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To bad it isn't in class. I could camp out on DOTUs lawn and collect $200k a year from my GI Bill. Would keep us in beer and herb [emoji6]

Heh, sorry, Steve. It is an old habit. I went to a goofy liberal arts college where all classes were discussion based and, in the spirit of being egalitarian, we had to refer to both the other students and the professors as "Mr." or "Ms." so-and-so regardless of any titles they had obtained.

Mr. Tice passed away in 2003, I'm Steve.

As I recall, we were listening to "Holy Diver" and Al was trying to look up what kind of jazz that qualifies as.

Got mine late last week, thanks

That would be a modern form, known as Spazz Jazz. Closely related to ACDC's Jizz Jazz.

Free community college for all SF residents... http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/07/san-francisco-announces-free-community-college-all-residents/97591606/ This is incredible! I applaud you San Francisco!

Cheers, Adam. Steve, thanks for doing that. We should make you the official head-case greeter or something.

Yeah, me too. The hot water in my building has been knocked out the past two days as well. Boy I forgot what a pain in the ass a cold shower is. I'm Adam, by the way. I believe I've personally met most of the CA and NY crew over the years, but haven't met many people outside of those two groups. I'm sure we will cross paths in person eventually, Mr. Tice.

Hope it gets resolved quickly! Do you mind telling me your first name? I feel like we've come far enough in this relationship. Now that's some extremes!

The White Stripes (1999) A co-worker borrowed De Stilj (on CD) and now I am really missing it.

you can tap it off the drains of the SiC's at the driver board using some resistors. 20V offset will whack the bridge out of balance and raise the current flowing. The zeners at the gates provides some protection in that regard, but I suspect that those are slower in comparison to the SiC's and that is the culprit. I suspect the HV900 current limiter isn't robust enough for being literally 'shorted' for a very brief moment when the driver at power up/down swing to B+

I'll be visiting Kevin at the end of March so I'll try them out and see if I them better than the Wiha stuff.

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Pretty low key on the road at WWE HQ but was great to see everyone the weekend before for the little bit of time I was able to fit in.

In the spirit of getting things no one has heard of, just got a Denon DA500 on the cheap. It completes my BB trifecta of PCM63/1702/1704 DACs and also hearkens back to HC circa 2008 This thread is very, very bad

20V of drift is nothing to worry about.

Happy Birthday, Jeff!, However many BAI's you spent on yourself.

One thing cropped into my head, didn't you once have a Suprex EP-5, Justin? I bought one but it lacks the TRS plug and the multitude of wires has made me go all "mehh" so I didn't reterminate.

Came home to find that my entire street is closed because a tree got blown over in to a power line. These storms we've been having in the Bay Area have been nuts.

I'm in.

definitely blame me. its my fault. its always my fault. This is definitely the year of r2r and the start of the end for megabuck stupidity.

Anybody remember how angry he got at CJ'10 when Justin lent Tyll some of his headphones to test?

Simple Minds -- Acoustic

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 $49,700

The King is still the King! Shot (and game) of the NBA season so far.

Hello all, it is my first time here and as I am very interested in building myself this Amp, this is my first post. I am looking into buying the boards, chassis, volume controls and PsU to start the motion. Can someone point me to where to get it ? Thank you just pmed John above. Hopefully to hear good news soon

That bit is well backwards! Great to meet you and Tom and Kerry and special thanks for the cognac.

Really enjoyed myself this weekend Safe travels.

Good to meet friends old and new. So long NYC

Assorted meats.

Uptown bacon steak and sausage...

Bacon Steak!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I finally finished this one today after about... 4 years or so... Let's just say that I hate anything with umbilical cables... Besides the madness of using 4 mains transformers and the super short filament winding's for the CCS tubes this was easy enough. Running at +/-400V off a BHSE power supply with the dropper resistor and zeners to feed the front end. Only main difference is the 12VDC supply used to heat the front end tubes so the board was cut up pretty bad. Next one will use the Megatron V2 pcb's in about 3 years or so...

Not a bad way to finish up a busy week at the office, but I'd much rather be hanging with the gang in NYC.

I assume you are referring lsk389? And matched p-channel means 2sj74 pair would work if I could find some real ones?