Long story short, my sister got accepted to UC Berkeley for grad school and will be moving to the Berkely area with her boyfriend near the end of June. I've decided to go with them and transfer to a school in the area. We're going to be coming out for about a week and a half at the end of May to...

I recently got my two turntables out of storage after three years. Since I gave my old DJ mixer to a friend a while back I needed a cheap solution for a phono preamp. Eventually I want to build my own mixer but for the time being I chose to simply build the $15 Velleman K2573 Stereo RIAA...

Currently I'm using some slightly modified Tang-Band W4-1052SD drivers in simple sealed enclosures. I like how they sound but of course I know they can be improved upon. So lately I've been researching all the options for 4" full-range drivers and I'm just looking for opinions and thoughts about...

Since my KRK's have way too much bass for late night listening in my apartment I built a small pair of computer speakers to replace them for the time being. I wanted to keep this project cheap, but still have good sonics of course. With that in mind I decided to simply go with some 4" wide-range...

I just picked up one of these little amps the other day from Parts Express and I'm planning on doing some pretty extensive mods to it in pursuit of better sound. I realize there's already plenty of mod sites about this little amp on the web, but the circuit board in mine is a different version...

I'm just wondering if anyone here is using one of these as a HP amp. Decware makes some nice, affordable tube gear and I've been wanting to try out one of their amps for years. So if anyone has one I'd love to hear your impressions on it.

I'm in Corvallis and I'm wondering if any other headfiers in the in area are interested in a mini-meet?

I've been cooking a lot of pasta lately and was wondering if anyone could recommend a good brand of sauce to try. The best I've found here so far is Mezzetta and I like all of their sauces. There is such a massive range of choices and I've had some pretty bad sauces lately while trying out new...

Well I figured it was about time to condense all the info on modifying this amp into a dedicated thread. If you're interested to see where the majority of this info came from please see the main Xiang Sheng thread: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f5/xia...be-amp-189198/ Intro While the overall...

I added a small momentary pushbutton switch to an original Xbox controller. This is the controller that I use when I play Halo CE/2 and I've set the pushbutton up to be an aux "B" button which is the melee attack in these two games. Compared to the normal way of having to move either my thumb...

I'm just curious if anyone has ever played around with using Peltier thermoelectric coolers directly attached to transistors instead of heatsinks? I think this would be interesting to play around with in a SS class A headphone amp.

This project is a work in progress. Some pics of what I've done so far: Reinforced the disc-clamping bridge with epoxy. Added dynamat to transport frame, laser assembly, drive motor, main chassis, and top cover. Added a pair of Mundorf 10uF M-Cap's bypassed with WIMA 0.22uF...

I picked up a bag of caps for super cheap. I thought they were some kind of film cap, but since they are only rated for 20v I don't think this is the case. However, I've never seen an electrolytic encapsulated in plastic before either. I did a few Google searches, but came up empty handed...

I was just reading an article in Wikipedia about class D amps and came across this sentence: "Because the output pulses have a fixed amplitude, the switching elements (usually MOSFETs, but valves and bipolar transistors were once used) are switched either on or off, rather than operated in...

I was just wondering if anyone here has some pics of the insides of this specific pot taken apart. I'm planning on building a balanced β22 as soon as the boards are available and so I'm looking into a balanced stereo potentiometer. All the quad-ganged pots I've found so far are way too...

Well I'm looking for a high quality method to convert my soundcard's balanced output to SE. Most of what I have found online are the crappy in-line style converter transformers, but I already have some of these that I got from Guitar Center and they sound horrible. I can't afford to go with...

I'm in the process of doing various mods to my Xiang Sheng 708B amp. I've had it for about a week now and have already replaced all the signal wire with Belden 7882A CAT6 as well as the RCA jacks. This wire uses FEP which has almost identical electrical characteristics to Teflon. Which brings me...