[LAU] Audio measurement at LAC 2014

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 20:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 17:57 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> > On 04/29/2014 03:59 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > 
> > > If you attend the workshop you can bring your laptop
> > > and audio interface [*] and have it calibrated against
> > > a precision RMS meter so you can later use it to
> > > measure other things. 
> > 
> > very nice! Will there be pliers and hotglue or similar crazy-glue
                            ^^^^^^^

Usually you need very expensive adjustment screwdrivers, like the once
from Bernstein, you unlikely can calibrate something, using tools made
of metal.

> > available so that one can permanently fix the dials of the soundcard in
> > question? I'm planning to bring a UA-25.
> 
> It's discussable if a calibration by averaged potentiometers will last
> very long, but assumed this should work, take care of the used glue. Hot
> glue is good to make SATA connections inside a case stable etc.,
> especially because hot glue is easy to remove, but since hot glue tends
> to be UV-sensitive and easy to remove, it seldom last very long outside
> of a case. Loctite likely is the better glue, but likely the
> potentiometer never can be readjusted anymore, if you use Loctite for
> screw locking.