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Gym hi-fi – Subwoofer arrives

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If you’ve ever been to a commercial gym, you’ll know that banging dance music is the way forward and normally supplied by the owners of the gym. My experiences with subscription gyms spans both very good ones, and very bad ones. The good ones have someone within the organisation who appreciates good dance music and knows the kind of gear to buy to best blast it out on. The bad ones have a 1980’s Technic’s midi system, you the type I’m on about with the strange looking speakers, lots of flashing lights and lots of boom/tizz going on (and a constant source of “Now Dance” CD’s). Continue reading →

Gym hi-fi – Studio monitors arrive

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So, I’d got a good quality DAC pre-amp for not much money. It didn’t work quite how I expected it to, but it was useable. Next on the list of hi-fi kit to acquire was a pair of studio monitors. Whilst working for Calrec Audio, I’d been exposed to nearly every make and model known to man, with some sounding good and others sounding bad. I would imagine the way the bad ones had been set-up didn’t help. Continue reading →

Gym hi-fi – DAC arrives

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If there’s one thing a gym (and chill out room) needs, it’s a good stereo. I’ve been interested in hi-fi for too many years now and have to admit going through a “couldn’t careless” stage in my life recently with regards hi-fi, mainly due to work related problems. Designing professional audio gear had beaten the love for quality hi-fi out of me, even though there’s little difference between a hi-fi DAC and a large scale FPGA based DSP mixing card. Being married hadn’t helped either and too may half finished projects had either been thrown out or passed on to friends by Sally. Continue reading →

Continue running (or start rowing??)

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Well, it had finally happened to me. I was officially old and past it. After putting up with a dodgy knee for the past couple of years, it had got the better of me. Too many years running to and from work every day on tarmac surfaces had done untold damage to my knee and the cold weather was making life with a poorly knee pretty hard work. God, I really am sounding old. Continue reading →