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18 Mar, 2023
Interesting premise and an upbeat direction.
This 15-episode first series is a comedy about someone who gets hit by a car and wakes from a coma remembering nothing about her life. She has to find out about her family, her friends, and, most importantly, her past.
This is a gentle comedy without a laughter track. Samantha, played by Christina Applegate, pretty quickly finds out that in her job she was a bit of a monster and sets out to rewrite herself.
A highlight is seeing Tim Russ as the doorman of the building where she has an apartment. He`s pretty much how you might imagine ST Voyager`s Mr. Tuvok to be in that job, definitely not wanting to talk to people nor get involved, but he has some good moments.
Seemingly there is no UK release of the second series, but there is a US Region 1 DVD set, which will do nicely.
28 Feb, 2018
Good value Improvement to Your Hi-Fi System
These fuses are intended to replace the standard 5-for-a-pound mains plug fuses in your mains leads to your low current draw source devices, e.g. your CD or DVD players. Being 3 Amp, you would need the 13 Amp ones for power amplifiers and sub-woofers. In fact my BD recorder, Sky Box and TV also would require the 13A version as they are fused with 5 Amps out of the box.
Firstly, your hi-fi would need to be of a certain standard to allow you to hear any improvement. What you're going for is clarity, and if the speakers or the amplifier aren`t that clear then likely you won`t hear much or any improvement. I'm using an Arcam CDS 27 CD/NAS player to feed a Musical Paradise MP-301 Mk III valve amplifier and then into Living Voice Avatar speakers. All these are connected with van del Hul D102 interconnects and Teatrack speaker cable. I also have mains cables made of Supra LoRad cable or Belden 83803 cable. I'm also filtering the mains through an Einstein Octopus. Total spend would be around £5500 on that little lot.
You'd think having gone to a lot of trouble to try to get the best quality mains to the gear to get the best signal from the discs to the speakers; that you would notice that all that clean power is passed through 3 or 4 thin bits of cheap tin whose only purpose is to blow up if too much power is drawn.
At £15 a pop (pun intended), you would hope that nothing ever goes wrong in your gear to blow one of these gold-plated fuses. They are designed to let your power flow through more freely and easily, enabling the amplifier to step up the power to play back loud parts as needed. They do also benefit source devices.
Does it do the job? Firstly, I swapped 4 fuses altogether at the same time. The amplifier has an internal T1A 20mm fuse. AMR do a comprehensive range of those too, covering any amperage you are likely to need. I then changed the mains lead fuses in the CD player, my Blu-ray Oppo BD83 player, which can also drive the amp, and the amplifier's lead too.
These fuses do need time to burn in to reach their best, but even at the beginning I could notice an improvement. I use Thriller and Beat It as my reference tracks of quality, the production is superb on those. The bass drum has more strength and oomph, I can hear the timbre of some drums where before it was just a thud, and high percussion also sounds a little more sparkly. I can also pick extra detail out in places where something is fairly low in the mix. It`s always a revelation when you make an improvement to your hi-fi infrastructure and can hear new things.
I was inspired to try these by another hi-fi nut (hi Sanjay), who put some SR Blue fuses into his much more expensive system than mine. They`re £130 each, and I can`t justify that amount, though I`d love to try some to hear how much better they are. I think £15 is a good compromise, considering that I will need another 9 fuses (13 in all) to do the solid state AV part of my setup, and all the video inputs too.
The rule of thumb I was told is to spend about 10% of your hi-fi budget on your cables. I thought that was just interconnects and speaker cables. Who knew the mains feed was so important, and so constrained by the out-of-the-box mains leads we get even with quite expensive equipment, let alone that all these leads contain 20p fuses?
We need to clean up our mains too, preferably with a dedicated 4mm wire high-current feed from the consumer unit, filter the mains, or regenerate it, and use cables that protect the mains from Wi-Fi and other radio interference, and indeed stop your hi-fi components from affecting each other. These fuses made a noticeable improvement to the sound quality in my reasonable but not extravagant system.
If you have a reasonable or extravagant system and you are still using 20p fuses, get these AMR gold fuses fitted in all your gear and see if they don`t put a grin of satisfaction on your face.
03 Oct, 2018
Simple Solution That Works Well
1 of 1 found this helpful I found this product by searching for some sort of box of tricks to reduce the volume of my CD player as it was slightly over-loading my valve amplifier when playing particularly loudly-recorded CDs. This typically included most of my Japanese metal albums, where they like to use the maximum range of the CD samples, and are likely applying some compression. I`m not sure if the pre-amp valves are distorting, or the power valve inputs are over-loading, but it`s making a mess of just a few of my CDs.
There are a number of different Harrison Labs RCA audio attenuators that drop the volume by different amounts. -3db represents halving the volume, which is about what I wanted to do. I have seen others go down to as much as -12db, which to my mind is one sixteenth volume.
The attenuators just plug into the amplifier where the RCA audio input leads would go in, and you plug the RCA leads into the end of the attenuators. They are likely bi-directional and could go at the source end if you wanted to.
The attenuators have indeed halved to the input volume, meaning that I have to turn the volume up a little higher on the amplifer, but there is now no distortion on my louder Japanese CDs. They haven`t otherwise detrimentally affected the sound quality of any CDs as far as I can tell, I wouldn`t expect them to.
These are an easy to use solution taking seconds to fit, and have resolved my problem perfectly.