The tower of lights!

Well the empty boxes of the over 50 new strands of purchased lights. I started this tower as a joke on Sept. 15, At the time it was a tower of 17 boxes. Every time We purchase more lights it grows. I'm surprised it hasn't toppled over yet. Hopefully the tower will stop growing now. Every time it grows My wallet gets thinner.

More photos of the tower here

Photo taken by Chad Dunbar

Edm Sound quality comparison testing.

This morning I decided to test my EDM LCD, and compare it directly to the same situation if it was not through the EDM. The sound source was a mp4 on my iPhone. The Fm receiver was my old mp3player which has a sub-par fm reciver built in. I used the line in port on my computer and recorded that with audacity, and exported that as a 256k mp3

Here is the test mp3 file:

• http://masterdoublea.x10hosting.com/halloween2008/soundtest/edmldcfmradiotest.mp3

iphone mp4> edm lcd> mp3player (with fm tuner)> line in port on pc> audacity> exported mp3

Here is the same situation skipping the edm lcd:

• http://masterdoublea.x10hosting.com/halloween2008/soundtest/orginal.mp3

iphone mp4> line in port on pc> audacity> exported mp3


As you can tell my line in port, (or my iPhone) is not perfect and belive some of the static in the first test was simply from other components.

The two files sound almost the same to me, but Im no sound expert.

As far as the EDM lcd goes im extremly satisfied.

Click on the image to see it full size.

Note: I did not use the setup with everything so close together, I had the iphone 8 feet away from the edm during the test, and also the other mp3 player was about 60 feet away from the edm during the test.

My Edm arrived today.

Its HERE! OK so I have been waiting impatiently for it to arrive. But its now here. The box had a priority mail sticker to the wrong city and zip, I'm surprised it made it. I installed the chip and I had my dad help me solder it up. Total assembly took us about 30 mins. We turned it on, and gave it an audio source, and it was working but it sounded horrible. I only found out that the fm radio that we were using in my dads shop had horrible speakers. I was glad I brought my old mp3 player with me I tuned that in and I was quit impressed. I ran out to the car and tuned that in. wow, I couldent tell that the mp3 player itself wasnt plugged directly into the car.

When I got home I got it all set up again and I used my Sony home theater sound system (with built in fm tuner) Again I was very impressed.

Later today I went to my friends house to test the edm on his very nice sound system he has in his car. To my supprise We still coulden't tell the diffrence if it was comming directly from a mp3 player or it was being sent from the EDM.

The box It came in: