Posted on Monday, 21st August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

Well, nothing special here Just upload the photo of my fishes and plants. I think we are all busy with our daily life. Work problem, social problem, traffic jam problem, friendship problem, love problem, economic problem, and etc etc.

There’s no better thing than seeing the fishes swimming nicely and asking for food from you (the owner) or spraying water to your thirsty plants. Actually, I don’t do such things before. I prefer to sleep or listen music. But after few days, I start to enjoy this. You can try this kind of hobbies to. They can relax your stiff nerves and maybe can longer your life (due to less stress).

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Posted on Sunday, 20th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

Every relationship needs a good contact. This happens not in personal love life, but also in elcctronics. So bad contact may screw you

I just charged my Ni-MH rechargeable batteries yesterday. After over 2 hours charging time, I tried the batteries. But my batteries were still empty. How come? I was so sure that my charger was ok (and I was so sure that my batteries were ok to). Then I decided to check my batteries condition. The temperature was cool enough (should be warm to hot after they were charged). Then I checked the batteries contacts. Well, I found dust and rust there. I see the problem

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Posted on Friday, 18th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

When you see or hear MP3, what’s the first thing on your mind? iPod? Perhaps We have to admit that iPod is very sensational in terms or brand awareness. For sound quality, I think we easily can see others MP3 player with same or even better sound quality.

I just visited Samsung’s factory yesterday and got their new MP3 player, Yepp YP-U2 fresh from the oven. FYI, this MP3 was built here in Indonesia. I saw myself the production of this player, but simply it’s out of our scope to discuss it.

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Posted on Tuesday, 15th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

Artist: Various Artists
Album: Audiophile Reference II (Popular Music)
Publisher: FIM
Recording Technology: HDCD 24K Gold Disc

About this album:
This is the second compilation from FIM for Audiophile’s reference. The first was classical, and this one contains more popular music. I think FIM realizes that not all people love classic. So, this one contains more popular musics. Surely, FIM hopes that this album can be accepted by most listener, not just for an audiophile.

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Posted on Monday, 14th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

After spending over 8 months on research, finally I finished my first complete speakers project. I chose Vifa XT25 for tweeter and PL18 for woofer. I think they both are perfectly matched each others. Sadly the XT25 is 4 Ohm only, so I need to spend more money on crossover

The crossover was designed from an intensive research. All components are premium audio grade class, like Auricap, Wondercap, Alpha Core inductor, Dale wire wound resistor, WBT silver solder, high quality 18 AWG copper internal cable, and Shark rhodium binding post terminal. If you are a DIYer, I think you should know about the quality (and price) of those brand. As additional, the input also support bi-wire and bi-amping capability.

Red with gloss surface is choosen as finishing color. I will upgrade the box with better materials from specific wood soon (currently, the materials is 25mm MDF).

Overall, I’m quite pleased with her performance. The low is very extend, tight, and full of definition. The mid is very warm with excellent detail (I have no doubt that this speakers have outstanding mid vocal). The high is also warm, soft, and quite extend.

After hours of listening test, the high-end response has not reached my expectation (I expect more or maybe I’m not used with Ring Radiator’s characteristic? I also have some problem with my room’s acoustic, I will try to add some treatment in the near future). I think I need to experiment with her high pass filter. With the help of spectrum analyzer (soon will come), I think I can do the experiment faster and more efficient, especially to tune up the crossover and my room’s acoustic. Will update here soon.

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Posted on Saturday, 12th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

This post isn’t intended to someone or some organization. Just a piece of my analysis. So take it or leave it.

Before we discuss the main idea, there’s no mistake to give some introduction. Just like in any business, media business needs money. But in media, you just can’t rely on customers (or readers, precisely) who read/buy your media (either printed or online media). Yes there are some media who can live themself from readers only, but simply there’s no much of such case. Media should have more income, and the advertisers shall be the answer.

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Posted on Saturday, 12th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

This post is calling opera users. Maybe almost of computers users know the “Undo” function. And perhaps most of them know how to use it (usually you will clik “Edit” from top pull-down menu and choose “Undo”). Maybe some of you know that this function also can be called by using “Ctrl-Z” keyboard shortcut combination

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Posted on Friday, 11th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

Okay, okay. I’ve seen a lot of audio player enabeld phones review. But, most of them only evaluate the phone functionality, audio player interface, and etc… etc. I know that sound quality tends to be subjective (tested with ears), but it’s not a bad thing if we test the objective quality (tested with equipment), right?Few weeks ago, I borrowed two phones. One was the Nokia N91 and the other is Sony Ericsson W810i. Two are audio player enabled phone. So, let’s evaluate them.

For introduction, I don’t use sophisticated equipment like Audio Precision. It’s just a software named RMAA and a sound card as D/A. I have few cards like EMU 1820M and ESI Juli@. Both are professional cards. But for this test, I just use prosumer card the M-Audio Revolution 7.1. This card has flat enough response (+0.13, -0.07 dB, and >90 dB of noise, dynamic range, and stereo crosstalk @ 16bit/44.1 kHz). If possible, I will re-test with my EMU or Juli@, but I believe the result will not be different. The RMAA is well know an excellent software for this purpose. One time, the creator had done comparison with Audio Precision and the result was quite similiar. So, we simply can trust this software

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Posted on Wednesday, 9th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

I have done a lot of testing on sound cards. Not too much, around 12 cards actually which result was saved on my hard drive. I will post the RMAA result here just for collections. For your information, all the result here was done by myself. Feel free to contact me if you have any question. We will start in a bit random list. So don’t complain if your card is on the bottom list

Here’s the list:
1. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
2. Terratec Aureon FireWire 7.1
3. Terratec Aureon Space 7.1
4. Hercules DJ Console
5. ESI Juli@
6. Lynx L22
7. Audiotrak Maya 5.1 MKII
8. Audiotrak Maya EX5
9. SoundStorm (ALC on Gigabyte 7NNXP)
10. Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1
11. M-Audio Revolution 7.1
12. Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

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Posted on Tuesday, 8th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

I’ve just finished building my new interconnect cable. Just want to share the photo here.

Here’s the specs:
- Based on CAT 6 twisted cables with unique structure
- Aluminium shielded
- Braid coated finish
- Rhodium plated high quality RCA
- Extra treatment (50% broken-in)
- Optimized for Solid State equipment
- I have marked the side for input (source) and output (next device on the chain) to ensure optimal audio performance
- Length: 1 metre

For question, price inquiry, or audition, please feel free to email me.

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Posted on Saturday, 5th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

If you have been in this world for at least 15 years, I’m sure you know what is “Walkman” refers to. At that time, maybe you didn’t know who is Nokia.

But now, Nokia is the biggest handset player in the world, in terms of money, unit sold, and perhaps, unit’s varians. They are now entering new market, about audio player in handset.

Yes, every handset maker has decided to include this feature into their handset. But we will discuss only two brand. First, the Sony (Ericsson) with its Walkman phone. Second, the Nokia due to their position as largest handset manufacturer.

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Posted on Monday, 31st July 2006 by Auw Jimmy

This picture was taken from 101 Towers at Taipei (about 382 metre height – on my current floor).
The equipment was Canon EOS 350D with f/8, 4 secs exposure, and ISO 400.

Sadly, I didn’t bring my tripod, so a tons of brochures was used as a stand The actual file resolution is 3456×2304 pixels (8 MP) and hardly resized to 590×800 pixels to fit this page.

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