DarrenW

I have heard one of these, and was pretty impressed! Although, if you want a 2 channel SACD player, I dont think you can get much better than a Marantz SA-KI Pearl Lite for the price. Should be able to get it quite a bit cheaper than the Yamaha. The Marantz doesn't have balanced outputs though.

Thanks for the link, JohnA. At 195mm, it would just fit.

Checked out your links, couldn't find any dimension specs.......... Could you let me know how tall it is? I'm in Sunbury as well. Cheers, Darren

Did you have problems with your Kuro?

How do the Foxtel bitrates compare to FTA HD bitrates?

Thanks Ralfi!

Been thinking of updating to the HD package, how does it compare to FTA HD?

Blame Microsoft............. They charge licensing fee's for NTFS.

At that price, I'm surprised it hasn't sold already........

Now, now. Don't be nasty..........

Not something to do with 'secondary audio' was it?

The blurb I downloaded from APG states that it has a Preamp Mode, thats what I'll use when hooked up to my Elektra.

Hopefully, I'll be picking one up on Wednesday.

This might be a good upgrade for my 3808.

Here's another source for similar products......... http://www.recordclean.com.au/3/20840/23378.html

I have a couple of lathes available, if you need the hole in the clamp bored out slightly?

I have used shazam, but also found 'SoundHound' seems a bit quicker, and got results, where shazam got stumped on some music in a mate's PC game.

That would be a great ad for whatever brand of wheels he is using.........

Hi John, Do you have any car audio installers close by? They should be able to help you out, or at least give you a contact where to obtain some.

If your satisfied with your Pioneer BDP, try contacting GattiAudio http://www.gattiweb.com/bluraymod.html He can mod a lot of different players to be region free for Bluray.

How about the old, round 50 cent pieces? They had a high silver content, and you could have a nice, little investment lurking under your hi fi racks, and speaker stands...............

Thank you all for the hints and tips. It sounds like it may be an interesting trip. I'll be travelling with a former local, who hasn't been back for 10 years, so hopefully wont look too gullible to the local traders.:mad:

Thanks for the link! I did 'win' a near new 18-200 Nikkor on ebay locally for $590 including postage. Was hoping some the travellers here on SNA would know of a good shop in Hong Kong to visit and see what the prices are like. I'll only be there for a few days, and will probably check out Hi Fi stores as well.

You can use a screwdriver as a mechanical stethoscope. Put the blade on an engine, then your ear against the handle. Great for tracing bearing knocks, tappet rattles, worn cam chains, etc. Screwdrivers aren't much chop on gas turbines though, you tend to go deaf, quickly! Mechanical stethoscopes are better there, can even pick up failing ball and roller bearings in gear trains in auxillary gear boxes. Something that millions of dollars of vibration transducers and analysers cant do, they just give you pretty coloured graphs on X-Y plotters.........

Might have been a DD type Technics deck:nana