
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:53, Reply)
here is some useful cable i nfo for you
most-expensive.com/audio-cables
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:37, Reply)
Funniest: gold-plated Toslink connectors
as if the choice of metal makes any difference to an optical fibre connection.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 14:47, Reply)
i guess it means they would never rust

(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:04, Reply)
That is the only reason for gold plate on electrical connectors.
All else is bullshit.
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:17, Reply)
Hahahaha
That IS funny!!!
(, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:09, Reply)

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