I recently had the pleasure(?) of repairing a somewhat vintage EAW MX800 4-band crossover from the early 90s - The MX800s are designed to drive rigs based around EAW speakers, and came in a number of configurations depending on what particular EAW speakers you were using. This particular crossover is designed to drive SB850 subbass speakers with KF850EF mid-tops. The latter are enormous…
My mate Giles bought a Urei 1620 which is a fascinating 1980s-era mixer. It's in fairly good cosmetic condition (in fact it looks very pretty) but there's something up with the output circuitry, it sounds really shrill and nasty. Since the effects loop gives out a perfect sound it must be the master output. I'll have to go over the circuit with an oscilloscope. The phono/RCA connectors on the back…
Since IE9 came out, I thought it would be a good idea to install every version and compare them. I also ran the Acid Tests on each version.
Here is a video presentation covering an experiment I recently performed, in which I upgraded through every major version of Windows. Below that I'll try and add some detail that I didn't cover in the video. My parents have had a PC since I was about 5, so I have many nostalgic memories about early versions of MS-DOS and Windows. This is probably why I chose this project, as it gave me a chance to…