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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.