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Mike and John, I'm doing a longish ride on Saturday, but am looking to do a short, slow recovery ride on Sunday. Wanna join me?

Did anyone try making custom pads for the SR-007? I'm glad to share the experience. I own the SR-007 SZ1 with heavily used brown pads. At first I wanted to buy modern (black) STAX earpads per Birgir's advice, however they are pricey, especially if you take into account the shipping cost from Japan to Russia. So I decided to ask the local guy (nickname snorry on the Russian forum) to make custom earpads for my SR-007. This guy is experienced in modding planar magnetic headphones (he even built some nearly from scratch) and he also has the necessary measurement equipment. First of all, the grills were removed from the earpads. The grills turned out to have strong windage and very poor permeability. Try to blow through it keeping your hand behind it and you won't feel any air coming through. On one hand, it isolates the membrane from reflections, on the other hand it supposedly degrades microdynamics and conceals everything above 10 kHz. We decided to change the grills with more transparent ones, that according to snorry already proofed itself to be useful in his planar magnetic projects. Different materials and forms were tried. Here's what I've decided to stay with. The form remains roughly the same, however new earpads are more rigid, they don't flatten on head unlike the original ones. Because of this they keep the driver slightly further away from the ear while sitting tight and comfy. This slightly improves the bass. The notch is oval, this form was chosen experimentally for its most balanced FR. Velour strips were added to the internal side of the earpads to reduce reflections of high frequencies. Here is the measurements. Old earpads: Note the channel imbalance, it's caused solely by the earpads. No doubt, not every single pair of brown MKI pads out there are as terrible as mine, however that's what I got. New earpads: The channel imbalance is gone, the bass roll-off is more gentle and there is no midbass emphasis anymore. HF now go well beyond 10 kHz. The second-order harmonics level is slightly lower than before. There was also a more SR-009-like variant with a little peak near 1 kHz: This forwards the vocals a bit, however I prefer mids to be flat. I want to thank Birgir who strongly advised changing the earpads. That really helped to make already great headphones ever better.

better to be old and dead than young and dead, tho.

I cant' remember the last time I felt like the idea of my house burning down wasn't a win.

24 hr ribs finished in the broiler

Is the colored text an island thing? I find it off-putting but I want to like you because you are Wayne's friend.

Here are some pictures. Unfortunately, when in comes to photography I have neither equipment, nor skills.

^ They are beautiful watches. My rose gold 1815 is amazing, even though I do not like gold.

Better than renting a pile of sticks?

I hate home ownership most of the time. Every time i pay the mortgage i feel like I'm just buying a pile of wooden sticks over and over again.

Sorry Shelly. Piece about tornadoes on tv this a.m. & I was just thinking that it wouldn't be so bad if one took the house ....

Ideal T-strippers work well on teflon, and any other wire.

This and that's not a fun way to return home.

I still love the K1000, but I'm weird too.

I still think good monitors are a better choice. The K1Ks are weird

Holy crap, Shelly, your pest problems are just nasty! Hopefully an easy enough fix, but sorry you have to go through it.... Dusty: our cats are pretty mellow, one will sit there and let you touch his paws all day. The second Karen comes out with the clippers, ZING he's like a flash away. The other cat loves to be cuddled, held like a baby; but he is skittish otherwise. The place that gives the shaggy one his "lion cut" said to just hold them firmly by the scruff and cut, and that works for us. But it takes two....

Goodness, Shelly!

Remember that the 47uf cap will effect what you are seeing when you ohm out the 100k and 500k resistors. Add the fact that these are in parallel with the 11k/1k/11k string and you will see some things that initially will look strange when ohming them out. I doubt there is anything unfixable with your current board, but do as you wish. The problem you are seeing relates to your very low reference voltages of 5mV, which is what the comparators are basing their decisions on DC offset, so if these aren't right, the circuit will not work. Also, the + and - 12V from the regulators needs to be pretty balanced. I had a bad + regulator (11.05V, with around -11.95V on the other rail) and was seeing +0.005V and -1.05V references, which of course didn't work.

Hot Chip -- Made In The Dark

Oooooooh I see what you doin'. You want to sell some records to postjack don't you? okay okay we can work something out... seriously nice rare record you got there.

Dude, there's a trick to it -- I only give my cats treats immediately after clipping their nails. They're so docile about it, it's almost like they want to have their nails clipped. I never could get my senior (Luvbug) trained that way, so I just never bothered. She was pretty good about keeping them retracted other than that one early incident. (I woke up to her digging holes into my arm, because apparently I had done something to her in my sleep.)

Heh, heh some more. I was 3-4yrs old when you got your first Rolex

I only started riding again this week after my fall on the 12/23 and subsequent hip injury. I'm also subsisting on 1200 calories a day so I have basically no energy for anything.

I see the inside of a toaster.