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I’ve been thinking of blogging my home theater setup for quite sometime, here you go. If you have a hi-fi A/V Receiver and want to setup some sort of Audio Server based out of your mp3/aac collection, or even better ITunes Collection in your house, and possibly setup remote control for managing your music collection [...]

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§586 · December 13, 2008 · General, travelogue · (No comments) · Tags: ,


Just bought the Bose Lifestyle 35 series out of an impulse. In spite of a lot of flak from the reviews on it’s exorbitant price and performance as compared to the audiophile brands & components, I thought using ti for a while is not a bad idea (‘the Bose sound’) specially if it comes for [...]

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§391 · July 8, 2007 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: ,


Was amongst the lucky few who bought the IPhone on DDay. And boy, is it beautiful? Read more here on my tech blog.

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§388 · June 29, 2007 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


It wasn’t difficult to graduate from a budget sound enthusiast to an emerging audiophile, money was the biggest factor in the evolution. Travel being the other. When I started backpacking to Europe, I used to pick up local music from the streets of Barcelona, Dublin and Scotland, it was such bliss. Unfortunately my experiments with [...]

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§376 · May 20, 2007 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: ,


Continuing from where I left of earlier, my journey to the Quality of Sound began. Although not an accomplished acoustic aesthetic by then, I gathered enough decibels of quality to catch up in my music. CD Players were expensive then and I never had one. I still managed to get ‘CD recorded’ songs of ar [...]

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§375 · May 9, 2007 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: ,


I’ve been changing my sound apparatus quite so often since the last 10 years. It is quite a story actually, well worth a write on a boring Sunday evening! Ever since I got my eardrums succumb to the bass thundering earphones of Aiwa, back in 1997, I knew I wanted something more than a 40/- [...]

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§374 · May 7, 2007 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: ,


macbook comic strip.jpg Originally uploaded by infinity2heaven. 4 years, 6 personal laptops, 2 company laptops and I finally decided to merge them all. Bidding goodbye to my current sony vaio, (relax, those are the pics for my auction on ebay) for a price more than I initially bought for. (Actually this is the third time [...]

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§358 · March 31, 2007 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: ,


finally lay my hands on the dream machine, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT I have had 4 digital Cameras in the last 3 yrs – Kodak Easyshare 2MP was my first one,neat and cute. Then came Sony DSC V1 which is a 5 MP! I liked sony’s night shot feature which allows you to shoot [...]

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§291 · August 12, 2006 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: ,


p_companion_m Originally uploaded by priyatam. Ever wondered why we un(sub)consciously try to pick the same brand again and again? Be it cigarettes, the mobile phone, laptop or your fav food chain.There’s something that connects them with *us*. I have had a crush on Sony Vaio laptops, Bose accoustics ever since I’ve laid my hands on [...]

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§256 · March 20, 2006 · Uncategorized · (No comments) · Tags: ,