Built first speaker in years…
Gosh, it’s been years since I last built a pair of speakers. Admittedly, wood working is not my forte but I like to think with each build, I’m getting …
Discrete R2R DAC for Raspberry Pi
Yes, I was minding my own business when Mr Ew dropped me a message, “would you like to try my new toy?” “What toy?”… I was shocked when he …
Anna – Push Pull done Right
Anna - Push Pull Amp done Right
Rapsberry Pi + AD1865 NOS DAC music source
The world has turned upside down with the Covid virus and looks like it may not abate for a while… In the meantime, many of us have been having …
Good to be back!
Moved house (finally!) on March 11th. Website was hacked and webhost suspended website on March 14th. Quite clueless and way out of my depth, webhost wasn’t much help either. …
955 acorn tube headphone amplifier
It’s been a while since my last update and things are a mess right now…. Since we have prepared for the move, we have packed and moved some smaller …
“6688 Good Feng Shui!” Headphone Amplifier
6688, whether you speak Mandarin, or Cantonese, has connotations of “easy” and “prosperous”. So a tube that bears this number, naturally attracts the Chinese in me to view it …
a dark day here, we lost our beloved tonto
six and half years without fail, you will greet me every day when i come back from work, demanding a 30 second kiss/hug, and making my day great again. …
the Wonderful Wacky World of taobao
taobao is the Chinese equivalent of Ebay, with a significant difference – access to the world’s factories. In other words, mind boggling variety, crazy prices that flatten the world, …