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It's been a busy week for sure. My second Cousin has a lawn care business in Rockport, TX. He has lots of equipment and He, his Dad and I have been clearing trees, brush and trash all through his neighborhood, as well as temporarily tarping roofs. There are many elderly residents that just can't do it themselves. So we're filling a need and helping them get some piece of mind. It feels great to see the relief on their faces and the shock when they try to pay you and you tell them it's part of the massive volunteer effort underway. It also keeps my mind off of things I have no control over. Being a carpenter and letting people know what is reasonable and what is an obvious scam is also very rewarding. This place is already seeing those that travel to prey on others in dark times, and I'm determined to thwart as many of those as is possible. I'm safe and sound, eating well and generally in good spirits. Not yet sure about my next home options, but I'll figure that out in the near future. I have offers from past customers to stay as long as needed, so no need for any kind of panic. I am considering this event as motivation to get my ass out of Texas, and back to California, where I belong, but that won't happen overnight. Just so glad that my Mother is in Alaska and not having to witness the devastation first hand. She went through it in hurricane Celia in 1970, and that's why we went back to Alaska. Not sure she'd handle it well today. I miss all of you and will be back on a regular schedule before too long.

Back ribs.

I came very close to buying one when I tried it out at the local mall but I really thought riding in the weird animated world with much harder climbing was a bit more fun on Zwift/Wahoo in the end. I think since the GF did not enjoy Zwift/Wahoo this Peloton thing would be perfect for her. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I love the part where you lend your expertise to thwart the scammers. It angers me to no end when I catch people or companies preying on the weak or uninformed.

Brisket begins in about 45 minutes.

Sort of related ...

My wife just hopped on to do her first live session and it was from somewhere that looked like a nightclub, complete with a DJ. The instructor of course had tits out to here and was a pretty decent stand-up (sit down?) comic to boot. It's all completely ridiculous, but this is America I guess and are you not entertained?

Well, I can cheerfully report that the mad phono stage sounds absolutely stunning. I've been going through record after record and depending on what I'm listening to I've giggled, sung along and wept depending on what I've got on. Kind of standard with the territory it takes a long time to warm up. There are three servos - one to null the voltage across the cartridge to zero. One to null the output of the input stage to zero, and one to null the output of the second stage to zero. Given that every stage runs hot, and that there are two of these per balanced channel it takes a while to sort itself out and stabilise. It will remain on permanently. Thank heavens it does sound stunning - given the overall cost of circuit boards, parts (lot of em), and time in build and test, layout and procurement of the shunt regulator boards etc - I would have been royally pissed off if it had sounded not good!

Agree, that is a next level kind of evil.

A few tunes by Art Pepper which his widow released as an homage on his birthday, September 1st: Arthur's Blues Thank You Blues Landscape There's another track including two tunes (Everything Happens to Me and Straight Life), but sound quality is quite worse

Begs the question: How does he know what incestuous liquid sounds like? Sadly, the article is littered with as much fake news as all the previous ones I read, and I only skimmed through like half of each. Where are all the real reviewers? "thanks to the large circumaural Stax diaphragms." "why manufacture an even brighter headphone when the 007 model already sounds too bright?" "My measurements confirmed that unlike my older, custom AMB amplifier, the Pure Bipolar saturates much like tubes, it gently goes into clipping. In fact, it has such a high output capability that I would have to add an additional attenuator in my measurement setup in order to measure its limits."' There's so much wrong with everything in this and everything else that I wonder how many times his mom dropped him on his head as a baby. Maybe she just had her way with him.

It's even worse in context -- he says that like it's a good thing. He obviously does not have Grammarly. Or perhaps his sister is hot. Or perhaps it's a Game of Thrones reference.

Test Tone @ Home live right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

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

Pellet pooper ftmfw! Looks tasty

Game of Thrones S7E7 hilarity: Fake, but funneh, if only for "Who's Avery?" HE JUST TOLD YOU WHO AVERY WAS, YOU COWARD. SERIOUS BAD MAN. http://imgur.com/gallery/USjnb

While I was fooling around with seating/speaker placement today, I ran across this gem. Watch this before reading the text on Youtube. I think you'll be surprised about the players here.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark -- The Punishment of Luxury Lot of Kraftwerk in evidence, not that that's a bad thing.

http://mytricksyspirit.badelephant.co.uk/track/always-with-you-2 Easily one of my albums of the year.

Took the Jones out on some super simple singletrack for a try out. Definitely handles much better than the fatbike. The Fizik Aliante saddle will need to go but everything else seem to be just what I was looking for. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That wouldn't have happened if you had a phone for adults.

Yup Bought that one new! It's the best I've found for lease breaking volume levels and hearing those transients snap (digital has nothing on that lp). Great music too (love those Cowboy Songs).

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.

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:

Gorgeous! Your vintage turntables amazing and your setup is something to behold. Congrats! Me, I'm finally getting my table and speaker system put back together after my move. A little Allison Krauss to test the cartridge. Also, another messy temp studio setup (l have big plans for the new one so it'll be months in the making I'm guessing).

Great to hear you're looking forward Steve! Keep us in the loop when you find time to post. We still need to hear from Hemi Sam. I know he has a family so I'm hoping he's busy taking care of them.

Cheers Steve. Just for you (and Naaman)

This just in from the land of "grill adjacent". Eggs, sausage and potato medley. Step 1: Brown sausage, remove but do not drain fat. Step 2: In same pan, cook par-boiled potato chunks. Remove. Step 3: Add eggs, stirring in sausage and potatoes. Allow to setup and then remove to finish in oven.