Archive for the 'Tech and Gadgets' Category

SimAudio Amplifier: Moon Rock

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 […]

Further Adventurs of Maxperm in Eclipse on MacOS X

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 […]

Inside the Monster Power Center HTS 3500MKII

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, […]

Review: Audio Note AN-K Spe Speakers

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 […]

Pro-Ject Perspective Turntable and Grado Gold

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, […]