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OLEDs in the house. UGS Muse preamp (x2). This one is for HC user DrizztDo (who I am building the Carbon for and previously built an SS Mini Dynalo for). The previous processor pic(s) were from my board (in the mini T2 build thread I believe). The 0.5mm 100 pin LQFP-100 package caused me to buy a USB microscope to see what the fuck I was doing... Jose had posted one in that thread.

My days, in social isolation, are spent listening to podcasts while I go about exercise, cooking, and fussing with cats. I haven't put on a non-Apple watch in weeks. I miss my real ones, but it's so nice being able to control a Podcast from my wrist.

Seems about right...

Hello guys, after a long time, and with a lot of time in my hands due to quarantine I finally finished my Dynalo MK2 mini and reterminated my hd650 with a 4 pin balanced plug. Transistors are a bit hotter than I wanted, at 90-100 degrees with the top panel on. I need to go read about reducing bias. Sounds good though! Source at the moment is a bluesound node, need to go and find a better DAC with balanced out that doesn't break the bank.

Some progress. Replaces the original battery in my DIY T2, which was supposed not to be modified in any way… Schematic:

I'm playing with a new project and I needed to shrink the GRHV and also build the negative supply. Here's the positive and negative supplies. I'm going to test them tomorrow 🤞

Here's my KGSSHV build to offset all the fantastic, professional-looking ones posted in this thread (milling your own front plate?!). I had an old computer case lying around, so used that as the chassis. Thanks a lot to Spritzer. I started with his kit and BOM, and then exchanged about a hundred emails with him. I lowered the values of the pull-down resistors on the amp boards to eliminate hum. Other than that, the thing worked the first time. The player is a HiBy R6Pro, and I'm listening with Koss ESP/95X phones from Massdrop.

This ^^

Looks very nice. I like the negative regulator. Milled today. Board has 13 vias and I think I've found a good way to make it in our kitchen (turnaround time is an hour or so (more likely a couple of hours)). STN9360 is too big for this board. STR2550 is much smaller and there is room for four of them plus LT1021, 10M90S, HN4C51J and a few other components on the other side.

A very apt description, I've listened to V but not yet VI. And speaking of Brian Eno, listened to this the other day:

Western Electric 16A Horn

Dispatches from Elsewhere - a new series airing on the AMC network, created by Jason Segel. Although the premise sounds fairly innocuous, the execution is so fresh & quirky it defies summarization, while commanding your complete attention. Awesome cast, with everyone pulling their weight. My current favorite tv series.

These just popped up in my YouTube... never heard of them before Gary and His Demons Don't Feed the Humans

Well, by accident I found Head-Case and “The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!” on internet in 2011. Read that thread back and forth several times and I became kind of absorbed by the clone Stax T2. So it’s actually you Craig and Kevin, Birgir, Kerry, INU, et. al. that dragged me into this – I’m very grateful for what you all did to get the DIY T2 possible for armatures like me to build. After managing to build a KGSShv successfully I felt ready for the real thing - DIY T2. Bought boards from Tran and I actually succeeded with this monstrous project and had a working amplifier - at least for a while. Then all kind of problem popped up. Somehow I did fix them but eventually I found it meaningless to continue with that amplifier. Reason for the problems was probably myself (Builder Induced Failure) but it gave me a lot practice. My impression was that the quality of the boards Tran sent me was a the lower end. So I order five high quality amplifier boards. Desolder all the expensive sands including c3381 and used them on a new board. Believe it or not but it succeeded despite reused sands - no popping up failures. Then I started to make some modifications (don’t ask me why – just a bad habit) most of them worked. As I thought I needed an unmodified as reference I built the third T2. Now it felt like - just put the right component in the right position, power on, adjust batteries and you are set. But of course I started to fiddle with the new one as well. After a long hike with my wife this summer. 820 km/ 510 miles in 31 days I felt it is most appropriate to have an original DIY T2 again (I still had three amp boards left). That’s why four.

COVID-19 is going to wipe out the old guard of jazz. Add Bucky Pizzareli, Wallace Roney, Manu Dibango, Marcelo Peralta, and Mike Longo. Sad times. 😢

RIP Ellis! A sad day for NOLA! RIP Krzysztof Penderecki. A composer who was ahead of the curve. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/arts/music/krzysztof-penderecki-dead.html

So sad indeed....and RIP to the countless "non-celebrities" dying of this virus.....

RIP Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist and father of Wynton and Branford, dies at 85 of COVID-19-esque symptoms. https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_bbdaf4c4-7481-11ea-92ae-1758b23c65c8.html

RIP Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne co-founder. Wow... https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/entertainment/adam-schlesinger-dead/index.html

'Curly' Neal, Harlem Globetrotters ball-handling legend, dies at 77