Posted on Friday, 27th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

According to this, Research in Motion (RIM) is working on the emulator to make Windows Mobile based devices to work like a Blackberry.

I think the idea is simple, but not easy to be implemented. According to RIM, they are working on the emulator based on the Windows Mobile 6 platform. So, expect no upgrade for the previous Windows Mobile user. The interesting thing is this software allow the user to switch between Blackberry and/or Windows Mobile mode. So, I don’t have to buy new Blackberry device to taste the real Blackberry (hope they will support full Blackberry services, not just the e-mail like the Blackberry Connect).

I think on one side, this idea will boost Blackberry’s popularity, but on the other side, this may affect the Blackberry based device selling. It’s interesting to see the RIM’s strategy upon this. The launch is scheduled this Fall.

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Posted on Friday, 27th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

Spb has just launcher their new application (or game?). The idea is very interesting, to exercise your brain. Train your brain to reach another level, just like your muscle.

Basically, Spb Brain Evolution is a puzzle game. It has 10 games to train your brain. This program has its own way to train your brain. Let’s say, you have to finish certain level before you can play another game, you have to pass certain score, etc. This game also has “benchmark mode” to check you brain level. You have to answer some question and this program will evaluate your brain’s score.

The picture above show the “Brain Marking Result”. You can benchmark your brain once every day to see its performance.

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Posted on Thursday, 26th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

According to here, NVIDIA will not participate in Computex Taipei that will be held on June 2007. They will maintain a display room (during Computex), according sources at the company. So, expect a demo from NVIDIA but not a booth. Quite similiar things or just a different strategy?

This year, NVIDIA also didn’t participate in major international IT shows, like CES and CeBIT. It seems like NVIDIA is changing their strategy about activity in such events. Don’t know why. But I think I’m going to miss NVIDIA booth in next Computex

Photo below is NVIDIA at Computex Taipei 2006 (last year), taken by myself.

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Posted on Monday, 23rd April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

I’m just listening the Sonic Gear Apocalypx A6, a mini bookshelf stereo speaker with one tube as buffer/pre-amp. I can’t see the tube inside, but I suspect the tube is 6N1P or similiar. I can’t get the tube information either from the box or the website. It’s not important anyway.

I experience problem with port noise from the bookshelf, especially in the vocal region like Ingram Washington (on some song, the low overlap the mid-low region, so you can’t hear the vocal clearly). This is quite annoying for me. Just like hearing an echo around. Perhaps, this is due to my placement (around 30 cm from glass wall).

Quite hard to explain this “port noise”, but simply to say, a port noise is when your port starts to produce sound. The port is the way for the air to flow. So, it should sounds nothing. If it produces any noticeable sound, then we can call it as noise. This noise may be mixed up with the sound from the driver itself and produce unwanted combination (less defined staging, reduce the vocal clarity/definition, etc).

So what should I do then?

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Posted on Wednesday, 18th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

I’ve just received my Onkyo SE-90PCI from my friend at Singapore. Thanks bro . Before I spend my time to mod it, I take some photos. Enjoy it.

The photo of the Onkyo SE-90PCI. A simple, half PCI sound card.

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Posted on Monday, 16th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

It’s unusual to see Creative allows their competitor to use their chipset, but they just did that! My friend contacted me and informed a new product from Auzentech (Auzen), the X-Fi Prelude 7.1. Yes, it’s an Auzentech’s card but with X-Fi chipset.

Here’s the full release from Auzentech:

Auzen X-FI™ Prelude 7.1 Coming Soon

Santa Clara, CA -April 16, 2007: Auzentech, Inc. (www.auzentech.com), developer of the world’s first Dolby® Digital Live and DTS® Connect PCI sound card, announces today a new sound card series based on the Creative X-FI™ chipset.

The Auzen X-FI™ Prelude 7.1 is scheduled for release near the end of May 2007. It will fully support EAX 5.0 and have the same expandability as the Auzen X-Meridian™ 7.1. Support for Dolby® Digital Live real time encoding for Vista is scheduled for Q4 of this year.
The Auzen X-Fi™ Prelude marks the first time Creative has permitted a third-party soundcard vendor to use the Creative X-FI™ chipset in its own soundcard design.

“By building a soundcard based upon Creative’s high-quality X-Fi™ chipset, we are fulfilling one of the most common feature requests from our customers,” said Stephane Bae, President of Auzentech, Inc. “When you’re playing games, the Auzen X-Fi Prelude soundcard will output the best 3D audio and latest EAX® effects. And when you’re listening to music or watching movies, you’ll enjoy an audiophile-quality experience.”

“We’re excited to provide Auzentech with our award-winning X-Fi audio chipset and technology to provide an outstanding audio experience for Auzentech’s customers,” said Steve Erickson, VP of audio for Creative.

I have used their X-Mystique card (Dolby Digital Encoding enabled card). Not bad, but also not very special. Auzentech used to use DIP socket for their op-amp (easy to mod). They also have released their DTS Encoding enabled card, but I no longer interested (anyway, I can’t get them in my country). But this time, the X-Fi Prelude 7.1 should be very exciting. EAX 5.0 and DD Encoding enabled card? What else? Just expect they will use the finest D/A and op-amp.

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Posted on Monday, 16th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

When I was searching for Luxeon datasheet, I found a new product, the Luxeon Rebel series. Quite interesting product, in terms of dimension and light density.

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Posted on Monday, 16th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

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Posted on Friday, 13th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

Artist: Various (Oscars Motettkör and friends)
Album: Cantate Domino
Publisher: Proprius Records PRCD7762
Recording Technology: -

About this album:
This is a nice album for Christmas (though perhaps not all are the Christian’s song). Recorded by Bertil Aving in 1976 and very famous for its incredible sound quality. According to Proprius, the equipments used was the Revox A77 and two Pearl TC4 microphone.

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Posted on Thursday, 12th April 2007 by Auw Jimmy

I want to upgrade some of my audio equipment. Some of them are my player and my sound card. After playing with PSU, opamp, capacitor, diode, etc, now it’s time to play with harder part, the clock.

Every CD/DVD Player, sound card, and similiar equipments will have something than we can call a clock generator/crystal. See photo below. The blue circle shows the standard clock generator on my DVD Player. You can see that the clock used is 27.000 MHz. Different player will have different clock. So make sure you remember this value. Replace it only with same value.

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