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What have you been working on in 2020?

New system? Getting into DIY? New bands?

I’d love to know what you’ve been doing that is audio-related this year. Dare I hope some of you have gotten soldering guns? Heat guns? Cables or caps?
For me, I’ve gotten into Roon and the Pi 4. Finally set up my combined 2-ch/HT set up with a new HT processor, and done a little blogging on Roon and subwoofers.  Last night I took my Pi 4 apart and added tiny little heat sinks to the RAM, USB and Ethernet chips.
erik_squires
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asvjerry
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*L*  While most have has to suffer under C19 isolation, our/my occupation has continued unabated.  I have finally built the 'audio only'  'puter that had been in stasis for too long and integrated it into my....well, it acts like and sounds like a 'system'....and we'll leave it @ that...

Too much of the 'other' demands time, so general 'audio fun' is listening while I annoy y'all...  "esoteric amusement".....;)
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lobinero
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Since I moved to a new house, I setup and decorated my sound room. 
Set up proper placement for my Vandys 2CE sig
Bought a stereo futniture
sold my Rogue Cronus magnum
bought a Belles virtuoso power amp
bought a Audible Illusions 3MA preamp
bought Audioquest RedRiver interconnects
purchase a lot of vanilla and some cds


geof3
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Buying and selling... integrated to separates back to integrated... thinking about trying some DIY interconnects. Looking at Furutech cabling and RCA’s... for a 10’ run still looking at 400ish for the parts/cable alone... ouchy bro.
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millercarbon
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slaw- Shelf, or Source Shelf? Music Direct? I have several by the way, different sizes, and a pile of MkIV Cones, Round Things, etc some used some NOS I guess you would say.
richtruss
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Research into eliminating RF noise in Ethernet cables and it’s effect on sound quality. Very enlightening. Have now developed a product that works very well to get rid of it.
In the process I’ve also made two identical Ethernet cables, one made from OCC copper, and the other OCC silver. Listening to the two, the silver one is so much nicer to listen to. I just wish I knew why!
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