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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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Womo Designs Bar Mount Kit – first look
Hey technoweenies! You know how it is. You have more telemetry capability on your bike than the Mars Rover. The electronics alone cost more than the rails of the next three wheel-suckers on your last club run and there’s nowhere … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycles, BikeTesters, Techie
Tagged cycling, GPS, handlebars, POV camera, Womo Designs
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The Search Goes On
I’m still looking for a basic WordPress template I like. Currently this is Twenty Ten, but not necessarily by the time you read this – now it’s zeePersonal. The Header image isn’t mine but I can sort that out easily … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggy, Techie
Tagged html script, new blog, sidebar, style sheet, WordPress, WordPress templates
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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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