The honeymoon is over AKA Spotify’s crazy tags
The people who adds music type tagging at Spotify must be on crack. You select “Alternative, Punk, Hard Rock” and sometimes you get like pop songs for 14 year olds. Very irritating. I know that people...
View ArticleDoing some measuring on audio modding
There’s a lot of articles on the net about modding and enhancing the sound quality of your audio equipment by replacing components etc. But you never see measurements to backup their claims. Well, I’ve...
View ArticleiTunes, iPhone songs plays at different levels. Use mac and ReplayGain
Why whould I need ReplayGain? All albums and songs are mixed differently. So in iTunes some albums sounds very loud whilst other is rather low. This has increased in something called the Loudness War....
View ArticleAdding a Kingwa clock to a Pioneer PD S-505
This is the second part on how to improve the quality of an old CD player, the Pioneer PD S-505. You can find the first part here. In this section I’m going to show you how to install a better, more...
View ArticleModifications to the Gigaworks Ebay DAC
This is the filter changes I did to the Gigaworks DAC to remove the second opamp and to straighten out the filter section of the DAC. You can see the original values and the values that I changed to in...
View ArticleThe Lyres – I Want To Help You Ann
The Lyres – I Want to Help You Ann A long time ago I bought a fantastic record by The Lyres on vinyl. During a move, I threw away three boxes of vinyl records. You know, CD’s where it’s at. Fuckin...
View ArticleSennheiser MOMENTUM Headphones
My walk around headphones right now is a pair of Sennheiser HD 25 1 II. They are rugged, comfortable and sounds really nice. I used to favor in-ear headphones, but got tired of constantly having to...
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Raspberry Pi as a Squeezebox Logitech Server
I love my music playback setup that consists of a couple of Squeezebox V3 players in different rooms so I can listen to music in lossless format wherever I am in the apartment. With the iPeng HD app on...
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Flac, the best choice
Audio Engineering Pioneer John Meyer: Stop Chasing The Next Big Thing, And Go With Flac Instead — Tech News And Analysis: John Meyer may be making really expensive loudspeakers, but when it comes to...
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Raspberry Pi Car Audio System
My Raspberry Pi Car Audio Player A lot of people are using the excellent linux micro computer Raspberry Pi and install it in their cars. Usually they use a color screen that is touch sensitive, being...
View ArticleApple Music Streaming – It’s a No Go For Me
Apple Music So I gave Apple Music streaming a try. Being able to just search for music and add it to my playlists sounded like a good idea. After a while the recommendations becomes rather good as...
View ArticleHow To Destroy a Record Mastering
With the resurgence of good Hi-Fi, where more and more people buy good headphones and listen to a lot of music thanks to streaming, it’s sad to see the things the mastering engineers (and in the end...
View ArticleHifiBerry DAC+ Click When Changing Song
My current music setup is a Raspberry Pi 3 with a HifiBerry DAC+ audio card as my music player. It works perfectly, except for one annoying thing. The new HifiBerry DAC+ makes an audible click or...
View ArticleGrisen skriker
You got to love the net. What ever you search for, you’ll find it. One of the best concert I even attended was the last concert with a Swedish punk band called Grisen Skriker (the pigs are screaming)...
View ArticleDIY speakers
I want to have a couple of speakers in the beadroom, so I started to search the net. I found a very intresting DYI speaker project here (Swedish). So I ordered the speakers and can’t wait to get them....
View ArticleWhy I Switched To Roon And You Should Too
I’ve been running my music system at home using Squeezebox Server software for many years. It has served me well, but Logitech bought the entire eco-system and then abandoned it. Because it’s Open...
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