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So where did that weekend go? As usual, I was just getting into it and there it was, gone. Ah well.
We have started to progress on our attempts to get a sound system worthy of the Gin Palace. It doesn’t need to be massive and we don’t need a gazillion watts per channel (though the thought of placing huge speakers by the front door and sonically blasting those cars that drive past “doom-ba-doom-ba” with 5 grand sound systems in 500 quid cars appeals), because the Gin Palace is not that large a building.
Nonetheless, we have been living with Furtle’s ancient and trusty ghettoblaster for well over 18 months now, since my last, abortive, attempt to get a decent sound system that doesn’t decide of its own bat which bits of individual CDs it’s willing to play and which it isn’t. Anyway, the ghettoblaster is beginning to show its age now. It still plays CDs and such, but there is an overlying and increasingly noticeable high-pitched squeal, too. It’s not too bad right now, but…
So – we now have a new Sony microsystem, which I have yet to wire up. A job for tonight, methinks, so we can listen to our CDs as normal (and radio on occasion). In addition, we’ve acquired a “Jongo” wireless speaker, which we will need to set up tonight, too. The point of this speaker is that it will stream music from smartphones, tablets and even the Macs upstairs over the wifi. Now when we’re in the living room, it’s most likely that we’ll use the Sony, but quite often, we need (or rather want) music in the background in the rest of the house. If the Jongo system works as advertised, we will be able to stream music from our collection (it’s all copied onto the Macs), or direct from the internet to anywhere in the house or garden. Right now we have just the one speaker, but if it performs as advertised, we will buy more (probably a little smaller), including a portable one we can use in the garden or bathroom, and an adaptor that will allow us to stream music through the wifi. And you can set each speaker to play either the same selection through the house, or a different one in each room.
Finally we are approaching something like the integrated sound system we’ve always wanted. Hello, 21st century. We’re here.
If it works.
We have started to progress on our attempts to get a sound system worthy of the Gin Palace. It doesn’t need to be massive and we don’t need a gazillion watts per channel (though the thought of placing huge speakers by the front door and sonically blasting those cars that drive past “doom-ba-doom-ba” with 5 grand sound systems in 500 quid cars appeals), because the Gin Palace is not that large a building.
Nonetheless, we have been living with Furtle’s ancient and trusty ghettoblaster for well over 18 months now, since my last, abortive, attempt to get a decent sound system that doesn’t decide of its own bat which bits of individual CDs it’s willing to play and which it isn’t. Anyway, the ghettoblaster is beginning to show its age now. It still plays CDs and such, but there is an overlying and increasingly noticeable high-pitched squeal, too. It’s not too bad right now, but…
So – we now have a new Sony microsystem, which I have yet to wire up. A job for tonight, methinks, so we can listen to our CDs as normal (and radio on occasion). In addition, we’ve acquired a “Jongo” wireless speaker, which we will need to set up tonight, too. The point of this speaker is that it will stream music from smartphones, tablets and even the Macs upstairs over the wifi. Now when we’re in the living room, it’s most likely that we’ll use the Sony, but quite often, we need (or rather want) music in the background in the rest of the house. If the Jongo system works as advertised, we will be able to stream music from our collection (it’s all copied onto the Macs), or direct from the internet to anywhere in the house or garden. Right now we have just the one speaker, but if it performs as advertised, we will buy more (probably a little smaller), including a portable one we can use in the garden or bathroom, and an adaptor that will allow us to stream music through the wifi. And you can set each speaker to play either the same selection through the house, or a different one in each room.
Finally we are approaching something like the integrated sound system we’ve always wanted. Hello, 21st century. We’re here.
If it works.