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    UDG Headphone bag, protection for your folding cans

    today i went to pick up my cans from repair and grab some new stylii, i was reminded by the guys in there that i'd ordered an Ultimate DJ Gear headphone bag so i grabbed that whilst i was at it. it's pretty cool and wasnt pricey at all. for those that don't know UDG build the toughest dj tote...
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    grado carts to .au

    hey todd, i've tried emailing you a few times in the past over headphones and twice in the last two weeks asking about carts, i'm thinking my email must get dumped to your spam folder or something. anyway, i'm looking to get a pair of grado dj100 carts, so wanted to know how much it...
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    just got a softub!

    ok i lie, i got it about 14 months ago, but its been sitting at my folks place getting filled with rain slowly for that whole period. i finally decided to get off my bum and bring it across to my place today (not fun at all) so i'm trying to set it up and clean it out. its a four person...
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    cable parts im finding hard to find

    hey guys, im looking to make a couple of cables for performance and general use and im having a hard time tracking down some parts. the most important that i can't find is a decent audio quality coiled lead. the ones i've found have been for cb radio's and i'm not sure about their quality...
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    going home to singapore :)

    so ill be heading back to sg finally in a few weeks, and i've not been back since april, anyway back then a soldering iron for me was only useful for making cables using generic parts. now im a bit more interested in diy stuff i was hoping you guys could give me some heads up on where to go in...
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    not so common dual pot values???

    ok so ive given up on trying to find a nice stereo parametric eq for the moment and have decided on picking up a pair of pcb's for ken stone's synthacon clone filter. now ive ordered two pcb's and id be quite happy to build two mono units, but i'd preffer to set them up for taking with me to...
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    sub $100 studio choices

    hey back from diy again for some more reccomendations i've had my ultrasone hfi500 dj1's for a couple of months now and theyre delicious for dj'ing with. but i have since added a pair of krk rokit rp8's to my studio setup and am no longer satisfied with the ultrasone's for primary headphone...
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    perplexing voltage/resistor issue

    ok so i'm switching the led's on something from white to blue. currently the circuit that has the white led's supplies 5.2v. my blue led needs 3.5v so i go to drop in a 1k resistor. solder it in, test voltage. still 5.2v. take the resistor out, clip it in series in to the circuit. still 5.2v...
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    fried transistors?

    ok so im testing and fixing something with transistors controlling the power supply to a motor, is excessive heat (similar to burning out your first op amp sort of heat ) be an indicator that th particular transistor is dead?
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    for those interested: diy ipod battery pack!

    ok so i was looking around the web for general diy electronics stuff and i stumbled across this . it seems cool. im just going to pick up an AA harness (for the sake of neatness ) and then build it. will let you all know how it goes. but quickly, for the diy gurus, how would i go about...
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    maximising transparency in a cmoy

    ok so micro cmoy for my ipod and a cmoy to add to my dj'ing setup are well and truely under construction. im just waiting on the op amps, led's (i want some wanky pink and purple ones ), and ic sockets, before i case them up. i was thinking about adding a couple of cmoy's in one case to my...
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    Enclosure printing/marking q....

    ok so i see heaps of wicked enclosures many people have done around the traps and yes ive googled without much success... so i wanted to ask.... how do you do it? i mean to get say POWER, HEADPHONE, INPUT 1, etc on the case, do you silkscreen? or is there an easier do at home method? im thinking...
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    will i have enough power with this?

    ok so im wanting to pick up a wireless iem system and hook up my ultrasone dj1's to it so i can go wire free when dj'ing. the reason is i play a tag team style set a lot of the time with my housemate and we always get tangled in each others leads. so adding a wireless monitoring system would...
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    enclosure help (neutrik locking/cmoy)

    ok so i just got some ultrasone dj1's and i wanted to add a cmoy to them for dj'ing. well the problem i have is that i cain my equipment. stuff gets destroyed at a phenomenol rate when you have large bar cards. i want to build a cmoy that i can stick in my pocket and forget about. i was looking...
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    senn mx-*00

    ok so im looking for some affordable buds to run on my ipiddle. ones i can just throw in the bottom of my school bag and not worry about breaking. the sony ex71's and the shure e2c's and ety er6i's arent those buds. so i was thinking about the mx500 (inline volume control would be wicked...
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    ultrasone hfi500 dj1's first impressions

    i thought id put what id written in a new thread for people to check out and add to. so here goes. ***disclaimer*** i am no audiphile, nor do i claim to be one. i am a dj who produces also. my experience is quite limited and obviously what i hear in something will be very different to what an...
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    v900 for dj/studio use?

    ok so im looking around to buy some new cans for studio work and dj'ing. so this means they have to be closed and tough as hell. now i was about to pull the trigger on the 7506's and pick them up but i noticed the v900's have come down in price to only 40% more then the 7506's. now in the past...
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    how do i know which hp amp is right for me? (noob)

    so i've been reading around a bit and im looking to have a crack at a headphone amp after ive done my urei replica phono pre. im just not sure which one would be the better option. obviously pimeta and cmoy are the two im looking hardest at coz im such a newbie at this diy audio game. id rather...
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    FAO Aussie Head Fi'ers...

    Hey guys, I'm new to this game of DIY audio and i was wondering where you all source your parts from? i mean from op amps to connectors and high quality cables (the type you can buy off the roll and not do all the tricky stuff making them urself ) to switches and led's to transistors and...
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    DIY Rca cable tester.

    hi hi again. sometimes i need to be able to test rca's quickly and thought i could make a little battery powered box to do it with. can any of you guys give me feedback on whether this idea is stupid or if it will work? i was gonna do it like this: RCA(only one cable at a time) socket to a...
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    Newbie Switch Help needed....

    Hi Guys, I'm fairly new at this electronics stuff and I wanted to build a stereo input selector box controlled by a rotary switch. However I'm slightly confused when it comes to rotary switches though. Do I need a 2 Pole switch for stereo or a four pole? thanks SS
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