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Not buying a Shure system has already saved me a fortune.

Agreed. Now I've splashed out £12.50 and a packet of wine gums on a PA system, I'd like to know how to use it.

Well, it's the law that you must like Prince and hate Coldplay, and that you should know who Jaco Pastorius is.

Might be worth posting in your 3D printing thread. Looking at it, @YouMa has an Ender 3 v2. I think they're slightly the wrong size for the CR6 SE that I have.

A bit of inspiration for when we do get them:

Baloney and balderdash.

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.