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My present arrived (delayed in shipping). Some insanely light and delicate handblown Austrian Burgundy glasses. Seen here being christened with some Marcassin. Given that you are talking about a man who has previously managed to spill wine into his friggin’ AirPods case, I wonder how long they will last?

Joanne’s out Bookclubbing tonight I just fancied a taste of home.

I am really enjoying this one. It doesn’t feel too big. Only gripe is the date is a bit recessed, but probably due to the extra GMT complication?

The other Mac

I sent this to an aging punk rock friend. He said there were few surprises, but he didn't think Siouxie belonged on the sexist list. I told him about a photo I saw in /r/vgb/. He's current at work (he woks for ADBE) so I couldn't sent it to him. Instead I made a work-friendly variant. He said "point(s) taken."

Been busy at work, but managed to pull a new version of the T2 amp board together. I've added separate modules for the active batteries, balance servo, pre-CCS feeding the output CCS and the opto coupled output servo. I should be able to plug and play with a few options on these modules. Here's a rendering (Eagle / Fusion 360)... I still have to test, but so far I'm happy with the layout.

Yes, it's better. Better output transistors and more powerful transformer mounted off of the PCB (less noise). Also, the tubes we had at ATL were a miss--match with the amp configuration at the time. I think it sounds very, very close to the T5 from the year before: maybe a tad less soundstage, but better tonality, deeper bass with the same microdetail up top. At the same time, Doug's design with the PCB and packaging - especially the thermal bar - means the entire amplifier is much more robust than the T3. This is the guts of the production version:

That's a minimalist, gorgeous design! Hopefully this will make the T2 more accessible to the masses...

The issue with the ESP950 though is the damping. The design is very much still stuck in the 80's so all the damping has to be removed for them to sound the way they should.

This is what is known as a ridiculous banger. Pure hit, no spin on the ball, knuckles back right inside the post. Oooooooooof. https://streamable.com/0jpkc

From checking the shipping status it seems like everyone received their cases and there was zero losses. I just wanted to thank everyone for participating in this group buy and trusting me with your money. The PDFs in the OP can be used if you want to order more at Enclosures & Cases Inc or they should work without any modifications at Context Engineering. I'll try to release a generic file of dimensions eventually which you can adapt to any enclosure. I also have some odd n ends that I will have for sale soon. Just few extra front plates and sides that they included, but nothing that amounts to a complete enclosure. I'll also make the prototype case available cheap. Also thank you everybody for covering my cases. It was an unexpected and very welcome gift. I don't really do this expecting a reward or compensation, but it's still very appreciated.

That sounds more than a little pervy.

I only know one person so far that did the SMD version. He says it gets pretty toasty and needs heatsinks. He also did a few mods. On my Dynalo Mini I mounted the LEDs backwards initially and it drove the temp really high. Read his posts because he also changed a few things that you should probably implement. I plan on building it too but have some other projects in my queue I need to finish. first thing i would ask is does it work without the buffers?