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The decorative rings arrived. I fitted them to the chassis mostly to cover the poor drilling job of the holes. These rings have 54mm outer diameter and 36mm inner diameter and are about 10mm tall. One thing of caution - they make installing and removing the tubes much more difficult because they get in the way of grabbing the tube base.

Still another rainy day. Here with DHT. Shortest distance between tubes is 0.3 inch. This built was not intended for the huge triodes… ...but it is a good sounding thing.

Fish tacos and a Sculpin.

in other news I have a tracking number now, so the t8000 is on its way

Mmmm, tasty salted pig parts! Arrrrgh.

This From Then From

好，謝謝。我是大如相撲選手。

So friggin' hot at work today, so now I'm having a Whitetrash float...Orange Sherbet and Mountain Dew. It's actually pretty damned good!

No, was traveling to our contract manufacturing sites in Shenzhen and Zhuhai frequently for work. Laowei (or laowai) is Pinyin Mandarin for foreigner/stranger/any non-Chinese. I'm a blue eyed, blonde haired, fat old American guy.

Que?

Vinyl:

Speaking of excellent guitar wankery ...

If I could like that 10 times, I would!

你好吗? 你吃了吗？

Back when I last worked in a cubicle environment (2010), I found that ear buds (PK2) worked well for me. The music was not audible to my neighbors. I was isolated well from normal room noise and yet could easily deal when somebody wanted my attention. Edit: Please note that I had music playing all the time.

I spend about 4-6 hours of my day at work with my ETY's in.. a lot of the time with nothing playing. I am a big fan of isolation, and I know that IEMs are not for everyone, but they do the trick. (in they go -> goodbye cruel world)

Ah, it makes perfect sense now. Hi, 老外!

I got involved with noise cancellation at one stage US5018203A.pdf In the late 80's noise cancellation was in its infancy. So while I was working on that I found that Dick Rutan's round the world Voyager airplane used noise cancelling phones. So I phoned them up in the Mojave - and instantly got through to Dick Rutan. He told me that they were using an experimental Bose system, but that they broke around ten hours into the 9 day flight. I also had a natty idea for enhancing the sound attenuation of double-glazed windows. The idea was to sense the sound pressure inside the cavity and use a transducer to servo that to zero (or as close to as possible). But a patent search revealed that someone else got there first. But no such system has been made available to my knowledge.

These Krell Klones run at 300V? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My first response was for Peter, for what it's worth.

https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/jbl-everest-elite-700-wireless-noise-canceling-over-ear-headphones I personally don't find that any full-sized headphones isolate enough to be useful in terms of noise reduction so for non-IEMs I'd say active noise cancelling is the way to go.

"...rum-tum-tum a-rum-tum-tum, goody-goody-goody-goody-goody a-rum-tum-tum..."

Had an unusually pink sunrise yesterday.

Yup, that's the one! Thanks! I even tried listening to the beginning of it, but must not've gotten far enough into the track.

Try this around 1:16

I love how half these teams' overall strategy is to just cycle through star after star, somehow hoping they can catch Golden State with rag tag crews. Makes me appreciate Boston and Philly willing to nosedive for multiple years to try and assemble an intentionally devised team with actual focus. Please Chicago, please do this. Guys like Howard, CP3, Melo... I just don't see it.

This.