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[babysimon]

Please comment if you would like any of the following and are prepared to take them away:

• Mission m73 floorstanding stereo speakers (large!)
• Gale centre speaker
• Hauppauge NOVA-T PCI freeview card (Windows disks lost, works great with Linux / MythTV)
• Generic 17 inch TFT monitor (1280x1024, VGA only)

Please please please only comment if you are actually prepared to actually come here and actually take the item. I don't want to be "reserving" things for people for six months, I am trying to get rid of them. That is the point.

Comments

[werenerd.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'll take them. Thanks.

Any suggestions on what I ought to buy to make them work? I really have no clue about these things.

[babysimon]

There are two different things you could do: just take the stereo speakers and make a stereo system, or take the stereo and centre speakers and use them as the start of a surround system. For a full surround system you would also need a pair of rear speakers and optionally a subwoofer.

Conventionally people whose primary interest is music buy stereo systems (as almost all music is only in stereo) while people whose primary interest is film buy surround systems (as most DVDs have surround). So maybe you should aim for a surround system? On the other hand it's difficult to get a surround system without filling your living room with speakers - I've done this but you may not want to.

Richer Sounds' cheapest stereo amp is currently £69, while their cheapest AV (surround) amp is £169. You would also need to buy speaker cable, the cheapest stuff it's sensible to buy costs 69p / metre. Richer Sounds is of course not the be-all and end-all of hifi shops but they're cheap and fairly accessible.

[werenerd.livejournal.com]

cool. Many thanks. Can we come and get them on Sunday afternoon?

[babysimon]

Should be practical I think. Cool!