Low Fidelity
I seem to be in the Dark Ages as far as sound and vision in concerned. I haven’t invested in one those new fangled digital TV or Home Entertainment System, because my pre-historic Panasonic TV receives so little use it is likely only to be replaced when they stop broadcasting in analogue.
We have a fairly ancient Hi-Fi system, comprising of an NAD amplifer and and NAD CD player hooked up to two B&W speakers. This has always sounded, well fairly OK, but then I’m not exactly a Hi-Fi expert!
The CD player gave up the ghost a few months ago and because I have been too idle/mean to trek to an appropriate shop, I had the brilliant idea of hooking up the DVD player into the system and seeing if I could at least listen to a CD or two.
It sounds terrible! It’s excruciatingly vile. I’m off the Hi Fi shop tomorrow unless anyone has a better idea.
Boadicea's Chariot 
I think you’ll have to bite the bullet and buy a new one. 🙂
Don’t worry, Araminta, it wasn’t your equipment.
That song sounds excruciatingly vile here, too. 👿
Mornin’, Araminta. May I suggest an i-Pod to store all your CDs and DVDs. With a good quality docking station the sound reproduction is remarkable and, if you buy an extra bit of kit, you can play the tracks wirelessly through any digital radio, including the one in your car.
OZ
Araminta
I agree with Zang, go and get an iPod, I’ve been using one for almost four years now and with a good speaker it can be used at parties, very good when you are on the move also.
Thank you everyone: I didn’t actually rush off to the Hi-Fi shop, I had a change of plan. My mother fell and gashed her leg I’ve just returned from the hospital!
Good idea about the iPod, I’ll ask one of the girls to bring one round and we can see how it sounds. According to the info from one of my friends, digital cannot compare, but I think he’s being a bit picky 🙂
Hello Ara; hope your mother is okay now…
I am just the same…we have a second hand clapped out old TV that is 20 years old, which we have only just hooked up to a cheap digi box; a CD collection that ressembles scratched frisbees; a DVD with no remote…the list of junk is endless. When I was growing up, we had a crappy transistor radio, my grandparents’ gramaphone and a TV that only worked when my dad twisted a metal coat hanger around on the stairs. I always swore I’d NEVER be like my parents…and now look 😉
Hello Claire: thank you for asking. She is fine, the gash looked worse than it was, s it usually the case, it was dressed and she didn’t need stitches. She can’t shower for two weeks, it was on the shin, so it needed butterfly plasters and we have to keep an eye on it.
I really think I am a bit of a dinosaur, I can’t bear this disposable business, so unless it fails to work, I am reluctant to replace it. We have a digibox too, so all it not lost, but we are not great TV fans so it will do until it fails, blows up, or whatever.
Ah, the metal coathanger trick, brilliant for snapped off car aerials too!
Aw, glad she’s ok..knocks you for six, that sort of thing…
YEs, we are of the ‘wait until it blows up’ brigade. Well, we have to be, actually, since we are skint! But that coathanger, do you know, it has come in useful, in more ways than one! You back on Mother Ship at any point…? The exodus is becoming, well, quite something…
Yes, Claire, I haven’t totally abandoned the Mother Ship, but time is limited and the frustrations there are too numerous to mention. I do pop in occasionally, but yes, the exodus is noticeable and it may be a Good Thing. They need to pull their socks up, in my opinion.
Araminta – Additionally, I am praying daily for my 1996 vintage television, which came from England and cannot receive sound on Portuguese terrestrial channels, to give up the ghost so I can have one of those state-of-the-art plasma jobbies in the corner like younger litter brother AND The Great Wolf and The Great She-Wolf (who, incidentally, have spent a significant proportion of The Inheritance on this indulgent luxury) all have, but the damned thing keeps soldiering on and I just can’t replace something that still works. 😦
OZ
Hi Oz: just don’t tell me about it. My children sneer in derision whenever they visit. What no Skye? No, I’m hanging on and yes, I do have a a sneaking desire to join the rest of the world, but darn’it, I can’t! 🙂 It has to die a natural death, and then whoopee!
Ara; don’t blame you; the place is a shambles. But this site seems, I dunno, so much more, ahem, grown up. Wot, no fighting, no shameless flirting and no creative writing…? Oh, I should be ashamed…
OZ; hello. I have this vision of a great shaggy wolf, in front of a great plasma TV…;)
Bearsy: I’ve just noticed your comment! Yes, my cobbled together Low-Fi is killing everything, and making me very blue 🙂
Claire2 – Wot, “Hello. I have this vision of a great shaggy wolf, in front of a great plasma TV :-)”, and you talk of no shameless flirting on this site, he said, grooming whiskers and assumimg best Terry Thomas-like attitude? Ding-dong! – Hold onto that vision and I’ll be right over.
OZ
HEllo OZ; sorry, missed your comment…but good morning, oh shaggy one 😉
Hi Araminta
I moved into the digital age when I got Das Boot.
I bought a tv with dvd from M&S that I use afloat to play CDs on too. Then I got one for my 87-year-old aunt who is absolutely delighted with it.
Now i’ve upgraded at home too, and that one has a socket for my i-pod as well. Super! I don’t watch a lot of TV so when I do, it’s nice to have good sound and picture quality.