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"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!

Not sure who you are arguing with here. :-)

BTW I don't write 'reviews', nor am I really a 'pro' in a serious magazine
sense. I'm just a sort-of ex-engineer/academic enthusiast who writes a
little about what he does, etc.

HFN have been happy to publish what I've sent them so far. And in practice,
regardless of publication in print, most of what I've written over the
years I also put on the net in due course. One of the things I dislike
about the tradional print method is that material in old magazines can
become inaccessible in time if you can't do that. So I normally specify
that I keep the right to (re)publish on the net after print publication.
HFN were happy with that.

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?

I write what about what interests me. That's the advantage of my being a
gentleman (sic?) amateur. If you want to write about something else, that's
fine with me. I'm certainly not stopping you. If someone else is, again,
your beef is with them, not me.

DIY isn't my only interest. Although I do want to encourage people to 'have
a go'.

More recently I've been looking at the BBC iPlayer. But I guess I'll return
to other aspects of encouraging DIY for HFN readers at some future
point(s). Probably also look at other matters, inc. 'nonos'. No long-term
rigid plan.


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.

I won't comment on guesses about what I'm talking about as that could turn
into '20 questions'. :-) If you look at what I already published on
audiomisc about the iPlayer using last year's Proms you can see there are
various aspects to this. This year I'm using a different approach to last
time. I'll say more in due course. Depends on when/how the detailed results
are published.

Slainte,

Jim

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