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Romy the Cat wrote:

1)      It is not strictly audio project but it kind of related: I need to move my audio site out of my static IP DSL line to a data center. I have high-speed ADSL but the site has a lot of traffic and my crappy DSL like runs over 100% of utilization. I think I will take a few day efforts to set up a one or two ProLiants and dump them closer to data access point.

Done. The Site is running from Datacenter with unlimited bandwidth to Web

Romy the Cat wrote:

2)      Put in use Avicenna Power Regenerator, test it and find a final power configuration of my entire playback, perhaps running it along with APS PurePower, perhaps instead of PurePower or to conclude that the PurePower is better. I think this might take a month of experiments.

Done. The PP200 turned out to be truly great and I run a whole playback from it. I consider to get another one

Romy the Cat wrote:

3)      Finish, test and integrate the MiniMe pilot speaker project. I have very good feeling about it and it actually I think will be a huge fun to play with. The only thing that I am slightly afraid is that if the MiniMe turn out to be good sounding pilot speaker then I might go for a better SS cool-running power amp to drive MiniMe. I think it will be one-two month worth efforts.

I do have no good MiniMe driven but YamahaB2 but it is not even remotely what I planned to me. Regardless what it is with the result I have I have no concerns or frustrations. Well. There is one “interest” that I have and I might look into this next year. There is one commercial speaker that I have been hunting for a while; I will keep it identity hidden for now. If I get it I would LOVE to use it instead of my current MiniMe but I will put the MiniMe tweeter in this new “another” speaker.

Romy the Cat wrote:

4)      Continue to investigate my DHT subject. Built the new Sun Audio amp with a new properly sounding circuit, at this point around 2A3 and to see if it is warranted to replace the Melquiades’ MF channel with it. I think this project will be a couple month in length.

Done. This project ended up with Melquiades 6th channel that accommodate 2.5V and 4V tubes. After many of experiments I ended up with YO186 to drive my MF

Romy the Cat wrote:

5)      Introduce to Macondo the long-expected 7th channel and learn how to use it. I might be a few months project, and it might take a few years to learn how to use it. To implement the 7th channel, upon it completion, will take a few days.

No progress in this front. I need probably to make a few called to see if the 7th channel will ever go anywhere…

Romy the Cat wrote:

6)      To decide which Rohde & Schwarz multiplex decoder is better. I have two MSDS and MSDS2. Both are absolutely wonderful and modified to do their best. I still can’t decide which it “better” as they are in a way different, even though I have a slight bias to MSDS. I still would like to keep juts one multiplex decoder, why would I need two?

Done. All concerns with configuration of my tuners are resolved. I let the MSDS decoder to go.

Romy the Cat wrote:

7)      Research the AIC subject. My abbreviation of AIC stands from Active Imaging Control, the idea that fascinated me for a while and I have some practical hypothesis that I might try to implement. It might take from a few months to a few years… who knows…

Abandoned.

Romy the Cat wrote:

8)      Try the “Absurd Driver”. Your do not know about it. I have discovered an “unknown” in audio vacuum tube that I would be very much interested to try for sound; it never was used for sound, at least for the high-end sound. The tube is absolutely unique and has no resemblance to anything else in existence, and I am not taking about the construction but about the whole another design concept, it has no conventional, cathode, grid and screen… it is very-very different. It is direct heard and only God know how it might sound, the design is superbly interesting though… It might take a few days to put it in use…

I did get those “Absurd Drivers”, the former post has their picture. I did not try to use it for sound yeat.

Romy the Cat wrote:

9)      To try the Dima’s DAC. Last year Dima invented a completely new “concept” of digital to analog conversion and what is the most astonishing the analog to digital conversion with the same concept (though the A/D is not tested yet). The “concept” is ridicules as the D/A and A/D conversion takes place by the means that never ever were used in audio. How different is it. Well, it is pure analog. I mean there is no single digital element in the whole D/A converter for instance. It might be along transistors or even tubes - it does not matter. Dima is building his tubes-only DAC that will have no single digital element. I really would like to hear this thing….

The Dima’s purely analog DAC  is gone to nowhere.

Romy the Cat wrote:

7)      Macondo and DPoLS? I think it is the time to go for it....

Sine I look forward to move I put this one on hold.

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