As a freelancer, I tend to move around quite a bit for work. Unfortunately, that means living without my much loved home rig for extended periods of time. I've been wanting to set up a nice semi-portable rig for a long time to alleviate my suffering. (By semi-portable I mean easy to drag around...

Hi ppl, just wondering if anyone knows of any simple tube preamp kits or modules (or cheap pre-made ones) that can be run of batteries (or a regulated wallwart if need be)? I'm thinking of putting together a portable hybrid integrated with a tripath module (eval or ex-T amp). I LOVE the...

http://www.hbl.co.uk/product.asp?ProdID=1032 "The Hosiden Besson USB to HIFI Converter uses the Burr-Brown PCM2702 DAC followed by a 2 pole low pass filter using Burr-Browns OPA2353 dual low noise op amp" "Digital attenuation and soft-mute features are included and controlled via USB audio...

What music did you hate with a passion or write off to all your friends to only 'get it' later? For instance, I, like many others at the time, was a huge Radiohead basher after their first album came out. Then, after 2 great followups, I was forced to admit that maybe they were pretty good...

Anyone else here into all things brazilian? Any aficonados of the latin flavour? Anyone else think learning salsa dancing might just be an insurance policy against being a lonely old man? just curious..

Sa-1000,3000,5000 models Anyone care to shed light on this? Are there any specs available yet? User impressions on this would be really helpful. How do they go amped/unamped? Any more general impressions? cheers