I cut a set of burl cups for my Australis. It's my first time to make cups and I think they came out pretty well.

Here's a passive switch that I built to allow me to connect my DAC to up to 5 amps or vice versa (although I highly doubt that that situation will happen). It's single ended so it has a common ground and a 2 pole 5 position rotary switch. I used Nuetrik Rean RCA receptacles, a NOS Alco...

i just picked up the self titled disk by hangedup and Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward by The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band. both are great albums. has anyone heard any of the other spinoff bands? what are your impressions? also, i only have yanqui u.x.o...

i want to build some speakers and would like to know if any of you have any advice on good designs (especially ones that you have tried) and tweeks. i would like to stay away from kits. also, recomendations for books or other forums that are good for this topic would be welcome. basically any...

i finally finished my meta after ages of undoing the stupid mistakes that i made going too fast the first time round. a few specs are: built in a japanese tea box 4x 1000uF blackgates 4x stacked output buffers 2x stacked ground buffers ad8620 op-amp etc., ect. whacha think? my meta

anyone else into sci-fi/fantasy books? i'm a big fan of fantasy books and i need a recommendation for some new authors. i've read quite a bit of stuff but some of my favorites are Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tadd Williams, the George R.R. Martin books, Tolkien... i would really like to find...

ok, so i figured that all my parts where finally here and i would throw everything together and get it working pretty quickly. well, i got it together and it doesn't work right. so...first things first. i put the power supply section together and messured my rail voltages at the power pins for...

has anyone used these ?

i have been looking around for circuit diagrams for a buffered power supply using an op-amp as a buffer but haven't had any luck. i can get plenty of threads about them but no diagrams. can anyone hook me up with one or are they a total waist of time?

i just got a panasonic sl-ct790 (japanese domestic with op.out/out). the headphone out is not all that great but the out sounds pretty good. i also have the 460 which i think sounds about the same as the 470/570. the japanese 790 sounds very similar but seems to be just a little bit brighter...

i want to put together an amp with this crossfeed but i'm not sure what type of caps to use. the local parts shops around here seem to only cary electrolitics and ceramics. will these types work or do i need to find or order some metal film caps? also, how do these three types of caps differ in...

i just put together an apheared 47 amp on my breadboard. i'm using slightly different cap values because that's what i happen to have on hand. anyway, when i listen to it, it is horribly sibilant and seems to lack midrange in a serious way. i built up a cmoy on the same breadboard and it sounded...

i just finished my first diy head amp. i built a cmoy with two opa134pa chips, bigger power caps and bigger input caps. i set the gain at 5.5 because i only have low impedence cans now but soccketed the gain resistors for and easy change. thanks to chu moy's design and tangent's tips and parts...

i just saw the weezer video for undone (the sweater song) again and noticed that the drummer is wearing some absolutely massive cans that look really cool. i can't find a good pic of them on the net but was wondering if anyone knows what they are.

a while ago, some of you where talking about getting the w2002 pads for the w100. has anything come of this? are they actually compatible and if so, how hard is it to switch them?

has anyone heard the pioneer se monitor 8 or the se monitor 10r? what do they sound like? http://www.pioneer.co.jp/press/release291-j.html they look really nice but of course we all know that looks don't mean much.

looking through the threads, i don't seem to see many comparisons between the top end pcdps from sony and panasonic. i seem to see good things writen about the sony d777 and the panasonic ct570. how do they compare to eachother and to other players like the panasonic 780 and 790 or the newer sonys?

can anyone compare the JVC HA-DX1 to the lower end ATs like the ATH-A55 or A5X (or other cans readily available in japan)? i'm thinking about picking up something in this price range (about 10,000 yen) to be a full sized, walk around, mostly rock headphone. i would like to have something closed...

has anyone used any of the international code free dvd players that are out there? got any recomendations for a good one?

has anyone heard any of the audio technica cans other than the w100 and w2002? there are loads of them around here but none of the shops want to let me audition them.

i'm a newbie here. i had been looking around for some new cans and read all the praise of the w100's here. i live in japan now so i went down to the local electric shop and picked up a pair. i love them. they sound great, look great and are pretty comfy although a bit heavy. anyway, i've only...