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So here's some renders of the amp and PS. I've got to mill out the amp plate now

Brunch with an old friend today. Spent a couple hours over 4 courses catching up on the past 10-15 years. Award Winning Wings Shawn was torn between the biscuit and gravy and the trout, so I said to go with the trout and we'd have Biscuit and Gravy for 2nd appetizer NC Rainbow Trout for my friend Chicken and Waffles Chocolate and Caramel Cheesecake Not pictured: 6 mimosas and an order of bacon. **BRENT**

Heard the Focal Duo at the SF HF meet yesterday on my rig. My impressions of the Focal Utopia: A real contender for best dynamic headphone. A bit heavy, but otherwise very comfortable to wear. Build quality appeared excellent. Sound was very clear and very detailed. Background noise at the meet was a bit of an issue, but you could tell Utopia is a very technically competent headphone, potentially better on technicalities than the HD800 but would need to evaluate at home to be sure. Not a bass monster and does not compete with planars in that regard. While soundstage is good, does not have the uniquely massive soundstage that is my favorite thing about the HD800. The $4k price is unfortunate. This is a headphone that needs to cost $2k at most for it to be a good value. My impressions of the Focal Elear: The buzz is that Elear sounds somewhat like a HD650 plus. I would agree with that assessment. Should be a must listen for the HD650 fans. As I much prefer the HD600 to the HD650, the slightly tonally dark Elear isn’t a headphone I’d consider buying. Priced at a grand, it is nice to see a step in the right direction on price. Should be $600, but at least its not $1,500. Between Utopia and Elear I lean very strongly towards Utopia.

Heard the Flow yesterday at the SF HF Meet. Got to test it on my own rig and I loved it. My impressions: The real deal, a fabulous headphone. Ether Flow is a stupid name for a headphone. I loved the way it sounded on my rig. Deep, tight bass and great balance overall. This is now the “go to” planar if the Ether wasn’t already. I would need to have a regular Ether side by side to discuss improvements in the new model, but I felt Flow was better balanced high-to-low and sounded a bit more open than its predecessor. This will easily make Tyll’s “wall of fame.” At $1,800 it is clearly positioned to rival the HD800S. I probably still take the 800S (if I had to pick one) as it plays more to my tastes, but loving seeing the Ether get better and better and make that decision harder and harder. There is no way the Audeze LCD-4 can cost $4k when Ether Flow sounded just about as good, is much more comfortable to wear, and costs less than half as much. If Ether Flow was $1,200 I would buy one today, $1,800 feels like a bit of a stretch.

Great you found the opto servo working well. In my Grounded Grid I’ve omitted offset trimmer and its associated resistor and that works great. For time being I consider the opto servo as the preferred one.

Proper Indian sampler alfresco in Southend

Lunch at Fatty Lumpkins. Very tasty little lunch spot. I had the How Now Brown Cow with plenty of horseradish sauce.

Took Simone out driving in my manual beetle today. Spent about 30 minutes. She's starting to get the hang of it...

Brent's vision of heaven found in a Muskegon hotel breakfast bar

Indeed. RIP police officers in Baton Rouge. Fuck people. I'm going to just become a hermit. What he said.

That's what's known as a "lipstick lesbian", and yeah, that is definitely a gay club.

RIP Nate Thurmond. Warriors and Cavaliers legend and tremendous Warriors community ambassador. Fuck cancer.

I didn't know ice cream could melt in England.

There will be no laughing! My people take our native music very serious. And Queen Summer shall be referred to as Her Royal Highness, may she rest in peace.

Pretty much any strong glue will work but I'd stay away from epoxy as it might do some harm to the materials. I've also used contact adhesive which is very strong once it has been allowed to cure.

One of mine actually shipped in that yellow color as they are like that on the inside as well. The baffle on the other hand is the SR-3/5 color and shows no discoloration. As for the earpads, the first SR-1's had earpads similar to the HE90/HE60. High and thin

That one looks quite clean. Most SR-1's I've seen including my own are darkened yellow due to exposure to UV. Though I do have one of the earlier versions.

Ladies drinking wine in Cannes, 1958. London's Tower Bridge under construction in 1889. Peace River, British Columbia, Canada - Dawn of Fog. Havasu Falls, Arizona. Sunset in Valparaíso, Chile.

The servo works very well now. I adjusted the output to around +13V from cold start, turned off, and put the jumper of the opto on. Turned the amp on, and the servo started to work immediately. It's very nice and stable. Thank you everyone for your help.

I've finished this fantastic design of Mr. Per-Anders.

it is not illegal to own more than one amp. however it may damage the universe if one person owns more than 50 amplifiers (electrostatic,dynamic,speaker amps...) I think I am one amplifier away from that. And the ssdynalomini should put me over the top.

I've been listening to all kinds of music today, but currently listening to Donna Summers - On the Radio. It's making me laugh. Good classic disco

This is a pro bias to normal bias adapter I cobbled together. It's a self bias circuit that taps R+ and gets chassis ground through an RCA plug to the amp. Just to prove the point of how easily one can build a stax compatible jack I rigged this one together with some female XLR pins, hot glue and a piece of delrin. Take that Mr.Speakers!