It has been years (20 to be exact) since I took an electronics class. I want to build a small custom amp for $$$ reasons, but don't feel my skills are up to snuff to solder together a circuit. What I am good at though is wood work as I am a woodshop teacher and I want to build a custom cabinet...

I have been in a futile search for the last year to find an old cabinet style table saw that I could purchase for my home woodshop. I teach woodshop at North Bend High School and have old Unisaws there for the students. I want to find one like them so that I can have it at home for a number of...

I hit a term a few times that means nothing to me and I finally decided to ask about it. The term "digipak" that they put after the title of a CD in listings on Amazon, half.com, and eBay... Can anyone explain this one to me? There is a CD on eBay that is closing Thursday like this and I would...

I have a delima... I have ripped about 700+ CD's yielding somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 tracks into my computer (and Yes, I do own the CD's!) I used 128 bit WMA format for the collection as that sounded good for my purposes as a jukebox to play my music in my woodshop and as background...

In about 30 minutes, I go down to pick up the keys to my very own school!!! My wife and I have been working on this project for the last 6 months and today get to finally take posession of 5.3 acres of land with 33,000 sqft of buildings on it including my own personal gym, library, cafeteria, 10...

About every two months, my kids kill two computers by unwittingly installing cr@p from online kids games. Spyware, adware, viruses, etc, etc, etc have all gotten onto those computers and I need to just flat STOP any thing unless I install it. Each time I wind up having to do a complete reinstall...

I am hoping that someone here that is more knowledgeable about computer bug fixes can either help me or direct me to someone who can.... My system: Emachines tower, 2.4 Ghz CPU, 512 M ram, CDRW / DVD, ATI 128 M PCI Video card, not much more out of the ordinary...USB printer, scanner...

I have recently gotten a roll going on liv's albums. The one that I have been having trouble finding is a live album called "Unsolicited Material" Does anyone here have that album to tell me about it? Maybe tell me where I might find a copy as his website is no longer selling it. If someone has...

Some of you might remember me asking about an aria that I heard on a TV show and was trying to remember. I never had any luck with that last thread. Then last night on Smallville, they played it again. Stupid me, I forgot to watch the credits to see the name of it. Anyone here watch the show...

I have a question for others with the Norah Jones CD "come away with me" When I listen to it, there is some pretty bad distortion at the upper frequencies (when her voice hits a high note) that I am hoping is just a bad copy of the CD and not a fault with all of these. I know it isn't my system...

Anyone here ever use one of these? If so, any opinions??? My wife can't sleep with music playing, and it is a pain to have to wake back up to put the cans away... not to mention not so comfortable to get to sleep with hd-600's on. Thought I might give this a try! obriagdo! Mahkook

Kink FM 102 Portland Oregon The above link is to the CD page of Kink FM 102 in Portland, Oregon. I have collected 5 of their "lights out" CD's and great zeal after hearing my fist one when I discovered it at my library CD rack. These are collection CD's from the nightly program "lights out"...

So I am checking on the possibility of getting ahold of some ASL MG-Head MK III units from Hong Kong. If I can get a good enough price after shipping that I thought I could share the everyone here, I was considering buying a few units to resell/pass along at my final cost. If I do this, am I...

I have what might be a stupid question, or not, but I will ask anyway. (please excuse me if I mangle the frequencies and other details here...) I purchased a DVD player to use as my source because it will send a higher rate 96/24 (?) signal. I have been looking to purchase a better DAC that...

I have heard a certain aria again and again that has stuck in my mind... it was just played in the last episode of Cold Case (the one where the man was drugged by his drugged by his best friend so he could steal his wife). I know it to be similar to a a track by Yanni, called Aria, but that...

Ok, looking at the thread on the DIY cd3000 woodies has made me start thinking... (this is not a good thing...my wallet usually hates me afterwards) I have some much loved ath-w1000's, but have always been perplexed at the cable they have. A single wire, going in to just one side.. I always...

I had to retire to my bedroom to escape the onslaught of questions, telephones, screaming, arguing, and rough housing of 4 kids. I fired up my RKV and put on my hd-600's to try and clear my mind.... didn't work... still heard everything coming right on though. I have a pair of ATH-w1000's that I...

So I have been searching on the for sale forums for almost a month now in hopes of getting my hands on a used RKV impedancer without any luck. One person pointed me at the option of making a DIY impedinacer that goes in line between the amp and cans. Problem is that I don't have the ability with...

I have what is possibly a stupid idea, but what the heck.... I am going to be building a cabinet for my gear soon and had the idea of lining it with steel or lead as both a quazi EM/RF shield and as a damping device. I have all Teac reference 500 gear which is very narrow and will be going...

I have been searching for a few hours and come across references to the RKV amp on more threads than I can count. I know there are at least two generations, and something about an SE model, but I'll be dammed if I can get a straight up front description of features, differences, appearances, etc...

I am seriously looking at getting a set of Audio-Technica ATH-W1000 cans. What I noticed though that kind of bugs me is the pad material: artificial leather. After going from leatherette pads on lower Sennheiser cans to the velvet pads on my HD600's, I don't think I would like going back. Can...

So I am curious... has anyone ever crossed paths with an FM tuner that has a digital output, either optical or coax? I know this is probably a stupid question as radio is in the analog realm, but if a digital tuner goes through a set of A/D D/A steps, then what about bypassing the cheaper D/A...

Just passing on a little discovery I made today.... I was researching real glass optical toslink cables for my system and after seeing the prices for fancy ones shown in the ebay auction link below, decided on one from MCM electronics. Ebay:ebay Glass toslink cable Location ...

Is there anyone out there in my neck of the woods (2-3 hours radius from Coos Bay Oregon) that has a K1000 set up that they might be willing to have a fellow head-fi fanatic drop by and try out??? I have been considering a sizeable chunk of change for better gear and figure I better try these...

In two weeks I am heading out the door to Sarocaba, Brazil to adopt three children after what has felt like a long wait for government paperwork... I am wondering if anyone out there in the Head-fi community has any suggestions on things to do around there during my 35 day stay for the...