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Up in Maine at the condo, took a nice little ride in Kennebunkport for lunch, then around a few nearby sites. Water picture is Cape Porpoise Maine, and two sunset pics are in our condo complex, taken by Karen earlier this week.

Batch two of home made bacon. Salt Sugar Pepper Black pepper seeds Coriander seeds Mustard seeds 5 days cure, 10 days hung to dry. The other 5lbs is in the fridge. Sooo good.

Went for a rip around the neighborhood this morning.

We bought a new outdoor thermometer yesterday so I am trying to find a nice place to hang it. Thermometers are a lot like new headphone amps I guess in that they need some time break in before they display accurate readings. There is no way it is 44 degrees here, it feels more like 100.

They’re better than Beats, but the comparison with JH13 is complete hyperbolic shilling. That reviewer must’ve been high on serotonin agonists.

Yeah. Not very good, there's no detail and everything sounds all muddled. The drivers are just too slow to sound any good.

Replaced the six year old $11.99 generic Chinese Bluetooth adapter with a modern $14.99 generic Chinese Bluetooth adapter. Improved SQ and 2010 Kia Optima now slightly less embarrassing.

Surprised nobody has mentioned the liquid midrange and ribbeting bass.

Fucking amazing looking bacon. Want. 🤤

today was quite the ride. 5 miles in my left crank arm came off. so i took 2 minutes and put it back on, and made a note to get a torque wrench. i then went 3 more miles til it started pouring. Got within a mile of home, hit a pothole, and got a flat. but still got PRs on every segment except the one where the arm fell off, and am 11 seconds from KOM on one segment now.

Any one tried these out yet?

B&W Nautilus trickle-down technology. At least you’ll save on (es)cargo(t) fees.

That's how you spot the lizard people.

I shook some salt on them and the soundstage shrunk.

Has it been cryo-treated? I heard that's important to truly get the best temperature readings from an analog thermometer. Otherwise try giving it a few hours back and forth between warm and cold places to accelerate the break-in process.

Ditto!

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I studied classical guitar in a Segovia influenced studio for 7 years (many of the instructors had attended his master classes in Madrid). We all had great respect for Bream and I always aspired to have a pinch of his wonderful tone. I never got to see him in concert but I listened to The Art Of Julian Bream (and the wonderful Hauser guitar he played on it) constantly. RIP

@mwl168, I found exactly the same thing. Once I elevated the heaters, the hum was eliminated completely. 12AT7s are at 60V (voltage divider off B+ rail) , and 6SN7s are at -340V (tied directly to B- rail). In all, I did 4 things to make mine totally silent: Used voltage divider to elevation the filament voltages. +60V for 12AT7s and -315V (or in my case, I just tied it to B- so -340V) for the 6SN7s I switched to different set of tubes. The ones I started with just hummed. After switching, much less hum More careful grounding of components Finally, to get rid of slight hum when volume control was at 11:00 to 5:00 position, I switched from a 50K pot to a 10K pot, which totally eliminated any hum when the volume control was in the mid/high region.

Since I started trying different tubes on my SRX Plus I've noticed that, while the amp is dead quiet with some tubes, some tubes will result in audible hum with no input signal present. After some reading and experiment I decided the hum is most likely caused by leakage current between the heater and cathode of the input tubes. I decided to elevate the input tube AC filament supply. The photo below shows the filament elevation circuit I added this morning. The 12.6vac filament is elevated to about + 56VDC reference to ground. The amp with the same set of tubes went from a bothersome hum to dead silent (knock on woods)!

it rained, and the rest of my parts arrived, so I rebuilt my bike. Ultegra R8000 full group, 52/36 crank, 11/30 cassette, fulcrum 6 wheels (apparently I need a spacer, so my "magical r8000 shifting" isn't quite magical yet), ec70 stem and bars

I like how a heatsinked 3U chassis is now the modest build answer

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