i got one in my NAD C300 and it runs hot, damn hot, waaaay too hot to touch, so i thought i could take it off the board and heatsink it on the case, electrically insulated of course, would running 15 inches or so of some wires (nice thick solid core copper) affect it negatively somehow?  ...

i really can't...it has SSDs etc, but it's a gaming PC, and i can't drop the noise completely, i've heard people use those little asus eee thingies, i was thinking i could get one of those (or perhaps a really small pc, as i like to watch 1080 movies), plumb it into an external usb drive, pump...

i've been eyeballing the insides of hifi stuff since i was a child, anyhow...amplifiers seem so different inside, though they all seem to have a similar 'topology' (layout?).  Do these designs represent different ideologies/end sounds or are they just being different for the sake of it with end...

hmmm that stopped being funny 15 seconds after i posted it :P  *ignore*

I recently unplugged the IEC from my Cambridge Audio A500 whilst it was still playing.  And it continued to play perfectly for a few seconds O_o  I thought that, considering the amp keeps its juice in some capacitors, how on earth could the mains cable possibly ever alter the sound, as the juice...

Hello forum, so far i have two sites in my sights;   http://uk.farnell.com/ http://www.rapidonline.com/   and i've ordered a varied bunch of browndog adaptors from;   http://cimarrontechnology.com/   Just got my Aune and am actually pleased with it as is, if the sound can get...

or even better, how to make one am using some wire atm and stereo is hissy unless i hold it in an infeasible manner >_< am thinking i could clamp a TV antenna to my windowsill for good results? i've seen godar ones and they look nice, but are not readily available in England, and are...

am wondering if i can turn some old CD players i have into standalone dacs, remove everything that isn't needed? I have a 15 year old sony which sounds pretty decent actually, tad too much bass but otherwise great, and looking inside saw this... the DACs seem to be ad712s and have...

hello forum, my last project thing of hooking up headphones to any pwer/integrated amp using a 'flexible box' with swappable resistors is coming along nicely, and i was looking at mains power filters on ebay and they seem rather expensive, and so ripe for DIY! anyone have previous experience...

sound: great, they seem pretty flat across the board - complements my nad c320bee very well - nothing seems exaggerated, the highs are there and bass can go rather low indeed, bass even exibits texture, not just thump - i guess higher end cans will reveal more in this regard. i really like them...

i am making a box to connect my amps speaker output to my headphones however, there are some issues i can't figure out... here's a horrible schematic of what i think the circuit looks like (sorry for the size) i'm pretty sure a resistor goes at A and B, perhaps a 220ohm? but i'm not...

would this be ok? I ask because i'm currently building a little 'box thingy' and it occurs to me that not only are phono jacks very cheap and easy to plug in/out yet very secure, but also, unlike banana plugged speaker leads it's impossible for the connectors to touch each other and 'do bad...

i need to hear it, am wondering if there's a way to make it absolutely crazy? then i could make two recordings (of the same audio) of my dacs audio output, one with absolutely tons of jitter in the digital bits and one with just whatever i have right now - no jitter added - and perhaps compare...

hello forum, i am wondering how the average integrated pipes sound to the headphone out socket? I have a nadc320bee integrated and am under the impression it just takes the output from the amplifiers preamp stage, or the poweramps output stage and uses resistors or something to lower the output...