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Spent an absolutely fabulous Easter Sunday at Compound Bedecarre. Lots of children having a great time hunting for eggs. Great food. And heartwarming feelings just hanging with the Bedecarre siblings. I love that family!

Here is 1 channel of a blue hawaii running on +/-100v instead of +/-400v, with a single 6as7 dual triode for balanced output instead of a pair of EL34. The tube current sources have been increased from 20mA to 75mA, resulting in a grid voltage of about -30 or similar to the original design Feedback resistors reduced to drop gain from 500-1000x to about 20x into a high impedance load i tested 1khz/50Vpp out at .008% thd in order to meet "today's standard" of 15W into 50 ohms balanced, I'm estimating 16x 6AS7G tubes per amp?? Sennheisers would work nicely with a baby blue Hawaii but IDK of any protection circuit that could be trusted to run no transformer or capacitor coupling into a dynamic or planar headphone!! That's why I think this may be a better project for the purpose of phase splitting/inversion, voltage gain, and buffer driver. For example, Kevin's 'tube input unbal/bal' board with the 6922 is basically the first 2 stages of all of the SS/Hybrid e-stat designs at lower voltage but a 6922 itself can't do the job completely if the job is to get to a low distortion 100Vpp balanced output to feed Uber-buffers to get the 15W into 50-ohms but you could use this baby BH type design, such as this with a single 6AS7 per channel or maybe 2x with the sections paralleled for more power, if wanting to have the ability to drive "Hi-Z" headphones directly with a very very good protection circuit, or maybe more realistically, a large film cap

You had me at "Salma Hayak"

Redefining "Wall of Sound" I guess.....

I bought these shoes to wear to MOA II, over 10 years ago. Never had the occasion to wear them there, or at any other time. I new they were waiting for just the right outfit!

It sadly took Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru dying two weeks ago at 99 for her to show up on my radar. Listen to a short interview with her on the BBC, The Honky Tonk Nun.

Watched 6 eps this weekend. Great writing. The kind that is refreshingly honest, but not annoyingly "smart", iykwim. Caplan is the real star here, serving triple-duty as not only her own character in the show, but also as the omniscient narrator AND Fleishman's inner dialog voice. She kills at all three.

Best episode ever

There's a bit to unpack there. First off, the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody include "mama, oooh-OOOH, didn't mean to make you cry." The way Freddie sings the "oooh oooh" part is phonetically similar to "UWU" which was originally text base smiley but grew into something far more because Internet and because Anime. There's also "OWO" and "OVO" which are animal and bird emotes, respectively. From there things turn into "UWU voice" which is, well... both absolutely awful and with great rarity highly amusing. Essentially it means speaking in a stereotypical anime female character voice. There's a semi-regular on my TF2 server who does the most spot on uwu voice I've ever heard and it truly both horrible and amazing.

Songbird Eva Cassidy 1998 https://album.link/i/306987130 Example: Songbird indeed. Perfect Sunday starter. Her arraignments and phrasing were really exceptional. Sad we only had her for 33 years.

Russian Red - Fuerteventura. Similar in sound to several other light folk/pop artists, but something about her sets it apart and causes me to like her more than most....

Still got nothin'.

Apparently the current HC post editor, Chrome, MacOS and me are not going to get along. If you don't understand this, consider yourself lucky. Protests in Israel.

I got nothin'.

Is that British food or prison food? Did you make Joanne mad?

How about some speaker not-porn? Some of you may recall that I made a post in the "What gear are you listening through right now?" thread during my final hours in my previous residence. That was an insanely hectic, difficult and sleep deprived time. I set up a mid 70s Marantz with a pair of (I think late 80s Yamaha NS-1000s) and used my MOTU M2 as a source. That arrangement kept me sane while I dealt with the 500 issues associated with moving. It doesn't look like much, but I assure you it did the job. NS-1000s are an ancient, boxy design. Their JA-0801 beryllium midrange drivers have a legendary status at this point. Tragically, many NS-1Ks were stripped of their mids and left to rot. I remember seeing JA-0801s being sold on eBay in the mid 00s for more than the cost of a full NS1K pair (largely because NS-1000s are 70 lbs each and expensive AF to ship.) I think that madness has subsided in recent years. Carerful observers will note the HeadRoom Desktop PSU perched on top of the Marantz, as well as the teenie, tiny wires I'm using to hook up the Yamahas. Said wires were lifted from a crappy "premium" Aiwa set my late stepather received as a gift from his kids. The Aiwa's speakers on the lower shelf to the left of frame. All I can say is that the wires worked.

Went to one of my local dealers today, got to listen to the LX-60's as well as the LSX II's. The 60's are amazingly balanced top to bottom, very smooth yet detailed sounding; the bass is deep yet very tuneful I'd say. Yet at times I thought it was still a little too polite...maybe TOO refined..... The LSX II's were a little more bloomy in the mids; I actually heard more of the room & reverb on a couple recordings. It may not have been as flat as the LS-60's tonally, but it was not glaring, and it sounded quite nice. I think the LSX II's with the KC62 subwoofer (they have a line level output for subs I believe) would be an awesome pairing at about 1/2 the cost of the LS-60's. But damn do those 60's look nice!

Both the new wireless and LS 50 meta look quite nice! I think the LS 50 Meta with their new KC-62 Subwoofer would be a real nice & fun combo! I had just picked up a pair of Q350's, but may look into that combo instead....overkill for my 3rd/test/play system, but this IS H-C....!