MikeyFresh
05-11-2016, 03:53
Greetings all, I'm a new registrant who discovered this forum via a link on moodeaudio.org.
About 6 months ago I joined the world of network based hi-rez audio streaming, when I purchased the fabulous value Sonore microRendu, on the advice of a friend in San Diego. What a home run sonically, replacing my 10 year old "convenience" streaming solution, the Apple Airport Express and iTunes /AirPlay.
For two other rooms in the house, I built Raspberry Pi3 based "bargain" streamers and loaded the super impressive moOde OS to use those as UPnP renderers, and it's all worked with nary a hitch, each room appearing as a different "zone" in JRiver Media Center which runs the DLNA server function in combination with BubbleUPnP Server.
Another recent fascination is with the "super capacitor" based UpTone Audio LPS-1, which I now use to power the microRendu. It's been an enormous upgrade to the iFi iPower to say the least, and prompted further interest in this type of power supply in the form of Vinnie Rossi's patent pending and forthcoming MINI PURE DC-4EVR.
I'm also very disappointed and frustrated with myself for ever having taken part in Indiegogo based "crowd funding" projects by LH Labs. I kick myself daily for this, and although it may still turn out ok, suffice it to say I'm fully soured on IGG or crowd funding anything ever again. What possibly was I thinking? I'm a big boy though, I did this without a gun to my head, and so I accept whatever the consequences are as my own fault and nobody else's. Maybe the final chapter on this will be a happy one, I prefer to hope so, as pessimism won't help me now!
I enjoy repairing, refurbishing, and modifying various electronic devices at least as far as my knowledge will allow.
Recent winning attempts include a new magnetron bulb installed in my 10 year old GE microwave oven, a $58 part that all acquaintances assured me was a foolhardy purchase. They were wrong, the microwave now functions as new again.
Another triumph involved the replacement of a defective and bulging Li-Ion battery in a Moto 360 Android Wear watch owned by a friend and out of warranty, which followed the replacement of the LCD screen in that same friend's Canon DSLR which he had dropped and smashed after one two many cocktails (he was very lucky it was the LCD that smashed and not the lens).
I am a veteran of 7 different iPod tear down and rebuilds, 2 iPod Gen. 6/7 Classics, 3 iPod Gen. 5.5 Videos, and 2 iPod minis, all of which received new batteries, and flash memory cards replacing the aging and fragile moving parts hard disk drives.
My biggest DIY accomplishment involved keeping 5 Samsung HDTVs out of the landfill, by researching, replacing and repairing known to be faulty power supply capacitors. A thread I started on another forum to help others do that same repair has had 15,976 views to date, and I've received a few PMs from people who told me the thread enabled them to repair their faulty HDTV. The most gratifying of those PMs came from a woman in Arizona who said she did not have the money just prior to Christmas to buy a new HDTV, so she ordered the $10 in capacitors, bought a soldering iron, and fixed her HDTV using my tutorial.
My HiFi related fetishes include NOS vacuum tubes, too expensive but silly good sounding cables including power cables, vibration/resonance control devices such as those made by Symposium, and EMI/RFI control/filter products such as ERS cloth, Shakti Stones, Furutech GC-303 compound, and well, you get the picture, I have a condition known as audiophilia nervosa but it's under control (maybe?).
About 6 months ago I joined the world of network based hi-rez audio streaming, when I purchased the fabulous value Sonore microRendu, on the advice of a friend in San Diego. What a home run sonically, replacing my 10 year old "convenience" streaming solution, the Apple Airport Express and iTunes /AirPlay.
For two other rooms in the house, I built Raspberry Pi3 based "bargain" streamers and loaded the super impressive moOde OS to use those as UPnP renderers, and it's all worked with nary a hitch, each room appearing as a different "zone" in JRiver Media Center which runs the DLNA server function in combination with BubbleUPnP Server.
Another recent fascination is with the "super capacitor" based UpTone Audio LPS-1, which I now use to power the microRendu. It's been an enormous upgrade to the iFi iPower to say the least, and prompted further interest in this type of power supply in the form of Vinnie Rossi's patent pending and forthcoming MINI PURE DC-4EVR.
I'm also very disappointed and frustrated with myself for ever having taken part in Indiegogo based "crowd funding" projects by LH Labs. I kick myself daily for this, and although it may still turn out ok, suffice it to say I'm fully soured on IGG or crowd funding anything ever again. What possibly was I thinking? I'm a big boy though, I did this without a gun to my head, and so I accept whatever the consequences are as my own fault and nobody else's. Maybe the final chapter on this will be a happy one, I prefer to hope so, as pessimism won't help me now!
I enjoy repairing, refurbishing, and modifying various electronic devices at least as far as my knowledge will allow.
Recent winning attempts include a new magnetron bulb installed in my 10 year old GE microwave oven, a $58 part that all acquaintances assured me was a foolhardy purchase. They were wrong, the microwave now functions as new again.
Another triumph involved the replacement of a defective and bulging Li-Ion battery in a Moto 360 Android Wear watch owned by a friend and out of warranty, which followed the replacement of the LCD screen in that same friend's Canon DSLR which he had dropped and smashed after one two many cocktails (he was very lucky it was the LCD that smashed and not the lens).
I am a veteran of 7 different iPod tear down and rebuilds, 2 iPod Gen. 6/7 Classics, 3 iPod Gen. 5.5 Videos, and 2 iPod minis, all of which received new batteries, and flash memory cards replacing the aging and fragile moving parts hard disk drives.
My biggest DIY accomplishment involved keeping 5 Samsung HDTVs out of the landfill, by researching, replacing and repairing known to be faulty power supply capacitors. A thread I started on another forum to help others do that same repair has had 15,976 views to date, and I've received a few PMs from people who told me the thread enabled them to repair their faulty HDTV. The most gratifying of those PMs came from a woman in Arizona who said she did not have the money just prior to Christmas to buy a new HDTV, so she ordered the $10 in capacitors, bought a soldering iron, and fixed her HDTV using my tutorial.
My HiFi related fetishes include NOS vacuum tubes, too expensive but silly good sounding cables including power cables, vibration/resonance control devices such as those made by Symposium, and EMI/RFI control/filter products such as ERS cloth, Shakti Stones, Furutech GC-303 compound, and well, you get the picture, I have a condition known as audiophilia nervosa but it's under control (maybe?).