Last update: September 5, 2010
My family
Left: Holiday in Zeeland, may 2010, right: visit to Germany, 2007
Toon with all participants during the semifinal of the NBE junior composers competition, december 2006
Marieke is also musical, she plays bassoon. Toon also has a digital church organ at home since september 2008.
My hobbies are sport and music.
I play badminton at BCEhv and I do
jogging in the weekends.
To enjoy concerts we often go to the Frits
Philips Muziekcentrum .
I also listen a lot to music at home using partially self-made equipment.
Below is a picture of the setup as in use since august 2010.
The speakers are build around the Bastanis12
inch wide range unit.
The woofer is a BD-15, the tweeter is the Bastanis
Airforce .
The music is played from a Ubuntu Studio PC
using
Ecasound.
The digital signal goes to
Logitech® Squeezebox™
Touch, a Wi-Fi music player,
but connected with Ethernet cables.
Its SPDIF output goes to the
Buffalo DAC.
The DAC is directly connected to the Tripath
TA2021B amplifier.
Both DAC and amplifier are fed from a single 12 volt battery.
The loudspeaker cable in the wooden ducts is
the good old Siltech FT12-2.
I started building amplifiers and loudspeakers when I was 15
because I did not have money at that time for new equipment.
I made a serious restart of this hobby in 1998 with building the
Jericho horn.
I also made my own valve amplifier based on an Audio
Note Kit 1 (300B single ended).
Play-back of music by a PC came in 2007
using Foobar under Windows coupled by
USB to a Twindac.
More information on stuff I have, or had in the past:
Jericho horns
Modified Kit One tube amplifier
Modular speakers
HighAmp100 bass amplifier
Bastanis open baffle
Tripath amplifiers
Digital audio
Other equipment
A large amount of links on more hi-fi can be found at
Audiolinks
Finally I want to present a list with a part of my CD's which I like especially because they combine good music and a good recording quality (see list). You will also see a list of a fraction of the CD's which I recorded from my old LP's using a Philips CDR760 and a Dual 704 with a Denon MC301 (more than 20 years old). The quality is quite acceptable for me because I remember this music only from playback through low-quality equipment.