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As is typical, Doug was right. Like the less blingy version now that it is installed.

Our rain brought us visitors... One of two about 22 inches height.

Good thing they put an antibacterial coating on the lens, keep that staph infection rate low for all the kiddies poking at it and asking "granpa, wha's dat?"

It's an no-feedback I/V stage, which was his main thing for these vintage R2R implementations: Drifts a bit but nothing major once you zero it, 20-ish mV

I started listening to the Surrender book. I am not sure that counts here. It is like 20 hours long though.

I think there are some DSD people here, including @kevin gilmore but Andrea Mori just announced his new DSD-only design that accepts external oscillators: https://www.thewellaudio.com/twsdac-dsd/ Only drawback is that you gotta use his FIFO to interface with his products, which adds a pretty hefty chunk to the buy-in. Not really meant to be a shill post, but I put his AD1862 DAC together and it checked off a lot of boxes for me in terms of flexibility in tweaking both the digital and analog parts. I'm pretty happy with the sound- I was gonna post it earlier but kind of slipped my mind.

Plain walnut was a bit boring so I worked in a bird’s eye maple racing stripe for pizzazz!!

They are identical in every way, just the color of the housing and the embossed logo in the headband differentiate them. Stax serial numbers are a complete bust, you can have a very early set with almost the same serial number as nearly new one.

RIP Israel "Zuny" Zelitch. 99 years old, he was in the same Independent/Assisted Living facility as my mother-in-law. In times after his wife passed, and my father-in-law was gone, he was a wonderful companion to her. She passed in June 2021, he just passed today. A brilliant and fascinating man, not much for idle conversation but had some fascinating stories. Also a major part of local Yiddish organizations, and very well known in that community. Unfortunately he was unconscious soon after catching COVID recently, was moved to hospice where his son (wearing basically a hazmat suit) got to say goodbye. A woman from that Yiddish community was called and they held the phone to his ear while she spoke; he actually twitched his eyes several times. Shortly thereafter, he passed. One link with info about him: https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/ABOUT-CAES/Staff-Biographies/Israel-Zelitch Karen and I had met his son and daughter-in-law years back, when our kids went to the same after-school program. We also found out his son's wife was my neighbor growing up! We got to reconnect after we found out Zuny was his dad. Karen was able to share some stories about Zuny and her mom that his son was so thankful to hear. Just a wonderful family, and a fascinating man. RIP Zuny, you may have two women vying for your attention now! 🙂