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Yesterday, I’ve decided to join the last.fm band wagon. I’m still wondering why it took me so long to do this. I mean, it’s been out there for like a year or so (maybe more, I really don’t know) and I’ve always thought of last.fm users as the same bunch from the myspace craze. I guess I was wrong thinking  like that, eh?  I’m glad that I’ve decided  to give  it a try… Continue Reading »

This college term has been a pretty tough one. I seriously didn’t expect this. Tests, projects, revisions and everything and even if there was a rather “free day”, I was so pumped-out after spending 6-8 hours on campus that I could only crash down on my trusty bed. Funny enough though, my term hasn’t ended entirely yet, I still have one exam ahead of me, scheduled on Tuesday. After that, it’s summer holiday time! And no, I’m not planning any long-time vacations, I’ll be spending most of my time at home with my family, which of course doesn’t mean that I won’t have any time to write on the blog. Expect the old “once or twice a week” posting routine to come back. Continue Reading »

Well, it’s been a busy month for me (college stuff of course), but that really isn’t an excuse as to why I haven’t been posting (again…), but (thankfully) I also can’t say that I wasn’t doing anything audio related during that time.

So what the hell was I doing? Well, for starters I finally got a turntable here in Warsaw, so I’m back on the old vinyl collecting band wagon (yay!). One can also say that I did a lot of audio research, for instance I’ve found out a great recipe for an inexpensive, but very effective vinyl record cleaning fluid. Also, the turntable that I bought had an old cartridge on it so I bought a new one and replaced it (for the first time on my own). I’ve also had to re-adjust the table, so now I’m on the fresh with how it should be done (and not just recalling it how I did it several months ago back home). This is just a taste of the material that I’ll be showcasing here on the blog real soon.

So, tomorrow I’ll be leaving Warsaw for Easter and I plan to be back here on Wednesday. The thing is that I’m not going straight home to Lebork, but to Wrzesnia, a little town in central-western Poland (the so called “Greater Poland” region), because I’ll be spending the holiday at my grandparents’ place this year. That’s why don’t expect any input from me till next week.

In other news, it would sure be great to own a digital camera… I’ve skimmed through all the posts that I wrote here and they surely look bleak without photos… (well one of the Vinyl Collecting 101 posts has some, but they didn’t come from me). I don’t want anything fancy, just something with which I could do some snapshots of my HiFi gear, records and anything which I’d deem useful to show you guys. Problem is that I don’t know much about digital cameras, so I’m open for tips and recommendations regarding this matter.

Well, I still have some packing to do, my train leaves at 10 a.m. so I can’t stay up late either. Happy Easter to all of you!

PS: The title for today’s post comes from a Steppenwolf song :)

20 days since the last update! That’s too much. Thankfully, I’m finally over my first term exams (passed all of them, of course) and now the second term starts, which implies that I’ll have more time for audio stuff again. I can assure you that my next post will start the turntable guide series (finally!). Stay tuned for increased post frequency!

As for recent blog-related stuff, I’ve updated the blog software to the newest version, so it should run a bit more smoother now. I’ve also added the “Guides” page, where you can find direct links to all the guide posts that I wrote. You can also think of it as a “featured posts” page.

The recently established forum is slowly becoming more popular (at the time of writing, it’s 6 members strong out of which 3 members are most active). I wonder when will it hit the 10 member milestone…

Hi gang, Wojtek here (who else?). I’ve been very busy lately (and frankly, I still am) by doing college stuff, so I didn’t have any time to spend on the blog. I’ve managed to pass all the tests, but I still have 3 exams ahead of me.

I promise I’ll get back to some writing right after the examination session.

Furthermore, I’ve decided to slightly divide my blog. As you probably know, I sometimes also post strictly personal posts, sometimes not even related to audio (just like this one here) and I’m not too comfortable with that, because I want this blog to be only about my audio experiences and not all my personal experiences…

That’s why I decided that when I’ll have some more free time on my hands, I’m going to put up a personal blog next to this one. I dunno if I’ll be also using the Wordpress platform for that purpose, but the main idea is to have a place where I can post about stuff completely unrelated to audio, so to not clutter up the content you may find here.

There’s also an idea of starting a “Young HiFi” forum, a discussion board where people who are new to the whole HiFi biz or any other audio hobby have some questions. I’ve noticed that most popular audio forums out there don’t have a “newbie corner” and sometimes the new guy gets ignored or laughed at just because he’s not one of the “elite”…

That’s it for now, tell me what you think about the forum idea, because maybe I’m wrong and such a place isn’t even needed in the big WWW :). I’ll keep you posted when something comes up…

It seems that as of late I can’t write anything at normal hours, either I write a post early in the morning or late at night. It’s kinda crazy. Anyway, things are starting to heat-up at college (got a test on linear algebra on Monday and discrete mathematics on Wednesday), so I’ll be pretty much occupied with hitting the books on the weekend, so I can’t promise anything about my posting frequency in the nearest future. That being said, let’s get down to tonight’s business…
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Last time was a “bedtime” post, so this time it’ll be a “good morning” post! It’s kinda weird actually, it’s still dark outside and I rarely get out of bed at such an hour if I don’t have anything planned for the morning, even more so on a Saturday!

This week I finally got a pair of loudspeakers for my receiver. I’ve also done some cable huntin’ in Warsaw. Thought it would be easy in such a big city. I never thought that I’d start to despise the city street planning afterwards…
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OK, it’s almost 2 am now and I’m finally back in Warsaw, in front of my computer. Actually, I came back as I planned before, meaning that I arrived in Warsaw on Thursday, 28th December. Why haven’t I written anything since then? The answer is that I was too busy and too tired to touch the blog at all. I had to have some good old fashioned relaxation after Christmas (a bit funny, isn’t it?) and after that preparations for New Year’s Eve were afoot and so on. Anyway, it’s easy to justify yourself for lack of time, right? That’s why I’d like apologize to any returning visitors of my blog for being absent for the past one and a half week. Now what happened exactly during that time …
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So, tis’ the season to be jolly again… finally! I’ll be hitting the hay in a short while, so I just popped in to tell you that I’m still alive and haven’t forgotten about the blog. There won’t be anything about audio today. This time let’s get a bit more personal…
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OK, it’s been over a month since I’ve done something on my blog and finally I came to my senses, punched some discipline into me and started to think about it all and how stupid I am to just leave such a precious to me project go down … OK, god dammit! spits on his palms and rubs them together real hard Time to keep this train a’ rollin’…
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