Tag: HiFi

Custom DDC: 1 Digital to Digital Converter; USB to l2s over HDMI; S/PDIF; AES

Posted by | Published on 28/02/2026

Digital to Digital Converter, this little DIY utility box provides a way to escape a number of digital issues impacting sound quality in hi-fi. It takes usb output from a main streaming system provides it’s own sound card, high quality […] 

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Headphone repair

Posted by | Published on 11/03/2025

When headphones wear out it’s not unusual to effect the soft fabric parts only, so can eb saved by replacement, or you can prevent failure by some tactical application of superglue. In this post I’ll show how to repair and […] 

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Easy Naim Hifi poweramp upgrades

Posted by | Published on 26/06/2015

Why these mods work is quite simple, even very expensive hifi-gear tend to use cheap sonically bad components where size  is an issue. With some looser considerations there, however, really is room to hook up, for instance, capacitors that better […] 

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