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Driving around, last night I managed to find a decent signal. Same again today. In daylight, I now understand why. I think I might have found my new temporary office location

Mass suckage Cali peeps! Stay safe and hopefully no larger impact! Me: in the hospital. Beth had her hip replacement surgery this morning and all went well. Resting I her room now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh boy.

Corner office with a view of the mountains, nice!

Having already done this, can confirm it’s a good plan!

get or build a powerwall...

A new selection of Magnum 6x6 prints are for sale for the next few days if anyone is interested.

Been listening to this a lot since seeing them a couple weeks ago.... Also listened to this a few times, strong and a bit funky....

I already invited him to come up to Seattle and move into Colin's guest room; haven't heard back yet. Will let Colin know once he gets a knock on the door saying "I'm here to drink all your whiskey; where's it at?"

Here is how I did the first one:

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Suspect Tesla is going to sell a few of those in our neck of the woods in coming months. I remember that after the big ice storm on the East Coast a couple of years back, every new build or renovation in the nicer Connecticut suburbs included an emergency generator. It just became a must-have for buyers. (Incidentally, Marin being Marin, the county sheriff had to send out an emergency bulletin the other day asking people to stop calling 911 to register generator noise complaints.) [emoji849]

Me too. Instabuy.

Robert Evans, crazy producer, dies

That looks like Gryphon electronics on top....that's how we named one of our cats (Gryphon Diablo).

nice cars... ...

Baller. 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Special. Fall Colors in the PNW - Portland, Oregon.

I haven't tried a new one in a few years but I might pickup a fresh set just to try out. Speaking of the 007's just see what Stax dropped on Youtube...

Well done, you.

Power outage camping fridge food leftovers (extra stock to cook it through, temp control is somewhat binary) Hot food under the circumstances is not too shabby. There's even a "Kettle", for tea!

I recently have been slowly acquiring modular synthesizer parts and stuff. I have nothing to present yet as it still sounds rather flat to me (need more gear) but the hobby seemed like the natural progression of being in this hobby and being a DIYer.

I like Gilmour´s relaxed style, it's like Clapton; efficiency and emotion with the least effort.

Opeth, In Cauda Venenum—if it was possible for them to turn their back on metal farther than 180 degrees, and embrace prog more, they did.

An interesting photographers storm shots I thought others might enjoy... http://mitchdobrowner.com/lightning-strikes

Well I don't know how many normal bias only SRM-727s exist, but I have one. I got the bias board built and installed today. I'm still waiting for one of the resistor values to arrive here, so for the moment I've ghetto rigged a couple of 100K resistors in series to get 200K on the first resistor, and I've switched the second resistor in the divider to 300K because I needed some for my SRX plus build and I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone. B+ runs a little hot on my amp at 365v so all together this setup yields a 225v Bias. I've got some 165K resistors enroute to replace the rigged 200k resistor on the input side so the final board should yield around 235V bias which I'm thinking will be just fine. The board is mounted to the side of the chassis on some nylon standoffs. Ground and B+ were tapped off of the test points on the board as indicated in the picture below. For ground you could actually just ground to the chassis using brass standoffs and connect ground on the bias board to one of the standoffs. I didn't have any brass standoffs so I just ran a wire for ground. She's powered up and my Lambda NBs are singing with the amp completely untethered so I'm happy. Mod success! If anybody else wants to build a bias supply like this the above schematic and values are correct as confirmed by spritzer. I'd also like to amend my previous comments on the sound of this amp. It's been a slow burner for me, but I've really warmed up to the sound. It's a little warmer than the SRM-1 MK2 which I think in short term A-B testing makes the 727 sound a little veiled. But actually all of the detail is there, it's just not as in your face as with the SRM-1 Mk2. I'm not great with all the audiophile lingo, so it's tough for me to describe exactly what this amp does, but I guess if I had to generalize I'd say it sounds more natural and effortless than the SRM-1 Mk2. It's strength is especially apparent with percussion instruments. I've listened to this amp for around 20 hours at this point, going through a significant chunk of my music collection that I'm really familiar with, and I prefer it's presentation over the SRM-1 Mk2 on everything I've heard so far. Well I think I'm done here, this is my new main amp, at least until I build the SRX Plus, but that will probably be a while.

Ok, some more progress. I took some time and fixed the gain issue of the 727, just swap out the 560ohm R5 and R6 resistors out for some 200ohm units. Again I was using RN60 pulls so they are way too big for the job... Now the amp has the same gain as the other Stax amps, sitting at 5 on the dial with my computer source. It does sound rather good with the SR-Omega even if it does bring out their bright nature a little bit once you push the volume. There is no excessive bloom here and it has a lot of control for a commercial amp. Why Stax couldn't just have made it like this in the first place is beyond me... As for the SRM-300, the LF353 had to go so I installed sockets and OPA2604AP's Edit: Damnit!!! I forgot to sand the chips...

Our section of So Cal is due for 50-70 mph winds (!) starting midnight tonight so by tomorrow the local fires can be anywhere/everywhere and very bad. We plan to stay up most of the night just in case we need to egress.

Latest from Fairfax PD claims that Marin is not supposed to be shut down for the next round unless the Kincaid fire threatens Marin power lines: 10/29/2019 The Fairfax Police Department just received the following update from the Marin County Office of Emergency Services as it relates to the PSPS and current power outages in Fairfax and the entire County. CURRENT: Power is available through the main transmission lines for Marin County but PG&E is experiencing challenges with substations. They are trying to determine and resolve those issues ASAP. FUTURE: Potential Power Shutoff Update: PG&E states that Marin is currently outside the scope of the next general PSPS that begins today (Tuesday) however the Kincade Fire could impact the county. If winds push fire towards transmission lines supplying Marin, PG&E would need to de-energize those lines and Marin would experience outage countywide. PG&E is monitoring fire and weather closely but can not give any detailed information on timing or probabilities.

Went in to SF for dinner last night for a warm meal and to charge devices and it was pretty damn surreal driving back across the Golden Gate Bridge into a nearly pitch black Marin County. It was like entering the void. Power is back on this morning but it is scheduled to go out again in a few hours and be out till potentially Wednesday evening. Plan is to run to the office, get my laptop, then go work at my boss's vacation home in Napa outside of the shut down area. I really hope we are saving lives here and not just shareholders, PG&E. This is such a pain in the ass.

Still no power this morning. It’s been out since 7pm Saturday. Word is now that it might be out until Thursday. This is insane. It might be time to head out of town for a few days and get a hotel room somewhere else.

This morning. School air quality emails coming in. Should be a colorful sunset tonight.