I bought a Marantz SR6010 for £480. I've initially set it up as a 7.0 system. Using EV Sentrys as fronts, a Linn Isobarik as the centre speaker, Saras as rears and Heybrook HB1's as sides. After watching an Our Brand is Crisis DVD on it my children declared that it was a waste of money. :grin: We'l...

"No one is to blow anyone's planet up until I blow this whistle!"

Sounds like a pretty good form of anarchy.
The Netherlands is a pretty well organised and industrious place. The people there can carry on with their lives OK for a while, even if there's no clear set of people right at the top of the political hierarchy.

We shall see. He will have to buck the trend from his most recent albums. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/1/year/desc?artist=knopfler Down the Road Wherever Tracker Privateering All disappointing. In the context of Dire Straits from the 1970's to 1980's: https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/li...

Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell illustrates that they were quite capable of producing mediocre recordings in the 1970's.

Moronic music biz producers have been around forever. The difference being that in the 21st century they're all wedded to their dynamic compression machines.

Indeed. Why in 2024 is it so difficult for Knopfler to release an album that's at least as well recorded and produced as Communique from 1979?

The natural resonant frequency of a house is somewhere in the region of 8 to 12 hz.

So one might be able enhance one's listening to David Cassidy via the hi-fi whilst demolishing the pesky neighbours house at the same time (when they and the cat are out)?

Sounds like a cunning plan.

DR rating?

An elderly American man rear-ended a guy driving an expensive European sports car. Enraged, the guy hops out and confronts the old man. He yells, " Look what you did to my car! You're going to give me $10,000 right now or I'm going to beat you to a pulp !" " Oh my …" the old man...

...If that's fails then just shoot there cat. Edit....dont tell the council you've done that! What do you shoot the cat with? If it's a crossbow, what are the chances of the police coming round and blowing your head off? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-shoot-man-crossbow-southwar...