"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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There will be something in the next issue IIUC. Should be on audio DIY.

Any chance of a hint?

The article is encouraging readers to have a go at DIY.

But we do that on the netty, and here on the netty we are trying to get
you pro review brigade to wake up to simple diy that produces results!

Uses my fairly
basic/simple headdac design as an example of a circuit they should find
easy to make. But mainly aimed at just getting them to feel that they
*can*
have a go and may well enjoy it.


Fair enough, but your head-dac project is based around the au-d3.
And your project is for a portable DAC for headphone use with a laptop.
From what I can discern the au-d3 will be an intergrated reciever/filter/dac
chipset of the type found on...laptops?
I do think a diy article is the right path for you and your mag, but you
bottled it with nonos? So.....
Your editor (and some others) have got excited about the Devialet D-
and it does indeed sound intriquing. But it costs 12 grand, and it has
the aesthetics of a metel butchers slab. It is exactly the sort of expensive
hardware that everyone holds back on and awaits early adopters (or
lack of) to bring the price down. But in this day and age who is there to
buy that beguiling slab at that price? Lottery winners opt for Bose or B&O.
So everyone will wait for competitors to bring out a rival at a fraction
of the cost, thats where you and I come into the game Jim.
We'll make a budget DIY version of the Devialet for an article in HFN+RR.
I'll guide you and show you where to get (or I'll supply) the components,
and we can do it for a few hundred quid and it'll look pretty too!
Run the idea past PM, he'll love it.
But if you want to just stick with your "opinion" column in HFN+RR....
I don't bother with most mags, specifically HFC or WHF? (Unreadable)
But we could ask Nobby over at HF+ if he is up for your diy articles.
I've got the latest awards issue, it's almost a one man show. And Nobby
does like to drop a bit of French or Latin into the mix. And he seemed
to imply in one article that one of his ways of gauging if he liked a
product
was if it made him cry whilst listening to Carmen? I really love that bloke.
If you're up for "proper" diy, we'll continue in email, these groups can
get a bit angry!


FWIW during the last month I've been doing an analysis of the
320kb/sec BBC Proms stream experiment. Involved a lot of
program-writing and number-crunching, but the results are quite
curious. ...I've been wondering if the BBC is run by Time Lords. ;-

Huh?

Stay tuned... 8-]

Currently finishing the draft of the article on my measured results thus
far. Not sure yet if it will appear in HFN in detail or - more likely I
guess - appear on my audiomisc site and be discussed later in the mag.

Slainte,

Jim


I have to be honest, - the bit rate and the BBC proms....
It's not what I would call a potentially exciting read, but what caught my
attention was your reference to Dr Who's Time Lords?
If you're talking about the lag between audio and video when using
a toslink/spdif to an a/v reciever or via pre version 3 of HDMI,
I could tell you how to fix all that....
Though I willl look out for your article.
Cheers.