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amp board for single ended. you can run this as low as +/-24v and as high as +/-40v pioneera09amp - CADCAM.ZIP pioneera09pre2gain - CADCAM.ZIP

^^^ Glad I got my first NAS updated to 40+TB (!) before the AI component craze......

Ukandanz.

A certain 8TB drive was full, so I got a new 12TB drive, mounted it in a trusty external hard drive dock, connected by esata Ran This robocopy H:\ L:\ /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:T /R:0 /W:0 /MT:12 /XJ /LOG:C:\robocopy_H_to_L_full.log And walked away (without an explosion in the background) To get this Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 1966 1966 2 0 0 0 Files : 7172 7169 0 0 3 0 Bytes : 7.270 t 7.266 t 0 0 4.370 g 0 Times : 309:01:27 21:57:50 0:00:00 1:49:56 Speed : 101043866 Bytes/sec. Speed : 5781.776 MegaBytes/min. Ended : Wednesday, December 17, 2025 6:02:03 PM Some 22 Hours later. Swapped the drives, and now I have to play with, Matey.🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ EDIT: Of course, if the AI Bubble hadn't made cheap storage and ECC DDR5 unobtanium, I'd be expanding a ZFS storage pool on a NAS by just adding a drive, but here we are.

I had to do it! I had extra shoulder bacon, English muffins, eggs and so on. I did cook more hash browns than intended.

Some Anti-AntisocialPersonalityDisorder-ant would be a start

Yesterday I and my father visited my aunt at hospital. We haven't been seeing each other as families for more than 10 years. And before that it was like bumping each others on weddings, funerals etc and seeing each other wasn't pleasent. My mother and she has deep problems since I was born; long story... Anyway, she had been diagnosed with gastric cancer as it turns out 2 years ago and she just wanted to say her goodbyes. She was in extremely bad shape, my father couldn't even look at her. Reasons for not seeing them is/was rightful but still I feel deep sadness. Shaken since, sleeping for almost 16 hours didn't help as well. Made me think on things I'm angry with my parents, their desicions on my life which pushed me into the life I don't want to live since I started to school. Things I can't forgive them. I didn't think seeing her evoke so much shit. I'd rather avoid it if I knew. We didn't tell my mother about that visit cuz even my aunt is in deathbed we don't know how she is going to react. I feel really bad about it as well.

Free endorphin shots here

I could listen to the tone of this instrument all night.

It's probably a sort of pilot project - if they don't lose their shirts on Type I, maybe they'll fire up Chromium and Metal cassette production later. And what is this stuff for, anyway? Hobbyists, or real music production work? Will most of these tapes go into cheap Tanashin-knockoff Chinese cassette players? Are we playing with analog for analog's sake - should a new cassette transport include noise reduction like Dolby S or is it a solved problem already (Digital Compact Cassette)? Wouldn't it make sense for a new cassette transport to use direct drive instead of belts and fewer parts for reliability? I'm putting this Nakamichi Dragon vs. LX-5 comparo and a boombox review below just for reference - there is a small niche market emerging...

Also very much it?

But only Type 1 / Ferro ? "The cassette tape used is the latest production and is manufactured exclusively for Revox. The excellent analog sound of the new Revox cassette tape is made possible by the legendary Grandmaster formula. This Revox cassette gives the best results with the Ferro/Normal Position Type I setting on your cassette player." https://www.horchhouse.com/en-us/products/grandmaster-c90-empty-cassette Disappoint. No Metal? Compact Cassette tape types and formulations - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette_tape_types_and_formulations tapeheads.net/threads/cassette-type-1-2-3-4-strengths-evaluations.2999/

I thought this was worth mentioning - Revox announced they are selling new audio compact cassettes, Type I C60 and C90 - what a crazy time we live in: https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/new-blank-cassettes-now-available-from-revox/

I truly don't get why Stax didn't just modernize the SRM-002. Make it all SMD, add a couple of li-ion cells, a bluetooth receiver and just profit. Make it in a nice plastic housing with both a 5 pin output and the 002 plug. No stupid USB input which just complicates everything.

Hahaha, ok, now it’s clear, apparently my neurons decided to slack off for a bit

Hehe, I should have been more specific but they have stopped production of them. No replacement for the SRS-002 as they hope people will use the SR-003Mk2 with the D-10. That makes 30 years of continued production of the portable system coming to a close.

Are you talking about yours earspeakers? Any details, what happened?

In other Stax news, the SR-009S and SRS-002 are both dead now.

Collage.

I guess it’s silly to post iPhone pictures of Instax prints of 100 megapixels images.

clever huh? first time i have seen this. what it really is, is some local feedback around the current mirror. the lower impedance load forces the current source to supply more current to the drive of the output transistors. all those output transistors in parallel really form an extremely stiff drive current without global feedback. in single ended form, perfect for low impedance ribbons. and 30v/10a switchers are cheap. lot of heat however, 1.5 amp bias current. (total) i have a single ended gain stage to go with it. basically half of the balanced version with a cfa capable input section. input section can have local feedback as shown. or remove that resistor. updated to current version pioneera09pre.pdf

Funny:) I think for the existing AIs it is easiest to be funny than design a working circuit. There are a lots of funny people in the internet for source. How long?