Over the last year, I have been involved in several DIY projects that I would like to briefly present. DIY is usually an inevitable part of the audiophile hobby, often driven by the urge to experiment and try unconventional concepts that are not normally part of mainstream commercial production aimed at larger market segments.
Month: January 2017
In Searching for Meaning
Sometimes I wonder what the meaning of all this endless chasing of the perfect sound is. Looking at it objectively, it is a pain. First of all, one has to put a lot of effort into acquiring the knowledge, because it requires hundreds of hours of reading and digging into the subject. Then come the hours of voluntary work spent modifying or creating components. I’ve spent weekends braiding cables, making custom wooden compartments for filters, adjusting speaker damping material, soldering cables, gluing and sanding wood, and so on. Sometimes I ask myself why I didn’t spend this time doing something more sensible.