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  1. Joe Mac

    The Dark Side; Digital audio equipment recommendations and setup.

    With the newer Sonos bars they connect to your tv directly using the HDMI ARC or eARC slot. It relies on the tele to take and control all the inputs. The older ones connected using an optical cord but otherwise the same, relied on the tele to take and control the inputs. If you have too many...
  2. Joe Mac

    What's Spinning

    RSD Interlude Liam Gallagher - Acoustic Sessions
  3. Joe Mac

    What's Spinning

    RSD Interlude Doves - Cally b/w Lean Into The Wind
  4. Joe Mac

    What's Spinning

    RSD Interlude Bloc Party - Little Thoughts EP
  5. Joe Mac

    The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

    No it wasn’t as big a hit, it was just the one that over the years drew me in a bit more.
  6. Joe Mac

    The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

    First of the Gang to Die was maybe my favourite off this and liked Irish Blood at the time. Let Me Kiss You was the other single, which he also gave to Nancy Sinatra who released it as a single too. One previous had been 1997 and this came out in 2004 so there was a big gap. Southpaw Grammer...
  7. Joe Mac

    Record Store Day 2025

    Fantastic, glad you got sorted pal! I picked one up for myself when I was in there and they only let you get one of each title so I said I’d mail you the link in case!
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    Record Store Day 2025

    PS as well as the oasis my local had a few bloc party today as a well when I was in. They go up at 8pm ist and are usually ok postage wise to the states. https://spindizzyrecords.com/products/bloc-party-little-thoughts-ep-10-white-vinyl-record-store-day-2025...
  9. Joe Mac

    Record Store Day 2025

    I think given Europe there were more here. My local had 6 or 7 in the racks when I dropped in today but I had already got the Japanese repress of this one last year.
  10. Joe Mac

    The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

    Hard to judge really. This was a huge comeback album for him, sorta propelled him back as an indie darling again in the early 2000s after probably a decade in the wilderness. Even NME made up with him again for a few years. In hindsight the singles are all very strong but the album maybe isn’t...
  11. Joe Mac

    The Dark Side; Digital audio equipment recommendations and setup.

    I think you could use the mechanism in a higher end player transport and with better quality electronics and dacs they’d sound really good. But equally if you’re paying multiple thousands you want something substantial and probably more aluminium than plastic and those sony blu ray drives are...
  12. Joe Mac

    The Dark Side; Digital audio equipment recommendations and setup.

    Yeah when oppo shuttered PS Audio tried to buy their drive manufacturing but were turned down so they went to Marantz as the sole show in town. I think I remember them saying their unit jumped quite a bit in price because Marantz charged a fair bit. Some sony blu ray drives do still play SACD...
  13. Joe Mac

    The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

    I have a copy of BSSM and I think I thought I liked it back in the 90s. I listened to it probably 5 years ago, maybe longer, and I just hated it with an unreal passion. It’s just fundamentally terrible and unlikable and it just hurts my brain.
  14. Joe Mac

    The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

    This isn’t awful and if I had to listen to chilis this would be the one. I don’t have to though. Well until they come up on my play through, I have a few CDs that I haven’t listened to in probably more than a decade.
  15. Joe Mac

    The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

    It beats out sticky fingers because of the songs for me. It’s the stones, it’s always going to be a bit grimey. Sticky Fingers is probably my least favourite of their great run, I’d put Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed above it too.
  16. Joe Mac

    Incoming! The New Equipment Thread

    I get about 300 can you find this lost piece of work emails a day. It’s like moron, don’t admit to it, ignore it until it appears (which 99 times out of 100 it does) or it can’t go away and then run about shouting until people help you out of pity.
  17. Joe Mac

    Incoming! The New Equipment Thread

    I’m sorry, not sorry, but I automatically delete any email where people are looking for shit. In fact I automatically delete about 90% of emails. I work off the theory that it’s better to miss the odd critical meeting than have to deal with people’s shit… … also the phrase critical meeting is a...
  18. Joe Mac

    It Could Get A Bit Messi In Here - The Football Thread.

    There are good ones?
  19. Joe Mac

    Mexico and Canada

    Mexico and Canada
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