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The ambience was not top quality in the hotel, but the whiskey made up for it. Brent and his offspring met us there as we were unpacking the car, and they brought really good pizza from a local place. Thanks Brent!

Ran into Acidbasement/Iain, so had a drink. Cumberland Cask Ruby Cut **BRENT**

Amazing! Looking good, Brent. You can already see the weight loss.

Really fantastic Thai food.

The worst feeling is realizing you listen to the majority of tunes in the car. But you enjoy it and thump along anyway. So the best feeling.

I warned my wife recently that when we get our kitchen redone (hopefully this summer) an Anova will be included in the upgrades.

well, he was hanging out in the alley behind the hotel, trying to earn $5

You just happen to be hanging out in his hotel room?

This animation is awesome. A vesicle is transported on a microtubule. The vesicle's boundaries are phospholipids, just like any other cellular membrane, and it is expected to be a fluid matrix, so the wave-like, sinusoidal movement, stemming from the point of attachment of the membrane to the Kinesin is right on! That's how neurotransmitters, hormones, etc, get out to the intercellular milieu. Thanks for posting this.

5$ was in Canadian dosh, so that will buy like, a bag of chips in a vending machine. So we drank. **BRENT**

I think most high end Stax owners have 009's, doesn't mean they use them though...

There are no products I'd recommend over all. Most good vinyl re conditioners will work just fine. I've thought about making aftermarket earpads so something for the todo list I suppose. Wouldn't be cheap but the Omega's are worth it.

It's above freezing (just) so grilled pizza seemed like a good idea. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In a box at the back of the closet seems to work best.

I've had some decent results swapping in 009 pads for the 007, currently evaluating them

That makes me happy as being in the minority makes me feel special.

Steven Wilson live at Wiltern Theater, LA, 13-06-2015 -- so far this seems to be a verbatim performance to the one I saw last year, including the between-song banter.

Short version is this: In spite of the fact that I've been (to use a term a friend coined to describe my behavior) "strip mining" sources of new electronic music since 1990, I have discovered more new music in my chosen genre because of SomaFM's Groove Salad than any other source. Since I first got high speed internet 15 years ago, I spend at least a couple hours per week listening to GS and saving artist and track names I like to a text file.

Been watching the 24 Hours at Daytona. Pretty great race. A video from one of the Audi teams.

I love just getting a chance to listen to music these days, not much time to worry where it's coming from.

Finished product. Sous vide tilapia with adobo and cider vinegar slaw. Very happy tummies. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is so well stated that I make a motion to include the above language in the welcome PM.

There's a huge knob joke going begging here ...

I would add one other comment - whether or not you see or read of any design changes between the GT and GTA/B versions, remember that when the 6SN7GTA and B were designed in 1950 and 1954 there were no transistors, just tubes. They were designed and built by RCA, GE, Sylvania, all the big manufacturers, and used in all sorts of electronic instruments, industrial electronics, military equipment, etc. Engineers design using manufacturer specifications. Do you REALLY think that if the tubes were under designed, unreliable and didn't meet its specs hat it would have become as popular as it did? Sorry, and no offense, but cynicism or no cynicism that makes NO FUCKING SENSE!! And I mean that in the nicest way.

Well, the plates on a 6SN7GTA/B are larger than those of the early non-A/B types, and about the same size as the ECC99. Remember when the GTA/B were designed in pre-transistor days - if they couldn't meet the published specs we would have had a lot of consumer TVs blowing up and the tube company would have gone out of business. Now, later there were higher voltage and power tubes for color TVs such as the 6BL7, etc., but color TVs needed the higher voltage and power. No indication as far as I know that the GTA/B were in any way lacking for TV applications at the time they were in widespread use. Of course in the old days consumer equipment was designed conservatively for long life and reliability, but still, designers probably designed to, say 70-80% of max voltage and 65-70 of max power, which is what I did for the SRX revision. I grew up in the 50s when B&W TVs were very common and there were no issues with TVs blowing up, period. Also remember that later 6SN7s probably used the bigger plates just for convenience sake - no reason to keep the older lower power design in production when the A/B had the same specs. You need to compare the plates on a pre-WWII 6SN7 to a 1960s GTA/B. The 1950s GTs probably used the same plates as the GTA/B for simplicity of manufacturing - in fact, on Tubes Asylum one poster stated he saw a carton of 1960s TungSol 6SN7s of identical construction with some tubes labelled GTB and others labeled GT. The peak plate voltage is simply an indication that the design will take that kind of voltage w/o failing, sparking, etc. For stat amps where the highest cathode to plate voltage they will see is less than 700 volts (for a +/- 350 volt supply) this means that there shouldn't be any issues in terms of the tubes being damaged by too high a voltage. So when someone says the 6NS7 is a 450 volt tube running at 700 volts - NO! It's a tube capable of withstanding 1500 volts running up to 700 volts. And in the SRX circuit it's sitting at about 300-350 volts at rest - perfectly fine. I know you like to build lots of stuff - I suggest you build this with 6SN7GTAs, then if it sounds lousy or blows up, come back to me and we'll look into why.