I've never heard anyone complain about that particular problem before which makes me think you might have a set screw that's out of tolerance in some way. Is it really loose in the hole?   Maybe buy another knob and see if it stays tight.

I still have files I can pull off backup cd's I made in 1999. I don't have a single hard drive that's made it more than a few years.

I have a pretty good handle on the backup to a hard drive deal. What I was wondering is if anyone has a utility you can point to a large folder, containing a bunch of smaller folder that contain the music, and have a program split them up evenly over however many dvd's it takes, and burn them...

I don't mean breaking the FILES up but rather dividing the folders up into 4.7 gig portions to burn to disk.

I have about 120 gigs of music files that I'd like to write to dvd discs for backup in case of HDD failure. Is there a program that I can point to a folder and it will automagically split the files into equal disk sized portions and do consecutive burns until the folder is done?

I started out with an Audigy 2 ZS and PX100. Now I have a Gamma2/M3 both powered by Sigma11's feeding HD650's. The interconnects are a USB cable that came with a camera and some cheap RCA's that came with a DVD player. I can hear stuff like foot movements and page turns in piano music...

I made a BOM/Worksheet to build a Y1-D config USB Only Gamma2. It is hard wired to run on wall power...NO USB POWER in the BOM so adjust accordingly if you want to run regular unleaded in your Formula1 car Use the Combined BOM to buy the parts and use the "Print Worksheet" to build each...

Use duct tape under the board to prevent shorts. Usually the nuts on the jacks and the volume pots hold the board in place. Altoid tins are a hack no matter what you do.

A little note about kits...you get a package with all the parts together. Which resistor is 100K ohms and which is 1 M ohms? To me it has been better to order the parts and use the label they provide, and print on the parts package itself, to identify which parts go where.

A usb Gamma2 will be a nice DAC for any headphone and it's performance is top shelf for the price. However, don't discount the Gamma1 usb either. Even though the chips in it may not be the newest thing on the market, the fact that you are getting sound from outside of the realm of the PC will...

Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks does that seller have all his own designs? I wonder. something looks familiar in some of his offerings. It's a free-for-all in the wild, wild East Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks can't say I'm at all impressed with...

When you turn the volume all the way up do you still have an imbalance? Or is it only at the lower levels?

Quote: Originally Posted by slowpogo I wish they all offered First Class USPS like Digikey does. You can order a crapload of stuff, and it will cost like $3 to ship and be there in 2-3 days (including Saturdays). Awesome. No doubt. Mouser sucks because they jack up the shipping...

Quote: Originally Posted by tamasic1 Hey all. Built it verbatim of the parts and schematic. When you say verbatim did you use the same parts recommended on the mini3 parts list? Did you follow the intial checks and all of them passed correctly? I've never heard anyone say...

You'll get 11 volts to swing with on the wallwart.

Quote: Originally Posted by ROBSCIX I am actually checking one out, I may buy one to add to my system. That site you linked to has quite a few nice looking projects for DIY. Psssst...Gamma2

Quote: Originally Posted by ROBSCIX Are you sure you know who is limited here? There is something funky about digital circuits and power supplies and EMI. There are many threads covering this. To insinuate that DIY amps are "colored" on purpose is just plain silly. AFAIK there...

Quote: Originally Posted by wali Most DIY and standalone amps are either poorly designed, inconsistent or they color the sound to make them sound "good", because people consider colored sound as good, because it sounds different. Heh heh heh. Did you read that in a review...

Quote: Originally Posted by fishski13 x2. if you can build a mini-3, you can build an M3. the chassis work is pretty basic for this build if you go with the bog standard Hammond enclosures. Second that. Ventilation is important so you probably will need to drill a bunch of...

"I would not quite trust this since it includes some BD stuff. BD is evil (ie, non-open and very anti consumer)." Sorry to interject but this needs as many eyeballs as possible. Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement | Electronic Frontier Foundation Copy protection and DRM inside your OS...

The USB-to-SPDIF version of the Gamma1 DAC will do what you need. Maybe see what MisterX can do for you?

Are you sure your diodes are oriented correctly? It looks like d2 is backwards, I can't really tell about d3. http://i.imgur.com/hXQkR.jpg

Sometimes I get funky, pulsing readings if I don't clean the flux off well enough. Assuming you built a gain 5 you want to see 1.8k between OR, OL and IG. OG to IG should be MegOhms range. Follow the procedure on the Mini3 site to the letter and report back the results.

If you read through the threads you find that 95% of the problems with the Mini3 are related to fried U5's. It's a very unforgiving little chip. I don't think that most DIYer's are prepared for the precision necessary in assembling one, thus, it's a learning experience. I know it was for me. I...

I believe that your hearing is a chemical process after the conversion of the sound pressure waves to electrical pules in the inner ear. Being a chemical process, hearing is influenced by hormonal changes or chemical imbalances. Is it possible that "hearing memory" is compared to the present...