What Hi-Fi?

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BEST WIRELESS IN-EARS UNDER £75 If it’s inexpensive, good-sounding waterproof buds you seek, the EarFun Air are tough to beat • Punchy, expansive sound • Great feature set • Classy build and finish TO SUBSCRIBE GO TO: www.magazinesdirect.com/whi/Earf

Music Tech Focus

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Details Manufacturer Plugin Alliance/Black Box Analog Design Price $249 Contact via website Web www.pluginalliance.com Minimum system requirements Windows 7, Intelcompatible CPU with SSE2 instruction set (P4-compatible or higher, min 2GHz recommended

CQ Amateur Radio

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Just about every electronics maker, builder-ham or other electronics tinkerer has a stash of new and used parts, assemblies and discarded (rescued) gadgets. Including me (see Photo A). But having all this stuff doesn’t do anyone any good if parts are

Stuff Magazine South Africa

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That’s an awfully nondescript black box. What’s it do? It keeps you employed, is what it does. This is an intelligent UPS system, one designed to keep an eye on the power situation and adjust accordingly. It uses something called double-conversion t

Fast Company

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A 5G quiz 1. Where do you live? [A] In a major metro area [B] At least 30 minutes from the nearest stoplight [C] In my mom’s basement 2. Which of the following connected devices do you own? [A] An Echo Dot [B] A Google Nest [C] A rotary phone with Ea

How It Works

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There are two basic types of integrated circuit: analogue and digital. Analogue, or linear circuits are the most basic and are used typically in electronic devices that collect or send signals, such as microphones. In this example, an analogue circui

Hi-Fi Choice

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PRICE: £230 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: RUARKAUDIO.COM Hot on the heels of last month’s R3 all-in-one review, Essex company Ruark has unveiled the fourth generation of its DAB/Bluetooth radio, the R1 Mk4. Available in a light cream laquer finish with ash han

Nautilus

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The first artificial neural networks weren’t abstractions inside a computer, but actual physical systems made of whirring motors and big bundles of wire. Here I’ll describe how you can build one for yourself using SnapCircuits, a kid’s electronics ki

Popular Science

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That smart cooker, which we’ve nicknamed the Millennial Oven, perfectly follows the trajectory of innovation over the past 30 years. It’s built around bedrock technologies—convection cooking, image recognition, microprocessors, compact cameras, wirel

APC

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This issue we’ll learn how to use the Explorer HAT Pro to work with analogue electronics by creating two projects. First we create a simple light-detecting nightlight, then we create an electronic candle that we can blow out. But first we need to set

Future Music

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It’s likely already in your plugins folder, and it’s well and truly the one to beat, so how does the world’s favourite freeware plugin compare to the other analysers in this round-up? SPAN is legendary for many reasons, including spectrum smoothing,

CQ Amateur Radio

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Although it is common to synonymize (is that a word?) analog with linear, there are many nonlinear analog functions, the most common being the logarithmic amplifier. In our last installment, we explored the Gilbert Cell, a most useful non-linear anal

How It Works

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When the greatest inventions of the 20th century are weighed up for their merits there are few people who think of the integrated circuit. They often name some of the devices which it has enabled – which isn’t difficult, as they are numerous – but ra

What Hi-Fi?

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View offers whf.cm/BBDACs August 2020 (issue 437) if you want to improve your smartphone sound, but don’t want a USB stick hanging off the end of it, this is a bit of a no brainer. Online only for now. Size 11cm long Resolution PCM (up to 384kHz), DS

Hi-Fi Choice

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What’s the difference between the Aria MK2 and the MK3? Well, you’re looking at it. On the inside, nothing. On the outside, what Rega calls its “latest half-width, custom-designed case to give the Aria a fresh new look”. Very smart it is, too, in a P

Dwell

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We had an LG Smart LED TV that would turn itself on and off. We searched the net for a few days and found a similar issue that someone in Asia had experienced and resolved by putting a small computer fan on the television’s board processor. The proce

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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It’s out with the old and in with the new at our house. In fact, life is so high-tech, I just don’t know where to turn! Luckily, some things can never be replaced... like the laughs we have along the way. Gadgets galore! Part of downsizing is upgr

The Shed

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In this issue we show how to upcycle a rotary phone from the end of the ’60s, which with the help of a Raspberry Pi and a few other electronic components will become a ‘Pi rotary smartphone’. In the next issue we will look at how many projects can be

Music Tech Focus

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The best way to keep tabs on how your computer is coping – or not – with everything you are throwing at it, is to keep an eye on it, that is find out about everything that it is trying to do. PC users have had lots of system-monitor apps within Windo

Guitarist

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ORIGIN: Vietnam TYPE: Drive pedal FEATURES: Buffered bypass, oscilloscope display (switchable) CONTROLS: Volume, Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble, Bright switch, Mode switch (STD/PRE/CAB), Bypass footswitch CONNECTIONS: Standard input, standard output,

Electronic Musician

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soothe has always been a processor that requires a delicate touch, and with soothe2’s new Soft mode (the other mode, Hard, is more like the previous behavior), the ‘intensity’ of the processing and operational sweep of many of the controls can be rei

What Hi-Fi?

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RRP £50 Includes innovative kickstand for angled viewing of your device in landscape or portrait mode, plus clever device-mounting suction cups ● 10,000 mAh lithium polymer powerbank ● USB-A port ● Charge status indicators TO SUBSCRIBE GO TO: www.mag

Hi-Fi Choice

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6000N Play PRICE: £450 REVIEWED: HFC 453 Employing the DTS Play-Fiplatform (which is not without its foibles), the Audiolab beautifully balances refinement and engagement with an impressive bass response and tonality. Given an operating system update

Future Music

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I’ve seen and read about people attempting a modular case build who have been confident with the woodworking aspect but whose attempts fail on the electronics. This is perfectly understandable and if you don’t wish to tackle this part of the build yo

South African Home Owner

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The season for sensational home entertainment is here – and it’s all the more fun if you have the right bits and bobs for that fully immersive experience. With so many products on the market though, it’s sometimes hard to know where to start. Let us

Classic Motorcycle Mechanics

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Deterioration is a fact of life with old classic motorcycles, and more than anything it is the electrical systems that suffer the most. The components most vulnerable are generators and ignition systems where heat and corrosion conspire over time to

Sound and Image

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This award seemed to take even Yamaha by surprise — we don’t know why, as we regularly find high-value headgear from the company, and we still hold a particular flame for the HPH-200 in 2011, and the quirky yet rock solid HPH-M82 back in 2014. Though

MacLife

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bang-olufsen.com Around $20,000 >>> Taking a love of dramatic technology design to the next level, B&O’s new OLED TV changes shape depending on whether you’re using it or not. The wooden panels hide a beefy speaker setup, but they elegantly fold them

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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The Queen has become adept at using technology during the UK’s COVID lockdowns and frequently holds meetings via Zoom. She’s adapted amazingly well, considering that when she was born in 1926, movies were still silent and television had only recently

Total Guitar

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TYPE: Dual overdrive CONTROLS: Gain, tone, output, blend, crunch gain, crunch level (both internal) SOCKETS: Input, output, power TRUE BYPASS? Yes POWER: PSU or 9v battery CONTACT: Dunlop, www.jimdunlop.com ■