Archive for October, 2005
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
Scary Halloween Pumpkin Stencils
In the spirit of the season, here’s a link to a tutorial on how to make a stencil from your favorite scary movie to carve into your pumpkin.
View Halloween pumpkin stencil tutorial
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
Onix XCD-99
AV123 has begun shipping their newest product in the X-Line (extreme value), the XCD-99. It is a budget audiophile cd-player that is an upgrade to the XCD-88. Like the XCD-88 the XCD-99 features Burr-Brown 1732 DACs, a Philips CDM-12.1 transport controlled by a CD-7mkII servo, OPA 2604 op amps in the output stage [...]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Bass Waterfall Plots
Do you need some demo material for that new monster subwoofer? There is a 14 page thread on hometheaterforum where a few of the members have posted waterfall plots of some of the scenes from popular movies with extended low bass.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Omega Aperiodic 8 Review
A member of the Audiocircle forums has posted a review of Omega’s Aperiodic 8 single driver crossoverless speaker that uses the Visaton B200 8in full range driver. The speakers were driven by a Red Wine Audio Clari-T amplifier.
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
Onix Extended Range Tweeter
AV123 has begun shipping a magnetostat supertweeter designed to aument the high frequency reproduction of any speaker. It has a frequency response of 8khz-45khz (+/-3db) and is housed in an attractive piano black enclosure that is devoid of any logos or branding so it will blend with any speaker. The ERT has an [...]
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Axiom Audio Architectural Series
Axiom Audio has recently released a series of in-wall/on-wall speakers based on their popular bookshelf and center speakers. The Architectural Series consists of three main speakers (W2, W3, and W22) and two center channel speakers (W100 and W150). The models feature the same 1in titanium tweeter and 5.25in aluminum woofer from their bookshelf [...]
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Teac A-L700P Amplifier modified by Red Wine Audio
There is a preliminary review of a Teac A-L700P amplifier that was modded by Vinnie Rossi of Red Wine Audio. The modification includes conversion to battery power through two 12V SLA batteries, replacement of capacitors in key locations, and rewiring of the path to the tripath chip.
Read the review on Audiocircle
Red Wine Audio mod [...]
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
SVS Speakers - SBS-01
SVS is preparing to release a set of budget speakers to compliment their stellar budget subwoofer, the PB10-ISD. The speaker set consists of sealed bookshelf speakers for fronts and surrounds which include a 1in Clearsilk tweeter and a 5.25in polypropelene woofer; the center uses the same tweeter with two 5.25in woofers. Both speakers [...]
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Seattle DIY Event @ Adire Audio
Here are some pictures from a DIY event held at Adire Audio on October 15th.
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Squeezebox 2 Mod Comparison
A member of the audiocircle forums has posted a comparison of two squeezebox 2 mods; one done by Vinnie Rossi of Red Wine Audio and the other done by Wayne of Boulder Cable. The Red Wine Audio unit was powered using a 12v SLA battery while the Boulder Cable unit was powered by [...]
