Official NYC area / Regional Fall meet, November 14th, 2015 - Stamford Sheraton   This years NYC Metro Area Fall meet will be held at the Stamford Sheraton in Stamford, CT. There should be plenty of room for at least 100+ people. Like last year, we have 2 adjoining rooms and 3rd if we need it...

      Official NYC area / Regional Fall meet, November 15th, 2014 - Stamford Sheraton   This years NYC Metro Area Fall meet will be held at the Stamford Sheraton in Stamford, CT. There should be plenty of room for at least 100+ people. We have 2 adjoining rooms and 3rd if we need it, so...

Hey guys...   Long story short. I've moved from Brooklyn to CT. I'm planning to move the meet closer to where I live, but still in a reasonable spot, which is still considered the NYC Area. I've got a hold on a place in Stamford, CT for November 15th. Before I seal the deal I wanted to put a...

I know Avro_Arrow has something in the works that looks quite promising. The CMOY / A47 are nice starter projects.  Tangent doesn't offer anything anymore :( Then there's the PPA-S, which was short lived. Just curious if I'm missing anything in the portable dept. that has a pre-made PCB. I could...

Since the holidays are around the corner and 'tis the time for holiday cheer and gift giving what is on your wishlist?   This is mine...   Case Work: Drill Press - Not sure what is best for DIY purposes. Recommendations? Automatic Punch - General 79 Professional Automatic Center Punch...

This years NYC Area Fall meet will be held at the Adria Hotel in Bayside (Queens), NY. There should be plenty of room for at least 100+ people. We have two adjoining rooms that will be combined into one. As usual, all Vendors and Members are welcome. Donations are welcome to help cover cost...

I recently noticed that my 1/8 jack is separated from the sleeve that connects the jack to the rest of the cable. The wires are still in tact. I plan on snipping the cable and replacing with a new jack. I can see there are three wires -- yellow, white, and clear. I'm assuming clear is gnd. I...

I recently built "The Wire" amplfier. Just finished it last night. Pictures to come in the build thread. Here's my issue.   When I turn the volume up it takes a super long time for the volume to get loud. It gets loud enough at around 3 o'clock on the pot. I've read somewhere that the Wire's...

Since this is DIY and I've seen some here using Arduino for volume controls, etc. I figure they might be into the whole DIY UAV thing. Eventually, I want to deliver pizzas with mine. ;P   If so, care to share your experiences?

The slider allows the DT880s, 990s, 770s, etc. to be adjustable. Its basically a plastic assembly. Mine is loose from dropping my DT880s a few times. Gasp! I found a possible replacement online that works for the DT770 Pro. Anyone know if this same part works for the DT880s?

My goal is to hook up a 10VA toroid transformer with dual primaries and dual secondaries and no center tap to my power supply. The power supply I plan on using calls for two AC hookups and one center tap hook up -- 3 possible wires. My guess is I'll hook up each secondary to the AC hook up...

I get the idea of what they're supposed to do... raise the PCB off a case. I know you attach the stand-offs to your PCB(s). Do you attach the stand-offs to your case? If so, how and what is the best way. I assume if you don't fasten the PCB then it could slide around. Any thoughts would be...

Anyone ever use an OPA627 for the main opamp in an Apheared 47?  Right now I'm using two OPA2227s and wondering if it's worth it to buy at least one OPA627 to switch out. My power supply is a 24v regulated DC power supply so I'm getting a swing of 12 volts. It looks like the 627 would work fine...

Anyone ever have to re-terminate their SE530s? I've had mine for a few years now and just noticed this…     The sleeving is coming off.   Up for consideration is to snip the cables off at the jack end and re-terminate them with a 3.5mm jack. The upside is cost. The downside is the...

I just bought a pair of HiFiMan RE-272s that terminate as a TRRS male plug. I also have an older Shure iPhone mic adapter cable. I wanted to make a small adapter cable that goes from the RE-272s to the Shure mic cable. What's the best way to make a balanced 3.5mm TRRS female to unbalanced 3.5mm...

They are officially toast! :( Wife left them strewn about and the new puppy had his way with them.   Liked them and at times loved them. Should I bother buying a new pair or should I go with something different in the same price range? Am I going to find anything better for $80?

Just curious... I've seen this darker splotch on some of the tubes that I've bought in the past few months. Here's a pic...   Does this mean it's used?

We're finally here! Here's a little teaser...     Thus far the build is going well. The only non-standard situation that I've run into is for the C13P and C14P film caps. I had to bend the leads outwards to fit them into position. Not a big deal though. Overall, it seems like the new...

Never been to a meet. Have wanted to for a while now, but always seem to be busy when they come around. Anyone know when the next might be?

I got the DT880 Pro 250ohm, but was expecting the non pro 250ohm version. Should I keep them or make a big stink and have the e-tailer send me the right pair? I'm open to any convincing arguments that sway me to shrug it off and keep 'em. What would be the benefits of keeping the pro version...

Looking at Ben Feist's Tutorial for the A47 makes sense to me. However, there's something strange about it. He states he's using a Radio Shack #276-150 protoboard, but his board looks different than mine. The layout is completely different. Does anyone know how to adapt his layout to the Radio...

I'm at the point where I had to put my CMOY project down for a minute to take a deep breath. I'm at the phase of the project where you test out voltage of your power supply. This is right before you begin putting together the signal section. When I do my voltage test I get around -9 volts. on...

So I've got most of my parts collected and started to read Tangent's directions. I noticed two things that might potentially confuse me. The first is the LED part of the project. Where do most people mount their LED? It looks like from photos on Tangent's website that he's mounting the LED in...

I have a fairly brand new La Figaro 332c. I've had it for a few weeks now. In anticipation of buying this amp, I bought several pairs of 6AK5 variants -- Tung Sols, RCAs, Western Electrics, Mullards, and finally LM Ericssons. Thus far, I've had a few tubes that were bad. One didn't work at all...

I just got a y2. So far so good. It's definitely a step up from using my LOD on on my iPhone as a source in my La Figaro 332c. The sound is clean and transient hits are faster. So in comparison to the y2 what other DACs would it stack up against? ~mullet