{"id":965,"date":"2008-01-11T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T05:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/a-few-weeks-with-new-stereo-system\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T05:11:09","slug":"a-few-weeks-with-new-stereo-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/a-few-weeks-with-new-stereo-system\/","title":{"rendered":"A few weeks with new stereo system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Christmas, I bought myself a new stereo. This is something I&#8217;ve been thinking about for a while and one of those things that takes some care in looking at because it&#8217;s a non-trivial amount of cash.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve ended up with B&amp;W 683 speakers, an Arcam amplifier and CD player (Tivoli HiFi had a special on saving about $800+ on the amp and CD when bought with speakers).<\/p>\n<p>The basic summary is that this sounds <strong>awesome<\/strong>. Tool especially sounds awesome. The only real downside is that i&#8217;m starting to get really used to this as the standard of audio I listen to.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, no complaints from neighbours (yet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Christmas, I bought myself a new stereo. This is something I&#8217;ve been thinking about for a while and one of those things that takes some care in looking at because it&#8217;s a non-trivial amount of cash. I&#8217;ve ended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/a-few-weeks-with-new-stereo-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,30,34,32,28,33,29],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","tag-amplifier","tag-arcam","tag-bw","tag-cd-player","tag-sound","tag-speakers","tag-stereo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-fz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":200,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/30\/200th-entry\/","url_meta":{"origin":965,"position":0},"title":"200th entry","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-12-30","format":false,"excerpt":"wow, real interesting - check the care factor. well, at least i've stuck with it - so yay me. and it's pretty close to the new year too - if only i could be bothered going and working out when the first entry was... spending a lot of time at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;life, the universe and everything&quot;","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":963,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/twitter-updates-for-2007-12-23\/","url_meta":{"origin":965,"position":1},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2007-12-23","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-12-23","format":false,"excerpt":"@brianaker: not the only one behind in expense reports # new stereo, Buffy musical. world of awesome # Powered by Twitter Tools.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Twitter&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Twitter","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/from-twitter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4409,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/switching-to-iphone-part-2-seriously\/","url_meta":{"origin":965,"position":2},"title":"Switching to iPhone Part 2: Seriously?","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2018-12-15","format":false,"excerpt":"In which I ask of Apple, \"Seriously?\". 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