Hey All, I am trying to find a recording of The Planets, featuring Stokowski conducting the Los Angeles Phil. My dad said he used to have the recording when he was a young man, one of his favorites, but he lost it. The particular pressing he had had a cover with a nebula and Stokowski's head...

I've performed parts of this work many times, and it ranks as one of my fav pieces to listen to and/or play. Admittedly I've only heard a couple recordings but they've all either been very well performed but poorly recorded or well-recorded but poorly performed. Can anybody recommend a...

Hey All, So I wake up about 10 minutes ago to the sound of the history channel show I was trying to watch from my bed, and someone in my doorway going "Hello??". I get up and discover two police officers in my living room and two more in the hallway of my apartment complex. One of them starts...

Hey All So I know there have been a number of threads on multimeters, and I HAVE read them. I am fairly serious about DIY, but poor. I am looking for a good meter in the $50-$100 range, and I'd like to get something locally so I can return it with relatively little hassle if I don't like it...

So I was bored the other day when I was working on my dynalo and decided to hook it up to a small speaker I had laying around. It could actually push a fair ammount of sound, and I was quite impressed with the sound quality. Mind you, we're talking no more than a watt per channel here. I was...

Google didn't yield any good results, except for one place asking for $25 for JUST THE BOARD!! It seems to me that a board for a Jung super regulator shouldn't need to be any bigger than say a MINT or PIMETA board, so how expensive could they be? Does anyone sell them at a reasonable price...

Hey all, I modded my grados a while back to give them a detatchable cable, and while I like the convenience, I find that the signal tends to cut in and out every now and then if I move around. I used a fairly standard set of Neutrik (I think) sub-minis from mouser. Are there better quality...

Hey all, While rummaging through the basement of my school, I found one of those external 5.25" drive enclosures with the power supply and everything built in. I'd like to use it as a transport of my uber-system that I am developing, but I am unsure of the best way to go about this...

Hello all, So, I decided to take the plunge and do some upgrades to my SR-125s. I put in stainless steel gratings like the 225s, and put sub-mini jacks in the earpieces so I can swap out cables. My first cable is an 8-foot starquad cable, and I gotta be honest, I HATE it. Now I am the...

Hello all, I am thinking about designing a discrete component speaker amp along the lines of the P-3A and the dynahi, and would like to have printed boards made up for it. My question is twofold: First, what is a cheap (but reasonably good) place to get prototype runs of boards done, and...

So I am making a DAC, and figured why not make the spdif cable too? Silly me, I thought it would be the same as building a standard RCA interconnect, but came to find out there are some special requirements for SPDIF. I notice that the cables (more specifically the terminations) are all...

So, time to do some recabling! I am planning on putting in sub-mini jacks on the earphones so I can switch out headphones cables. I'm thinking of making a pair of headphone cables, one of starquad and one of braided teflon insulated silver plated wire, each 10' long. So, that leaves only one...

Hello all, I just picked up a Monica 2 kit, and have been considering a couple mods on it. I did some searching, and didn't find any threads on the subject, so I thought I would just throw it out here. See the following resource links: TDA1545A Datasheet Monica DAC (analog stage...

Just curious. Just before my first meet, I was all pumped to see some other DIYers and their gear, and was a tad dismayed to see only a few people with ANY diy equipment at all. So, anybody interested in a meet where at least one component of your setup must be handmade by you?

Just curious why the PIMETA and MINT use BB buffers in stead of the more well-regarded intersil buffers used by the PPA v1 and by Headroom. A quick look at the datasheet suggests that they perform similarly at battery type voltages, but of course that doesn't tell the whole story... Just...

Starting yesterday, whenever I try to go to www.head-fi.com, I get nothing with firefox (the page remains the same) and I get an error with IE. Anybody else experience this?

I have never understood the need for ornate discrete component output stages. As far as I know, these are the qualifications for an active I/V stage: 1. Take a current input and convert it to an AC coupled voltage output (assuming we are not talking balanced) with as little distortion as...

I don't hear a lot of reviews or comments, but I KNOW y'all are out there! I recently got some SR-125s and I decided to forego the headache of paying out the nose for flats and just do reverse bowls. So far my only complaint is that the highs are a little boring. I've heard flats ONCE on...

Hey guys and gals I am looking at DAC projects, and one of my requirements is a toslink input. From my initial reading, it seems like all you need is to just get a toslink in "thingy" (the receptacle) and give it 5 volts, and connect it where you would normally connect S/PDIF. First of all...

So, I bought one of those $20 23-position 4-pole Alps switches a little while ago, and I have been trying to populate it. I got through the first two decks, and have come to realize that the contacts are basically ruined. Some solder got into the contacts, and while the switch will still turn...

Hey guys and gals (know there are a FEW gals frequenting here...), I am in the finishing stages of my dynalo, which I LOVE, I've got my new SR-125s, and I am ordering parts for cables soon, so that just leaves the SOURCE! I've got an AV-710 for optical out, and an iHP-140, so it seems to make...

Hey guys and gals, So I am tearing apart my AV-710 to upgrade the power caps and put in a new output stage. I noticed in reading art of electronics that among hte filters it mention is the bessel filter, and that it exhibits nearly constant delay across the passband, or almost no phase...

Hey guys and gals, I am finally getting around to populating my alps attenuator, and I have been going back and fourth on whether to make it 50k or 100k. I am not really sure what difference it makes, other than that if the previous stage has a dc blocking cap with no buffer after it, it can...

Hey guys, I am staring down an AMAZING deal on some Creative Megaworks 560 THX speakers, a 6.1 setup, about $135 shipped. At present, I have Logitech Z-680s which I HATE. The sub on this thing is so horribly unbalanced it is just terrible for music. At the price I've been offered, I could...

Hey guys, I won the first Slappa giveaway and I recieved my cases! I got the all black 240 CD case and the 90 DVD case. VERY nice! They've got that "new case" smell Definitely a step up from my old piece of junk. I'd comment on the ergonomics of the case, but I left my old case w/ all my...