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Cast iron seared pork chop ( finished in the oven) with a corn, radish and Serrano pepper salad. Lightly dressed with olive oil and lime juice. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Followed by a Wagyu burger with egg and bacon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Kraftwerk - Home Computer, which came out 35 years ago today. Not only is it the last truly great album by the boys from Dusseldorf, it has been heavily sampled by ...everybody. It's a major landmark in DJ culture and really not as well known as it should be.

I had an awesome physical therapy session today. I am starting to get back to a point where I am getting a workout at PT (instead of just light weights and bands).

Looks awesome Jeff, and that yolk is perfect. I had to make do with chicken katsu curry.

Starting with a Scotch Egg. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Q12's are anything but mild mannered. Stock they go down to low forties/thirties and with my SB-2000 sub it's pretty much 20-20k coverage. And 500+200W continuos power is something to behold. Fortunately DSP tames the horn driver, so there's not really a hint of harshness. Interestingly enough my SVS 12" sub has a hard time keeping up with the mains at high SPL's. The frenchman who sold me the Q12's has made me an extremely nice deal for the Equator Q18S sub. Think - 18", 1000W continuos and 16Hz -6dB point for a 160lb sealed box. On top of that I can daisy chain the sub to mains with a CAT5 cable and control all speakers via software. And yeah - the photo is super dark, because that made my room look less untidy.

Yesterday finally acquired a pair of Equator audio Q12's. Yeah, I know - they're hardly audiophile with all their internal DSP trickery and 12'' drivers with compression horn tweeters are hardly appropriate for near field...

Ear Bud? Is that the movie about the dog that plays basketball? You probably want the Disney website. If you hold on, I'll find you a link.

I don't know the kind of place you're at, but some venues out here have foam early plugs available. Inquire

You didn't mind the triplicate?

The info on the sub is scarce. At first I thought that Equator guys were crazy enough to devise 18" coax main monitors. Here's the skinny - Frequency Response (-6dB): 15Hz - 180Hz Recommended Line Level Input: 10mV-2V Amplifier Power (LF): 1000W Amplifier Peak Power (LF): 2000W Sensitivity: 1w/1m output, 103dB Max SPL: ≥129 Input Impedance: 10kΩ L.F. Driver VC Size: 4” L.F. Driver (4- ohm): 18” Crossover Frquency: Software Configurable Inputs: XLR, USB, RS485 in/thru, ¼” phone jack Protection: Compression (LF), thermal, short circuit, under voltage Magnetic Shielding: No Enclosure alignment: Bass-reflex Enclosure Construction: 1” HDF baffle & 3/4” 13 layer Baltic Birch Finish: Black/Micro-Metallic Gray Dimensions H x W x D (in.): 29 x 25 x 25 Shipping Weight (lbs.): 160 Originally these sold for around 5k$, but now I'm able to get one for 800EUR shipped.

Have a great day!

Created HV bias from 603V B+ into a 23K-390K-390K voltage divider to get 585V measured just before the 5M1 ballast resistor. The plug-in card refurb will wait until I've enjoyed the amp for a bit :-) Thanks again for your suggestions Spritzer. I used lubricating contact cleaner on the pot, and ended up finding enough shielded wire from the previous stuff to run the audio. Oh - as to that 'side' mounting, after poking around a bit, I'm convinced that the giant 50K resistors are a major reason Stax designed the amp on it's 'side'. They get DAMN hot and would probably melt if they were under the PCB. I measured the frequency response using a sine wave generator on my Mac and the AC Vrms reading of my Fluke via the headphone sockets. I set the volume pot so that a 1 kHz wave was 250 Vrms and measured at 19 frequencies on both channels. Attached log plots shows was normalized to 0 dBV @ 1 kHz. The bass rolloff is slightly more than I calculated for 0.22 uF caps into a 145KOhm impedance load, but -2 dB @ 20 Hz is more than great for me. The high frequency rolloff is about 4x stronger than on my SRM-323 and is probably why this amp sounds less fatiguing than the SRM-323 with my Lambda Pros :-) Almost makes one think Stax designed the Lambda Pro to go with a tube amp... PS - I recreated the circuit in falstad.com: http://tinyurl.com/zlxjj9d The simulator seems to work (better) if I replace the the triodes with N-mosfets, but the output signal still looks screwy. That being said it's still a great website for smaller circuits.

I have somewhere a neon green 7" with Pocket Calculator and Dentaku (Japanese version) on the back. Need to find that.... And indeed, great album!!

Also, it's called Computer World or Computerwelt if you're German. I saw them on that tour. Love this album, perfection.

I used VMware at my last job to run Windows NT, XP, 7, and Centos 6. It works very well. Seamless integration, excellent speed. Features like drag and drop sharing, shared clipboards and folders, and the like all worked well. Only gripe is that one usually has to do a paid upgrade to VMware if they do a major OSX update. They don't seem to care much about maintaining compatibility IMHO. At my current job I've used Virtualbox to run WinXP. The VM works fine, although I cannot get drag and drop sharing to work at all - the VM crashes whenever I try. Printing had some growing pains, too. It's also noticeably slower to suspend/restart a VM. That being said, it does the basic job and is free. If you have the money, I strongly recommend VMware. Haven't used Parallels in many years so I can't comment on that.

Happy birthday Matt.

Jayne Mansfield at the whiskey a go go circa 1964.

Asparagus and Eggs, awaiting my lamb. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Zach - buttermilk biscuit with Tabasco black pepper gravy, fried chicken, egg, and bacon

Ballotine of guinea fowl. Pork chop with sage and mushroom.

Here is an original T2 with Kevin’s optocoupler servo. Servo is on a small board, replaces one of the 2SC3675 in Darlington pair. Works well…. so far.

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Easy recipe, BTW http://www.sfchronicle.com/recipes/article/Cook-Your-Week-Spinach-Feta-Stuffed-Flank-Steak-6600830.php

Stuffed flank steak -- just Swiss cheese and some herbs for Alden and feta and spinach for Claire and me. Pretty tasty

Wow! Moving fast but all in the fucking right direction! Hang in there and get your fishing and drinking posture warmed up. Congrat Jim, this sounds awesome all around.

That is awesome Todd. That is the real strength of the USA. So let me summarize the last week. Monday evening we flew down to Daytona. Tuesday, Karen signed her letter of intent and delivered her transcripts to ERAU HR. we then looked at a few rental properties. In the afternoon we met with the counselor for Peters middle school and got the paperwork started. In the evening the director of coaching for the Port Orange youth soccer team ran a special practice to evaluate Peter (The regular practice was Wednesday but looked like it was going to be rained out). Wednesday we got a cashiers check (harder than it appears when you are not local) and put a deposit down on the rental property we wanted (the rental agency was located in Alamonte Springs, halfway between Daytona and Orlando). We got back back and went to the real practice for the Port Orange soccer team. Peter will be playing for their U13 SuperY team, which is fricking awesome. Thursday, we hung out on the beach, chilled and then flew back to Charlston. On Friday, we received an offer on our house which we accepted. So if everything goes quickly we are out of Charleston by June 20th. Oh, Friday through Sunday we were dealing with his home clubs soccer tournament. Fuck me. I am tired just writing this.

The for sale listing you got those from clearly had the driver crooked to begin with. Stax used black double sided adhesive for both the driver and earpads. Over time it weakens and gets really nasty to deal with, and yes it seems to me to be very common, When you separate the baffle from the housing you've got to do so carefully as stated above, it is simply too easy to puncture the driver dust covers. Doing this will also probably destroy the outer facing open cell foam. Cleaning all the old adhesive off is time consuming and nasty. Buy some polyeurethane glue, probably best to order online as hardware store guys are clueless.

Just be careful when doing this, because I had a pair that had the same issue, and when I tried to take it apart, the dust cover came off one of the drivers, and when that happens, they'll probably squeal from then on, unless you do it in a dust-proof cleanroom.

The glue that either holds the drivers to the baffle or the protective mesh to the drivers has failed. Only way to fix that is to take it all apart very gently, clean off the nasty glue and reglue it all. The glue they used back in those days is just horrible so the baffle is just stuck to the case due to that. Use some force and they will break apart. I did this exact thing last week when I fixed a really old SR-404.