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its almost as if the news has an agenda rather than mirroring what people think or want, lucky we have such good journos here/sarc

clear choice, only 5.7% voted,bloody greens

think the resale depreciation will be bigger on electric,well it is in Hawkes Bay in fact bayswater who own the majority of dealerships locally refuse to buy back an electric on to their yard, salesman friend quoted a vehicle that cost 60k worth 20k as a trade at 12 moths old, ouch

this should be compulsory viewing, at 2% of the fleet now but what happens when its 20%, imagine on the cook straight ferry

yeah the signal has been converted and compressed a/d and back multiple times before it made it to your source say a cd which is only 44 anyway. quality of the dac in the player does make a difference but funnily not so much in the ripping process because ripping does multiple passes until it basically has the full spectrum covered where playback just gets the one pass of the data flac being 32bit 96k is higher than the original source cd was recorded to begin with pedal builds are so interesting and such a rabbit hole, good money to be made too and the vintage market has made old stuff worth moonbeams now but argueing over the sound of different caps is a bit OTT for me Dsp makes sense in a car for sure you can hardly run nice warm tubes, I think Ai will soon take all this hassle away and mix/eq things live, when you think it can now pull the originals stems out of a finished track perfectly then mixing and eq is going to be a breeze

all your formats are digital, pcm for wav and then converted to analogue to be heard or fed to speakers analogue storage was the old large tape reels in studios which you physically cut with a razor to edit https://www.whathifi.com/advice/mp3-aac-wav-flac-all-the-audio-file-formats-explained

question I've pondered. does the new cruise control with auto following gap toggle the brake lights every time it slows the car to maintain the following distance, does that explain why some people seem to be riding their brake pedal alot unexpectedly when you follow them on open roads, its very unnerving to follow someone like this

to be fair, labour had already passed that before they left, it had been extended multiple times from its original date, great news though

wow, were not talking sh*t from clay though are we, your claiming you can hear the difference in wav over flac on what is obviously high end equipment so pretty faithfully being reproduced. Look I'm a musician, I record mix and have plenty of sound stage and studio engineering reference, human hearing is like colour perception and completely personal, the only measurable constant is frequency response really, eg: women for example hear completely differently to men which is why they will wince and say this bars music is too loud way before men notice, their ears are tuned to accentuate higher freq responses (theory is programmed to hearing babies cry,)audio is even humidity referenced so changes with the weather and temp all your lps were compressed multiple times, at original recording, at mixing,at mastering, your argument is getting silly and condescending implying that folks can't tell the difference between violas and cellos and its just an undeniable fact that hearing deteriorates with age and your old although possibly an exception to the norm. Your also arguing that their are no differences in the digital to analogue conversions due to the dacs and their permutations and quality which is crazy,. Why do you think there are massive markets for external usb headphone dacs, ,wouldn't a macbooks audio chip be just as good? surely your ears can hear the difference this has got silly now and unrelated to the original posters thread, apologies Neal so I will leave it at this. I disagree on the use of wav being necessary

That's not what you would say if you read any audiophile article discussing the best sacd player, they go to enormous lengths discussing the dacs, I'm not dissing his build I'm very jealous, its incredible but Considering both wav and flac are lossless and you mentioned he could convert his flac back to wav ( is that going to make it sound better?) and the general consensus is no one can tell the difference your ears must be super good for a 50 year old

140 your lucky, try 120 as you'd struggle to find a road in HB thats still 100km

yes technically but for the sake of practicality I'd like to see your ears reliably prove they could tell the difference, especially in a moving car,if your over 25 it would be impossible Audiophiles are a bit rabbithole OCD argueing over the dacs in their cd players to start with

UK postal scandal

haha point was really the irony, fresh water is going to be fought over they reckon in future

without stirring things up, Is there any ideas for the future, tech moves on, file upload sizes for example, has anyone asked for help or donations.

Always trolls i guess not that he was really a troll , more always right your an idiot, it did get a bit tiring I remember during lockdown the board posts swelled as everyone had spare time. the topic of lockdowns went pair shaped and I remember getting pretty annoyed with a few lets say jacinda fans but I realise I'm in a minority in alot of my views but it was eye opening to see how much hatred appeared pretty quickly so get why general topics just don't work I would never consider contacting a mod though, to actually complain seems too much like cancel culture to me, But nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the general public

cool thanks for sharing

The kids skipping school and marching down queen st boils me just being played by greenies who arnt the slightest bit green and brainwashed we went from sharing the bath water to single daily showers fair enough ,visiting 20 year olds over xmas have 3 showers a day and everyone with a teenage daughter ive talked to said they have at least 2 ffs when did that become a thing 100,000 people flew to the latest cop climate conference

Here ya go ya old farts The “Green Thing” Back in My Day Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to me I should bring my own shopping bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. I apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.” The cashier responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.” She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV or radio in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief — remember them? — not a screen the size of the county. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right. We didn’t have the green thing back then. We drank water from a fountain or a tap when we were thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country. We accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didn’t expect it to be flown in from other parts of the world thousands of kilometers away. We actually cooked food that didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrap and we could even wash our own vegetables and chop our own salad. But we didn’t have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to … Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

really? you actually had complaints wow,kinda don't blame him then. I don't get why people if they don't like it can't just skip on, no one forces you to read a post and then be offended

Awfully quiet round here over the hols, although there seems to have been a gradually dropoff for a while on posts and topics.bloody facebook I assume. Just curious to know how this place works and evolved, nothing sinister or competitive or personal, just I check this and a few other forums every day and know whats required to run, moderate and fund a board so after only being here for probably 10-15 years I wondered how it all started and its owners history's. When I started there were really helpful sponsors and contacts which were great but overseas shipping cut into their business models too much I suspect. People on here, I've always found there seems to be an unwritten law you didn't scam or cheat anyone, I got alot of really helpful info from people like jochen back in the day but with the newer cars things have moved on and I guess less things you can actually do yourself so the value of knowledge helping others becomes less needed. Still plenty of old Bmws out there though and there's some really great info in posts of decades ago here so it would be a shame if they were ever deleted from the internet I miss builds from HellBM, peoples lapvideos of track days, some characters like Ron whom after seldom agreeing with, I still liked their different way of thinking and knowledge. There's some still some impressive builds here on now, which are amazing that people take the time to photo and document everything. This seems to be a very car only forum unlike some others that include alot more off-topic threads which is fine but it does create less banter I suspect.Perhaps I'm just old but I prefer a forum to a facebook group. anyone still lurking around from the old days?

Daihatsu pauses production over safety scandal https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67822887 anyone see this? Bloody Toyota? 3 decades? how is this not as big as the diesel-gate We seem to consider the japanese to have some higher honour system which on scrutiny? maybe there just as human as the rest of us after all https://www.eurogamer.net/sony-admitted-the-great-psn-hack-five-years-ago-today https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/24656-mysterious-fish-die-offs-in-japan-spark-concerns-and-speculation.html

priorities, exactly, don't think anyone was every arguing otherwise but most of us have experienced a tyre that wasn't up to scratch by the sounds of it, and have a few we'd recommend there's some pretty dodgy stuff out there so hopefully someone finds this useful and it may even save a life, although you would never know or could prove it