I enjoy a faint buzzing / whooshing sound in my ears when it’s very quiet. I had a hearing test a few years ago and was told that my hearing was very good for a man of my age (damn that qualifier). The RNID test u […]

Well somebody had to.

Agree about the biggest decision. He also played Trump like a fiddle from the get-go by massaging his ego, and has appeared as a calming influence on the international stage after the laughing stock years of […]

Perhaps ‘fuck you’ means ‘have a nice day’ in German.

Lindsey Buckingham’s solo in ‘Murrow Turning Over in His Grave’ is pretty damn good. Plenty of scope for the usual FM naysayers to have a carp.

That’ll be the one.

I used to wear a ‘The Owls Are Not What They Seem’ badge on my lapel at work in the early 90s. Most colleagues were completely nonplussed, the rest just thought I was an idiot.

And while this is not technically an Eagles song, it is of course peerless, and in this live version about as glorious as it gets.

This article from Wikipedia is an amusing read. Ian Hislop – national treasure.

A benchmark review, as always. I’ll happily admit to liking the Eagles in small doses, but they really should call it a day. Desperado was the one for me, but I had a sneaking admiration for Hotel California too.

Careful with that walking malarkey. After training my THR hip back to health, my other hip is now ‘letting me know’ that it too needs replacing. Sigh.

Ringo has a new album out. While that fact alone is never going to revolutionise popular music, Sir Richard is having a bit of a late career renaissance, thanks in no small part to an association with T-Bone […]

Nah! Too soporific for me I’m afraid, with every song sounding much the same. I preferred her earlier stuff where there was more light and shade and she rocked out a little more.

MCC’s last few albums have been dull as ditchwater, so this is a welcome bit of upbeatness. Good cover too.

Thanks for the useful advice @pencilsqueezer. I guess I need to do more experimenting with speaker positions. Thanks again.

I worded that badly – the whole kit is duplicated, not just the speakers, so I have 2 sets of everything. I’ve swapped the speakers from one room to the other and swapped the amps, but the problem persists, so I c […]

I have a fairly budget setup with Marantz CD and amp and Monitor Audio speakers duplicated in 2 rooms of the house. I did splash out on some decent speaker cable and was persuaded to buy Chord Company […]

Having nothing better to do I have timed myself finding a CD on the shelf, switching on the CD player, loading the CD and waiting for it to read, against the time taken to activate my streamer, load the app, find […]

I first heard Satie when I was at university and someone sat down and played Gnossienne No. 1 on piano from memory. It remains one of my favourite pieces of music, redolent of its era and evoking the peace and […]

Not forgetting a pint of beer in your other hand to act as a counterbalance.