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As I haven't bought anything from the new BD website, I'm not in a position to compare it with Am*z*n, except to say that it probably doesn't try to force you into buying Prime/strings/plectrums. There could be some pre-filtering done from drop-downs on the main menu. The filtering is comprehensive, which is good. It's by no means perfect, but it's a far better look than the old website and at least as usable. I used to look at the used 5-string basses - that's handy, I can do exactly that now. It would be an improvement to be able to click on the pictures as well as the names to show the details. I also think that if you use the hierarchy display line to go back a level or two, all the filters should be shown with their current selections.

Why would Amazon pull out of the UK? Even if they paid their fair whack, it would still leave large sums for the bloated parasite Bezos.

Prime would most definitely not pay for itself in my case. Some of us hate using Amazon for assorted reasons to do with tax avoidance and workers' rights.

Because I then have to find and eradicate every twist and turn when they try and sign me up to Prime. In fact, Amazon is a good example of a mixed user experience - search function is so poor you only find things by accident, and when you do buy something, you have to find your way out of them automatically upselling you to Prime. Plus the bastards don't pay tax and [this rant continued p94].

On the home page there's "View latest Pre-owned" and "View latest New", which simply do a filter view for new or used with a sort by latest.

I had a look at the NE5534 specs yesterday as it had happened to be mentioned. The typical output voltage p-p was supply voltage minus 4V, so +/- 15V (30V supply) gave typical 26V p-p. Presumably a 9V (4.5V +/-) supply would result in typically 5V p-p. But the actual output is typically around 150mV p-p so 5V is well more than plenty - more than 0dB line level in fact.

$1049 new https://www.deanguitars.com/product?id=rh12tbk so not a complete bargain.

You could try the Lekato MS-1 plus whatever wired earbuds you want. Around £30 from Aliexpress plus the cost of the earbuds. https://lekatodeal.com/en-uk/products/lekato-ms-1-wireless-in-ear-monitor-system-2-4g-stereo-iem-transmitter-receiver https://www.gigsandguitars.com/lekato-ms-1-iem-review/

I've got the same ones on the left on the bottom row, branded Muslady. They were fine for quite a while but a little while ago I started getting a high-pitched whine from them which came and went according to how I orientated the transmitter. That was when I got the 5.8GHz Lekatos, which have been fine.

I was looking at fishing gear for carrying a few flat LED "PAR cans".

Surely you've upgraded something else which you can use the pickups from in this?

Although the headroom should be perfectly adequate at 9V, as the signal is typically around 150mV p-p, maybe as high as 300mV, but still a good margin from the supply voltage.

I think there was some pre-transit customs clearance done, so it would be pre-approved when it got here, as these were two adjacent entries from a few days ago: 2023-07-29 14:42 Item Returned from Customs 2023-07-22 08:05 Arrival at Regional Sorting Center Current state of play: 2023-08-03 23:21 Held by import Customs 2023-08-03 23:21 Clearing Customs Import clearance in progress 2023-08-03 23:20 Import clearance start So I'm hoping Customs don't hold it too long, otherwise I can't see the point of that week held up in China. Total time so far - 14 days.

There's a lovely walnut Alice 6-string in Bass Direct at the moment (which is why I've heard of them).

Maybe all the searching we're doing is loading up the cache.

Although the units aren't specified, you have to make an assumption on that. For all we know, it might be groats and furlongs.

Because Morrissey is singing on it.

A problem I found was using filters to go down to (in this case) a pre-owned bass, then using the location line Home > Bass Guitars > Pre-Owned Basses > AGH Alice 6-String Walnut – Pre-Owned clicking on Pre-owned Basses, at which point only "Sort by" and "Brands" are available, and not any other filters.

A considerable improvement on the old site. It looks very much like the Bass Gallery's website. Rather slow - about 30 seconds to give me all the in-stock 5-string 34" right-handed used basses sorted low to high price, and a few seconds to come back with the details of a bass once I'd clicked on it. Much neater presentation of instrument details. Doesn't give units for weight. Oooh, isn't that AGH Alice 6-string gorgeous? Shame it's headed and I've already got as many 6-strings as I need...

As an experiment, I just got my old Nexus 5 out of the drawer where it's been since about 2015 and loaded X Air onto it. ICBA to get the XR12 out to check that aspect, but the app loads and runs. Android 6 rather than Android 13, which is on my Pixel 6 Pro which also happily runs X Air. I suspect that most of the time a new Android version will simply mean recompiling the APK and uploading it to Google Play, unless some fab new feature comes along that a developer would like to make use of. I think Zoom are very much the exception - I can't think of anyone else that produces control software exclusively for iOS. I have a feeling that Mackie once did, but they've got control software for Win, Mac, Android, and iOS now. So all their competition thinks there's a case to be made for Android versions.

Import customs clearance complete Carrier note: Flight Departure 2023-08-02 23:35:00

Just restrict it to the last four versions of Android. After all, does anyone still include the IE6 workrounds on their web pages? I haven't developed for Android or iOS but I assume that the classes won't vary much from version to version, as there need to be backwards compatibility. My old underpowered Android tablet happily runs X-Air and is perfectly responsive - after all, it's only screen handling and sending and receiving relatively simple information over wifi, not processing audio. In the case of the MS-100BT, it should be even simpler (file manager and Bluetooth control) but I'll never know as I'm not buying an iOS device simply to control a now obsolete device. It might be worth reflecting on the fact that it is obsolete whereas the MS-50G, MS-60B, and MS-70CDR are all still alive and kicking. Could it be because Zoom only catered for iOS users and thus cut their potential sales in half (maybe even worse, as Android users may be more drawn to budget devices than iOS users)?

Have you considered just keeping one bass in each country? Gives you an excuse to buy another bass, after all.

72% globally: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-share-held-by-mobile-operating-systems-since-2009/ - the ratio between Android and iOS rather than the absolute values. It's around 50/50 in the UK. Once a UI and workflow is developed on iOS, a large part of the work has been done. Yes, you're using resources to port the software, but where it's file management and Bluetooth control like the MS-100BT was, most of that will be standard APIs - I would assume a layer of hardware abstraction for the Bluetooth aspect. Compared to the resources to develop the device in the first place, that's not going to be a massive extra amount. And it must upset their sales - after all, I didn't buy an MS-100BT because of the iOS dependency, so that's at least one sale they lost.