Today I just ordered a MiniDSP 2x4 and a UMIK-1. I have decided to return my Behringer iNuke NU6000DSP and get a non-dsp verison instead. This way I save about 500SEK. Hopefully I'll be able to sell my Reckhorn S-1 for ~600SEK and my Radioshack digital SPL meter for ~300. This way one can say I got the MiniDSP and UMIK for free. I have no idea when the stuff will arrive, but hopefully within a week or two (it's being shipped from Hongkong).
I'll be away for a couple of days now for a school trip to Slovenia, visiting the wonderful town of Maribor.
Monday, 15 April 2013
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
One year celebration!
Today the blog has been up for a year! Lots of things has been done in this year and I'll list some of them below.
- dMar-Kel70T
- HAD Oy
- Five O2+Odac combos
- Lots of new audio equipment
- Reaching 16000+ pageviews
What started out as a blog dedicated to music quickly broadened into a blog covering audio gear and DIY as well. I have documented my school project work here at the blog, which gave my project work the highest grade. I have built an O2+ODAC amplifier/dac combo for myself and I have sold four as well. The profit has gone to buying my own soldering equipment and tools instead of borrowing from a friend.
What will come in the next year is unsure. I will finish the step-by-step O2 construction guide as soon as I find time. I will also write more about my stereo setup, which has now turned into a 2.2 stereo system. I will try to take more in-room measurements. After the summer I will either travel around the world in a project called Learning School or I will study at university somewhere in Sweden, probably master of science in engineering in the field of media technology.
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
School project exhibition tomorrow
Tomorrow is the day when all third year high school students will show off their projects at an exhibition in the city centre. I will bring most of my stuff with me there. Speakers, amplifier, cables, computer, two monitors, camera and some other stuff, like a subwoofer driver, 41Hz amplifier board and so on. I have already started packing some of the small stuff, but I'll do the rest tomorrow morning. Since I don't have my driver's license yet and my parents are not home I will have a friend help me drive all the the stuff downtown. I'm really excited, I hope it will be a good day. I have made a playlist with lots of different songs and I have made picture slideshows of my DIY work (kind of all pictures that are here on the blog).
I was planning to start writing part #1 of the step-by-step construction guide today but unfortunately I ran out of time. But here's a sneak peek ;)
As a little side note. I will be building two more amplifiers in the coming weeks. One is already sold and I'm hoping to sell the other as soon as possible too. If you're in Sweden and you want a O2+Odac combo, don't hesitate to send me a message!
I was planning to start writing part #1 of the step-by-step construction guide today but unfortunately I ran out of time. But here's a sneak peek ;)
As a little side note. I will be building two more amplifiers in the coming weeks. One is already sold and I'm hoping to sell the other as soon as possible too. If you're in Sweden and you want a O2+Odac combo, don't hesitate to send me a message!
Monday, 25 March 2013
Mud, water and bolts.
I was in the city today. I brought my bike with me on the train to be able to travel faster when searching for M6 insex bolts and M6 t-nuts. I started with biking 4km to a shop I thought had what I needed. They didn't have any. The told me to go to another place. So I did, I biked another 1.5km to the next place. They didn't have any either and told me to go to a third place about 500m away. They had the insex bolts so I bought 16 of them for 17SEK, good price!
They didn't have any t-nuts though, so I asked them if they knew any place that had. They told me to go to place #4 about 2km away. I went to that place and they only had four left. But they told me about a fifth place about 5km away that definitely had M6 t-nuts. Problem was I had to go to the dentist so I didn't have time to go there. I had to head home with only the bolts, no t-nuts. My bike was dirty like never before, so was my shoes, my jeans, my jacket and backpack. This is a bad time of the year for biking in the city!
But to brighten up my day I just ordered some stuff from Thomann.
Speakon connectors for the speaker cables. 2x4mm speaker cables, damping material, connector cable between the amplifiers, the sub amplifier itself and finally some t-nuts. I'm hoping it will arrive before the weekend. It is shipped from Germany but if I remember correctly it's pretty fast anyways.
They didn't have any t-nuts though, so I asked them if they knew any place that had. They told me to go to place #4 about 2km away. I went to that place and they only had four left. But they told me about a fifth place about 5km away that definitely had M6 t-nuts. Problem was I had to go to the dentist so I didn't have time to go there. I had to head home with only the bolts, no t-nuts. My bike was dirty like never before, so was my shoes, my jeans, my jacket and backpack. This is a bad time of the year for biking in the city!
But to brighten up my day I just ordered some stuff from Thomann.
Speakon connectors for the speaker cables. 2x4mm speaker cables, damping material, connector cable between the amplifiers, the sub amplifier itself and finally some t-nuts. I'm hoping it will arrive before the weekend. It is shipped from Germany but if I remember correctly it's pretty fast anyways.
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Delayed step-by-step construction guide
Unfortunately the step-by-step construction guide for the O2 amplifier will be delayed a bit. I have been very busy this weekend and I doubt I'll have enough time during the coming week. We'll see, I might divide it up into several smaller pieces maybe...
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