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Last night Stretch and I met the elusive @riceboy at SFJAZZ for drinks and a show last night. We saw Abdullah Ibrahim do a tribute to Hugh Masekela's band Jazz Epistles. The octet last night did two hours and fifteen minutes straight with many solos, repeated refrains, and Ibrahim just didn't seem willing to stop, even his insistence that all the other members took multiple bows at the end. It was good stuff from great musicians and not one word was said. We had a snort of Laine's smooth as silk Glen Grant 18 you while walking down the street to Absinthe for a late supper to cap a very nice evening. It was great to finally meet you Laine! Now don't be a stranger virtually on HC or IRL!

Decreasing the gain can reduce noise/distortion - however, that is not a problem with this design. It can also increase the risk of the amp oscillating. In case you don't know this, oscillation is NOT a good thing. Further, decreasing the feedback resistors means more of the signal current goes to driving the feedback resistors rather than driving the headphones, which is the whole point of the exercise. In case you can't take the hint from spritzer, here's the bottom line. Unless you think the designer didn't know what the heck he was doing (in which case, why are you building his design?), I would ignore the suggested changes, and build the amp as designed. And this comes from someone who has done a fair amount of circuit modifications.

Sous vide poached shrimp ramen

Bacon wrapped Cajun shrimps. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Made a sleeve for 6mm shaft to use IBM typewrite ball as volume knob.

yup, definitely going to be crap

The last part finally came in so here is the finished build. I did run into a weird problem using the Cronus/Hermes/Amanero with this DAM1021 - the combo plays music through Audirvana fine but had serious dropout issues when playing YouTube and Amazon videos. I was able to find a few Amanero CPLD/CPU firmware combinations that seems to have addressed the issue. I started a thread over at DIYAUDIO on this topic. Right now I am using CPLD firmware "slave_for_1080" and CPU firmware "CPU_1099c". Even though the DAM1021 has its own isolator and re-clocker I feel subjectively adding the Cronus/Hermes is an improvement over using Amanero alone.

Who on earth suggested these mods? This is DIY so you can do what ever you want but this is just a shit idea...

Both Made in abyss and Land of the lustrous were surprisingly pretty good. I had almost given up on modern anime due to everything being just ok at best, but now my interest has been reignited.

This has been a very full few days, to put it mildly! Looking forward to a rest, frankly Today to see Julius Caesar at a new Theatre not far from Tower Bridge in London https://bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/julius-caesar/ With a great cast including Ben Wishaw (Q in the latest Bond movies) as Brutus and David Morrissey as Mark Anthony. Absolutely stunning day out with first rate actors.

Another Bánh mì

Bánh mì thịt nướng

Fried cheeseburger. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is that your personal table at the new Shake Shack? Forgot to post my leftover steak and tater hash breakfast from yesterday.

Not now, but next month and it's got my name all over it

Oh yes please! Thank you Mr. Moneybags!

I will not post here again until until Easter as I am giving up pork rinds and malt liquor for lent...see you then.

Homemade French Onion Soup. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So much stuff I can’t remember it all, but I’ll try! Local Wisconsin blue cheese Mixed salad with Brussels sprouts and a bunch of other good stuff Seared sea scallops with house made Kimchee and some sort of great sauce Roasted duck breast with buttermilk biscuit, local country ham, etc etc Deep fried oyster mushroom, sprouts, sauce ... Poached pear, almond semi-freddo, chocolate cookie, chocolate truffle ... funny how I remember the dessert ...

Packing right now and will be getting up at three am for a flight to Memphis for three days of fencing championships and Elvis impersonators. If we find some great BBQ it will be a good trip.