Leaderboard

Have drilled and cut out boards for the three layer Carbon. A bit smaller than the T2.

Just like Carbon we built. Same box, same PS. Relay=120s. Separated filament transformer.

The time for excuses is over, Chris! I assume yours arrived today as well?

Vernamiège, Switzerland. Whalehead Beach - Samuel H. Boardman Park, Oregon. Lower North Falls - Silver Falls State Park - Oregon. Setting moon over a Bristlecone Pine in Colorado. A baklava wearing a balaclava while playing a balalaika on black lava. Brandywine Falls, Whistler Canada. Washington coast. Submerged Bell Tower in Lake Reschen. Joshua Tree National Park, CA. Opal Creek Wilderness, Oregon. Majorca, Spain shortly before sunset. Antarctica's CTAM- Central Transantarctic Mountains. Ringedalsvatnet, Norway. Venus over Salt Creek Falls, Oregon. Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, Iceland. Lac de Gaube, French Pyrenees. Trollstigen, Norway. Scottish Highlands. A small village in Spain. Rainier in the Fall. Tekapo, New Zealand. Mt. Si and Borst Lake in Washington. Ostrander Lake, California, USA. Baa Atoll, Maldives. Riverside, CA. Base of Mount St. Helens. Lake Tahoe, NV. Portal - Royal Arch Boulder Colorado. The Matterhorn and Weisshorn rising above the clouds - Valais, Switzerland. Smøla, Norway. Saguenay Fjord National Park, Quebec, Canada. Cuba. Island in the Mur, Graz, Austria. Michigan city, IN. Abraham Lake, Canada. Goat Rocks, Washington - Mt. Adams at sunrise. Devil's Tower, WY. Crater Lake at sunset. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, just after sunset. Sunset at the Grand Canyon, Arizona. Haleakula, HI. Kinabalu at Dawn. Grampians National Park, Australia. Scotland. Mt. Lassen, CA. Flatirons, Chautauqua Park, Boulder, Colorado. Bettmerhorn, Switzerland. Horseshoe Bend. Wailea Beach in Maui, Hawaii. Click for absurdly larger.

I will try both once I get my damn copy!

Not sure which is worse, that ponosucks website layout or the fact that some idiot decided to make a DAP in the shape of a triangular prism, and a bunch of other idiots along the way didn't stop it from happening. Someone should make one in the shape of a horse and call it Ponee

I'll have to give it a shot, when I have time.

Compared to the half Shure tip you mean ? Definitely yes. The shure tips behaves imo as any damping material, you tames the peak but you tame the whole treble including Frequencies below 4khz. It's not that much a benefit Imo. With the SDR which acts more as a true resonator, you absorbs specifically 5-6khz but the 4khz remains untouched ( at least on masurements I trust) . It's much more useful imo because i consider the issue is the gap between 4 and 6 khz . Stock gap is around 15db measured on a flat coupler ( it does not mean it accurately represents what we hear IRL but at least it's a reference point) whereas the gap on the HD800SD is reduced to 10-12db. Here are my own measurements : Yellow is HD800SD, Red HD800 , Green HD800S . Please take these measurements with a grain of salt , they're very amateurish. By the way , the mod does not use cork

Yes, meaning you have adjusted the output stage for 22.6mA Not sure what you are trying to express?

I bet he wants more than $2000 for that. I thought Volvos had gotten reliable by 2000.

That it did

Put me in the 'Brad great' camp. He's right up there with Keith Jarrett, as far as I am concerned. He only played one encore, because DC audiences, but it was a good'un -- the Beatles' "And I Love Her". But before his finale he explained that he was playing Bach, then a piece inspired by that piece by Bach, and with some improvisation mixed in. "...so this next piece will be another 'Bach/Me' pair..." (titters of laughter from the audience) I was really hoping for Exit Music, though, that would've been nice.

de-attach the high voltage from the board. put the LV+ to the HV+ ...put the LV- to a DMM common, and put the probe from the DMM at the tail ...if you get steady current it probably works

A couple of things: A torroid transformer doesn't put out DC... it is AC Those SOIC adapters will be a nightmare if the opamps you replace the existing with are fast at all. What opamps are you replacing and why do you think they need to be replaced? FOTM?

I'm confused as to why you think you need a DC to DC convertor? Why wouldn't you just build a small regulated DC power supply that runs off an AC wall wart and have it's output match the voltage that was previously supplied by the batteries?

If I was Wilman/CMH I'd be very worried indeed about the superb new season of TG

The Sounds - dying to say this to you

I should be fine, he started at 8 (I was worried he'd be more like a typical rocker and take the start time as more of a "no earlier than"), which means plenty of time to get back to the car. PS I have the best seat. It's crooked because my head is crooked.

The New Pornographers -- Mass Romantic

So I got those ESP950 leather pads and I kinda like them. Now the opening is much smaller than even the ebay pads and they are taller too. The sound...well it does clear up some of the ESP950's issues to some extent such as the boomy bass and vague sound stage. I need some further listening but yeah...not bad at all. I also had them make some SR-Omega pads and these won't work. Too thick, not big enough and the opening is too small...

You know this already, but them's not mine. Mine are...swarthy for lack of a better term. 'Hirsute' comes to mind. Unrelated, I want this suit (the guitar's pretty cool, too):

Thks for the positive comments guys.. much appreciated

Spent approx. 5 minutes blindly picking. Paid no attention nor did any analysis. Which means I'll probably do well this year.

Seems you make great progress, Whitigir. Already one amp working, then one is almost home. Made some more work on the Carbon. Managed to keep it within 4.5 x 2.4 inches. Three layers – will try to do this in kitchen….. For some unknown reason the software flips the to-126 in 3D view. Below: inner layer, and bottom.

Ryan Adams -- Prisoner This keeps growing on me.

Finally received Front/Back plate for the 5U Dissipante - almost took forever. Decided to have a groove dividing the front plate into an upper 2U and a lower 3U, to have it look less bulky; it's still one 5U piece. The "pi" sort of symbols the topology To be continued ...

With top Thanks. I buy my boxes in MODU and then I do the mechanised ones myself with the help of a drill, Dremel and a lot of patience. That's why my boxes have simple designs and are so similar. I admire the cases that make other members much more elaborate than mine but with my tools and skills I can't do much more.

The Elear is impressive Sam just don't expect superb soundstage from them.

Nitro has learned how to remove the door from his portable kennel. This should solve the problem ...

Aw, man, it's playing by me at work, I'll have to go see it one of these evenings.

So Kedi is being shown at the Chattanooga Film Festival this year... I'm tempted to check it (and a lot of other stuff out. https://chattfilmfest.org/collections/films **BRENT**

Sweet. Thanks for the explanation about the voltage jump, guys! Pictures attached to this post. This was my first time working with external heatsinks. I underestimated the difficulty, and ruined one sink trying to hand-drill it. Total fail. Luckily, I discovered that a colleague owns a Tormach PCNC 1100, and he was kind enough to invite me to his workshop and let me use the machine. A gorgeous device, let me tell you. It made short work of all the drilling. Then I hand-tapped all the holes (I think the Tormach machine can tap holes, but I wasn't sure how to keep the oil flowing and the taps clear of gunk for this operation). The heatsinks themselves took some finding. They are Fischers, 10mm high by 300mm long, with 40mm fins, part SK 56 100 SA. High quality, and hard to find in the US. With 10mm standoffs, the entire amp fits nicely into an enclosure just slightly larger than 2.5U. (I also tried sinks with identical dimensions from HS Marston, and they sucked: all extrusions I received were crooked, and there was no way I could have bolted angle brackets to them.) The rest of the chassis was done by FPE. In retrospect, I wish I extended the top and bottom panels to overlap the sharp edges of the heatsink fins, with large rectangular cutouts so air could still circulate. Still, I'm happy with how the case turned out. If anyone cares, I'm happy to share the .fpd files. Because FPE does not do anodizing, I had to have the panels made in two steps: one run before getting the pieces to an anodizer, and one run after. The circuit itself was easy to assemble and adjust. No trouble from the Toroidy transformer. Overall, the amp runs a little warm to the touch (at 20mA output): cooler than either my KGST or mini-KGSSHV, though we'll see how it fares after more than an hour (all I've listened so far). Many thanks to @mwl168 for the group buys and build notes, @sorenb and @jdineshk for the capacitor group buy and help, @vilts for making the spectacular titanium knob, everyone else who answered questions and provided inspiration, and many many thanks to Birgir and Kevin for making all this possible in the first place.

^ True, but seeing this video gives some context to the problem that the few people like Neil are facing. If even a Mossberg type can be so dismissive, imagine where that leaves the kids of today's generation that have never had an opportunity to hear the difference. It's funny, because speaking of Neil Young, one of my brothers and his family visited me here in Cayman about a year ago. Doug (my brother) is a big Neil Young fan, so that was the first stuff he grabbed when he walked in the house and immediately wanted to do some listening. I've been telling him about my MBL system for years, and this was his chance. His son, who is now 16 (so he would have been 14 or 15 at the time) was completely transfixed. He couldn't move, and this went on for hours. Didn't matter if it was vinyl or SACD or high res CD. He was hearing things in familiar recordings he had never heard before, and that's even before moving on to headphones which didn't happen until the next day. Ok, so no big surprise. That should be the case. But when I saw him this Christmas, he still couldn't stop talking about it. He kept murmuring, "Look out mamma, there's a white boat coming up the river... with a big red beacon and a gun and a man on the rails..." and you could just see in his eyes that he was still hearing it in his head the way he did that first night, and that he was moved by it! That's what music is supposed to do, but sadly, until he had that opportunity to hear it in it's full glory, he had no idea what he had always been missing. None of them have a clue, simply because they haven't been exposed to it. That's the saddest part.

The thing is, 16/44 is way better than the quality of the shit being produced typically.