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Starting a pair of bedside tables this morning. Solid Walnut with an open shelf with wireless charging and drawer for important stuff like zombie killing tools. Contemplating electronic locks on the drawers to keep the maids from trying to dust my zombie tools. Mostly a 22x18 marble shelf inset into the frame for top shelf and walnut carcass with some variant of mid-century modern legs.

The Technics SB-9500s via Kenrick Sound.

yeah, I started out with their ORTF mic, the mstc44, then several changes later had a film sound setup (vms02 preamp with mk21h and mk8, and an apogee ad500). I got busted with that setup once stealth, and the guy who busted me was confused how I snuck it all into the club

This is probably pushing it too far. Changed ksc2690 for 2sc3324. Board size now 99mm x 112mm or 3.95in x 4.44in. Looking at the 3D visualizer it seems doable. I've found a way to lay down the transistors flat but not how to bend the legs. Anyhow it’s fun working in Proteus. You can create the most odd things.

It was like a grand tour though, with excellent hotels in interesting cities on the way. Not like Joni Mitchell's Amelia "I dreamed of 747s over geometric farms" "I've spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitudes" Must listen to Blue today....Mitchell at her poetic best.

The Southampton to Sydney ("in only 85 flying hours") empire flying boats seemed a bit more fun. First class only Daylight flying at 150mph / < 5000ft with overnight signature hotel stops ... https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/flying-boats-sydneys-golden-age-aviation "Accidents were frequent: in the first six years, 32 people died in seven incidents. Imperial Airways never achieved the levels of technological innovation of its competitors" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Airways

I am basically a full time team fight tactics player at this point. Trying to hit GM but yeah might not happen this set.

I remember seeing those Nak racks in the showroom while stationed in Okinowa. IT cost about as much as a new Mustang.

From Silicon Carbide. Spritzer's invention, the name too AFAIK.

This is what I used. PNs missing for some stuff. Gilmore_protect3_mod_BOM_1.xlsx

@Playmusic I don't get it. If you are afraid you are choosing an costlier amp just because it has higher SPL, then just lower the volume on more expensive one and if you think the less expensive amp now sounds better, then your wallet thanks you.

Schematic a few posts up is updated and now reflects what I’ve built. Changes: R21 – R23 and Q3,Q4. Picture from top. Carbon board to the right with ceramic insulators. New thing to the left. All transistors (2SA1968 and 2SA4686) on bracket are insulated and don’t need ceramic insulators.

Interior of a 1936 airliner, run by Imperial Airways, the first British commercial airline. Looks really safe.

Thought this free Sunday program might be interesting for some. https://silentfilm.org/making-music-for-film/ Our next free online masterclass features DJ Spooky in conversation with Carter Burwell and Graham Reynolds. These three extraordinary musicians (and friends) will talk about composing for film—touching on the similarities and differences for silent cinema. Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) is an artist and composer with an affinity for silent film. His live remix of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—Rebirth of a Nation—premiered in 2004 and Miller went on to score Dovzhenko’s Earth and Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, among others. He executive-produced the Pioneers of African-American Cinema box set, which features his scores for two Oscar Micheaux films. Miller performed at SFSFF 2017 with his score for Micheaux’s Body and Soul and there are plans afoot to bring Miller to San Francisco to perform at SFSFF’s next in-person event. Carter Burwell is known to anyone who’s seen a film by the Coen Brothers—his ineffable touch is on everything from Blood Simple to The Big Lebowski to The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, not to mention his scores for films by Todd Haynes and Spike Jonze! Graham Reynolds composed the elegant music for Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, and Where’d You Go, Bernadette, among his many other film scores. Reynolds got his film-composing start by scoring silent films!

Like I said, this isn't the exact amp I'm working on. The board on the right is a Gilmore protect board (HIGHLY recommended on one of these). The one on the left in this amp I believe is doing the SS/ZF switching.

Milling process went smooth. Here is the board populated with components I had at hand and it works alright I would say. It is playing in pair with a Carbon I built three years ago. The Carbon to the left but its actually the right channel. Amplifier is upside down. I put the trimmer on bottom side – I forgot that this isn’t a tube amplifier with none component side facing upwards. In schematic posted earlier there is a couple of 2SA1486 but I took a pair of KSA1156 instead which is OK as HV is +/-400V.

Was consolidating gear while cleaning the apartment, found two Rode NT-2As. I bought the newer one years ago, and the used one even longer ago than that. Never put together that I had two until today. Unmatched, completely different age, one used, one new...

I think a welcome message in YouTube format would work better.

Jessie Matthews OBE, star of stage and screen - musicals mainly. This, looking like it was photographed recently was over 90 years ago aged about 20.

A guy on /r/audiophile had a pair of 18" subs for a live PA that he was unable to sell, so he added them to his home theatre. WAF is quite low as it turns out.

This is the new version of this ES. amp using a pair of Mundorf Supreme EVO instead of input transformers. When using coupling capacitors, the ground is not isolated anymore like a line input transformer with Faraday shield, and <1M grid risistors should be connected to the grids of ECC88 to establish a -420V DC bias voltage, which is the same bias voltage as transformer input version. This capacitor coupled version sounds more straightforward, more transparent, but with less "transformer distortion" which is a fraction of traditional "tuby sound". And finally, the finished amp with power supply unit in one of my friends home.