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Ugh! My website and forum seem to be more dead than alive lately… But alas that’s the how the wheel turns… Now then…

ATTENTION, ATTENTION, TIME FOR A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT!

I’d like to point-out something really important for both you and me. I really appreciate every comment that I get from you people. I’m the kind of guy who likes to get in touch with people who have problems, some doubts or simply are knowledgeable. That’s why often, instead of replying to your inquiries here as a reply-comment, I write an e-mail reply to you. BUT! Most of you seem to be afraid of typing in your real e-mail address. Why? Probably most of you are scared of spam-bots or other such “web monstrosities”…

Well then let me assure you, right from the start of this here blog I made certain that spammers won’t get to your e-mail addresses. How? It’s simple. Nobody (and no “thing”), but me, the site administrator, can see your e-mail addresses which you leave in the comment fields. The addresses are stored in the blog’s comment database and not somewhere directly on the website, so the spam robots aren’t able to find them.

So to sum things up, I’m not forcing anybody to write your real e-mail address, but if you’d like to get some direct feedback from me (especially when you’re in need of help) then please don’t be afraid to use your real address. That’s all. Thanks in advance!

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 »

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…

Back when I wrote my previous post, I thought that the forum idea would come after the personal log one. After giving it a lot of thought, I decided that the forum is more important…
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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…

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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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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Hi fellow blog audience! (albeit yet non-existent, as I’m aware)

I’ve finally managed to get this whole blogging business a’ rollin’. As a matter of fact, I’ve bought the hosting services for this blog over 2 months ago, so… let’s just say I wasn’t always in the mood for sitting down in front of the computer and making my “first step” into the personal blog universe. It’s good that I’ve decided to buy the domain name before going officially online, cause I’ve also had second thoughts for some time on that subject…
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