In the early 90s Philips were at the top of their game when they introduced the DSS930, a digital-input only, active DSP loudspeaker far ahead of its time. We got our hands on a pair, investigate the design and the state of these classics and discover a design flaw that has gone unnoticed for 30 years.
Chris Gammell was kind enough to sit down with me for an hour and let me try to explain what makes dealing with slow moving signals so exciting.
Boy does an hour go by fast some time! There was so much to cram into that space, and Chris is a great host. Thanks again Chris.
The Amp Hour #560 – High End Audio with Remco Stoutjesdijk
After building the CNC machine in part 1, we test it by milling a single sided PCB.
Can you guess what part 3 will be about?
Remco loses his mind and buys a CNC
Fire in the disco
Two posts in one year? Is the world ending? Well, yes, but not just today.
I’ve been visited by a pair of handsome Bose 1800 amps over the past weeks. They needed a DC output delay / DC protection relays because apparently that tech did not yet exist in the mid 1970s. Those solid state devices were still a bit scary, I suppose. Continue reading
Yes, I’m a youtube influencer now. Send me your free swag 🙂
Clearly writing blog posts was not my strength, and not for lack of stuff I have to say… just sitting down and condensing it into a post is a bit 2000. And most audiences want to consume video rather than text.
So, just as a trial run, I took a marginally audio related topic and just filmed my project over the course of a few days, then broke my brain for 2 months on editing the video but finally managed.
Odysee / LBRY
Youtube
Maybe next time I’ll use that full frame DSLR and Sennheiser lapel mic rather than the $100 gopro clone (what was I thinking?). But the quality over quantity discussion is not relevant since I haven’t posted much of either, so you’ll take it and be grateful, damnit!
Since it took me about 8 hours to fetch all the information together and get it running, maybe this post will be useful for other loonies like me who think this is a good idea 🙂
You see, the Microchip PICkit3 seems like a steal – a cheap, full featured PIC programmer that can also write EEPROMs!
Well, they weren’t lying. Then again, it’s not exactly the truth either. Continue reading
Surely, you can’t have missed that Linn are giving away a bunch of 24 bit tracks at the end of the year?
Last year, I had to log in every day and still managed to miss a few days, luckily some buddies helped out and we got the collection complete.
This year, they’ve been extra generous and left the whole collection up for grabs until January 6th. So in thanking them I’ll happily plug the Linn site for all my readers (yes, both of you).
Linn Records – 24 bits of Christmas
As the year draws to a close and we prepare for many changes in 2015, I’ll plug in the same wm8741 that Linn use in the Klimax and enjoy the recordings. I’m not a big classic fan, but some of the recordings in this collection are absolutely breathtaking. Well either that or I’m getting older.
Enjoy and see you in 2015, which is shaping up to be a pretty exciting year!
All we are is dust in the win… eh, on the eval board.
Another post, another D/A converter. Yes, this is one of my soap boxes and hopefully I’ll be able to post something else soon. Sorry folks, we have to get through this… 🙂 Continue reading