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Milled a second board today and after some struggling I eventually have a stereo opamp driver. Now I listen to this and this… Grüner Veltliner for my father-in-law... he was born in Austria.

The stunning Hedy Lamar, born Nov 9th 1914. Actress, beauty, and inventor (of spread spectrum communication).

Lily and I decided that today required cookies. Chocolate Chocolate Chip w/ Toasted Coconut

But where haven't you had five guys?

Here is a (my) version of Kevin’s opamp RAAL driver. Board is kitchen made. Some parts are smd but schematic is same as original. Only one channel working and it’s powered by lab power supply max 3A. Occasional when playing, not very load , leds indicating max current hit are flickering. But I've two 340W Mean Well supplies at hand. Mouser don't sell them supplies to ordinary consumers in Europe so my wife bought them for me. Lucky me.

I also had issues opening 3rd party apps. Apparently they try to connect to Apple servers to request permission, and the servers weren't responding. Fix was to disconnect from the internet, open all the apps I needed, they turn the internet back on. 🤷‍♂️

Update failed for me, and seemingly for almost everyone else trying to download it. Apparently Apple is having server issues. Tomorrow it is!

I just need MS Office and Dropbox, both of which have always been ready for day 1 updates. I'm not reliant on anything exotic.

You might see if you can do a dual install (or at least be sure and have a very recent backup). If you rely on that computer for your work, that seems pretty daring to me! For pro audio work, BS is not an option,.. yet!

That's about right. My level of wit is about as sharp as a softball. 🤪 We had a Five Guys in Texas. Not bad, but nothing to write home about.

Want!

Don't be silly. If you were being attacked I'd simply set off the small bombs hidden under your new smoker.

Aw fudge, how did I miss this? Happy belated Birthday, Mikey!

I have been listening more and more to Raal SR1a, and it really is a beautiful thing. I do have to wonder about how this little Jotunheim R's balanced, differential "Nexus" gain stage is claimed to deliver "up to 13 amps" into Raal's low impedance, and how this cheap raal direct-drive amp will compare.

I have no idea what you're talking about, I'm a pure and innocent soul.

Minimalism: https://reedklass.com/strathshire-hall-ln

I've only tried LCD-4Z and LCD-2 which certainly sound unique and enjoyable, although the often-reported driver failures and unit-to-unit sound variability means I'd rather buy something else or only buy if I find extremely good prices. Then there is Hifiman... Holding the Abyss or the Raal SR1a in hand, they are built extremely well but in opposite design approaches. Abyss employs extremely solid, thick, ceramic-coated aluminum frame to position the earpads barely touching the face. Raal uses very thin, flexible, self-contracting frame to let the whole headphone shrink down on the head, with user adjusting the driver angle like AKG K1000. As an aside, the Schiit Jotunheim R amp purpose-built to drive Raal SR1a's extremely low impedance (0.4 Ohm) CAN drive the Abyss 1266 wonderfully via DIY 4-pin female XLR to 4-pin female XLR adapter (non-standard pinout). Quite surprising, but the combo sounds great. and I suspect whatever they did to increase current-delivery into low impedance is working well for low impedance planars by accident 😄 0408201821 by drjlo2, on Flickr