http://www.hifihacks.com Home and Car HiFi Hacks, Tips and DIY Projects Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:17:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Krzysztof Marcinek over at his site has created a nice tube amplifier. The difference with this one is that it has a USB interface, inside it has a Texas Instrument DAC with an integrated USB controller. The amplifier is a single ended configuration, and produces 2W. It looks like he ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=126 The iPhone is an incredible device - there are two main problems with it: - I can't get one where I live - The hardware has tremendous potential, but it is locked up, eliminating the possibility of installing 3rd party (or your own) applications. The iPhone can be 'hacked' to make it possible ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=124 Millet Max Millet Max The Millett Hybrid Maxed, is a vacuum tube and solid state hybrid headphone amplifier. It is the latest refinement in a series of headphone amplifiers that began with Pete Millett, its namesake. The schematic, BOM, and PCB layout are freely available, and many people have already ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=122 Recently I was given an XBOX because the owner upgraded to an XBOX 360. After the initial thrill of Crash Bandicoot wore off, it ended up with the fate of most games consoles, sitting unused gathering dust under the TV. That is, until I heard about XBOX media center. This ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=118 Just a quick note to anyone contemplating using the NSLU2 as a jukebox, the NSLU2 has just had a new release of the Debian Installer. Release RC2 includes a new totally open source ethernet drivers, as well as nice things such as LED drivers, and more support "out of the ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=117 When is comes to speakers, more mass means better sound. Usually you can guage how good a speaker will sound simply by picking it up. Light & plastic = Bad Sound, heavy and 'dead' = Good Sound. So with that in mind, if you are going to build your own ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=115 At the top end of the hi fi industry, the 'money no object' loudspeakers exist. These creations go to great lengths to achieve the highest sound quality. Some use niche or even impractical technology, not found in the standard 'wooden box' loudspeakers us mere mortals can afford. Some are huge ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=98 Kurtis Berry here has an awesome ipod docking station, instead of the white plastic and tiny looking speakers you normally find on an ipod dock, it is a tube amp powered speaker. He built both the amplifier and speaker himself. Currently it is monophonic, and he has no plans to ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=100 Valve based amplifiers have a reputation among the Hi Fi community of producing a very pleasant ‘smooth’ sound. They have different sonic characteristics to modern transistor based designs, typically the distortion from a valve based amplifier will be primarily of even order, which sound to the human ear rather more ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=12 It wasn’t long ago that Bluetooth was a weird high level feature on phones that never quite worked, or if it did there were no other devices in range to do anything useful with. Quietly Bluetooth has crept in to the main stream and is now a severely underrated technology. ... http://www.hifihacks.com/?p=92