Last update: October 24, 2009
My family
Left: Holiday on Crete, july 2006, 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 2009.
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 with a Toslink optical fiber 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 amplfiers
Digital audio
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.