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Never have I been more happy to spend 9 hours in a car in just over 24hrs. Was so good to see a bunch of you again for what I think was the first time in 5+ years.6 points
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Sorry I didn't get to hang with you guys outside of the meet ,But it was great seeing & talking to you at the meet. I also was impressed with the Sony System.3 points
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We look OK now, But the fractious small child proximity alert has triggered. Deploy JH-13's, stat!3 points
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Happy birthday, Jeff! Hit me up later and I'll help you buy you something fancy that I want and can't have. **BRENT** Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk2 points
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Still kind of in love with the bartendress and choosing to believe the altercation was just a mutual misunderstanding. Do hope you won't listen to any of the shitty life advice the third-oldest, second-drunkest* fart was so freely dispensing, though! (* Estimated.)2 points
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Great time folks, thanks to all that were able to make it out and to the new members of the travel team. Headed back home on the train now feeling rung out but grinning ear to ear.2 points
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"OK Stretch, here's the plan. You tackle that douche and then I'm going to stab him right through the fucking eyeball." "Not sure that's a great idea Al." "Who's the lawyer here, me or you?"2 points
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Anybody remember how angry he got at CJ'10 when Justin lent Tyll some of his headphones to test?1 point
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Agree with everyone above. I'm probably never going to do a real write-up, so just going to post a lazy personal ranking from top to bottom of the non-Stax headphones I heard, which is not many because I spent most of the time in the AP room. Sony MDR-Z1R - pretty damn good, a bit too much bass at times but very easy to EQ that down a few dB Hifiman HE1000 v2 - surprisingly good, I liked it better than the Shangri La. But then again, I liked everything better than the Shangri La. Not gonna go into the whole build quality thing again Focal Utopia - there's a bit of an upper mid to lower treble peak that makes things sound "forward" (or ear stabby depending on your view), and it's slightly bass light. Stax usually has a small bump in the upper mid/lower treble region but the electrostat treble is smoother than dynamics which makes it less offensive Sonoma Electrostats - there's a lot of weird stuff going on as has been discussed before. Single-stator driver, converting D to A to A to D to D to A again because of DSP EQ, etc etc, but somehow it didn't sound too bad in the end IMO. Nothing to write home about though MrSpeakers Ether something or other - Not too bad but I did the hand dipole test (waving my hands in front of the back grilles) and strangely did not hear any change in sound. The "open" version doesn't seem to be as open as you would think... maybe there's a lot of acoustic damping. Audeze LCD-4 - typical underdamped ortho sound. Bloated bass and everything else kind of hazy, and the large dip in the treble makes it sound a bit sleepy as well. Would be interested to see what happens with some damping Hifiman Shangri La - the first one I heard was so damn bad, I thought it might be broken so I gave it a second chance the second day. I compared both Shangri Las connected to the 300B amp Sunday and one of them was noticeably brighter than the other so the manufacturing process isn't great. Neither of them was as bad as what I heard on the first day, but probably around HD600/650 level. I would recommend saving the $49,7001 point
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We may need to deport Grahame, so that our bacon reserves have a chance at rebuilding. It wouldn't hurt our ice cream industry either.1 point
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It does kinda have that same floating on top of the head look, don't it? Sent from my mind using id, ego, or superego...1 point
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A hearty, "that was fun". It was nice seeing those that I saw, sorry I missed those I missed, and it was nice to meet the people I met for the first time. No-one said anything about my haircut, though.1 point
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Watched the game at my neighbor's with a few couples. I don't hate the Falcons, and after I got over some depression when it became 28-3, I decided I would watch these young upstarts win their first championship. Little by little the Patriots came back, and capped off an incredible game. A most exciting game, maybe THE most exciting game, I've seen. Martellus Bennett gave two of the best post-game interviews, one with the TV crew at the desk (his brother Michael dropped by too), and one with his daughter in front of the mic on stage. What a great character he is....1 point
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Utopias sounds damn good out of the GSX and the Sony Z1R headphone and HA-ZH1ES dac/amp was quite a nice and compact setup.1 point
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Nice, JP I am on the plane back to LA! It was awesome to see everyone! Sent from my LG-US996 using Tapatalk1 point
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I might do a version of this circuit with SS CCS just to make it a lot less complicated.1 point
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under video description click "show more" ✖ TOOLS USED: ● Flux: http://bit.ly/2cYIx7t ● Solder paste: http://bit.ly/2epK1JE ● Soldering Iron: http://amzn.to/2cKkMyO ● Preferred tip: http://amzn.to/2d5MgPn ● Micro Soldering Pencil: http://amzn.to/2d5MWUP ● Micro soldering tip: http://amzn.to/2eYrF4a ● Hot Air station: http://amzn.to/2d5M7Lw ● Hot Air EXPENSIVE: http://amzn.to/2cYI6tY ● Tweezers: http://amzn.to/2d5NBpi ● Multimeter: http://amzn.to/2cYJY5T ● Multimeter Probes: http://amzn.to/2cKkvMh ● Fume Extractor: http://amzn.to/2d5MGoD ● Microscope: http://amzn.to/2iLrE16 ● Microscope LED light: http://amzn.to/2d5Mh5T ● Solder: http://amzn.to/2cKkxUp ● Crest CP500HT Ultrasonic cleaner: http://bit.ly/2iv3aci ● Branson EC cleaning fluid: http://amzn.to/2cKlBrp ● Jumper wire THIN: http://amzn.to/2eqF5T7 ● Jumper wire THICK: http://amzn.to/2eAJ5AU ● Nitrile gloves: http://amzn.to/2iUfumS Bench PSU: Agilent 6542 I'm using Kester. turn down the blow. hold with twezers mask off blow zone with aluminum foil?1 point
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Finally finished casing my Blue Hawaii today. Running on my "universal" PSU that also powers my HV Carbon. 400VDC and 18VDC rails, 20mA plate current. The heatsinks warm up to about 42C (108F) and stabilize, about 22C (40F) rise from ambient temperature. The chassis is a Breeze Audio 3608A, one of 5 chassis I bought from Breeze Audio at TaoBao. I requested that the front and rear panels be left plane, un-drilled. Works quite well.1 point
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I hope little monkey grows to be 6'9". Dinny works hard, and deserves to get to be carried around in a papoose.1 point
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Long Island Beer Project with the smaller crew: Nate, Kerry, Justin MPI, JP, Peter and me. Good times talking about old times.1 point
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False color image of the storm at the top of Saturn. Malabar, New South Wales, Australia. Serrano Glacier, in Bernardo O’Higgins National Park in the Chilean Patagonia. Auroras over Banff. 'The Frozen Throne' Tamanawa Falls in the Mt. Hood. Frozen waterfall Peričnik, Slovenia. The Art Atelier of Avi Kenan. Winter Merced - Yosemite, CA. June, around 10 PM, around 2 hours from Reykjavik. Milky Way over Albion Schoolhouse, Mendocino County, CA. A view of the Zion National Park's valley floor from the Grotto trail. Lake Bannalp, Switzerland. 30 minutes of star trails, plus the launch of SBIRS GEO-3 atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. January 20, 2017 photo by Michael Seele. Hakone, Japan, near Mt. Fuji. Waterfalls in Oregon. The view of the Flatirons from Chautauqua Park on a starry night in Boulder, Colorado. Joshua Tree National Park. Aerial view of "Pointe de Pen-Hir", Brittany, France. Lake Powell and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Briksdalbreen National Park. Padar Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Phillip Island Australia. Fresh snow along the Merced River - Yosemite, CA. Creek in Ireland. Dawn on the Mt Whitney Massif, California. Moonset at Hanalei Pier. Alabama Hills, CA. Antarctica. Abiskojokka River in Abisko National Park, Northern Sweden. The Isle of Skye. Mt Jefferson at sunset, Oregon. Eastern Sierra. Cucumber Falls. Ohiopyle, PA. Sunrise in Portland, OR. Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park, Washington. Click for cartoonishly wider.1 point
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Commercial trade show should pay Fla. crew for the use of the name Retroactively. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk1 point
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Now that it is confirmed that Brent will not be attending, I guess I can look into making this trip myself.1 point
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I’ve had yet another terrible experience with Cam-Expert, a relationship of years has come to a head after getting back a front panel for the second time that was very poor workmanship indeed, the brushing was coarse and rough, the rear side screw holes for the stax sockets were still slightly out of alignment again (I managed to fix this by making the holes slightly bigger on the sockets themselves). Anyway... I did a bit of experimenting, I removed the anodising via a caustic soda bath and wet sanded for a brushed polished look. I did this for all panels, the result isn’t bad and I prefer the shiny appearance to the duller clear anodised panels, but it does leave the panels vulnerable to fingerprints and scratches easily. Here’s a pic of the results...1 point
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