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They haven't sold yet. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Esoteric-SACD-collection-/121463581214?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item1c47cb2a1e My SACD sale money is earmarked for a new dac. Or possibly more rhodium. I am shipping these out today, but Paypal wont give me that money until Nov. 8 (!) https://www.dropbox.com/s/fpui1kv628rhz1e/DSC00051.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbfm53jlzx2sz85/DSC00050.png?dl=0 I'm going to force myself to sell off all my SACDs and go digital. There are ISOs of the black sabbath, thank god.

all these board files updated with latest parts, changed batteries,mini heatsink etc joamat board files http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/t2shrinkedv10.zip http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/t2250.zip http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/t2hv2.zip slightly shrunk board for lil-knight chassis http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/t2shrink2.zip original board http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/staxt2nc3fdh7.zip

I heard this could be caused by Diet Coke. Serious though, that sucks.

Happy birthday Peter! I got you a kitty.

Happy Birthday, Dusty!

BBQ sampler and Chris Banker / Insurgente / Stone Xocoveza stout.

BBQ Sampler at Smoke and Barrel.

Making Japanese curry and I'm 3 beers deep so I didn't forget anything this time.

I'm not that many, I'm this many: (shows one cat's 4 paws) (shows other cat's 4 paws) (shows feet) (does mathses) (holds up one hand with all 5 fingers spread out)

I don't know why, but I really hated that for some reason. I only listened to it once. Aye, me too, this is sublime. Their last album, 5, was gorgeous, but this is just superb. Need to go back and revisit everything by them (again). Doing that with Oceansize in the car. Goddamn, I love this band. The song, "An Old Friend of the Christies" is just ... (flips open Thesaurus, trying to think of a new word that I haven't just used) ...divine.

Bonnie and my wonderful friends staged a surprise "cycle party" today. This is a mobile bar propelled by pedaling bar stools equipped with cranksets. It's really strange. So strange that it's a giggly riot. And then there is that hat. Everything sounds kind of boomy and there's a sort of reverb effect. Note Mike and John and the customization of the vehicle in the picture.

Crap, I can handle it if it's obvious, it's the people who don't know they're doing it wrong that irks me. So much. Since it's Ari, it's OK. It it were say, raffy, then I'd be upset. **BRENT**

Applied for a job. If it works out, I'd love to get back into working in a sciencey field like I studied in school. It looks like a good fit for me at this stage of my career. Working full-time, though, I don't know. That's for suckers.

Here you go.... Stock cable Long Mogami Short Mogami

Cable connectors for the NAD VISO HP-50 headphones ...reporting back, for the sake of Google and anybody might need to know someday..... I got some plugs from eBay and they work: The 'shoulder' is .202" in diameter by .075" in length. I still have no idea if there is a standard, informal or otherwise, for the 'shoulder' dimensions. They look bigger than they are. The Mogami 2893 mini-quad that I used looks like power mains cable on these things. Trust me, without getting too graphic or sexual, I'm pretty sure that we all will at some point in our lives experience something that is more fun than soldering them up. There are no real facilities for strain relief. I connected the unused fourth conductor pretty tight, made sure the cable fit tightly in the hole in the body, and potted the thing full of glue. Speaking of the hole in the body - for the Mogami, I had to drill it out to 3/16". The silver one's body was brass and the snazzy red one's was aluminum. Both drilled just fine. Here is the eBay listing where I bought them: http://www.ebay.com/itm/201075924663 Once again, connections are (3-pole to 4-pole) tip to tip, ring to the first ring, shaft to the second ring, and the shaft on the 4-pole isn't used. It turned out that in addition to being long enough to reach from my amp to my head, the Mogami cable sounded better than the stock one. (I wasn't trying to be all audiophile about this. I had chosen the Mogami on the basis of cheap and I had some in my parts box.) On my Fiio X-3/ Pico rig the HP-50s just weren't cutting it, musically, for some subtle reason. The Mogami cable made just enough difference to bring them back in the zone. So I made a four-foot cable as well. Kinda makes me wonder how a cable similar to the 2893 but not wonky in the top octave might sound.