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Roger Waters -- Is This The Life We Really Want? Oh fuck me yes. Where have you been for 25 years dude?

Ordered.

So you're saying I might need more than one bike? Never saw that coming!

Could be nice for people in the area to go see game 2 live since the series might not come back to Oakland! How does easy money sniper aka KD aka Slim Reaper aka Durantula even exist? 6'11 with freak athleticism and handles, passing, speed, and accuracy comparable to any of the best guards

I saw some noise issues in the Spice model for the regulator version as well. I could mostly control it, but not completely (especially once you go above 20KHz). Here's another idea I came up with (CSS #2 and #4). They will also support 1,000V. You could improve it slightly by adding a DN2540, but I'm not sure it's worth it. These other two models work almost as well as the battery at 10KHz and only a bit worse at 20KHz. The second (#2 below) is probably the best bang per parts. # 4 could be made to be a bit better, but I'm not sure it's worth it. The results are for the first three only (which includes the battery that Kevin came up with). R1 May not be necessary, but it felt good I want to experiment a bit more with it.

Lot of sad news here on HC recently. Made me want to listen to one of my personal favorite reflections on mortality and what's really worth living for*. (Sorry, sounds very pretentious. Not meant to be.) (* Big surprise. It's love!)

Amidst all the frou frou decorating going on at Rancho Stretcho, some man plans are also being made.

After a few weeks burn-in period of this little beast, I found it's very relaxing to listen to. I can hear more juices coming out and the STAX 009 just doesn't have that analytical sounding cliché to my ears. It also enhances the soundstage and life-like of Focal Utopia makes it way more enjoyable to hear. This is a push-pull design tube Headphone Amplifier/Preamplifier attempting to achieve the true high-performance of headphones from Dynamic, Planar Magnetic to Electrostatic models. I've gotten a few PM's asking about the schematics and stuff so I decided to open a thread to discuss more here. a few interesting measurements of the amp at R = 6Ω DT-HWT Headphone Amplifier/Preamplifier schematic: DT-HWT Power Supply schematic: ===================== Inputs – it has two sets of RCA inputs. Output – it has different outputs, provided on a number of different connectors. On the amp front is a TRS ¼” unbalanced jack, and balanced headphone outputs on a single 4-pin XLR and a pro bias 5-pin Stax headphone jack. On the amp rear, there are two sets of 3-pin XLR and RCA preamp outputs. Both sets can be used at the same time if desired – for example, you could feed a power amplifier from the XLR connectors, and a subwoofer amp from the RCA connectors. The bias voltage settings on the separate power supply unit are used only with electrostatic ear speakers (> 100K Ω impedance). You can select whichever bias level sounds better to your STAX/HE90 models from 230-500-580 up to 620 V DC bias. Tube complement for the amp unit is: matched pair of EF86/E80F/6D8 & matched pair of 12AU7/5814A/E80CC/E82CC & matched quad of EL95/6AQ5 Tube complement for the power supply unit is: matched pair of KT66/KT77/KT88/6550/6L6/EL34/350B/350A & one 6080/5998/6AS7/6H13C/2399 Look forward to those next iterations/variants from you guys soon... For the meantime, I keep on rolling 11 tubes to find the best combination that suits best for different music genres

Easy big boy. You're back in the SF bay area. That's an open invitation for this guy...

I think we should depart from the assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about at all.

Find a local bike shop, look at their hardtails. Ask the shop for recommendations. They'll carry 3-4 brands. You'll want the relationship with the shop unless you want to tinker with the bike yourself.

Outside of the first 8-9 minutes of the game, Cleveland is playing like shit and Golden State is not.

Great question. A few months ago the choice was easy. The outgoing Sammy was both reasonably priced (~$1300 for 65") and well reviewed. This year's model is neither of those, so far anyway. The Sony XBR (which comes in second in Brian's link) is a front runner but it's a bit more than I'd like to spend at this point. That could work, if such a thing exists. Otherwise I can guarantee that I can hang with Sir Stretchy Stretch is turns of television opulence.

But do you have the appropriate coffee table ? https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/26/sobro-smart-coffee-table-hands-on/ https://www.maxim.com/gear/coffee-table-beer-iphones-half-price-colors-2017-4 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sobro-a-cooler-coffee-table-bluetooth-furniture#/

That is the single most un-PC thing I've seen in a while, and I can't stop laughing! That is funny, funny shit!

I just realized that my sharp 65 inch will be 10 years old in august. And there are visible streaking and non-uniformities. So its time to replace it.

Two current sources. One “normal CCS” and one “Kerry’s in progress regulator CCS”.

I'm getting ball-achingly close to pulling the trigger on a TV. Not sure what you're planning for a front end, Stretch, and where, but for me I ended up using a pair of these to route cables out of sight. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Q7F030/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

No, I have never listened to Justin's BHSE. I know it looks a lot better than mine

I grabbed my DAC to go with my Carbon and new found addiction about Stax ! such expensive and dangerous Addiction