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Poor Man's Surround Headphones - Make surround headphones from a pair of
circumaural headphones and earbuds. The author uses these headphones with the SB Live
PC soundcard, but they will also work with any 4-channel surround recording. "The
surround effect is excellent... You can tell back from front easily." Designed by
Steve Connors (circuit design added 01/08)
Portable E-field Receiver - Here is a tiny receiver built into an Altoids tin
suitable for use with a laptop computer or portable tape recorder. The prototype
antenna is only 1 foot long when fully extended and the receiver fits into a shirt
pocket... (electronic design added (6/07)
Portable Headphone Amp - Another contributed circuit, this is a complete portable
headphone amp that features crossfeed. (schematic added 6/07)
Revisiting Koss "The Plug" Headphones - Koss' The Plugs are inexpensive canal-type
headphones that suffer from a "peaky" frequency response, weak acoustic isolation and
a lightweight sound due to inadequate acoustic damping and poor ear cushion design.
The author describes a series of modifications for The Plugs that allow this product
to reach its full potential..... Designed by Chu Moy (circuit design added 01/08)
Room Noise Detector - One LED monitors three levels: 50, 70 & 85 dB. Useful to
detect too noisy environments. (electronic circuit added 06/07/08)
Sound Operated Switch zen 22142 - This sensitive sound operated switch can be used
with a dynamic microphone insert as above, or be used with an electret (ECM)
microphone. If an ECM is used then R1 (shown dotted) will need to be included. A
suitable value would be between 2.2k and 10kohms. The two BC109C transitors form an
audio preamp, the gain of .... (added 2/06)
Stereo Width Controllers - 2 to choose from. Expand or contract the stereo sound
stage(electronic circuit added 7/03)
Subwoofer Equaliser - The Linkwitz transform circuit is a hugely flexible way to
equalize the bottom end of a sealed loudspeaker enclosure. A speaker that is corrected
using this method is flat from below resonance to the upper limit of the selected
driver. The low frequency roll off point is determined by the parameters of the
transform circuit.....(added 4/02)