A nice little tax snafu (thanks Honda relocation gurus) has caused me to let go of this and my homebuilt CD player (ad forthcoming) in the interest of keeping myself out of debt. Purchased this in October but have only had one of the two zone players hooked up for any extended period of time...

I don't know if there's been a thread about this, but as of yesterday thirteen miners were missing after an explosion deep in a West Virginia mine. After one was found dead earlier today, the remaining twelve have been found alive after a day and a half of desperate searching. Truly amazing.

Just got a new laser assembly to replace the dead one in my old D-303 -- for anyone's reference it's the SF-89 from Sony, and can be used to replace the laser assembly in the D-303, D-515, or D-35 -- and just today tossed it into my player. What I noticed when testing it out, though, is that...

And no, I'm not gaping at a colossus standing in front of me in the game right now. I'm just really freaking impressed. I haven't had much time/money to buy games recently, but I had to make an exception for this one. Freaking glad that I did. After my first full run through the game, I have...

I posted this in the DIY repair thread, but figured I might actually get more support within a separate thread: So I bought a dud DCP-150 the other day, and now the question is how I go about getting it back on its feet again. The player didn't play past about ten minutes of audio, and...

So I decide to buy myself an mp3 player after the last one I tried to buy (Rio Carbon) refused to work entirely -- I couldn't even turn the thing on, and refused to buy another after that. So I bought a Neeon off eBay from a Singapore seller, and got it today. The thing at least turns on, but...

I'm one take-home final away from bring a certified Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. Which means I need to get my @$$ paid. My first thought was to go back to the Maryland area and find myself a job at a company around there, but there's little for a guy who wants to work in the...

Alright, it's down to crunch time for my CD player (which I'm using as a final project for a lab class, and am presenting tomorrow), and the last thing left is the Dynahi power supply. Ran into a problem with it and figured here would be the best place to start, as I haven't really gone in-depth...

I've had my CD player running for a few days now and wanted to hear some preliminary opinions on how it sounds from other people (I am currently sans headamp and phones). I know I still have ground hum at higher volumes that I need to get rid of, but I'm more interested in how the transport and...

Ah, could the week get any better? Not only do the Illini go 25-0 to tie their school record winning streak, beating perhaps their toughest rival in the process, but my ol' Terps take out Duke for the second time this season and secure themselves a place in the NCAA Tournament. Man, I...

Surprised I haven't seen a thread about this yet -- we have just over 200 threads until we reach 100,000. (of course, if I'm blind, permission to delete this thread) I seem to recall the 1,000,000 post was administrative. 'Twould be funny if that happened this time as well.

This one was news to me -- Amon Tobin is one of my favorite musicians, and out of nowhere he decides to jump into the video game music scene with this one. The game itself isn't being released for more than a month, but the CD "Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack" was released today, with...

Current Version: 0.8 (4/28/05 -- guide for building a CD player plus DAC complete except reclocking, head/preamp sections forthcoming) Note on this thread: this is the culmination of the previous threads I've had on this subject. There is a decent amount of material here that will bore anyone...

There are going to be a million different Return of the King releases tomorrow with the DVD release, and the most intriguing one is the collector's set that includes the following: 1) Extended edition DVD set 2) Howard Shore concert DVD 3) Minas Tirith model The price is a hefty $49.99...

Went out today and bought myself a Rio Carbon, as I had been hoping to do sometime before going back east for the winter (would certainly help with the 10+ hour drive). Got home, charged it, and got everything installed on my computer. Turn it on. Stuck on Rio Carbon screen for over a minute...

Putting together the final building blocks in my CD player (points to signature). CD player regulators complete, DAC complete. Now the final part is putting it together, and a main factor in that is the type and location of the transformers I end up using. The basic choices are: -- Toroidal...

I shot an e-mail to the designer of the boards I use, but figured I'd post here as well. I'm having an output voltage issue I'm having with my +5V Jung super regulator supply for the CD player I'm building. Rather than the expected 5V, I'm getting 4.38V. My first thought because of the .62V drop...

This is a question to any parents out in the audience about how you named your kids. When you named your child(ren), what was a consideration? Names of relatives? Old friends? Likelihood the child would get pummeled by bullies because of his awkward moniker? This was inspired by the recent...

Starting this thing up -- pictures being imported as we speak.

This one came as a shock -- ODB, aka Ol' Dirty person, aka Russell Jones, died in a recording studio at the age of 35 after complaining of chest pains. Especially unfortunate considering he just got out of his prison sentence. Certainly one of the more entertaining characters in modern music...

To get this topic organized again and perhaps to bring closure to this sordid issue, I figured it might be best to start a new thread regarding the claims lodged against Mikhail and his company SinglePower Audio, Inc. Please only post if you have pertinent information about any of these claims...

Just saw this on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...332101249&rd=1 ...I think there might be enough nuts on this board that buying and distributing these hats might be appropriate, if there's enough interest. Of course, for most of us, perhaps it should say "DISCMAN" but this...

Okay, I've come to a decision -- I'm picking up the torch from Duncan and taking charge of the portable and transportable CDP review game. And my goal is to close out the Sony review game for good since it's been so thoroughly covered around these parts. I'm sure I can get some help from the...

(I'm still not positive on the posting etiquette for auctions considering they always end up getting moved due to excess discussion...) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...723990474&rd=1 Opening bid is a reasonable $300, with just six hours remaining. Hopefully I'm not screwing someone...

I just today got an old Sony PIX-100 multimedia CD player to see how it sounded as a transportable unit. I listened for a few minutes before cracking the top and taking a look at the innards. I luckily only broke one piece inside in so doing. But anyways, I pulled the audio board out and...