Archive for the 'Tech and Gadgets' Category

MacOS on my iMac.. Not as stable as I thought

My MacOS “crashes” every once in a while, and I’m not quite sure why. I get this garbled screen of death, which cannot be recovered from except when I push the power button, then the screen goes away and its back to normal. Here’s a screen cap of the screen… oddly, Mac’s screen cap feature […]

SimAudio Moon Equinox vs. Rega Saturn

Comparison between the venerable Moon Equinox CD Player: http://www.simaudio.com/moonequinox.htm And the relatively new and Hyped up Rega Saturn: http://www.rega.co.uk/html/Saturn.htm Which one is better? Well, I suppose that is for you to decide, with your ears, but if you want my opinion, read futher. The Moon Equinox unit that I demo’d has only unbalanced RCA outputs […]

Lite DAC62 or Monarchy M24?

Which one, that is the question. Well, The Monarchy M24 is essentially a Lite Dac 52 with modified or upgraded parts, and the Lite DAC62 is an improved circuit layout of the DAC 52.. so which is better? That’s up to you, I suppose. I would put forth that if the Monarchy M24 was not […]

Visit to the Audio Note Dealer

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 […]

Eclipse and Mac OS X Woes

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 […]