Alex: Medogsfat: Alex: I'm here! Sorry I've missed it so far... How was the Curry Alex? We'll understand if you have to dash off for the loo every 5 minutes. Take my advice and jsut pop a roll of Andrex in the fridge LOL it was a Korma so I think I'll be alright. I'm a pansy when it comes to hot food... Lets hope it wasn't bad

I too had to replace my ABR's with the tuned port conversion some years ago and, I'm ashamed to say, I've had a capacitor kit to refresh the crossovers since some time around Christmas and haven't yet got around to doing it yet! The plan was (is) to measure the freqency response before and after (with the limited kit I've got) to

PrizeDrawBot: Just to let everyone know I'm limbering up in readiness for tonights prize draw with the help of some WD-40... Typical Shandy drinker - what wrong with Duckhams - a real man-robot's drink!

Medogsfat: Well I hope Prizedrawbot has had his software upgrade so he now knows that there is life in England North of Watford Gap and East of the Pennines Chris. Too right! - although I'm making a concious effort to try to not get too expectant this time

I'm not sure weighted keys is a necessity if you do not intend playing real acoustic piano. A good keyboard action which is velocity sensitve and has aftertouch would be more than OK - IMHO. Very few common synths or electronic keyboards have real weighted actions, usually only specific "master" keyboards, specific electronic pianos and

Just a quick note - Sibelius 5 has just been released and has a lot more stringent hardware requirements (because of its new features), its also now only XP(SP2) and Vista, all support for previous MS operating systems has been dropped. (It also supports OSX and the upcoming Leopard - I mention this only to prevent getting flamed by Macites ). Any new

jandyt: Every time I've been in your company Lee, I've ended up shouting for Huey down the big white telephone Andy T. ..... and I always thought he was quite a likable chap!

I must admit to be very suprised having read this thread - I was certainly under the impression that BL8000's would be a significant increase in sound quality to RL60's, given the general opinion of members, while the Pentas, although very highly regarded, won't suit many a requirment because of their bulk. I too auditioned 8000's not

I hope you didn't glue your sleeve to the cone!