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What have you been working on in 2020?

New system? Getting into DIY? New bands?

I’d love to know what you’ve been doing that is audio-related this year. Dare I hope some of you have gotten soldering guns? Heat guns? Cables or caps?
For me, I’ve gotten into Roon and the Pi 4. Finally set up my combined 2-ch/HT set up with a new HT processor, and done a little blogging on Roon and subwoofers.  Last night I took my Pi 4 apart and added tiny little heat sinks to the RAM, USB and Ethernet chips.
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aewarren
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I've been listening to music.
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jtcf
1,589 posts
 
Redecorated my listening room,bought a new comfy chair for the sweet spot,discovered a lot of great blues music being performed and recorded outside of the US.
merosen
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Got my Atma Sphere MK 60 amps upgraded from 2,x to 3.3 back in march, Listening music from 8am till 11pm. Next I’ve got to send my 20+ year old SME V tonearm to England for a rebuild. Also upgraded my cables to Audio Envy.

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ovinewar
172 posts
 
I built a touch screen Raspberry Pi 4 with a Hifiberry Dac. Really enjoying Tidal. Also built 2 iron pipe audio racks with butcher block shelves. The shelves are a work in progress. Built several DIY cables with mixed results. Rebuilt several amps with higher quality capacitors and speaker bindings- also cooked a Vintage Nikko amp I have had for decades somehow😖
skyscraper
825 posts
 
Erik, I’m trying to figure out if it would be worthwhile to upgrade power cords on some of my components. Doesn’t really make any sense to me to do so, but that doesn’t mean it might not make for some improvement for reasons I’m unaware of. I thought I might start with upgrading the stock cord on my Luxman 507uX MkII integrated amp first. I read somewhere here you upgraded the power cord on your Luxmann integrated. Did you notice any improvements in sound after you did so?

Mike
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