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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.
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andynotadam
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Oh boy. Covid hit my retired lifestyle hard leading me to seek refuge in exercise and music to stay semi-sane

Biggest change was upgrading my Primaluna Prologue Six monos to Dialogue Premium after eight or so years. Other "work" was done to my Uptone JS-2 powered Roon Nucleus+ streaming setup. USB out via Cerious Link to an Uptone ISORegen to Synergistic Reference USB to aJS-2 powered Matrix X SPDIF 2 to Audioquest Mocha HDMI I2S into my PS Audio DirectStream DAC.

Upstream of that I added a Sonore opticalModule powered by an HDPlex LPS via fiber to my EtherREGEN powered by an Sbooster LPS then via Synergistic Reference CAT6 to the Nucleus+

A couple of Synergistic Atmosphere power cords and all Blue Fuses replaced by SR Orange.

Happy boy...
vair68robert
627 posts
 
DIYing
Upgraded  the caps , recitiers , some resistors ,
speaker posts and RCA connectors on a McCormack DNA-250 amp .
Am now working on  Thiel CS2.7 speakers ,
experimenting with the wiring , then changing out the resistors 
and electrolytic caps .

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tomic601
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Constrained Lagrange optimization software for quantum computers...

oh wait...

had my genius Roger Modjeski RM-9 rebuilt and an octet of Hyper precision matched EL-34 installed and broken in - Phat!

conducted extensive listening evaluations between AEA and Royer vocal ribbons for recording studio project. Finished results = released album :-) sponsor the arts!!!

wading thru Rettinger - Acoustic Design and Noise Control ( Vol. 1 ) trimmed .04 off the consequential RT-60 using “ stuff “

Working a nice walnut slab into an amp stand, down selecting to constrained layer and feet. HRS selected for stand to amp interface
fleschler
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Found that the 30+ year old half round vibrapods (about 2" diameter) work great as speaker cable lifters and stabilizing/anti-vibrational pucks.   
Hoping to replace my speakers with near SOTA speakers that my custom room and high end equipment/cabling deserves (that I deserve, heck I'm closer to 65 and have great hearing).  
A new cartridge is pending as mine is long in the tooth but not mistracking, just too many hours on it.  
mitch2
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Let’s see....
  • No More USB cables - I2S connection instead
  • Optical isolation of my Ethernet input cable
  • New SMc Audio monoblocks
  • Trying springs under the monoblocks
  • Considering decoupling speakers from the concrete floor
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