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#1
Computer Help / Re: Https issue
Last post by NScaleNotes - Today at 03:50:09 PM
Hello

You'll need an SSL certificate but likely also some configuration changes on your web server.
So I think you'll get the best answer if you ask your hosting company.

Simon
#2
Computer Help / Https issue
Last post by smithloo - Today at 02:57:37 PM
How to move my configuration from HTTP to HTTPS for all connections?

My website is based on HTTPS, so HTTP stream will be blocked.
#3
General Discussion / Re: Calling audiophiles
Last post by joe cassidy - Today at 11:13:41 AM
Hi-fi dealers will even sell you a special CD or vinyl disc to run-in your speakers.

Don't know if there is any music on these or just "sounds" ranging from low to high frequency.
#5
General Discussion / Re: Calling audiophiles
Last post by Yet_Another - Today at 10:56:36 AM
You will find the same sorts of conversations about wines, whiskies, tobacco, cheese, art, probably TVs as well. Are there differences/ improvements? Yes. Can most people appreciate them? No. Does it matter? No. Do you appreciate a £30 wine more than a £10 wine enough to justify the expense? The same applies to high end music systems.
#6
General Discussion / Re: Calling audiophiles
Last post by ntpntpntp - Today at 10:24:10 AM
Like any component with moving parts things need to settle in.  I can imagine the diaphragm and the glue which secures it will stretch and soften a tiny amount at first.  Demo speakers and headphones in a shop have probably been through such "running-in" :)
 
Whether anyone really can tell the difference I don't know - I think a lot of it is audiophiles trying to justify themselves and their supposed expertise/opinion.   
#7
General Discussion / Re: Calling audiophiles
Last post by Malc - Today at 10:18:38 AM
A freshly made speaker will have a tight suspension, but before it leaves the factory, it will be tested and the suspension will have settled in 2 or 3 seconds.
In my youth I could hear getting on for 20khz. Nowadays, I'm lucky if the tinnitus allows me to hear 10khz. I used to have expensive Quad hifi, but now I use a Sony compact system.
#8
General Discussion / Re: Calling audiophiles
Last post by Bealman - Today at 09:06:01 AM
I'm going with the myth theory.
#9
General Discussion / Re: Calling audiophiles
Last post by Firstone18 - Today at 09:02:56 AM
I have never heard of this before! In you shoes I would take a cynical view of this claim unless I could find some, what I considered to be unbiased, evidence. My son-in-law is a sound engineer, so I will ask him his opinion as I'm now curious.
Cheers
#10
General Discussion / Re: My local bus stop
Last post by Bealman - Today at 08:28:56 AM
No Aurora Australis (although it was visible at Kiama, apparently. Kiama is not far south of here), but there was a nice moony at the bus stop last night.



Incidental to this, I called into the newsagent, and they had MRJ #300 in there, Some great pics of Chris Pendleton's layout in there. In the snow.
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