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My amazing, but 8 year old, Topping VX-1 amplifier with USB digital audio amplifier died a few days ago, so I needed a solution for my office rig. So, I decided to experiment with budget stuff. I'd seen these for awhile on various sites and decided to give it a chance. It is a cheap, Chinese...

Bet it sounds amazing in that room!

I don't typically take photos of the wires I braid. This is four strands of 14AWG silicone insulated wire. I just do an old-fashioned plaiting, like you'd do for a girl's hair or whatever. Not complicated. Works like a champ.

I personally use single strand 16AWG or 14AWG highly flexible silicone insulated hookup wire which I braid to make a two conductor per polarity (two for positive, two for negative) and then tin the ends and use quality generic banana plugs to terminate them. If you want to spend money, you...

It depends on the content, date, number of agreeing witnesses or sources, and so on. General facts which hundreds or thousands of people can confirm are easier to believe. Stories about something where only two or three people can serve as witness, however, I start with doubt. So, I believe we...

I am sure there are exceptions - but based on my experience and those of others who tell similar tales, I assume they are absolute lies until proven otherwise. It is shocking how wrong they are, sometimes to the point that hiring a writer who has a mere overview experience with the topic would...

Because I am old enough and done enough things in my life which are now being made into documentaries, I have discovered that ALL documentaries are just as wrong as fiction stories.

Just remember that while the book and limited steaming series were based on real events, and many of the facts about the murders and such were well documented, more than 90% of what you saw on the screen was fiction. The story is the result of a very good writer filling in all the blanks and...

Check things like the oven, security system, buttons on the refrigerator controller, every aspect of your HVAC, including the thermostat, and all the computer and networking stuff, etc. For years I would stumble on a device that was no longer working correctly, but it didn't affect me at the...

My favorite albums seem to perform very well on that list.

I am really shocked at how few people are using Amazing Music HD. Why do people not like it? I love it because it has one of the largest catalogs, compatibility with every single common device, plug and play with Alexa services and apps, nearly every single track is at a minimum uncompressed...

Lightning strikes are strange. My house has been hit twice since I moved in back in 1999. Literally every device in any form of a surge protector was preserved perfectly - no issues whatsoever. That is, unless the device was also connected to something else via another wire, like telephone...

What are you not receiving from Apple music which leads you to seek other options? Personally, I've tried Quboz, Tidal, and others, but they weren't any better than the ultra easy to use Amazon Music HD, and in some cases the remastered versions of songs I love were quite disappointing.

I have vivid memories of discussing the failings inherent to music streaming for high fidelity. We ran in circles on data rates, lossy compression codecs, and the bandwidth we could get from our ISPs. Well, until about a year ago if I wanted to sit down in my main listening room for some...

Just thought y'all would like to see something different. I have loads of photos and measurements I can share if anyone cares.

Here's the real world open space amplitude and phase response taken while on speaker stands on my patio (not their final location): (ignore the SPL being so high, I spliced a bass curve to a midrange-treble curve and didn't adjust the SPL to reflect the actual output, it was at 1W, so it...

Here's a set of interesting speakers I designed and built a couple of years ago for one of our community members. They are bass reflex loaded with a 6.5" woofer, 1.1" ring radiator tweeter and finished with weather-proof sealants and paint which will hopefully protect them well enough to last...

I am excited to see the new A/B designs, be sure to let us know when info is available. I am not dismissing class A/B at all, I just no longer think class-D is a joke. Even going so far as to say that in many cases class-D amplification can be the absolute best option for high fidelity results.

I have very little data to share as I don't have any lab grade measurement gear. I am 100% certain your AP tests are far better than anything I could provide. I have a pair of reference architecture modules mounted in a DIY chassis which a friend has loaned me and most of what I am doing is...

I've been testing the PureFi class-D amp modules and thus far I cannot think of any pure constant voltage amp which comes close to comparing in performance & sound quality. Nearly every aspect of a constant voltage amp which impacts performance has been address to a degree these are darned near...