30 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 10:31 PM
Tags: audio, audiophile, hifi, preamp amp, stereo, t-amp
Anyone who hung out with me in the last couple months has probably heard me rant and roll about my new stereo. It is awesome. I can’t shut up about it. I am addicted.
It all started a couple years ago when the SI Tripath Amp emerged on the market. It was a little amp [...]
04 Nov
Posted by Harper in General at 12:50 AM
Tags: audio, christmas, crobar, dreams, halloween, hifi, tired, travel, wedding, weekend
Sometimes bloggin just doesn’t seem appealing. It seems like a something that is just pointless if you are not feeling the blogging vibe. So i have waited until i was in the blogging vibe. It had been an amazing couple of days. great things have happened.
btw, Malcom X is a great movie. I think [...]
27 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 01:05 AM
Tags: audio, electronics, hacking, projects, t-amp
So. I have been at work a lot lately.
So my amp mod is pretty dope. Although i get a fierce hum when i charge the battery - i have decided to move forward and build the rest of it. I think i am going to build four distinct parts. First the power supply. i [...]
20 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 07:08 AM
Tags: audio, bugs, skinnycorp, t-amp
Tonight ruled. while waiting for the graffiti artist to work and finish and such i decided to do my t-amp project. i got all the rest of my parts i ordered to rebox the sonic impact t-amp. i followed the directions and parts lists from this awesome site. it was quite quite helpful. [...]
(04:27:38) harper: i am work late ;)
(04:28:00) Suresh: that’s kinda obvious.
(04:28:17) harper: hahaha
i need to go home. i have been at work since 12. almost 17 hours. that is messed up.
lakshmi has posted an interesting take on squidoo. I think the hype machine that is in full motion right now is [...]
05 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 03:06 AM
Tags: audio, books, diy, hifi, literature, sadness, society, stereo, violent
So i have been reading these short, sad, very violent books about society. It is pretty rough.
the first i read was A Personal Matter by Kenzoburo Oe which was about this lostish young man whose wife gives birth to a baby with a severe birth defect. The book is about his struggle to understand [...]
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