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Pork Butt smoked on the Traeger for nine hours, prepared mostly according to the recipe for Momofuku's Bo Ssam https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12197-momofukus-bo-ssam?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share Claire and I ate it Momofuku/Korean style in lettuce wraps and relevant sauce/accouterments, but Alden and Steve made pulled pork sandwiches with BBQ sauce and all seemed to be pleased.

I reserve that energy for toilet paper purchasing.

I managed to get my kgsshv project done without creating some big mess and spark, and I want to thank KG for his design , Birgir and many member here for their generous contributions. oyaide L/i50 OFC is used as umbilical cords but is not shown here. later on a L/R balance control will be installed. The power and the amplifying section is about the same size so they can be stacked together. The heat sink size is less than ideal and it runs so hot that I can barely touch. My IR thermometer reads 47 oc but I think it is inaccurate due to the shiny appearance of the heatsink. But then I think at least these heat sinks are bigger than those on-board ones so this should not be a problem. Two stax plug are installed becoz I have dozens of them taken apart from stax extension cords. There are some small issues during startup. The power supply board had some sparking on the bias section becoz some paint is off and probably there are some small filament peeled off from the leg of the 1n4007. It needs some epoxy to cover up the arcing spot. There is also something with the amp board. At first there is no sound, balance sits at 700v and two burnt 50k resistor on each board next to the stn9360. It turns out that I installed some mpsa06 instead. Luckily it fires up after replacement. The first second it plays it blows 717 away. Big soundstage , great dynamic and details. Pretty much no complain and is hard to beat except that vocal can be more engaging. Drives omega, es1a and 007 equally well. I think it somehow sounds sweeter than the carbon I built long thime ago.

Got those Hawaiian rolls. Can recommend.

Ok, I have a line on a Diedrich 12.5 KG roaster, so now it's time to get serious. Who would be interested in signing up for 3, 6 or 12 months of coffee from me? 2 pounds a month, $30 a month local or $40 a month shipped? I'd pick 2 varieties a month. I'm trying to see if it would make sense to try this. I need to hit the equivalent of about 80 yearly subscriptions to make it worth investing in the roaster. Edit: Ok, that was amazingly unclear. $90 for 3 months face to face, $120 shipped. $165 for 6 months face to face, $225 shipped, and $300 for a year, or $420 shipped.

Power supply is back. Replaced a number of FQPF8N80C, 30V zeners, 15R power resistors, one 2sa1486 and one 2k resistor. What actually killed the power supple (except the guy that should be feeding ducks) has to be investigated…

I do what I can.

"Luxman 3045: Childproofed since 1976."

nope, it's a 12. It was a 5 years down the road purchase, but one showed up for the price of the 5 lb roaster I was looking at. The biggest drawback is it's 1000 freaking pounds. So there's housing the beast that's at issue.

I finally tried plugging a mouse into my iPad. This is pretty slick! I’m impressed how well the cursor is integrated into iOS. Well done, (cr)Apple!

Sorry about getting back here late Here is the mk1 with the small plastic piece that goes over the solder pads.

What, not fighting to the death with your bare hands over a piece of gear you both were interested in? This isn't the Head-Case I know.

Finished out the final season of Baskets (Hulu).

It was and it is!

Was this posted already? So good, I'm not taking a chance that it hasn't been.

Are you smarter than a pigeon? Remind who was president in 2017?

Tried a recipe from a restaurant, Pastabilities, in Syracuse, NY as seen on DIners, Drive-Ins and Dives, called Wicked Chicken Riggies. Basically chicken and rigatoni in a spicy tomato cream sauce. Quite good and the whole family enjoyed it. I'll be doing it again. The recipe makes a huge portion of the sauce; I cut it in half and still have enough for another meal for 4. Sorry, I'd already started eating before I took the pic

That assumes that I eventually get the 'vide cooker that I've had for over a year up and running. It's still in the box in storage... ME FAIL.

Might be the fumes talking, but don't try to solder a CFA3 in one sitting.

Look what I just found at my door step...

The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski Really great – the final novel in the 5-part series. Oddly, I have a feeling Michael Moorcock would love reading these books... there was talk of a lawsuit years ago re: the Witcher vs. Elric, but I think Moorcock dropped it. Sapkowski uses a variety of literary devices (moving the story out of chronological order, shifting the perspective to different characters, etc.) to excellent effect and he is able to maintain a lot of the humor and charm of the series while the characters pursue their epic quest. There is also a bit of the medieval brutality and eye for detail that you read in George R.R. Martin's books. I'm not sure if Sapkowski had read them in the 90s while he was writing these books in Polish.

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I'm glad you're enjoying it! That's a fantastic compliment.

I took Dan up on his kind offer, having my second cup now, it's terrific.

anyone interested, send me your address and I'll send you a half pound of my coffee.

Restored and blue LED modded Marantz.

I use FreeNAS + Roon + Raspberry Pi 4 or Audio Cast M5 or Apple TV. The Roon Server runs on the NAS where the files are stored. I have lots of compute (Xeon E-2136), RAM (64GB) and disk resources (80TB) in a small form factor that lives in my closet. I use a Node 304 case, which is as tiny as you can get for this setup. I use the RPI4 to connect to my SACD player which has a USB input that can do DSD, and the M5 for patio speakers and a portable speaker and ATV for everywhere with a TV. I have one exception where I need something custom, which is the input to Metric Halo / Headphone rig. I am building an embedded device that will run full OSX and be the size of a RPI4 and can connect via Ethernet to the MH. It all works amazingly well. Browsing around via the library via an iPad is fun and educational.

Too Cheap? https://homehack.nl/creating-a-raspberry-pi-squeezebox-server/ Server https://www.picoreplayer.org/ https://www.max2play.com/en/ https://shop.max2play.com/en/7inch-metall-bundle-hifiberry.html

Today has been a nice and interesting day. I finished a mini T2 with active battery. The copper color board on right side in picture in previous post. Late afternoon I were ready for the first power on. One DMM to measure one side verses ground and another to measure the other side. High voltage clicked in – no explosion – on side showed a few volts verses ground while the other almost 400 volt verses ground. It took some time for me to realize that the 400 volt reading in fact was the BIAS. I’m getting to old for this. When I found the right measuring points I had very nice readings. Batteries are always interesting. Readings as follow. Left +194V and -443V, right +196and –443V. So they also seem to be alright. (using 640V instead of original 740V) Connecting headphone. Very noticeable hum but the music sounded good. After a while very annoying noise came. The noise almost disappeared when I approached the trimmer with the screwdriver but came back when I pulled back my hand. Turned power off and changed the small tubes, power up again, lower my guard and went for a cup of coffee and… it all exploded… So tomorrow I have to fix the power supply for the second time within a week. On amplifier board visible; burned traces, resistors and one popped transistor. Maybe I should feed ducks.