Drove the 100km down to visit the not-so-local Audio Note dealer yesterday, to see what they had brewing. In addition to the usual AN-E/Lexus selection was not much else. I noticed their Audio Note selection had gone down somewhat, and the majority of it had been relegated to the Audio Note room, as I like [...]
This just keeps getting better. Since we have our workspaces in a networked drive so we can run a test environment from there, we’ve been having problems running Eclipse 3.2 on Mac OS X. We’ve been asked to use SmartCVS, but I personally would rather switch back to a windows OS than continue using Mac [...]
SonoCable is selling a ton of high quality Silver and Copper RCA Audio Interconnects on ebay. Right now they have 5 listed, 4 pairs of interconnects, and 1 set of Digital Coax cables, all starting at $0.99. They are introducing a new line of Supreme Silver/Copper blended interconnects called the SonoSeraph Supreme line. See the [...]
What a massive unit. The SimAudio Moon Rock is a helluva behemoth. 220lbs and $18,500 each. This is one absolutely insane peice of equipment. I listened to a pair of them while visiting a friend in Toronto, and was pretty impressed with them. If I had $20K I might even consider buying a pair of [...]
Adjusting maxperm seems to have a marginal difference on the effect of Eclipse running out of memory… even having adjusted it to 1.5gigs, it still runs out once in a while. That is too much to devote to a single application. The engineers are attributing the problem so SMB Latency, as the drive that we [...]
Ever wondered what the inside of a Monster Power Center looks like? Well check it out: The power center has great filtration for digital components and fairly good filtration for line noise as well. There are inducterless non-current limiting filters for high-current draw components such as power amps. Very handy! This is a good unit, [...]
I purchased the Audio Note AN-K Spe’s on a whim when visiting Victoria, BC… at a place called Sound Hounds. It was on the recommendation of my friend Richard, who is an Audio Note fanatic! He runs the AN-E Spe speakers with an OTO SE integrated and some sort of non-audio note source. I must [...]
For the last little bit I have been running a Pro-Ject (or Project?) Perspective turntable. Previous to that I was running a Pro-Ject Debut II, right before the Debut III TT came out. I’ve been going through a number of different cartridges, including the Sumiko Pearl, Sumiko Blue Point Evo III, Grado Labs Prestige Gold, [...]
I’ve been adding sound diffusion panels to my stereo system, and have been having fantastic results. I am still manufacturing them in my garage with a chop saw and hand sanding everything. The mitre joints are proving to be difficult, however. Also am using flush-mount wall hangers to hang them, but no weight rating is [...]
Lately I’ve been running Maclipse on a new iMac running the new dual core pentium chips, and 2 gigs of ram. Figured that if my windows machine running the same config could do it, the Mac could do it better, right? nope. The mac has TONS of problems with Memory. Its running Eclipse 3.2.2 right [...]