Since the first 24bit DAC’s started to appear in the mid 90′ties, there has for some reason been a constant lag of good quality “software” or music to be played. Since around 2004, 24bit started to pickup pace and evolved into soundcards, and even fairly prices audio equipment. Really high quality ADC’s also started to [...]

Now this is great news folks! I just managed to get my Apogee Mini-DAC to work with Windows 7. Apogee no longer develops drivers for windows, so a lot of folks like myself got left out to dry when Vista emerged. Only windows XP drivers existed for the Mini-DAC. I do most of my stuff [...]

One of the things that is always neat to find on the net is images of the inside of hifi electronics. What’s really inside? Is it possible to mod? Or will I be KIA by SMD *laff* Here is the inside scoop of the Apogee Mini-DAC. (click on it to view a large version)

If you use google and search for “Guitar Hero” a mind-boggling 29.900.000 hits will be served. Well here is another one for the collection. I recently purchased Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock (twin guitar edition) for my wifes birthday party. It would be fair to say that she is only mildly interested in music [...]

I made up my mind and ordered the 4040 signature II system. I should have it sometime next week. It all boiled down to this. An amp for Denon D5000 (lovely headphone btw.) or a complete Stax system. The inquisitive geek in me opted for the complete system, whats not to like about another headphone?

Recently I have been pondering weather or not to acquire on of the famous Stax earspeakers. In the 90′ies I owned a SR-84 system which I really liked but ultimately gave up in favour of dynamic headphones. Although they were open like nothing else it was the lack of a proper base foundation that tipped [...]

Recently I rewired a pair of Sennheiser HD650′s to use XLR plugs instead of a jack. Take a look at this howto if you have the urge.