Padded Cell

I know it's probably not something many here use, but the lad wants some for xmas/birthday. Any recommendations  would be welcomed. Thanks Howard

I am getting very frustrated with the poor speed of this website. I have a broadband connection speed of nearly 3Mb and every other website I visit provides virtually instantaneous response. I was using IE9 and noted Richard's comments re:...

Hi all, I have just seen that Ben Hur has been released on Blu Ray and it has 5.1 sound.  So this therefore prompts me to ask, what have they done??  Surely the technology wasn't around to capture 5.1 when it was recorded, so do they...

We are planning a trip to The Netherlands in May next year, probably a week or so with the car and our bikes. We like to be away from the cities and the plan would be to stay in perhaps two different locations and explore each area on long bike...

Sorry mods, not a for sale advert, but there's a plonker trying to sell a 282 from Korea for £6110.50. Free postage though! If I recall that's nearly twice the cost of a new one!

The first live band I ever saw, upstairs at the Kingston Hotel 1968. Keef Hartley, drummer/band leader. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6SQ1A0kvc0

We've got a 12 week old lab. She's not allowed in the lounge which is where the hi fi is. She's absolutely gorgeous, but we don't trust her in there. What do other audiophile dog lovers do, I wonder? Keith

Hi Felt this may be unsuitable to post in Hi-fi Corner, so it's ended up here! My younger son has asked for a pair of speakers to plug into his laptop for Christmas. At the moment he is only listening through the internal speakers and even he has realised that this is rubbish! CIearly almost anything would be an improvement. I would like to get him something of reasonable quality, but budget is an issue, especially as my contract has recently been terminated early. I was looking at the...

Afternoon everyone My ancient (2002) HP scanner has given up the ghost and I'm getting really fed up with my incredibly slow, enormously noisy HP inkjet printer. I'm after a good quality all-in-one that will work with my Mac (OSX Snow...

I am constantly curious about some people's avatars.  What/who is it and what is the meaning? I'll start. This is the Par 3 17th at Pacific Dunes at Bandon Dunes on the coast in Oregon.  THE #1 public course in the US (been...

The festive season now approaches. So, there you are..you have worked hard all year. Looked after your family. Now it's your turn.... Picture this, sat in front of your system, all comfy in your favourite chair/listening position. All...

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/home   Great idea .for anyone with young children

Here is a place for you to offload.  As the title requests, name three bugbears you have.  In other words, if these three things were addressed/removed, you'd have an albeit relatively happier life..... But no more than THREE!! Jon

I was unable to live with the dingy light coming from those compact fluorescent lamps, but find the new LED bulbs quite agreeable (but still not quite as good as incandescent). Not cheap, but we're progressively switching over. Electricity...

Please can anyone give me some advice on caring for antique fabric ? I have two Late-Victorian bedspreads, one nearly all silk, other cotton but with silk. They’ve been in my ownership for only 6 years or so but stored away unused. I have an odd-ball idea of using one of them for audio room sound absorption - hung on a wall but would need cleaning first... then i could even use them as bedspreads! : ) There’re in very good condition and look beautiful, but they do smell musty. After a recent...

What do you guys think...

I've been persuaded to look at getting a DSLR. I was very happy with my old film Canon EOS 1000F when I did a lot of photography but haven't used it in years. The 550D seems to be a pretty decent machine but does anyone here have any opinions on...

Brilliant news, Legard's out no place for Legard in the BBC F1 commentary set-up

http://youtu.be/3YfTtGCsiD8

That apparently is what Twitter users are called, I guess there a few different, names used by some of the users of these for(a)ums. If you are a Twitter  user, and you like  silly posts check out the Twitter "Marmite" thread or should...

I have just installed a Netgear 8 port Gigaswitch. It looks more like the Blackpool illuminations every day.   Bizarrely the forum now doesn't show "new" posts on the front page , it does on the individual forum pages. Any ...

http://youtu.be/RobaJKGMMiE

I cant belive no one picked up on this and posted.???Not a good picture. One of the greatest film directors/producers/writers of all time.He was like Marmite?You loved his work or hated it?He went where others would not go, and pushed people that...

This looks like an accident waiting to happen:-  http://www.pedibus.co.uk/pubcrawler-parties-pedibus.html  A non hifi related link.