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Making Mother's Day dinner for my family, my parents, and the in-laws. Brisket and ribs are looking good. This was earlier this morning.

My SME 20/2A which I purchased new in Jan 2002, got around 3000 L.P.'s and still climbing

Thanks for the many thread and birthday wishes!!! Not doing much here today, just a little Ozark and then I’m headed to dinner at MAD (a fun and yummy Spanish restaurant - MAD is the airport code the Madrid).

Will be sure to put on some plaid and birks today! So many to choose from. Since it’s summer. It’s time to rip off the sleeves though and show off my white pasty arms.

Happy Birthday Shelly. Have yourself an incredible day. Do something selfish today, like buying plaid. Every good lesbian owns plaid!

A Birthday so important that I've posted it twice (and can't figure out how to delete).

I'm always hesitant between 100th Window and Mezzanine. I think both are great works very correlated. However Blue Lines is still very special.

Finally got the whole magic side table together and did a test cut for an upcoming personalized drawer front project. I guess with the new 3HP spindle it needs to be set almost all the way at the top of the clamp to allow the dust boot to actually enclose the bit and suck better. IMG_1923.MOV

Some people were whining in another thread that the Moderators here don't ever do any moderating. So I merged the two birthday threads.

I don't know either - but I will pick this thread for now. Cheers Shelly - Many Happy Birthdays!! Wishing you many maths and cocktails (until you cannot do maths)

Happy Birthday, Shelly! Wishing you many cocktails!

Happy Birthday Shel! Hope you follow up your mimosa with some other fine libations and have a great day! 😘

Happy Birthday Shelly!

Happy Birthday Shelly! I hope you have a great one!

A very happy birthday to you, Shelly! I saw a math meme the other day and couldn't help but think of my favorite mathematician.

I've taken liberty to put together a lesbian "kit" for you...

Happy Birthday Shelly. Have yourself an incredible day. Do something selfish today, like buying plaid. Every good lesbian owns plaid!

Great album! I discovered it by accident -- they were playing it at Borders and I was immediately smitten. I was informed of the Tricky connection when I asked what the album was, but was already sold.

If an outsider's view may help here; - For starters, am guessing the moderators have had a longer weekend than usual? We don't need this. It's so close to Head-Fi levels one feels.. intimidated? - A nod to @spritzerand @kevin gilmorefor having the patience and self-restraint to go through all this; again. Or perhaps the wisdom to understand that financial benefit alone dictates said patience, lol, same thing ultimately ^^ - I beg to differ on a number of things with Spritzer regarding tastes (in both amps and headphones) and as such, take his opinions on certain aspects with a grain of salt. However; if one reads first and posts later (not the other way round), one can see where's he's coming from -he's not exactly hiding his biases is he- and judge accordingly. One further reminds one's self how one can literally go to a certain Google Drive URL and download the actual schematics at zero a cost. You pay these two folks only so that they build it for you, if that's your preference. No one forces you to. Even implying, no mater how tactfully, that they're here to fool or misdirect you is as such pretty fucking retarded if i may be so bold. This goes to certain newcomers. As stated, moderation appears to have been lapsing here lately. You think that Paltauf monstrocity, on an Italian crappy chassis at that (hum hum and hum) is your amp of choise? By all means and so long to you, truly. Enjoy. * yes, i know their "quality" full well; cannot afford better for experiments unfortunately.. they are horrible. For electrostatic amps specifically? Just, no. The above to anyone concerned. I would have some more to add for Spritzer alone, regarding his approach to sales and his stance towards Stax (as in publicly or more specifically, his phrasing thereof). Being in the circle but lacking the wallet of most you folks, i am by necessity inclined to use brain cells as well as research. As time's gone by and acquaintances have occured, it seems i am not alone in having certain thoughts, regarding improvement that is, not insinuating anything of a derogative nature mind. But this being the Stax thread, am not so sure it's the place to do so I will however add for full disclosure that he's the only person i'd trust with my money; over the internet that is, sans guarantees, physical store, reps, et al.; i actually have. Are you of a different mindset? Once again, good for you. You never needed to come here and tell us though.

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100th Window Massive Attack 2003 https://album.link/i/714756948 Example:

This. I dig.

This thing is actually worse than previously thought when you look at it. So first thing, never, ever use the balanced input... those are clearly opamps next to each XLR socket so... yeah badly converted to SE. Pure quality there... Then we have one input tube feeding both EL84 push-pull output stages so it has to be a phase splitter for them. There is not a whole lot of gain here plus the limitation of the choke being used... this is pretty dire A bit of context here, when you dig through history, the first ever mention of electrostatic headphones (DIY) is from the 50's and something like this is what was suggested as the amplifier to drive them... as there were push-pull tube amps everywhere at that time. Leave the output transformer secondary floating, take the signal through caps off the output tube plates, some high value resistors to ground after the caps and a simple bias off the B+. So this is somehow high end now?

the circuit only works properly if you know the designer personally

Quixotic Martina Topley-Bird 2003 https://album.link/i/1458137669 Example: Diverse album with a lot of different styles. I liked it; I will check out her recent stuff

Animal Lump 2021 https://album.link/i/1565398489 Example:

Cinder is a good name for a black cat.

Voidfloof is amazing!

The driver looks very well built. I'll get a pair too.

Managed one test before blowing the fuse, which I cannot get locally, with the giant 2 inch spoil board flattening disc. Will probably just plug the spindle into its own circuit and love with plugging it in each time instead of running off the controller power supply. Finding the spoil board design to be lacking as I have too few t tracks. Might just use the base layer and screw/glue wood to the MDF, once the midget fuses finally arrive.