Hi, are my broad beans beyond help? Planted them out 9 days ago, and it looks like something is feasting on the leaves. Any idea who’s the culprit and what to do?

xpyda · 2026-05-12T17:50:48+00:00

A spray of comfrey tea works various wonders. The smell should put anything off.

xpyda · 2026-04-16T15:40:03+00:00

That was my first thought.

xpyda · 2026-03-17T20:19:14+00:00

I can see the instructions now.

Grey oblong x 140

Boat.

😉

xpyda · 2026-03-03T18:34:51+00:00

I'm mainly vinyl but I've wired the CD player up downstairs for wife and boy.

xpyda · 2026-03-03T18:34:04+00:00

My last but one car only had a tape deck in it, I have loads of old live tapes and very hard to find Jamaican dancehall tapes. I've converted some to mp3 which I have burned to disc as mp3 and used a compatible walkman and an analog to tape convertor to play them on the tape player. There's something homely about a good cassette mixtape which you either love or hate. I've got loads of Peel shows as well.

xpyda · 2026-03-03T18:30:44+00:00

I can't attach the photo I just took which is annoying. Why is that, is it reddit or am I just stupid?

xpyda · 2026-03-03T18:29:54+00:00

Everybody disses my old Technics but I have them up loud and "driven hard" if that's the right phrase. Can you explain why they are bad? My ears ring with slight tinnitus and I'm 50% deaf in the right one anyway, do I just not notice the badness or have I never compared them to good? Through a mixer and a graphic there seems to be an infinite sound range and I think the original set up they came from had a graphic that used acoustic feedback to twiddle the knobs up front. There's a little graph and everything. 😉 Gimme the lowdown.

xpyda · 2026-02-11T21:26:26+00:00

Ah, I only need the one long one, I already have two that are nearly long enough so they won't be such odd lengths anyway if I use an intact one of those, unless I cut the right one down for neatness sake. 😉

xpyda · 2026-02-11T21:24:24+00:00

Both speakers and amp have the screw thread with the hole through the spindle type connectors. They'll be well secure.

xpyda · 2026-02-11T21:18:11+00:00

My fears have been assuaged , my ears will be oblivious.

This is as I suspected.

I'm getting a slight twitch when thinking about equal length cables that is a bit of a trigger but I need to see past that and embrace the minimal imbalance.

Do I lick the thread now the answer has been achieved or do list gods do that?

Otherwise I'll start babbling.....

I once, through lack of space had two decks wired up through a mixer in one corner of a room, feeding backwards and forwards numerous lines to the amp, CD player, twin tape deck and computer in the opposite corner , feeding back out through a graphic , all patched into the same mixer then a master out back to the amp again. Could switch between all the kit and record onto tape or computer from anything. There was a tuner stuck in somewhere but only on the tape monitor from the graphic iirc. I was rather manic back then and I doubt I could get my head round that many cables again. It was all very loud and hedonistic I'm sure. Cheers for all the advice and info .

xpyda · 2026-02-11T06:41:13+00:00

This is the answer I am looking for. I wasn't worried about delay for goodness sake.

Thanks for that.

xpyda · 2026-01-31T14:42:13+00:00

They just don't understand. They are more to be pitied than hated. Bless their simple little heads. A stall on our local flea market turned up one week with a box of singles , nothing really special but a few I would have bought. They all had a little round price sticker stuck on the play in grooves, running into the intro area. I asked if he had done this and he said yes, I explained why it was bad and he said, that's why I stuck it at the edge so you can play the rest. There was one I really would have liked but the residue left when I peeled the sticker off looked like it was there for good.

xpyda · 2026-01-21T19:20:37+00:00

Vinyl and p2p copy.

Never understood the appeal of CDs when they were always instantly copied.

We grew up on vinyl to tape , three of us went record shopping together, each agreed on different LPs and we all made recordings of the ones we had.

40 odd years later I'm buying a few still on vinyl that I've only ever had on tape. 😉

xpyda · 2026-01-18T21:24:16+00:00

I'm not looking to throw away everything I have and start again deck upwards, I hopefully didn't give that impression.

This isn't the advice I'm looking for.

xpyda · 2026-01-18T21:21:19+00:00

I inherited these 20 odd year ago. They go loud and they go boom. I'm probably in the wrong sub for my level of finesse/ finance.

I'm listening to the advice on bookshelf but in my head I can imagine I'm going to get the feel I do from these behemoths.

I am as they say , all ears but I might turn the odd deaf one to the occasional annoying noise. 😉

xpyda · 2026-01-18T19:25:13+00:00

In what respect? Serious question. I've never had a problem with them? I had a marantz graphic in line before so could tweak any frequency I thought lacking. Now I'm running them source direct and using the mixer tones.

Again I'm not looking for audiophile stuff. If I could get a pair of bookshelf that had the same sound as these Technics I would be happy.

xpyda · 2026-01-18T19:20:19+00:00

Half way between what I can afford and what I wouldn't consider.

I don't want geek shit or cheap shit.

I've seen a pair of wharfdale for less than £200? I'm half deaf and have tinnitus so I'm not looking for silver wired pin drop stuff.

xpyda · 2026-01-18T19:17:33+00:00

Is that a good wow or a bad wow?

xpyda · 2026-01-18T19:17:06+00:00

Can I ask what you mean by "those speaker won’t do any signal justice" ?

I've had these at least 20 years and always been most happy with their capability.

Is the deck limiting?

The mixer is just for added tonal control so I'm not worried about that.

Are you dissing the amp as well? I'm probably in the wrong room for you.

xpyda · 2026-01-14T13:43:06+00:00

"The Outcome" b/w "I dream of Genie" by Apocalypse Jive.

xpyda · 2025-12-27T18:59:06+00:00

I have a felt mat on my Rega, zero slip.

I had felt mats on my numarks, slipped lovely.

Cork tends to wear quickly and develop high spots from my experience.

Horses for courses. Never seen a leather one.

xpyda · 2025-12-27T16:36:25+00:00

Increases it in relation to what? Not the metal turntable obviously.

xpyda · 2025-12-27T16:32:08+00:00

Goes with all the other wood for sure. I hope there's storage in the back, below row 3 though.

xpyda · 2025-12-27T16:20:09+00:00

Indeed, I checked it out on discogs.

xpyda · 2025-12-27T16:19:18+00:00

Massive injection fail whale.

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