Archive for the 'music' Category

Radials in the house

Friday, October 5th, 2007

damn… err, i repeat. damn…
I’ve just finished assembling a pair of modified Decware Radial 1 speakers. Cutting to the chase these sound absolutely stunning and come close to trumping my Infinity P-FR’s in almost every way.
As these original Radials came unassembled with upgraded speakers, Jensen capacitors, Audioquest Indigo internal wire, etc, I took [...]

Audio rack v1.0

Monday, November 6th, 2006

The legs are 2.25″ diameter cherry with 1.5″ maple shelves and maple cross supports. The black cones and spikes are from partsexpress.
The design is more complex than it needed to be, but the adjustablity and leveling I find extreamly effective. The ‘floating’ aspect of the design is asthetic, modular and allows the shelves to expand [...]

miles davis timeline

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

I’m a jazz fan. The combination of vinyl, low watt tube amplifcation, high efficency speakers and jazz works for me. Spinning some Miles Davis in particular I really enjoy.
Ok… enough on that. A couple of months ago, I spent a few minutes combining some of the tools that we’re building in the Simile project together [...]

on pigs and maps

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

I miss my maps.
Well, I miss google maps more specifically.
Even more specifically, I miss google maps on piggy-bank.
Piggy-bank is about making it easy to manage information you find interesting and share this with a group. Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browser”, [...]

Zen and dust

Saturday, January 10th, 2004

The face-lift on my Decware Zen amplifier is finally complete and I’m extremely happy with the results. The Zen is one of the best amplifiers I’ve heard and now it looks (almost) as good as it sounds. The re-termination of some 25+ year old silver braided speaker cables have complemented this amp quite nicely.

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