Archive for February, 2006
Broadband ready!
I got my broadband connection today. Yooo hooo.
My new music system
Long long time ago, when I was a kid my father had bought a Telefunken music system. That had been captured by me for my own use and that started my journey onwards on music.
These passion toward music lead me to try understanding the underlying technology and resulted in lots of DIY projects in electronics. It also caused me to taking up electronics as one of my subjects in college.
Though I cannot lay a claim to be able to play any instruments I still love listening. At one time I had more then 400 CD’s in my personal collection and it has been my dream from when I can remember to own one of those audiophile systems.
Every time I came close to buying a music system always some other expense used to kill this one
Imagine for past 10 years I had no music system on which I could really listen from. Other then my PC/Car stereo I was banished from music.
I had been planning to setup a system for my new flat from the moment I bought the flat and y’day at last my dreams materialized
A good friend of mine (Kriplani – thx from bottom of my false heart) y’day brought my system from Singapore and I haven’t been that excited for such a long time.
He was expected to land in Bangalore around 3:00AM, and to my surprise I was up by 4:00AM plainly excited about the whole thingi. I tried sleeping but just couldn’t. I couldn’t wait more longer and SMS’sed him around 4:30ish.
He was surprised and so we ended up having the systems in my house by 7:00 AM.
I managed to setup the amplifier/speaker/CD player in the morning.
By evening I had the whole thingi up and running. Sweet. I slept around 12 in the night! Maan was I excited.
My setup:
- NAD C372 Stereo Integrated Amp. (I just cannot afford a Power amp – pre-amp combo)
- NAD C521 BEE CD Player.
- NAD C422 Stereo AM/FM Tuner.
- Squeezebox 2 Network Music Player. (All my CD’s are already/will be ripped to FLAC)
- Mission M35i speakers.
I have hooked up my Linksys WRT54G wireless router and my PC to stream music from the PC to this Squeezebox.(I ended up setting up my wireless network and the rest of music system y’day night)
The whole shing-bang costed me around 1lakh (~$2200) and maan are my pockets clean. Sigh. But still a good feeling.
Music never felt so good …
Linksys hacks
I own one of these babies
Just a bookmark for me to investigate
Linksys hacks