Archive for February, 2007
CD Wallet Holds 416 CD’s but Zero Playlists
The CD wallet versus the iPod: they both store music, but in two entirely different ways. I bought a CD case on eBay last week that holds 416 CD’s and went through all my CD’s tonight, pulled them out of their cases and put each one into its own sleeve inside the the new [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2007 under General.
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10″ Sub In-Room Response Hits 26Hz
I couple months ago I built a small powered 10″ sub for my Dad’s family-room theater. It was designed to fit in the small space at the bottom of one of his bookcases, one of the reasons for going with a sealed design, to keep the box nice and small. Even though the [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2007 under Audio/Video.
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TC Sounds dB-500 Impulse Buy
I dropped by TC Sounds’ web site today and couldn’t believe what I read – they were doing a blowout on their dB-500 12″ subwoofer for only $75. Even though this driver is considered entry level from TC Sounds point of view, there’s a lot of high-end features that make it worth twice that [...]
Posted: February 10th, 2007 under Audio/Video.
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Dilbert and Old Drivers
I read this Dilbert cartoon over the weekend and thought it was pretty funny. Not much else is going on with me these days. I’m trying to get Fedora installed on my PC and so far can’t seem to burn the stupid DVD .iso without getting checksum errors. But alas, that’s a [...]
Posted: February 7th, 2007 under Computers, General.
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Custom DIY Speaker Stands For Less
After I finished building my 2-way bookshelf speakers, the Monitor DX625 made from a 6″ Hi-Vi Research W6 driver and Vifa DX25GT 1″ tweeter, I began looking for a pair of speaker stands to put the speakers on. They needed to be the right height so that the tweeter was just below ear level [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2007 under Audio/Video.
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Poly-Quest 11.1V Lipo Rocks the Super Cub
The Poly-Quest pack arrived earlier this week and this weekend I finally got a chance to install the connectors, charge it up, and take it out for a few flights. Here’s how it all went down…
Initial Charge:
Discharge Details: 4.4A, 3.2V/cell, >600mAh or so (I forgot to look before starting the charge cycle)
Constant Current Charge [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2007 under R/C Planes.
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AMD/Biostar/Corsair/Antec Make a Great PC
So the kids’ new computer is up and running great. I ended up returning the Kingston 2×256 RAM for a single stick of 512MB Corsair ValueSelect. I won’t get the benefit of dual channel, but at least now I have the option of going to 2G and can still run dual channel in [...]
Posted: February 1st, 2007 under Computers.
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