Replaced the amplifier which my older iMac runs through (all my music lives on this Mac as it runs a version of iTunes dating back to when iTunes was a useable thing). Turned it on this morning and all it produced the kind of angry electrical buzz you hear when you pop an incandescent light bulb into a microwave and press the 'Go' button - Kids, don't do this in your home - do it in someone else's.
A phone call and a quick trip to Richer Sounds at London Bridge, saw me laden with an entry level amp from Cambridge Audio.
Below my desk is a 'shelf' at about 150mm from the floor, which for me is a footrest.
Below the shelf is home for all the (many) 4-way mains splitters, data cables, wall warts, transformers etc, etc.....
It is not very often that I need to lift the shelf. Oh my! It is so very full of fluff in there. Does electrical cabling generate fluff?
I cannot help but wonder whether the Cambridge Audio amp I bought today will work every day for the next 30 years, as did the Toshiba one which it replaces.
Ordinarily, as amps go, I would consider that to represent exceptionally good value for money.
Only I never paid anything for it. It was given to me as it was someone's interim amp, while they waited for the insurance to cough for their much higher quality stereo, of which they had been burgled.
What does one do with dead electricals these days? Can I stick it in my recycling bin?
