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Dropped off Mary and Lance at the airport for a flight to Arizona for a fencing tournament. I hope tomorrow goes well.

Pregame meal should be acceptable.

Brunch

Pressure Cooker Corned Beef Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hmm, must have forgotten to post the follow-on. The 402R resistors got me pretty much where I wanted to be (262mV, or 13mA). Temps didn't seem to go up much when running it for half an hour or so. On the first bank, I tried a THAT chip instead of the FETs and no effect on bias. Used hot air to remove the 2 over by the Meanwell and got them done without hitting that. Used an iron for the soldering. So now I need to order more 402R as well.

Great article... I think I'm at the opposite end of the writer's spectrum, though, despite the amount of time I spend listening to music. Since I buy music in CD/SACD form, my library is strongly constrained by budget, so I don't listen to as much new music as I should (my collection is also strongly-weighted toward audiophile recordings, which generally means that it is extraordinarily conservative). Instinctively, I know this is wrong because many of my favorite albums have been somewhat random, rather than planned purchases. Still, that Mobile Fidelity SACD of Santana III has my name on it. Even with those caveats, I have no excuses with access to free Spotify, internet radio, YouTube, etc. We are living in an unprecedented age of musical accessibility, and I am not one to complain.

No such luck, it's about 4pm so yeah... all hail the darkness!!!

And that puts us over 25. Price is now $8 cheaper

I have maintained for over a quarter century that the F40 is the pinnacle of the prancing horse brand.

43$... gotta love shipping lumps of steel.

The turnaround for the upgrade took 16 days. As for the upgrade, from what I gather from other sites will take ~3 weeks powered up to fully settle in. Just like a fresh new Yggy. From first listen on my just turned on upgraded Yggy, I liked what I heard: Massive increase in plankton and the grey background now has a more teal tone to it. < Actually most things just sound “more right” now, and less synthetic or slightly irritating (from memory). For me a good sign. As a visual analogy, it’s like comparing a good flatscreen with factory presets and now after having it calibrated. Same TV but more dialed in. Subjectively moar better, I’m not going to try and qualify it further.

Earlier - poutine and duck confit - french fries, fresh curd, duck gravy.

I was going to suggest the Gilmore CFP2. If going balanced I would front it with a ubal-bal board for flexibility in input choices. Cheap, easy to build, and very good compared to the other suggestions. Use the golden reference PSU and you’ll be, well, golden. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Isn't natural light more of a theory for you in January!

The top plate is fine but the bottom panel is raised a bit to fit the transformer inside. Nobody could make the necessary transformer smaller than 40mm in height so this one had to be squeezed in at 42mm so the bottom is raised up a bit. It was annoying but yeah, nothing I could so short of mounting the transformer on the outside which could cost far more in the end. This amp will drive any Stax sets out there but it was never designed for the 007's in mind. Think of it as an upgraded 353X but in a much crazier chassis. On a side note, the natural light up here just sucks for taking photo's... I was actually just trying to install more lights in that room to make it easier.

go for the ksa5 with a golden reference power supply, not to tricky to build and no heat monster. read the two threads for the ksa5 and the grlv and match the parts for the amp (cheap transistor tester do the work quite well). if you want some action, some brrrzzzz and puff go for something high power, high heat, high voltage. i'm shure you would then increase your desolder skills, a good thing but advanced projects are often also a money pit :-(

Like this totally works. Cost an arm and a leg in dongles, but TB3-FW works. If you need to know and have a NDA with Intel, you can find this out. At some point I am sure it will get leaked public..

Not today but Sunday just past. A fencing tournament held two and a half hours away in lovely Victor Valley. A terrible place for a fencing tournament but a great location for a maximum security prison.

Pasta

My yggy was in for a Gen V upgrade when the analog upgrade got announced so I decided to get it done. I was thinking of selling after the Gen V upgrade since I'm happy with the Holo lvl 3 (and SFD I MKII). Get it back tomorrow so we'll see how it sounds...maybe I'll keep all three DACs.