A Commodore Boombox: The 1350 As You’ve Never Heard It Before
No, this isn’t another product from [PeriFractic]’s revived company, though we hope he’s taking notes. This is, in fact, a hack on the beloved 1530 Datasette, using the tape mecha…
Leaky Player Piano Gets MIDI Upgrade In YouTube Restomod
The word “restomod” is a bit nebulous, but it’s normally used in the automotive world to describe taking an old car and making it better-than-new with all the technological improv…
Pico-Driven Ultrasound Enables Scaled Acoustic Model Of Home Stereo
There are plenty of ways to get sound into your house: good old fashioned headphones, the Dolby surround setup we all lusted after back in the day, or the 21st century’s ubiquitous soundbar, …
Bluetooth Gramophone Has Surprisingly Contemporary Roots
So you happen to have a gramaphone– maybe a big old Victrola/HMV, perhaps a Columbia– regardless of brand, it’s a big, beautiful conversation peice for your living room. It might …
Vintage Turntable Gets Brain Transplant And Home Assistant Integration
When [Marsupial] picked up a vintage Sansusi P-L45 turntable, he figured it would be an easy fix: a few capacitors, a belt or two, and maybe a new cartridge, the usual. But it turned out the electr…
The Maths Behind A Chord Recognition Engine
A key part of any tertiary musical education is learning about all the wonderful (and less wonderful) types of chords out there. Typically this involves a great deal of exercises involving the iden…
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