Projects

I thought it would be best to blog again, now that im sitting here on a sunday afternoon with nothing better to do.

I have rearranged my living room here in the Wirral, the TV is now under the window, with my monitors either side – but spaced 10′ apart. The seperatation here allows me to sit a decent distance away but still retain that magical equilateral triangle so perfect for audio. These monitors, although cheap offerings from Behringer sound fantastic. I can only imagine how good a better system would sound in here, i have offered both to Martin and Foz to bring their systems around and listen in a decent room which is setup more appropriatly than theirs.

I have also decided to get back into 5.1 (or 5.0 as it may become because there is no real need for a sub on these speakers) by buying a sony 6.1 (might be 7.1) surround amp, which, although was sold as faulty (it goes into protect after a few seconds) only cost ??40 and from looking at some schematics doesn’t seem like it would be too hard to fix. It should arrive next week along with some new speaker stands.

If i can get the amp working then all i’ll need to add is some rear speakers and i’ll be good to go. That should make a world of difference to the watching of films. This also adds to the fact i am almost certainly going to be buying a 32″ HD TV when my student loan comes in, a couple of weeks away.

On the monitoring controller front, i have finished the:

PSU
Active Vol Control
4 Ch Differential Amp.
4 Ch Unity Gain Follower (x2)
2 Ch Balanced Line Driver

I still have to do the active low pass filter, another balanced line driver and the headphone amp. that should be all of the audio circuits done (bar some distribution amps) then i can get on with the control – some PICs and a ton of relays and it should be ok (i’m going to need somthing like 16x 2-pole relays and 2x 8 o/p pics but should be good!)

Anyways, i’ll leave it there, i’m away for the next few days with work, which should be fun.