T40 Resurrected

Yo Mat Riders,

For a while, Mat tak ada feeling to blog lah because my IBM suddenly chibaboom. Dunno wat happen man, listening to music sekali frozen. Try to restart but tak boleh man.

So Mat buy new system board lah from ebay. The stupid IBM want to charge like 500 ketul to change my board man. Basket! No warranty already. Alamak! Nevermind, Mat go ebay and buy a better board at half the price. Board fly to Mat from Malaysia man, so funny. Take 2 weeks.

Then Mat realized that with the new board, I need a new fan to cool the graphic card. From 32mb Radeon, now become 128mb FireGL; Mat got the power! Take another 2 weeks. So total 1 month to get the parts.

So now, Mat ready to fix up. Here are some pics lah. At first Mat quite scared one. Scared short circuit something and then need to buy more stuff. Lucky, quite straightforward lah, but still in the end got 1 extra screw..LOL!!!

Lcd



Mobo



Screw the Lcd to mobo



Fix the fan, ram etc



Fix trackpad



Power up!!!



So, actually not very hard lah. Only took Mat 2 hours. And quite fun man. Mat thanks Liteforge for helping him dis-assemble and for the tools. When Mat powered on the laptop, i prayed super hard man.. don't chibaboom! Lucky now working ok. So my advice is when laptop chibaboom, jangan catastrophe man! Relac one korner 1st.

Later,
Mat Love

Grado HF-1

Yo Mat Riders,

Today Mat was having fun with the HF-1. If you dunno what it is, Mat can exprain to you ok? This is a recent issue for Head-fiers. Basically Head-fiers are the people from head-fi.org; it's a headphone forum. So this Mat Salleh make this special edition headphones for us. Power right. Only got 450. After that, go suck thumb if you want. Mat got lucky #99.

To find out more about Grado, go to his website. Qute cool lah. His company only got like 10-15 people in Brooklyn, NY. Some more fight with the giants like Sennheiser. Anyway, some pix. I changed from stock pads to reserved Sennheisers HD414 pads. More comfy. Then i put my timbuk2 shoulder pad over the headband.




Later,
Mat

Cute Beyond

Yo Mat Riders,

Today morning, Mat went from kena sai feeling to super happy max. So at 9.45am EST (Eastern Standard Time), Mat was expecting a package from fedex. So Mat was sitting and reading facing the balcony so that he can see the van. Then, the van just drive past man.

ALAMAK! Mat ran down, then saw a note. It say that Mat wasn't home. Wah liao...you know wat? The stupid door buzz tak work man because the maintenance man kill the power to repair something thing, dunno wat lah; oh ya, the laundry machine outlet or something.

So Mat call the HQ and ask the guy ke-belakang pusing man. Lucky the guy came back. Fwah! Not bad, quite effecient. Better than UPS or DHL. DHL come 3 time, never leave me note. Then say the note may be lost; 3 freaking times ah? Basket!

So, introducing all the way from Taiwan...*dlum loll*







So wat is it? This, matriders, is my latest addition to my setup. Cute Beyond Headphone Amplifier. The sound damn power. The bass is tight and punchy and the highs are tamer but crispier. The mids are smoother. Soundstage is wider and the instrument seperation is clearer. Shiok man. Listening to Diana Krall, Live in Paris now. Eargasm!

Later,
Mat Love

2005 Fall Boston Head-Fi Meet

Yo Mat Riders,

So today Mat Love went to the most power meet sial. About 20 people showed up with their equipment. I was like a kid in a candy store man. I super small fry there. Everyone bring their super power tube amp and headphones and stuff.











Got 3 manufacturers came. Singlepower, Ray Samuels and Headroom (Tyll). They fly in from Denver, Montana etc...power right...so hardcore man. Some more, today was Ray's birthday...

Ok, Mat spent 3 hours there, some more 45 mins drive there and 45 mins drive back. Damn tired now...koon now!

Later,
Mat Love

Selamat Hari Raya Eidil Fitri

Yo Mat Riders,

1 whole month of fasting is gone. Now is 1 whole month of slowing. Slow because Mat will be eating a lot. LOL! This year Eidil Fitri sama-sama with deepavali and also halloween. Power man. That means got candy sale week. All candy 1/2 price..yahooooo!!!! Mat is eating too much candy already, become from Mat Love to Mat Fat...hehe..



Ok, man, just finished my paper on the evolution of Visnu and his avatars. Time to go to bed...YAWNNNNN!!!!!!!!

Later,
Mat Love