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Lots of days clearing brush and patching roofs. Will catch up with you guys on the weekend. Am doing good.

The horror, the horror. Basically this is the final Erno Borbely design. It is a current mode phono stage, where the cartridge looks into close to zero impedance. First stage with parallel J40/K170, and a power stage to drive the passive RIAA. Then a 40dB gain stage with power stage to drive the output. It can be configured many different ways: No feedback first stage, with input R of about 4 ohms for higher R moving coils Feedback first stage which reduces input R to tiny value for low R moving coils. Can be run single ended or balanced input, and single ended or balanced output. I've set it up as a no-feedback version, fully balanced IO. There is a bal2unbal board which I currently have not wired in. Shunt regulator for each board, layout by moi. Dual power supply, each with dual bridge rectifier and lots of smoothing cap.

I want to thank everyone for their concerns and offers of help. I'm doing just fine. My Cousin is taking great care of me, and I'm doing some projects around here to keep my mind from running wild. I'm going back down day after tomorrow to pickup some things and help clear some driveways. Not real sure if anything from my RV is salvageable, but will check. I'll grab more clothes and Suzy's Medications. Plus my important papers. I'm in a good frame of mind! Please don't worry. I had two trips planned before this happened, to do some work for Head-Casers, and still planning on doing so. Everything's good!

If you guys didn't see it, Hemi Sam posted in the "Watches" thread and he and his family seem to be okay.

With my BH : Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Barber: Adagio for Strings / Bernstein: On the Town; Candide Leonard Bernstein & Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Los Angeles Philharmonic

So I've been noticing recently that Tidal has been adding a lot more MQA/Masters albums. Do they sound better than regular lossess? Got me. They do, however, tend to have pretty decent mastering. It is worth scrolling through their landing page for the masters if you haven't in a while. Also cool: if they have one album from an artist in master odds are they will have the rest of their catalog in master either already up or on its way.

Almost made a huge mistake instead of just a big mistake. **BRENT**

Anyone about to build this, Megatron, etc and don't want to use a dropping resistor, I might have some spare power supply boards for tube front ends soon. Works up to 250V no problem, 300V is possible if you find caps that fit and heatsink appropriate parts properly.

Well, I joined this club at last: Rega p3-24 with elys 2 cartridge and ifi phono 2. All are ok, but it's extemely hard to find metal albums in Turkey. And this is my corner of pleasures:

1.1k ~1.3k would be fine

Okay, I found a Charge 2 in purple for $99. I was also told not to get too hung up on the band.

The hell you will.

Yeah, somehow I missed it -- the last thing I remember is Diabolic Inventions and Seduction... Will have to obtain (Al Di Meola is one of the few acts that has had a blank check for everything he's done across his entire career). In the meantime, because I'm in a Boingo mood, this is a really good set:

We'll just think of you as Brent #2

My usual stunt is to replace a tyre that has a puncture, just to get the new one punctured in less than a week. (reply to Grahame's post...)

I might be in. ^^^ I have a gaming PC and little to do with it. Is it cool that I won't be good?

Just seeing this, ER. Thank you for thinking of us! We are very fortunate. Very much so. The rains came hard and I literally swept water off my porch to keep it out of our home until 2am one night. Hours of sweeping and then finally the hardware store opened and I was able to acquire a sump pump. Dug a hole in the yard, placed it in a bucket, plumbed pool tubing and some plumbing fixtures...viola. Within minutes my yard was dry. Directly in front of us the toll way is under water up to the cross over bridge / road. So many heroic efforts. We are blessed. That's a sexy time piece. I might just have to bring one home... Cheers, Sam

Some kapton would work too....

You might consider putting a thick coating of clear nail polish over the copper trace. It's a very good insulator.

It's OK, though, I can afford it. I have a job.

http://au.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Phoenix-Contact/1790539/?qs=MfVUZiz0PxbRlZTU%2bIaPbA%3d%3d

Just saw and thought of your decks. Imagine a brand new refreshed sp10 in whatever plinth and tonearm of choice!

No questionably street-legal racing slicks, Grahame? Shame!

Changed this (and the others) To this Thanks to

50% off one day sale at Nonesuch Records. Wilco, Joshua Redman, Kronos Quarter, etc. Use code SUMMER https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159404686510245&id=21877965244 **BRENT**

I'm alive! Don't worry about me, I'm safe and dry and my dog Suzy is by my side. The rest is all solvable. Made it down to check damage. My RV is in pieces, but that's just stuff. I think my scooter is OK, and my wormdrive saw is OK. I'll need both as the destruction was massive. Many people far worse off than I. And lots of work ahead. I've had several offers from the best people on Earth (Head-Casers), to put me up and I love you guys! I'll take some time to decide my next move, but have options. I should qualify for a FEMA trailer, and may do that. I might decide that Texas doesn't want me around anymore, and try a new start. Too soon to know yet. Either way, my spirit is intact. A true Alaskan can never be beaten by Texas! What is most important to me are my Mom and my Suzy, so things are good. Suzy is a bit freaked but otherwise fine. As long as I have them and my HC family, I can make it through anything. I'm learning to use my cell phone for Head-Case, so bare with me.

Meanwhile ... 900+ MQA albums discovered on Tidal https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10VtON9VjMAt3uyHC2-Oo2MjIa3orv9DKZfwiRQKmTAA/edit#gid=945476039

I should see if they have Riff Raff - Neon Icon in MQA. **BRENT** Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk