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Can't stop listening to this. If you like P-Funk even a little bit, you owe it to yourself a sit-down with the new Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover). Childish Gambino — "Awaken, My Love!"

if you don't mind a warm case, this seems to be enough heat sink 3.5" x 9" + case bottom after one hour its 40 degrees rise from ambient 70/110

well this guy clearly has no clue, and does not understand capacitance. or the voltage ratings on the wire. and i'm not going to sell him any 5 pin stax plugs reminds me of the idiot that made a krell ksa5 power cable filled with magic pixie dust and managed to get the wiring wrong and did a number on that amp.

And I was asking for a friend!

Just been looking at the image of the guy's passport. It is definitely fake, as compared with my expired passport from the same generation as that one. If you look just under the "f" of "of" (as in United Kingdom of...)you will see a small typed letter "P". That is in the same font and size as the lettering on the rest of the passport. You can see that the lettering in his fake is much, much larger and the wrong font. Also it is cropped and missing the bottom 20%. So the whole passport image is a complete fake. The utility bill is also a fake. As noted above the address is a fake. The bottom of the page is cropped (the bit where the bank sort code is for direct debit payment). And the last time a utility bill looked like that was more than a decade ago. And even then it did not look like that - they had by law to state the dates for which the bill related. This, from the British Gas website is what a real bill looks like https://www.britishgas.co.uk/youraccount/discover/your-bill/understanding-your-bill.html . Note that there are four pages with an astonishing level of detail. One potential route to tackling this POS scammer is for those who have been ripped off to contact BBC's programme Watchdog. They regularly track down people like that, confront them on the doorstep, and involve the police. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mg74 . And the Police will take this very seriously. Obtaining money by fraud is a crime, and they will prosecute, particularly as this goon is a serial offender. In fact they could probably do him for money laundering too. I feel very strongly about this clown - he is the worst of our country, preying on overseas customers who he can feel confident won't or can't track him down. Let's prove the bastard wrong.

This seems like it should be a euphemism for something indefinite. "How was the film, Stretch?" "Yeah, alright Steve mate. But it didn't mow my grass, eh?" * wink * leer *

Still love this. Beck — Morning Phase

Well isn't that interesting. Kingsbury is in London. Four Pools (Lane) is in Evesham, and has post code WR11 1DJ (not WR11 4TJ - but note the close similarity). And Four Pools Lane is a road through a trading estate with no houses. WR11 4TJ is a tiny isolated development of about 100 houses about 2 miles North of Evesham in which the road names are Byrd Row, St Egwins Close, Heathfield Road, Kings Lane and Lloyd Close. No Four Pools there at all. So it is anyone's guess where precisely he is, or even what his name is - I've seen various versions even from the Head Case threads. The only other slightly obscure reference I found is that someone with the same name on his (perhaps photoshopped) passport was registered as an absentee voter in elections in the Philippines. I noticed that his 100% positive feedback on eBay from 76 sales are not possible to see - he has set his eBay account to be private. So the 76 sales could be all shill bid and entirely fictitious.

Can you fuck it?

not high enough resolution to see what is going on. like whether its sign magnitude etc. and the power supply box obviously does not have enough capacitors. This is overly goofy. Especially if one cap shorts out, repair could be just about impossible.

I rewired my 007 MK I. Like most things, you just have to not be scared of it and have steady hands. It was more of a pain in the butt to find a place that had a spare cable in stock and figure out how to disassemble them without instructions than the actual recabling. It's just 3 small gauge wires soldered to 3 small soldering pads on each driver. The only trick is to do it quick, because if you sit there and pump a lot of heat into a thin polymer diaphragm, that can end badly. In other news, I had one of those days where I got both a good surprise and a disappointment at the same time. Got my T1W in and opened it up. Somebody went through the trouble to replace all the main power caps and the tubes the last few years. You could tell both by how good they looked and how the main board was squeaky clean while the pot and input boards had the appropriate 20+ years of dust on them. So once I changed the voltage to 117 local, I fired it up and it works perfectly. Balance and offset could be better, but within acceptable specs. I don't know how much of that is the tubes wearing or if they adjusted it at all. The pots seem to be in the default position. Will get it tweaked right in short order. So much for it being listed as "junk". Not sure if I even want to build the solid state tube replacements at this point. Probably should just to see how different it sounds since I have almost all the parts anyway. Just waiting on those sinks.

Clearly, the best action plan here is for birgir to do his best and help this fellow actually burn through 10 pairs of sr009. When you see 2kUSD cables popping for 4kUSD utopia phones and takers, that will be a nice change as the cable work here should be cheaper than 10 pairs of drivers, a good deal.

They are going to Kevin to play with but yeah, a DAC will be built at some point.

If I'll answer it will be something along the lines of that cat pic and "buy a clue". I loved the part of "affording to blow up ten 009's" as if that was some mark of greatness. Also, all electrostatics post 1985 use ribbon cables...maybe that is a clue?

Marginally nearer to topic: Matthew Sweet -- Girlfriend

RIP, Craig. We all knew it was coming, and you were so strong, so brave, and such an incredible inspiration to so many. This one is going to hurt for a while.

RIP Craig Sager. One of the all-time greats ever to work a sideline, even if his outfits were a little much. He had been sick with cancer for a long time so glad he can finally be at peace. Boy, it is hard not to think of the great interview Greg Popovich gave to Craig Jr. without tearing up a bit.

Got this gem today... I mean we all know the cable makers are idiots but this is just priceless:

Is that related to Lady Garden(tm)?

There's a Soekris module inside there, so it might sound good. If they have bothered to change the digital filters and modded the PSU loading so it doesn't kill your downstream stuff on powerdown... *shakes fist at Birgir for ninja-ing those two boards*

Too late, already posted them If they don't show by end of next week, let me know.

I feel like "lawn" is funnier than "grass" here.

Well Stretch, tell your "friend" that a Fleshlight is much less maintenance. But it won't mow your grass.

These, along with the Stretch goat fucking posts... HC is on a roll.

They're all "hand cranked", and yes I own one. I'll be more than happy to pay for one for you. Luckily they have a 'Build your own' feature. That'll definitely come in handy for you, as they have one that looks just like Colin's butt, and an extra tight model, for those with a more compact endowment... https://us.fleshlight.com/pages/product-builder Let me know when to process payment for you.

Yeah, I'm going to try to see her when she comes to the Strathmore in February.

Ran a check on the IBAN code ( GB67BARC20253680571172). It turns out to be a valid code, and refers to the bank account he quotes 805711792, so that checks out. Except the bank that this account is held at is Barclays in Leicester (LE87 2BB)! Now the sort code he quotes 20-25-36, which cross validates with his account number and leads back to an account at the Barclays Leicester LE87 2BB branch. So - Coventry is a scam - the account is actually in Leicester; the IBAN, account number and sort code all lead there. By the way, the SWIFT code he quotes is incomplete. BARCGB22 simply says it is Barclays. There should be an additional three digits that identify the branch - but I guess that he did not want to make it too easy to find out where his account was.

Looka them fingers! Ain't she good?

Oh, right. You have the prototype with a hand crank... Kinda defeats the purpose, though. **BRENT**

Oh, your mom thought they were saying "fleshlight." I believe she had a glimpse of the future and was appalled at how much she was going to spend in batteries. **BRENT** Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk

Squirrel is making a comeback in the UK. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086571/Anyone-grey-squirrel-pie-Victorian-delicacy-enjoys-revival-bid-save-red-cousins-extinction.html . There are even Indian restaurants with curried squirrel on the menu.

Thanks for the heads up, I feel like I haven't listened to any Childish in a few years, though it's probably been a few months. Did he go on a mini hiatus or was I just not paying attention? Have y'all checked out Mac Miller's The Divine Feminine?

My nuts hide themselves when they hit the cold.

Even Better Mirrored to the Big Screen!

FME, only cunts(tm) have their auctions private on ebay. Usually for shitty reasons such as the POS, to obscure their activity.

The pos' address: Cotswold view Four pools Worcestershire England United Kingdom Not my screenshot but yeah

Squirrel was not mentioned. You assume squirrel, but in actuality many bird species as well as Woodmice practice this. Heck, in cold winters I also try to hide my nuts.

Desserts from Office Buildings owner's Christmas Lunch

This: Thanks @Aura for waking me up again. Album is great so far, dark sounding, as it should be. And this album has the most relaxed upper mid range and treble record/mastering in the whole discography of them.

Stay Classy, 'Stretch!

Damn... I can eat literally everything as long as it is tasty but dog or squirrel, I prefer to be a cannibal.

I'm pretty sure that isn't the original music video.

Got it. He looks like a real piece of work that needs to be taken down. Where he allegedly lives is about 70 minutes drive from where I am. If anyone knows where and if he is auctioning something, I'll contact him and ask if I can drop in to inspect the goods

I thought that most preferred the sound of PCM to DSD? I guess I haven't followed this (obviously) over the last few years, but what is the fuss over high rate DSD?

Andreas Koch apparently does everything with FPGAs, including the 1 bit DACs. To play devil's advocate, the argument against true 1 bit DSD seems to be evident based on what the manufacturers are churning out these days. The ubiquitous ES9018 DS chip tries to improve upon true 1 bit using 64 (6-bit) equal-weighted 1-bit converters, so it ends up kind of being a hybrid. Read this for more info: https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/inside-the-dac2-part-2-digital-processing Moral of the story is it's very hard to get 20+ bit accuracy even with the most state-of-the-art manufacturing processes available, so there is not much hope for these discrete designs coming out of the woodworks. The discrete R-2R stuff no doubt measures worse, but for whatever reason some people like the R2R sound more than DS. The fact that there's all these crock pot Lampizator goons out there doesn't really give a ringing endorsement to these DACs, though.

listening / measuring again. on startup the outputs are positive, which is safe, good. I added a fan to my heatsink plate, lowered temp = lower bias. on start bias is ~13ma and climbs as it warms up. if my fan lets it. which may be why offset is different today. and also running on mains instead of variac. rails at +-394v, outputs to ground are all positive, 10v and under. no adjustment needed here. I call this a Big Win Its to cold to feed ducks, glad I made this. Thanks

yep, upsampling. plus if you are going to keep the original samples you need higher resolution to extrapolate the pieces in between. so at least 20 bits. one of the main reasons is filtering. for 16/44, you really need a multi pole output filter to prevent aliasing, and all the analog filters that have been used in the past have significant phase shift among other issues. so you bump it up to some very high frequency, then a simple single pole filter way outside the audio band, say 100khz. then no phase shift at all in the audio band. and you make perfect discrete high power pure class A switches.

I'm going to guess: there's a form of "upsampling" going on.

what are the technical merits of converting pcm to these high dsd formats? i'm pretty set on pcm at this point but still curious