Being fairly new to audio and fairly young-ish (24) I never really heard a true "boombox" until today when I picked up a Hitachi TRK-3D88W for $5 at a garage sale.  I purchased it with the intent to open it up and destroy it... taking all the parts I could salvage and dumping the defeated husk. ...

I threw together this schematic in Eagle in order to keep an organized idea of what I wanted to accomplish as I get ready to make a more complicated and better sounding desktop headphone amplifier.   I'm not interested in putting batteries in it at all, so I wanted to make sure that this was...

Hey, everyone.  I've been enjoying my CMoy (and counting down the days until my 990 gets here...) but I can't help but plan ahead.   I have an itch.   My plan has been to construct a regulator so I can buy a 30v walwart and regulate it myself (mostly cause that's more fun.)  After making...

OK, I'm no expert with electronics.  What little training I have was in digital circuitry, not analog circuitry.  So treat me like I know nothing, just to play it safe.  lol   Anyway, I got my amp all setup on a couple old protoboards I have from college. one board for the power circuit and...

Hello, everyone.  I'm new around these parts.  I'm new to audiophillia in general, actually.  I've been doing heavy research into getting the ideal set of headphones for my first set.  I've never owned any headphones that anyone, especially any of you, would call "exceptional."  Even exceptional...