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Stephen Fry (NO! HE'S NOT DEAD!) posted the last three gifts that Carrie Fisher gave him:

I was trying to shore up my aristocrat credentials the other day, and digging through some Greek mythology. I noticed that Orpheus, the source of the world's greatest music, was married to Eurydice. Eurydice was stalked, chased, and effectively killed by a minor son of Apollo: Aristaeus. Pretty bold name for an amp, Justin

Day one of the candy cane giveaway adventures. So last year about this time I bought nearly 2,000 candy canes at closeout prices. Assured by my fellow Santa friends that they would keep well in cool dry places for at least a year, I figured I'd get a year's supply and be ahead of the curve. Then of course completely forgot about them until about a week before Christmas. Big massive Glad bags full of them in a closet... and indeed they did keep well. But now I want to get rid of them, so we're hitting the beaches and my elves are helping. Like Oprah, "You get a candy cane! You get a candy cane! Everyone gets a candy cane!" Think we gave out about 500 of them today. I've got another crew of elves all set to go for Saturday, and it's a fun way to reconnect with people and to allow them to share in the joy of being elves for the kids. Top down on the way back to town from Rum Point.

I was gonna post this in Slow Forum at some point. :/

A friend vacuum sealed three waffles together...mistake!

I certainly DB8 it

The EL34 can handle 800V all day long and with equal power plus it is a far more modern tube design. That's what I find so funny about tubes in general, people overlook that the tube design and build quality got better by leaps and bounds from the 30's to the 50's. Onto the 60's, the sub-miniature tubes are nothing short of stunning works of engineering marvel. Sure, cost cutting started to creep in but there is just so much nostalgia BS associated with this stuff. "NOS" tubes (i.e. old rejected crap nobody would have used) is always better and we must use the oldest designs possible. Where is the clamor for old transistors? Go, go germanium!!! We should setup a non-profit organization with the sole goal of buying audio equipment and take it apart for the world to see. I think Senn would be thrilled if we were to rip the HE1's apart...

Aliens Yah, that just ent right.

Keep it and switch the THAT chip to fets.

Tempting 2016 San Diego French Toast

(Read with Narco's character voice): Gracias Patrón!

current mirrors used as voltage gain stages is very different from high power versions used as output stage. as far as I know bakoon is one of the very few that make transconductance headphone amps. It really works well only with very flat impedance headphones like ortho's.

^ It's only 16 pins The right size tip and a good solder sucker and you're home free... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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for sure the audio-gd is NOT a transconductance amp. I have one. diamond buffer output. and If the bakoon is bridgeable for double the power then it cannot be a transconductance amp.

Sure cost cutting was a factor with some designs but tubes had to become more reliable into the 50's so the build quality jumped by leaps and bounds. Take the sub-mini stuff. It was designed to be used continuously for years where it couldn't be serviced at all so yeah, these are far better tubes than the anything before them. Are some of them a bit more linear, sure but the designs were far more compromised in other ways. We have the full schematics of it but I did take my old one apart. Classic Sennheiser, nothing but the cheapest shit possible is allowed to be used. Then we have the small issue of at least half of them don't work due to the wrong implementation of the circuit. 4K7 output tube load in an electrostatic amp? This thing can barely swing any voltage at all. It's a HE60 so you will have dust inside the drivers, no way around that. That is a likely culprit but they might also have arc'ed at some point forming a hole in the diaphragm. This is possible when using them with so many amps so the driver could be pretty much toast.

I thought it was in there. See attached. GR LV BOM_Sep26.xls

Thanks everybody. Had a good birthday.

The obligatory exception.

It's not the years, but the mileage.

Brain transplant might also help. If you can't get a viewer to work but want to build high voltage equipment...it might just be Darwin at work.

The following post was supposed to be much bigger, and posted yesterday. Inexplicably, imgur refused to accept any more uploads halfway through it. Today, imgur is STILL not working. I think it's the "I'm not a robot CAPTCHA failing." I spent half a fricken hour monkey with my adblock, and two other browsers. Got exactly nowhere. Here's as far as I got. "My friend tried to give her reindeer cute bowties...and accidentally created monsters." Spoiler: http://i.imgur.com/WdeZ3Gr.jpg Akureyri, Iceland.

Funny how he tries to discredit (?) Stax for "sounding like you're in heaven" when they made the DAC Talent that used... guess what? That's right, PCM63s. Has he even heard or does he know anything about pre-bankruptcy Stax? Edit: I would love to see Fang try to get in a fist fight with Birgir.

He should spit the shit in his mount before he speaks.