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Yesterday I fixed our gas hot water heater at the lake house by replacing the thermocouple. I would have had a professional do it but it was the first day of hunting season and couldn't find anyone. $200 saved.

I'd like to introduce my friend DilbertProgrammer, who has signed up and then not posted. He is very good at reading Welcome PMs, and you can make fun of his driving style during our nightly Project Cars adventures. This man enjoys buying things, so make him buy your old crap that you don't want anymore. He has never given me a biscuit, and he has a fairly epic beard. These two things should help ease him into the constant beratement he deserves. **BRENT**

Replaced the door latch in my wife's Honda. Door would not open; this was a fun job getting the door panel off without damage while the door was shut, but with my youngest son's help, we got it done. No drilling/cutting necessary. Found the right pin to actuate on the old latch to get it to release and get the door open, then replaced the latch. All is well now. Would have run around $800 at the dealership, and they would probably have drilled it out.

I received the Yggy earlier today, and from cold I first used it with my HD-600/Dynalo mk1 for an hour, then the 009/BHSE for several hours. Now I was going to post my thoughts about it here on head-case, but because I'm selling the K-01 I don't want to write anything until that K-01 is sold. The one comment I will mention though, is to say I am very impressed with the Yggy even from cold, would be an understatement.

I agree, I miss the new content link. The activity version is SUPER busy, and doesn't consolidate activity in threads.

Switched from summer to winter bedding (i.e. cotton sheets replaced by flannel sheets). We are having "desert weather". The day starts with morning patchy frosts and warms up to the high 60's to high 70's. Then the temp drops fast when the sun goes down. Two or maybe three weeks ago the nighttime low was in the low 60's. Fall has finally arrived.

Indeed! Two fairies in one house created a little confusion though.

the fairy's brisket is legendary

Want many of them!

The potential was there, but we overcame. Brent is such an asshole, brilliant, brilliant asshole.

Was thinking something like this:

I didn't think it worked like that -- I thought it was more of a "the more the merrier" kind of dealio.

Shit, I forgot to check on my team until just now... at least I can switch out some of the "bye week players" before it's too late.

they were fantastic

Many of these were consumed.

Knucks, I think you've really been outdoing yourself lately. Thanks!

Sort of a ghost town at C&C this morning. Just posting this one due to the excellent parking job of the driving instructor that was there to sell us $50k memberships to the new private race track being built south of DC. He was not backing into the space. This is how he decided to park his Nismo Z I call this one the Brent car because every time I see it pull up I expect to see Brent get out of it for some reason. . Stretch Car

I just wanted to give a bit more insight into my running carbon. I am running at 400V and 20mA per line. Total consumption of the amp in my configuration is 93W during normal operation. In the first few seconds it is up to 190W and then drops. The transformer is almost dead silent during normal operation. If I go really close with one ear, I can hear a very slight hum, but nothing to care about. During turn on there is a short hum which fades as the current draw drops. I use a custom transformer from toroidy with has the following specs: TS200VA PRI: 2x 117V SEC: > 2x 330V @ 250mA > 2x 18V @500mA > 16-0-16V@500mA - flexible leads - 40 cm long The reason for the 2 LV secondaries was stated before. As discussed previously I added thermal paste to all interfaces, now including the angle bracket to heatsink interface. I think to longest continues run time was 2-3h and the heatsinks were still touchable by hand. The amp boards clearly produce more heat than the PSU boards (heat gradient from front to back of the heatsinks). I use a 3U case from modushop. I listened with the 007 and 009. After a week I still think that it suits both headphones very well, which is a surprise considering that the headphones are quite different. IMHO the 007 was better on the conventional KGSSHV while the 009 was better on the KGST. I think the conventional KGSSHV (450V, 4686) provided quite a large soundstage which is almost too large in combination with the 009 (which provides a huge soundstage by nature) while the treble is a bit too harsh as well. On the other hand, the KGST provides a smaller soundstage, a bit less detail and a bit a softer sound, which suit the 009 much better. With the 007 it was just the other way around as the phones are more mid pronounced and have a smaller soundstage by nature (btw I love their sound too). Therefore I think it is surprising to find that the Carbon fits both phones well, although I cannot give a direct comparison between all amps yet. Just to mention: I use the ressonessence invicta as a DAC which provides the possibility to switch between various filters. I did not change them for the two headphones. I just used my favorite one, I have also been using with the other 2 amps. I would love to hear what others think. Also if you agree with my impressions on the KGST/conv. KGSSHV/007/009 opinion.

It is a relieve to see that Mongo's ill advised biscuit this morning did not result in disaster.

Amazing.

Was surprised and thrilled to see this guy walk into the room this morning:

In case anyone else is having issues replying to posts, clear all your browsing data, log off and then log back in and try again. That was the only thing that cured it for me. And tapatalk is seriously angry with me. It won't let me log in...

TF2? What's that? (Keep in mind help run a set of 5 servers and am idle in spectate most of the time.)

My full thoughts will be up today on IF. Basically, Sennheiser did this because they could, I applaud the sentiment. The headphones will not be sold separately unless you're getting them for a second pair to the system you already have. The sound was world class for production gear...meaning it was good, but maybe not great. It was meaty and had heft, but it did sound a tad harsh to me. I only listened for about 15 minutes. The rest of the time I spent talking to Axel...mostly about other stuff off the record. Maybe the most telling comment from Axel was that the new Orpheus customer is more likely than not a soccer player.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4611159308001/cavuto-challenges-student-leader-demanding-free-tuition/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips Cavto challenges student leader demanding free tuition

Happy monkey business birthday #6 oh wait nevermind

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Wow! That looks and sounds delicious!

I'll check as that's the only bit I actually care about. It helps to have a distributor that basically lets me do what ever I want.

I get a massive discount but even then I'm out as I just bought a house.

I have some issues about all of this besides the retarded price and the utter certainty of the amp being shit. First off is having the amps in the earcups, good idea in many ways but mosfet output? I don't know of any SMD mosfets with low output capacitance which is crucial. 200pf into a 50pf (just guessing) will make this sound worse than the Cavalli crap and that says a lot. Before people jump to and say that Sennheiser wouldn't do that... well they did in both the HEV90 and the HEV70. Sure it was the tubes in the 90 but still the same applies. I have the strange sensation that I will change one of these to a bloody Stax plug in the future so it can be driven properly... Going by the stuff I get asked to do all the time it wouldn't be a shock.

Thus concludes Beat-Down week. Closest contest = 45 pts. Average margin of victory = 54.2 pts.

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