audio-talk

I have a colleague who is really into his music and has a large vinyl collection. He knows of my interest in audio and asked about vinyl cleaning recommendations, including machines. I'm well out of touch on that topic but I'm sure some you Liquorice Pizza aficionados will have some recommendations ...

Went fine ray, going into my office tomorrow to do some more kit setup and training, seems to be, on first impressions, a fairly slick operation and a decent buch of people Good to hear that Ant. I should welcome you to the ranks of the 'lazy civil servants' as defined by the likes of the Daily Mai...

Ant wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:14 am New job is for the environment agency, should be interesting, one week to go before i start.

So, Ant, how did the first day go?

Thanks chaps.

Interested as looking at replacing my Amanero board with the JLsounds board. Did you power the JLsounds board with its own 3.3/5v feeds or are you relying on the power from the USB? Cannot see any wires on the photos but they could be underneath. Mike only used two of the three power supplies I sen...

shane wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:21 am ...and this is still the best Christmas album ever.

Very nice Shane, it'll be time soon to start browsing through my Christmas albums.

simon wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 9:13 pm A tripod type arrangement (3 vertical legs for the bowls to sit on) might be easier than a quad perhaps? Or two Xes, one front and one back, so the speaker finds its level?

Hmmm, some interesting ideas Simon, cheers.

I have to work out some sort of stand arrangement and install some binding posts too.

Not sure about the jointer idea, the tops of the bowls are very flat and they mate together very well, it's just that there's a shallow V groove all around the join. Anyway, I've applied the filler so let's see how it turns out after it's sanded flat. Incidentally, I didn't have any wood filler to h...

How much is too much out of interest Ray? To get down to a completely flush join, probably 1-2mm, but over quite a large area because of the barrel shape - the bowls themselves match up pretty well but the problem is the join is recessed because of the rounded over edges of the bowls. I've now deci...

Another one for your collection Mr. Bass, though a tad expensive methinks... https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/705952707725158/ https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t45.5328-4/380399975_6832269983501526_2789746887902194120_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p960x960&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=...

I've been making sawdust again today, sanding back to bare wood and fairing the joins. To completely fair the joins is going to entail removing too much wood so I have to think of how to disguise them without detracting from the wood finish.I have some very thin carbon fibre sheet so I'm thinking of...

Those TKD potentiometers are nice.

I also have a 10K Noble pot in my stash.

I like discrete components , you bought the parts and put them together ? Yes, I bought a kit of parts from Abraxalito over in DIY Audio - very good value too! https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/dorati-nos-dac-kits.387035/ Assembling the smd is a challenge, fiddly and time-consuming - some ...

Following on from Mike's Kubelik build, I thought it was time to finish my Dorati DAC. Dorati is similar to Kubelik in using six parallel TDA1387 DAC chips but it has a discrete transistor output stage instead of Kubelik's op-amps. The build is not dissimilar to Mike's in using a JLSounds USB board ...