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When I originally fired it up, the voltages seemed to automatically compensate for any adjustment I made. I would guess I because both halves are connected since I'm using a center tap setup. With all the stuff minus the boards and brackets installed, this was getting a little too heavy to move around by myself. It's easily a hundred and twenty pounds but it's the bulk that's killer. So I went ahead and put it where It's going to stay, next to my desk and shuffled everything else around. I just thought it was worth showing the T1W next to it for a size comparison. Final assembly continues, but it's mostly just cosmetic stuff like lengthening the transformer leads and sleeving them to make them look pretty while I wait on the last couple parts. This monster is definitely going to need a friend to help me move it if it ever budges from this spot.

Dinner last night. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

start laying out your own boards and you will know why. there will be a all smd version at some point with these as output buffers .8 x 1.5 inch

I have my HeadRoom maxed out Desktop stack back, and I'm on my third pair of HD-800. Fuck, this combo is good. I have applied the "Frenchman" mod to this pair, and I think I'm going to undo it, as it actually sounds slightly dull up top. The maxed Desktop has such a grip on the phones, there is no sibilance or brightness on Air's Talkie Walkie, which is not exactly a dark album. I'm also hearing things I've never heard before, on this album, and I've heard this album at least a thousand times, on many different systems. The headstage is amazing, as is the slam and depth and richness. The Desktop stack hasn't worked when I've had a pair of HD-800, before, so this is a new experience. Damn. It's apparently "fixed fixed," now. I hope so.

I never said this was a tiny amp. Nor low power.

This town is only about 20 miles from one end to the other, so I can cover it round trip in under an hour. I have a clear bra to prevent rock chips. The vinyl wrap idea was to pick a color that hides the dirt better, and to allow me to wipe the car down more easily with even just a moist towel.

Yup

I guess this article kind of explains it: https://ammonite-audio.co.uk/tonearm-and-cartridge-alignment/ The Stevenson alignment is supposed to have slightly higher average tracing distortion, but less on the inner part of the record. I'm not sure why, but to my ears i am getting overall less distortion when i set the cart up with the Stevenson null points.

Well, as I said later,

My immortality plan has worked, so far. I expect it to continue.

I love me some vinyl, Cthulhu knows I've spent plenty on records, and I have a decent analog system (and my analog system now sounds like my CD player, when I use really clean records; go figure), but I have no idea what you are talking about when you talk about alignments. I've always tried for a close to perpendicular stylus position at each part of the record. I suppose that trying to make it as perpendicular as possible on average is a compromise. Are these alignments optimizing various attributes? Cartridge position can certainly make a big difference! Why? You can get a carbon fiber brush for $10, and that completely solved my static problem.

nervous_testpilot - Menu, which is exactly what it says: the menu music from the Frozen Synapse game.

I heard a great quote about Trump from a colleague who recently briefed him. "He doesn't really understand these issues with any depth, so he generally just agrees with the last person he spoke with." My colleague was talking about the state of our involvement in Syria, but we might safely expand this to a number of interactions.

The E46 is the perfect sports sedan. The perfect size, more than enough power, great feel, timeless looks. That's a car I'd want a stick in, though, for sure.

This kind of comment is why Jim is in Florida and cancelled his NY trip.

Grilled some steaks on the deck in shorts, T-Shirt and sunglasses in January. Not sure why the Illinois people claim Illinois winters are so difficult.

About the same as Brent's kids.

Because it is better.

Maybe you should start seeing other people?

Can I get just one more chance? I can change.

On a different note, about to leave the office early for the day and take the ferry in to SF for a little birthday dinner @ the Slanted Door with friends and family. Damn I am feeling old today.

The diffinput works, files posted , and tested.

Hifiman RE-2000$ ;-). There you go, the only mistake with the Edition-6 was the unfortunate naming, should have gone by HE-6000$. BTW, HE-9000$ is coming soon at CanJan event near you ! arnaud

Oxtail ragout

Exactly. Then I had one of these at Jack Rose after dinner at Estadio which was excellent: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Has anyone actually measured and posted results about the claimed diffraction and turbulence caused by the stators of ESLs or magnet structure of dynamic planars? The distance from stator to diaphragm is almost infinitesimal compared to any human(ly audible) acoustic frequency. Even at 20kHz it's about 17mm compared to the ~0.5mm distance between stator and diaphragm. Hifiman straight up copied the Fazor design from Audeze with the Edition 6, and Ether has its "flow" magnet structure, so "fixing" it is clearly the FOTM. But how much difference does it actually make, and what are the tradeoffs? Clearly for the single-sided Abyss, which seems to the dynamic planar version of the Sonoma, the tradeoff is it measures like crap with a lot of even and odd order harmonic distortion that's very nonlinear (based on distance between diaphragm and magnet) and epic underdamping becaus no isodynamic restoring force. Maybe @arnaudcan bring some light to the whole situation. At headphone driver distances to the ear (maybe an inch or even less) vs. the size of the radiating surface, what exactly does the acoustic wave propagation look like with a planar? Can they in fact be approximated with plane waves, and how much is affected by the magnet or stator structure? Obviously the magnets need to be larger than stators so the effect is more pronounced. I did briefly skim over the HF discussion about the Shangri La using a mesh stator.