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Spending a week vacationing with the family at Laguna beach so a bit out of touch with reality. Congrats to both wedding parties,get well Al and toasting all of you this evening. I would like to post sunset and dolphin pictures if I could ever figure out how to link them with this i thingy.

I humbly but proudly submit myself to the "well thank fuck for that" club If only about a year and a half late! I finally sat down 2 weeks ago with some good time to ruminate over the power supply problem (of all things) I was having. Three calculations in and I slam my forehead into the desk as hard as humanly possible. Fast forward to today where all the extra crap to finish the amp came in... it works flawlessly first power up! I did almost shit myself when I thought I could "hear" a tube starting to arc... it turns out that arcing noises are a great indicator that YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. Both channels pingponged and settled really quickly once I figured out what in the hell I was doing. Being dead silent with 8 tubes and bazzilions of gain is really cool. I just listened to some tunes and, well I think there's been enough ol'English in this thread already Truly magnificent, it's like a bhse on steroids. Tomorrow I'll bolt it all together and make it pretty. Before I go to bed (it's 4am) here's some pics of it not blowing up. All of my sources have excellent volume control and, since I never plan on selling this, direct wired works for me. I filled the knob hole with a nice mini white led indicator fed off the 12v line. Since it's good to have places to hook multiple ground connections (be it a meter or input etc) I've got two solid core 16awg loops, one on each side. Apart from that it's red and blue. Thanks Kevin and everyone who participated in the thread and left a great body of work to follow!

Yeah and thanks for the link!