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That is exactly the same reason they kicked me out! So unfair!

A small discrete buffer - prototypes have been created, will fire them up tomorrow.

Have an exemplary day!

Coincidence, I happen to be wearing a Black bikini right now. Eye bleach is usually on isle 7.

Having a Black Bikini coconut porter in your honor! Have a great one Peter! Cheers!

That is the sort of faultless logic I use. "Hey - I've got all this free stuff. Let's use that fact that to spend lots of money to get the best value from the free stuff". Been there so many times.....

Random audio related thing for today: I was reading this article about William Eggleston (photographer) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/t-magazine/william-eggleston-photographer-interview-augusten-burroughs.html And I noticed in the video that he appeared to have some rather expensive looking monblocks in the background so I did a quick search and came up with this: http://prorecordingworkshop.lefora.com/reply/46987146/Expensive-speakers-reality-checks-audiophiles-mix-choices#reply-46987146 Pretty neat that his son is EgglestonWorks. I haven't ever gotten to hear any but apparently they are great.

Now that Prince is dead, you owe the world to become the new purple one guitar god on your birthday!

Sia. Holy fuckballs.

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The Naim Statement. About the same price as the boulder above, but at least you get a preamp (the middle slice).

Happy Birthday, Dusty!

Happy Birthday Dusty - will cheers later with whisky...

Happy Birthday, Dusty. Have a wonderful black and purple day!

Happy Birthday Dusty!

Update: the PCB orders have been placed with Seeed. Pars and I have been working with Seeed on the plated-through slots so I prefer to stay with them. As it turned out, the problem I encountered during ordering relates to the optional message I wanted to attach to the order about these slots. I ended up sending the message as a separate e-mail to Seeed to circumvent this issue. Thanks John. I checked PCBwin out. Their quote process does not allow for PCB that's smaller than 10mm x 10mm and ended up calculating out to be more expensive than Seeed although I am not sure I did it right. Will check it out again in the future.

Happy Birthday Dusty! <party favor noise>

Happy Birthday, Peter!

Happy Birthday, Peter!

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday!

Perhaps something like this?

Happy birthday, Peter!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!

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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Dusty!

Happy birthday to the king of the deep-cuts!

Happy Birthday !!!

Happy Birthday Dusty!

Well as per Head-Case standards, I took it upon myself to more than double your budget, while totally disregarding your need for less. But really Justin, I owned a $20-ish pair of JBL buds some years back, and thought they performed well above price point.

Went to church for the first time since my mom passed away, did not smolder. I went to show support for a friend at her father's memorial service, but the service started as soon as I got there, and as time progressed, my resolve faltered. So by the end of the service, I just gave her a hug and a kiss (we're a very kissy and huggy lot, this particular circle of my childhood friends, so don't misinterpret that -- it was welcome) of comfort and support, and passed on the condolences of my sisters. (le sigh) I suck at church.

I'm unfamiliar with that track ...

On an equally relevant note, I haven't heard Ace of Base on the radio in years.

33% return on investment

Thanks! That's pretty far outside my budget but the j22 might be good if it sounds close. I usually just cram my ear buds in my pocket for convenience when not using them and they become intermittent in less than a year so there's no point in getting anything expensive.

^ What you wrote. What I read... Nerd nerd nerd Google Pixel futures nerd nerd nerd nerd.

The baddest boy on the block... I think they should rename the company to Boner Amps, instead of Boulder Amps. And just a mere $205,000 per pair.

Right on, Dusty!

Leagues -- Alone Together Enjoyed muchly!

I could have said that just as easily as you did, and suspect that many other people feel the same way about it. It's like any hobby, I guess. There is that initial phase when you're all into it and spending a ton of time on it. In this particular hobby, that involves a lot of listening, experimenting with all sorts of gear, reading, reading, and more reading, and then eventually you start to think you have something to say, so you start posting, and every now and then you argue with others about things that have acquired a heightened sense of importance in your life... and for no particular reason other than that's how you've been spending your time. Then eventually, you lose interest in most of it, and certainly in the need to argue with others about things that really aren't (or shouldn't be) all that important in your life. So if it's headphones, you can say, "I thought they were good, you should give them a listen..." or if it's scotch, "I sure like it, you might want to add it to your list..." and then get on with things that actually do matter. Which, no doubt, is some new hobby that you now think matters, for some reason. At least if you're like most of the rest of us.

One thing I've learned from 15 years on HF, it's very easy to sell something to the masses based on hype alone. Seen it too many times to count. Then the stuff just disappears from view... As for the ESP950, they really need to be modified to work best. The stock cable is gone and replaced with a Stax one (as the stock one is too short and I have a lot of Stax ones) and the damping in the back needs to be looked at. I'm also testing some ESP950 earpads off ebay. They are certainly a step up from the stock ones which are crappy as all hell.

I think you did more analysis there than Cavalli has ever done for any of his products. Designing with just a multimeter for the win!!

so it helps to have it on the bench where you can monitor whats going on while you listen to it. unloaded balanced (which would be a 804 ohm load due to the feedback resistors), 40 volts peak to peak. and its a hard clip, but thats ok. Now add a 50 ohm balanced load and the output voltage dips to under 20 volts peak to peak balanced. Turn on the other amplifier and do the same, and with both running, 17 volts peak to peak. At which point everything, the output transistors, and everything else is getting pretty warm. A number of the surface mount transistors are running pretty close to their power limits. The why is probably obvious, the power supply is sagging. Down to less than +/-12V and the rails ride the music (or test signals) Plus you loose almost 7 volts due to the Vgs of the output fets. The liquid fire had a pretty crappy underpowered power supply too. Which is why even on hd800 you can hear compression in the music. And audeze... ouch. And he6 well don't even bother. The singlepower SquarewaveXL did a much better job of sounding better (till it burned up) A decent amplifier can actually be built in a box this size. But its not easy. And every single input/output connector just takes away from valuable board space Also makes you wonder how much better a liquid gold would sound with a real power supply. I should be able to take the goldreference power supply and get it to mount in the same holes. edit: i should mention that tests were done at 115 VAC. The switcher is likely to produce more power when run on 220V