sometimes I would like a different source than Lemmy

If using an aggregator is still overkill for you, I suggest using Feedly and populate it from your favourite sources here.

You can set it to give you only three articles per day from those, which is actually how my brother uses it. I used it for a long time before finding Reddit and now Lemmy, and always found the Android app to be very good.

let me know if you use atypical methods to read your news, such as a custom feed.

While Feedly exists for that purpose, you are missing the social aspect of Lemmy/the Fediverse. I now use the Jerboa app as my only social media, and I filter by subscribed only and sort by new. It makes the feed curated enough for my needs and I get to talk to people who I wouldn’t otherwise, about things I may not IRL. That experience as a whole makes news consumption much more agreeable to me.

If you want to keep a separate “digital newspaper” then Feedly works well.

Jerboa. It’s the only social media I use.

Apparently I collect audio plugins ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I grew up with that stuff. The ti99 was very powerful for it’s day and we had an Atari 400 which was eventually replaced by an Atari ST. My school friend had the 800. His dad used an Apple Mac 11e.

Before that my dad used a Commodore Pet to work from home. They were cutting edge at the time and it introduced the home computing concept to us. 1980 was great.

Sorry what? I don’t understand what you mean.

Excellent, thanks!

That’s the line fed by the oil and gas industries. It amazes me how gullible we are, doing their work for them. We deserve to become extinct.

Nope, second verse please!

Greenpeace.

They look great! The mid driver could do with replacing though? But the cabinet looks superb and the bass speakers are VERY red! Are they ported?

Seems to me you’re more of a musician than a gear head, which is a good thing.

Excellent, thank you!

Love my Fuji X-E2S, such a great camera!

They had that sound still, the later models lost the magic. I had to split the outs of two S1000s and an S1100 across a large format desk. The way you have to assign parts to the outs is so confusing, using three made my head spin. Ah the good old days!

My friend has two of the current 1200 series (1210mk5?) and they are very nice. Not sure how they compare but it would be interesting if you know how to find the specs?

Any chance of a photo?

some synthesizers from the 1980’s

Oh come on, I need to know more!

Is that proof house in Digbeth?

Ooh, tell us more!

My late version (early 90s) Quad 34 preamp.

It’s a brilliant and somewhat unique design. The eq is part 8 pole tilt filter and part lift/step filter with adjustable turnover. This enables you to position the audio in a very precise and uncoloured way, much like changing your seating position in an auditorium. If you like bass you don’t sit at the front!

It has a true mono selector, high and low frequency filters for radio and vinyl subsonics respectively, a modular phono stage for MM or MC turntable cartridge type, and the volume gain stage is accurate between channels to around a tenth of a dB, which is about ten times better than is generally accepted as adequate.

It’s power is so efficient that it never gets even warm and it’s audio design has a quality that is similar to the way valve equipment sounds.

It’s a very special part of my system which drives my active speakers. They are pro audio which have a very accurate response compared to consumer speakers. The Quad gives them something special to reproduce which, with a lot of CD sources imparts a bit of character that’s musical and very pleasant.

If it ever needs servicing, I can take it to the Quad service centre where it was made in Huntingdon near Cambridge, a couple of hours drive away.

I’m very proud of my Quad 34, I wanted one for many years and was fortunate to be able to find a good one I could afford at the time. I expect it will outlive me, along with my speakers and a few other bits and bobs I’ve collected over the years. It’s the oldest bit of technology I have that I use regularly. I have a film camera that may be older but I don’t use film any more and I thought the Quad would be more interesting.

Thanks for asking and I hope you find this worthy. I’m happy to answer any questions about all this if anyone feels compelled.