Collaborate Disseminate
On the face of it, producing a set of noise cancelling headphones should be a relatively straightforward project. But as [Pete Lewis] found out, things are not always as they …read more Continue reading Noise Cancelling isn’t as Easy as You’d Think
These days it’s hard to not come across solid-state (micro-electromechanical systems, MEMS) microphones, as they are now displacing electret microphones almost everywhere due to their small size and low cost. …read more Continue reading After MEMS Microphones, MEMS Speakers Enter The Market
One of the unexpected success stories in the world of hi-fi over the past decade has been the resurgence of the vinyl LP as a musical format. What was once …read more Continue reading Stream Vinyl To Your Sonos Without The Financial Penalty
Do you ever find yourself eating walnuts and think, this would make a great enclosure for something like a Bluetooth speaker? That seems to be exactly what happened to [Penguin …read more Continue reading The Best-Sounding Walnut You’ll Hear Today
Having a fondness for old and obscure audio and video media formats, [Techmoan] recently revisited the Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) format introduced in 1992. Despite being billed as the …read more Continue reading Exploring Hidden Lyrics on 1990s DCC Audio Tapes
Love them or hate them, there’s no denying that Apple has strayed from the Woz’s original open platform ideal for the Apple II. [Ken Pillonel] is back for another round …read more Continue reading Fixing Some More of Apple’s Design Mistakes
We like to see people building things that are a little unusual, and we really like it when said unusual thing uses salvaged parts. This project from [JGJMatt] ticks all …read more Continue reading Planar Speaker Build Uses Hard Drive Magnets
While audiophiles might spend gazillions of hours finely honing a microphone stand that isolates their equipment from the trials and perturbations of the world, most of us who use a …read more Continue reading IKEA Hack – Kvart into Mic Stand
If you follow audiophile reviewers, you’ll know that their stock-in trade is a very fancy way of saying absolutely nothing of quantifiable substance about the subject while sounding knowledgeable about …read more Continue reading Know Audio: Distortion Part One
In the world of audiophilia there are arguments that rage over the relative merits of particular components. Sometimes this can reach silly levels as in the high-end ALPS pot we …read more Continue reading Op-Amp Challenge: Compare Op-Amps, By Listening To Them