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Made a case for the Pi, camera mount, and some Silvie Loki horns.

Don’t make me whip this out. (Made it last night)

A small box, to house incense for Fitz. It will have 4 drawers. Going to highlight the plywood edges, and stain it all. Carcass is cut, glued and assembled with micro pocket screws.

The 16th is when my dad officially died, in 2006 (I think he “died” a few days before; my mother and I argue about it still). I don’t normally wear one of his watches at this time of the year, but 15 years on I think I can handle it. It’s an objectively great watch. I wish it were mine.

Ella Fitzgerald - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

Goldpoint V47 is same Elma switch and a lot less money.

Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

Refreshed my Senn PX-200 with new ear and headband pads.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck I do not trust Valve when it comes to hardware.

Pleased To Meet Me - The Replacements

Really impressed with the Sitkovetsky Trio...

I'm not sure what those things are but they are sure as shit not Megatron's. Looks more like a SRX with some version of the Megatron output stage... This is why Kevin and I try to expose these fuckers as they are literally running away with peoples money. On a similar note, I have another amp from JR Audio here now and well... stay put for another horror story. That thing lasted for a few days before the PSU blew up... a sloppy clone of one of my old PSU's BTW.

Then there is the fairly new Elma A47 (47 positon) four channel attenuator https://www.elma.com/en/products/rotary-switches/audio-solutions/a47-audio-switch--4-wafers-12070365 But you are back in RK50 territory. The conclusion is: highest quality four channel attenuators all end up at about the same price, or even beyond RK50!

Then there is this http://www.tkd-corp.com/products/att/pdf/p65cs-e.pdf which is what Curl used in the Blowtorch. He used a stereo one, not four channel, because Blowtorch was not inherently a balanced preamp. It is available in four channel, I have no idea of the price, but expect it to be substantial. Then there is the Seiden 74005, 58 position 4 channel switch. You need to add resistors of course. That switch is Y47,000 direct from Seiden ($430, shipping, taxes etc on top). Depending on the resistor choice you could be back in RK50 territory or beyond. Although the Seiden price list is 2012, that is the one that Seiden sent me in Feb 2020. I have not tried either the TKD nor the Seiden, but at least considered the Seiden for another project (pending) that needs a really weird attenuation law. SEIDEN.pdf PRICE_LIST_2012.10.pdf

The Vanishing of Harry Pace: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/vanishing-harry-pace https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/14/an-american-riddle-the-black-music-trailblazer-who-died-white-harry-pace

Chillin' with Captain Beefheart

Another pot or stepped attenuator I have worked with (on Todd's CFP3) is a 41 step unit from Acoustic Dimension. It seemed pretty nice with good tracking, etc. The do make quad units, and the one in the CFP3 was a 10K, which they don't show on their website. http://www.acoustic-dimension.com/

I’ve received several helpful replies You are very welcome to have a look without cost or obligation, and bin it, if that’s all it’s really good for. I don’t have high hopes for it, and George’s T2 is already near completion. It would be good to shed light on what this builder is actually doing. I get 80% off on UPS domestically, and it should be at your door next-day, within province. UPDATE: A very reputable member, local to me, has kindly agreed to take a look, and shed some light on this build... Thank you, all!

I don't blame you. It makes me horny too.

Moses Sumney.

Tibetan woman holding Bitcoin mining PSUs. Little known SinglePower modded remote control.

100% pure vinyl

Blowin' The Blues Away Horace Silver 1959 Example:

The Very Best Of Jackson Browne

Finished up the stairs!

Seeing that Felitsa audio is still alive and well on Ebay (fls.audio on eBay), below, you can find Paramesh's full PM, outlining his Stax "Support" experience with Thuan and fls.audio : my name is paramesh .. i see that you have a megatron ..got from tuan just wanted to ask you hows the amp doing ...? i am asking you cuase i have the megatron from him as well and it has an issue and i am bit stuck ..and not able to reach him .. any leads a can help oh my goodness !! sounds very similar saga !! thank you so much for replying sir !! greatful .. i been feeling badly stuck and alone with the amp after the guy turning his back on me after shelling out a lot of money .. atleast your message gives me some hope ... but i am glad atleast your amp is fine now !! i got the megatron from him after i saw his feedback which was great from lot of people till i got the amp ..he also send a lot of messages and images of testing the amp etc etc.. i got to know your megatron is the one before mine ..and i asked him whats the diff and he told me mines a SS rectifier..or something and rest is same . same tube stages of 2 QUADS of EL34 and a pair of 12au7 and 12ax7 and all internals .. i even got the amp picked up by a shipping company through air cargo so its handled well it arrived ..i plug the amp .runs for some time ,,say a track or two ( i was might impressed ) i bump up the volume ,... say halfway stage .. tragedy strikes .. minor flames erupt from under one the EL 34 ..i unplug the amp.. i check with him ...he says he's checked all and sent and suggest some issue in transit .. i even opened amp on his request and sent him images ..no solution he asks me to try the amp again .. it works but with half gain ..50% Of what it is ... say from 9 am on volume knob .. now i am listening at 3 pm .. which is strange !! but all FR is ok.. something gone wrong in the Pre amp stage is what i thought .. i been asked by him to check with a local repair chap !!! with a bad hand drawn schematic he sends me .. i get a local electronic guy check all internals .. he shows me a busted Zener diode in the circuit of one of the channels . everytime we replace the diode and again it burns then i carry the amp to another city to a respectable someone who worked on tube amps .. and he checked and said one of the EL34 has busted ...which is true,,, so after replacing the EL34 .. the zene diode stops blowing ..but the gain is still an issue .. the person checks all the stages of amp paths and says no faults .. but the issue of HALF GAIN is not sorted out ... I wrote hundreds of mails and messages only to be told ... i must find someone and debug the issue !!!! ( so did he send me a faulty amp ?!...fully aware of the issue ... i dont know ) its been over 3 months now .. and i have heard only 3 tracks ( sounded great ).. but now its lying aside hes stopped comminucating with me and is not available on headfi .. hes been black listed ...by someone .. do you see any probablities .. what could be the reason in my amp .. for sure i did not follow any of the steps as you mentioned in point 1 of your write up .. swicthed on off in intervals .. point 2 is what evidently same issue experienced by me .. can you guide me to someone who can help me on this or even consult on chargeable basis ..to help fix this ... i will be really greatful ! i am stuck thank you so much

You know, not many things upset me too much, which is why I suppose I've put up with this amp for 2 years; however, the IMMEDIATE and IDENTICAL reply I received from Thuan BOTH here on head-case (thuytn) AND on head-fi (tranhieu) to the above post does get under my skin: I've just seen your post on HC. Could you please remove my name from that post? It could heavily affect my future sales. Hopefully you could understand my situation. Cheers Thuan Wow, this fellow has guts. Hence, I will provide some helpful, clarifying details: 1. Thuan's amp was dead the week it arrived. It had eaten through it's first set of 6 under-sized 220uf 450V Nichicon power filtering caps, and blown the soldered fuses between the GZ34 rectifiers and the caps. The inrush current was virtually uncontrolled on startup. 2. Thuan provided ZERO support, and was completely unresponsive. 3. Thuan was using a different account for amp/T2 board and transistor sales on head-fi (kytuphicanh), which was scrubbed by head-fi moderators, who added the warning: Caution: Incomplete Sales Why? Good question. The next fortunate head-fi member to buy one of Thuan's Stax Megatrons was paramesh; Paramesh contacted me directly regarding my Megatron build, and we basically had the same experience: amp dead within a week, zero support or accountability. I have all the PM's. Hence, the head-fi moderators deleted Thuan's account, kytuphicanh. No worries, Thuan has several other accounts, (including thuytn, tranhieu, fls.audio on SBAF and tee8tee4388 on reddit, among many others, no doubt) 4. Thuan's Megatron contains no delayed-start or soft-start circuit of any kind, not even a thermistor for crying out loud. The power filtering caps blew repeatedly. 5. For additional clarity, please see pictures attached of Thuan's caps upon arrival, and within a WEEK of use. Notice any tops blown right off? This happened 4-5 times before a thermistor was installed, and then the power transformer died... 6. The main power transformer was described as (pictures of his winding rig are on SBAF): "Custom-wound Kawasaki 0.23mm Z9 core transformers". In reality, the mains power transformer is under-sized and is now dead. 7. Anyone on head-case who would like to further evaluate the quality of this fls.audio Felitsa Audio amp build is welcome to receive it at my expense via UPS Express, worldwide. It is a large, single-chassis build, and it is quite dead, yet again. Cheers, indeed!