And what did you buy today ?

[happyscrappyheropup]

Ordered this a couple weeks ago. It was cheap to begin with, and I was floored by the acceptance of my disrespectful low ball offer. Giving off major Omiwatari vibes, and powered by what is claimed to be a Seiko NH34 movement.

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It’s a cheap Chinese product that does the job it was designed to do.

Cheap and cheerful (I think I got that from @skywatch) Chinese watches can be fun, looks great. What are the dimensions?

[hayday]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364681905291

[Kronos]

I have, but over about fifteen years. It was our Kraków apartment that led me to change from physical CDs to FLAC files. I was originally making CD-Rs to take out to Poland, but then it struck me that I could use a laptop as my music source. I could take all of my music with me on an external drive. At the same time, I abandoned using a CD player at home. CDs sold, shelves emptied, no loss in quality, far more convenience. It also allowed FLAC downloads, so in some cases CDs were cut out altogether.

Assuming that I go ahead and buy the Naim Uniti Atom, the files will be on a home server. I don’t have one at the moment but they don’t cost much and they’re no bigger than a toaster. The Naim unit will accept USB drives but large libraries are better streamed.

There was a bit of a task in ripping the CDs I had fifteen years ago, but it was easy and you could be reading a magazine while the ripper was doing its stuff. Occasionally, you might have to locate some album art but that was the only inconvenience. I did it in manageable batches and I don’t remember it taking all that long.

Would that it were that simple with my vinyl records.


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[tribe125]

Speakers arrived and tested with Joni Mitchell’s Hejira, Pure Getz by Stan Getz and some Haydn String Quartets. Success! £700 speakers better (for me) than £4,500 speakers. Look better, sound fuller and more relaxed. Wife happy too. She’s not a critical hi-fi listener but she’s a critical Joni Mitchell listener. She went Wooh at one point during Black Crow.

Now let’s see if I can wreck this happy synergy by replacing the £1,300 Marantz amplifier with the £2,300 Naim.

Edit: Marantz plus £1,300 Chord DAC. A bit asymmetric, this next test.

[Samanator]

Speakers arrived and tested with Joni Mitchell’s Hejira, Pure Getz by Stan Getz and some Haydn String Quartets. Success! £700 speakers better (for me) than £4,500 speakers. Look better, sound fuller and more relaxed. Wife happy too. She’s not a critical hi-fi listener but she’s a critical Joni Mitchell listener. She went Wooh at one point during Black Crow.

Now let’s see if I can wreck this happy synergy by replacing the £1,300 Marantz amplifier with the £2,300 Naim.

Edit: Marantz plus £1,300 Chord DAC. A bit asymmetric, this next test.

I was doing a similar thing for exactly the same reason. It was about 20 steps to use the Krell and ipad, phone computer to stream music. My wife said we needed something easier plus I wanted the TV to work with it . I almost did that same thing as you with maybe a bit better speakers, but went a step further with the Q Acoustic. What ever she turns on it connects if she say yes and it plays her stuff from her phone or Ipad. The CD and turntable auto connect and work by not having to turn anything else on or select anything. I bought a optical output TEAC receiver/CD player that allows her to play all her Asian music. When the source goes away the system shuts down about 3-5 minutes later. I have towers in the living room and and a similar setup in the guest house with smaller book shelf speakers. I can put on a Sub if I wish down the road. TV sound is not theater level, but much better than what I had.

[Samanator]

His and hers watches for Christmas this year. Lisa wanted a Breitling with the bullet band again. This meant the Chronomat series. Hers will be a pearl dial 36mm Auto with rose gold hands and index with small diamonds.



I'm going with the Green Giannis GMT 40mm.



We're past the point of surprise gifts so this has been fully selected and approved by her. I could care less about basketball (Probably my least favorite sport) , but this is reasonably thin and has good WR so it can be worn anywhere.

[Raza]

His and hers watches for Christmas this year. Lisa wanted a Breitling with the bullet band again. This meant the Chronomat series. Hers will be a pearl dial 36mm Auto with rose gold hands and index with small diamonds.



I'm going with the Green Giannis GMT 40mm.



We're past the point of surprise gifts so this has been fully selected and approved by her. I could care less about basketball (Probably my least favorite sport) , but this is reasonably thing and has good WR so it can be worn anywhere.

Really lovely! I especially like the one you got for your wife, it adds just enough femininity to the design with the touches of rose gold and the subtle use of diamond markers, so it still looks tough, but not out of place on a classy woman’s wrist. Great choices!

I also don’t like basketball. It’s a game where they score so often and the pitch is so small that blocking a shot is more exciting than scoring one. Where’s the fun in that?

[tribe125]

I was doing a similar thing for exactly the same reason.

I remember.

I’m discovering a paradox in my quest for simplicity - in abandoning three boxes (laptop, DAC, amplifier) for one (Naim Uniti Atom), I’m going to be taking on another in the form of a home network streamer. I really don’t like home network stuff - it brings a fresh raft of technology and acronyms that I could do without. Go on the internet and discover a million people saying “it won’t work” and another million people offering conflicting solutions - that don’t work. Simple things have their own complexity, and labour-saving can be hard work.

You have a do-it-all box that doesn’t actually do it all, controlled by an app that might not feel like talking to the do-it-all box. Looks great in the brochure, with a smiling young couple pressing one button to hear all the music in the world.

I have a nightmare scenario. To get the one-box (which is actually two boxes plus a phone app) working, we have to run a cable around our entrance hall, through a freshly drilled hole in the wall, and then around a bit more wall before it snakes up to the player in the sitting room. My wife would hate that, and in attempting to give her a simple one-box solution I would have spoilt the look of the hall and introduced something else she has no interest in understanding.

It’s a dead sexy box though, and I want to buy it and play with it.

[mlcor]

His and hers watches for Christmas this year. Lisa wanted a Breitling with the bullet band again. This meant the Chronomat series. Hers will be a pearl dial 36mm Auto with rose gold hands and index with small diamonds.



I'm going with the Green Giannis GMT 40mm.



We're past the point of surprise gifts so this has been fully selected and approved by her. I could care less about basketball (Probably my least favorite sport) , but this is reasonably thin and has good WR so it can be worn anywhere.

Love the bullet bracelets!

[Samanator]

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