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Meatball sliders and pulled pork slider with a sour beer of some sort. Best meal of the new life so far. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk

Lamb Cassoulet at a new local place. Awesome. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Went to put the bike into winter storage and saw this sweet classic w/ sidecar being put in. Had to take a few shots of mine, before luggage and crash bars are added in storage. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It depends on what parameters are important. One thing is noise. Simple balanced input stage based generally have (a) different input impedance for balanced differential, +, - and common mode and (b) Based on 10k resistors produce about -105dBu from a low impedance drive. Although that is pretty quiet and good enough for many, with a single ended stage there is no series resistance and it is fairly straightforward to get -120dBu either with a low noise op-amp or discrete.. You *can* design balanced stages with the same noise performance as unbalanced, by using parallel unity gain buffers driving parallel low feedback resistance balanced stages. But you end up with a lot of op-amps and board real estate to achieve that. The THAT balanced input stages and drivers (Designed and patented by Bill Whitlock of Jensen) are interesting. Their input stage common mode rejection, and distortion, is superb, which is the main aim of the chip topology, but internal resistances are around 14k which again compromises noise performance. It is horses for courses, really.

Roses pr0n - OBSVs from 2012 through 2015. bottle on the far left just came in via trade... to my knowledge, one of the oldest single barrels ever bottled in lawrenceburg

So this is not at all what I was expecting: it's a Unisonic with a 14k bezel! It's currently riding on a JB Champion two-tone bracelet, which is rather fitting. I have no idea if my watchmaker can service this, the early electric watches being... quirky. I definitely want to get it up and running. It has an inscription on the back, with my father's name. I'd show a picture of that, but it also has his SSN (a common enough thing at a certain point in time, I think). What an interesting watch for a man in his early 20s to have bought. The unexpectedness makes having it all the more special for me.

Stream of consciousness FTW.

Sun-dried meat, black beans+bacon, crumbs.

Pretzel Sticks with beer cheese sauce Alabama slammer - brown sugar glaze, bacon, provolone, cheddar & onion straws plus a side of sweet potato tots with cinnamon butter This might be my new favorite burger Chocolate mousse cake

I think you meant XLR inputs, not outputs? You could just wire the XLRs and use the Neutrik adapters, saving yourself the switch and the wiring of it.

Sometimes I miss the 90s:

This one has been tough to get through.

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Since the Carbon (and I guess all Stax amp designs??) is inherently balanced, is it worth getting a DAC with balanced output? I know balanced helps for long cable runs, but is there any real benefit when the DAC is 1 foot away from the Carbon?

Orphan Black. Watching the first season on Amazon. Great start, and I heard it just gets better.

That was my point back then. There were and still are plenty of matched dual unit which are "cheap" and certainly easier to deal with for the noobs. Also here, this really wasn't a factor at all, let alone if the circuit had been done right in the first place. I do remember all the drafts (I think i still have many of them) where one was more silly than the rest. Then I bought the SRM-1 Mk2 schematic and sent it to Cavalli and then suddenly there was a working circuit. Guess what that 1982 circuit is also lacking...

Black Gate caps have not been available for a decade or so. Rubycon used to make them for Jelmax; I think there is graphite powder in there. Rubycon decided that their business model, in making capacitors by the billion did not match making small numbers of boutique parts for the audio industry, and pulled the plug. Actually they pulled it twice. First time, they were persuaded to continue. That lasted a year or two, and then goodnight Vienna. So any NOS Blackgate caps out there have been sat on a shelf for at least ten years. And if they are recent, they are fakes. And dontcha just love vertically mounted resistors. I haven't seen that sort of thing since TV's in the 1970's.