New ’speakers and the return of the CD player
My new Quad 11Ls arrived at work yesterday and I was in time to collect them and take them home, thanks to a lift from James. I got them out of the box and they sure do look nice—the rosewood was definitely a good choice. But the thing that I noticed the most was just how big they were—a lot bigger than the old pair of “desktop” ‘speakers I had. In fact… they’re so big that the side face is about the same size as the viewable area of one of my 17” TFT displays!
I’ve got no idea how I’ll fit them on my desk, along with the 44/405 (and maybe FM3) and a Marantz CD player.
Some time ago I bought a cheap Marantz CD player on eBay with the intention of stripping it down and installing a PC into the case. It all started to go wrong when I realised it would be a lot harder than I thought to squeeze it all in, so I gave up. For almost two years the various internal system boards have been lying around in a box. Today I finally bothered to try and reinstall them in the Marantz case. It’s been very successful considering I’ve lost all of the original screws and had to do a fairly makeshift job. Early tests suggest that it actually works fine… but because I couldn’t find a suitable cable I had to test with my sister’s laptop and her microphone socket. Anyway, I’ll take it all back to Blackwater with me and give it a test there. The only major sticking point now is the fact that I’ve lost one of set of the black plastic buttons that go onto the front: annoyingly it wasn’t the useless buttons that never get used, it was the play, stop, pause, skip, etc. Damn.
Tags: Music