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Category Archives: Techie
HiFi : The Digital Line
HiFi Now there’s a word you don’t see or hear that often these days of listening to highly compressed music squirted through cheap ear-buds from your phone for your ears only. Another day I’ll reminisce about when we used coats … Continue reading
Posted in Hifi, Techie
Tagged .flac, analogue hifi, audio file compression, audio file format, audio tagging, CD ripping, dbPowerAmp CD Ripper, digital hifi, Exact Audio Cop - EAC, high definition audo files, lossless audio format, MediaMonkey, mp3, network file server - NAS, qobuz, studio quality, tags
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Boltorr Road – 20160212 – Going DCC
The major difference from the time of my first faltering steps in railway modelling has been the introduction of DCC – Digital Command Control. When I first started the most common type of train control was 12vDC transmitted directly through … Continue reading
Hifi by Numbers
Over a period of time all my CDs have been ripped and stored in my digital music library situated in a NAS and neurotically backed up in triplicate. However, most of my LPs – if you remember those round bits … Continue reading
Brompton Tubeless Tyre Modification
Although neither the Brompton rims nor the Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyre are designed for tubeless running I was able, with careful use of Stan’s Tape, valve and sealant, to use this very successfully with no real issues until last week. … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycles, Techie
Tagged Brompton Bicycle, flat fix, Halter's Cycles, New York City, Schwalbe Marathon Plus, Schwalbe tyres, Stan's tubeless
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Are you sitting comfortably?
Then I’ll begin. I suppose I was an early adopter of internet radio. I liked the idea of a device other than a computer accessing audio streams, and being a Brit living in the US it meant I could listen … Continue reading
Posted in Hifi, Media, Music, Techie
Tagged BBC internet radio streams, hifi, internet radio, lossless format, mp3, music, music player
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Down The Tubes
Just as playing an LP is as much theatre as the actual or perceived sound quality there’s something rather warm and homely about listening to a valve amplifier, or tube amp if you prefer. Mrs Bloke was rather surprised to … Continue reading
Posted in Hifi, Music, Techie
Tagged amplifier, hifi, Musical Paradise MP-301 mkII, Sansui AU-317 mk II, tube amplifier, tubes, valve amplifier, valves
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Something For You Gear-heads
Dérailleur: NOUN – A bicycle gear which works by lifting the chain from one sprocket wheel to another of a different size. Pronunciation: /dɪˈreɪl(j)ə In the strict engineering sense this is a device which shouldn’t actually work. Derailling a bicycle … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycles, BikeTesters, Techie
Tagged bicycle chain, bicycle gears, cycling, dérailleur, Disraeli Gears
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