Hackaday14h ago

Mercury Audio Cables, So Nobody Else Has To Do It

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/mercury-audio-cables-so-nobody-else-has-to-do-it/

Mercury Audio Cables, So Nobody Else Has To Do It

We’ve seen our fair share of audiophile tomfoolery here at Hackaday, and we’ve even poked fun at a few of them over the years. Perhaps one of the most outrageously over the top that we&…

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1313h ago
Mercury Audio Cables, So Nobody Else Has To Do It https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/mercury-audio-cables-so-nobody-else-has-to-do-it/
#Homeentertainmenthacks #audiophiles #Mercury #Speakercables
Mercury Audio Cables, So Nobody Else Has To Do It

We’ve seen our fair share of audiophile tomfoolery here at Hackaday, and we’ve even poked fun at a few of them over the years. Perhaps one of the most outrageously over the top that we&…

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13Mar 7
Fixing an Onkyo Receiver with Multiple Faults https://hackaday.com/2026/03/07/fixing-an-onkyo-receiver-with-multiple-faults/
#Homeentertainmenthacks #RepairHacks #Audioamplifier #Onkyo #Receiver
Fixing An Onkyo Receiver With Multiple Faults

Modern-day receivers are miracles of digital audio and video processing, but compared to their more analog brethren, they can come with a host of new and fascinating faults. The Onkyo TX-SA806 and …

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HackadayMar 7

Fixing an Onkyo Receiver with Multiple Faults

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/07/fixing-an-onkyo-receiver-with-multiple-faults/

13Feb 28
Philco Bet the Farm on The Predicta… and Lost https://hackaday.com/2026/02/27/philco-bet-the-farm-on-the-predicta-and-lost/
#Homeentertainmenthacks #Philco #Philcopredicta #Television
Philco Bet The Farm On The Predicta… And Lost

Philco was a common household brand for many years. The company started in 1892, making street lights. Then they pivoted to batteries. This was big business when early radios were all battery-opera…

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HackadayFeb 20

HD on a VHS Tape? How Did They Do It?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/hd-on-a-vhs-tape-how-did-they-do-it/

13Feb 20
HD on a VHS Tape? How Did They Do It? https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/hd-on-a-vhs-tape-how-did-they-do-it/
#Homeentertainmenthacks #ReverseEngineering #Hdtv #VHS #WVHS
HD On A VHS Tape? How Did They Do It?

There was a period from the 1970s to the mid-2000s or so when a fixture underneath the family TV set was a VHS videocassette recorder. These were a masterpiece of cramming a color video signal into…

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HackadayFeb 8

Wooden Case Makes a 2026 TV Stylish

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/08/wooden-case-makes-a-2026-tv-stylish/

13Feb 8
Wooden Case Makes a 2026 TV Stylish https://hackaday.com/2026/02/08/wooden-case-makes-a-2026-tv-stylish/
#Homeentertainmenthacks #Furniture #Midcentury #Tvcabinet #TVstand #Woodwoorking
Wooden Case Makes A 2026 TV Stylish

The middle of the 20th century produced a revolution in understated stylish consumer design, some of which lives on today. The reality of living in a 1950s or ’60s house was probably to be su…

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13Jan 14
A New Life For An Old Amplifier https://hackaday.com/2026/01/14/a-new-life-for-an-old-amplifier/
#Homeentertainmenthacks #RepairHacks #Amplifier #Jukebox #Pipico
A New Life For An Old Amplifier

An audio amplifier was once a fairly simple analogue device, but in recent decades a typical home entertainment amplifier will have expanded to include many digital functions. When these break they…

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