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thanks folks - had a great mini vacation in Cuba with cigars, rum, music food and sights. thank you all for the birthday wishes and kind thoughts

First Thanksgiving course created by chef Peter, Beef Wellington ala Gordon Ramsay

We hosted for the first time this year....turned out to be great, everyone pitched in and brought things, and a wonderful time was had. I even had a work colleague in this week from Amsterdam, so I invited him over for dessert. ALMOST makes me want to do it again.....

Doing a much milder version of winterization on the Audi today. Wheels showed up this morning and entirely unwinter-like 265 45 ZR 20 Continental Extreme Contacts go on this afternoon. Should be good enough for this area. I also wish I had a garage that was as clean as Nate’s. Winterizzzzed. The best thing is, since I happened to change my appointment from tomorrow to this afternoon, I got 20% off because of Black Friday.

Wow. It cost me less than $500 to build mine.

A somewhat of a Franken-Pass.

Lookie what I found. Thanks for the recommendation Mikey.

Interesting metalish jazz or jazzy metal, who knows Harriet Tubman - The Terror End of Beauty. Available on Tidal for listening and on Bandcamp for purchase

Happy belated Thanksgiving all

2me4irl James Lumb, the man behind Electric Skychurch, and his cat. Tromsø, Norway. 500 miles inside the arctic circle. Home to Geir Jenssen and Röyksopp.

should've jumped immediately...they're up to $900/pair now...plus tax for most...still smoking...

https://www.jbl.com/loudspeakers/STUDIO+590.html JBL Studio 590 $810/pair!!...

Played tourist in SF this afternoon, Where I encountered ... https://en-us.sennheiser.com/sf Sennheiser's only store in North America (?) Knowledgeable staff, and the usual suspects The new stuff isn't too shabby.

And it's a Black Edition... ❤️

kefdirect has LS50 for $1,000...

One can always hope... springs eternal and all that. The WES is a particular clusterfuck though as it didn't work on so many levels. It's a collection of 4 mono phase amps really so you need the super noisy phase splitter to the circuit for it to work with RCA inputs and then we have the inductor output loads which simply don't work. Add to that a really, really crappy power supply and all the usual Woo audio safety concerns. So back in the day, for those that are unfamiliar, there was some discussion that they were just doing the best they can or some such BS so I said...can I do better? I set some rules, same power supply voltages, same tubes naturally (though not the rectifiers as they are just stupid) and as similar a parts count and general topology as possible. So output caps like in the original, inter stage caps etc. Throw it all in a spare box and here it is: The massive tower was just something I had and as you can see... it is pretty much empty: The chassis was reused from a dac project our resident "circular hole cutter tech" did so extra holes galore and then it was powder coated to look nice. That's why it has only XLR loop outputs on the back. So here is the money shot... Sooooo...this is a small DC supply to run the heaters of the tubes and my SSPS (simple stacked PS) feeding +300/+600 plus bias to the amp. The amp it self is a combination of a modified SRX front end with a new grounded cathode output stage. That pic is from the first testing so there were some changes done later on but it worked well enough and about 1/4th the size of a WES...

http://www.winedelight.com/Auchentoshan-Valinch-Single-Malt-Scotch-Whisky-p/13101.htm

Went to a "celebration of life" for my friend Alex who passed away earlier this month at 26; many tears were shed yesterday. I haven't had the heart to come in this thread in a bit, but I'm so saddened by all of the losses near and dear to those of our d-_-b family. ❤️ and *hugs* to you all.