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Some bench notes on the DIY T2 - not a builder, just a tinkerer... T2_AB.pdf

Yep, it seems to work. So far so good. No heat problems. Current set to 1.5A and when filament voltage reaches 3.7V solid state relay closes.

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Just finished casing. Case size 360*270*86mm (inner 280*255*73mm) Dual GRLV ±30V Extra DC supply for attenuator, relay boards and Protector. Ship-in-bottle-like building experience with small cases and multi layer PCBs. Some very soft cables would make it easier. Difficult to adjust those trimpots on splitboards after casing. Better to do the adjustment before casing. Spider webs at the input state is a mess. Better-designed PCBs can reduce half of the cables. Will fix that after I get a new back plate and PCBs.

From the sound of things, Topping ate Monopoly and has proceeded to shit out Connect Four.

It's strange how some celebrities/artists/whatever passing affects you versus others. Just one more vid. This one by Rick Beato. Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, and Tom Waits, please eat healthy.

Connect amp's chassis to the same bolt where you have connected PE to the PSU case. To this same point you connect both GRLV grounds, say via a 10ohm resistor. That's it, for now, for safety. Measure and make sure there are no shorts between the pass transistors and the chassis. Then power on, play some music and check if you get any hum.

Yo La Tengo -- This Stupid World

RIP Gordon. Saw him my final year in college. Great song writer. Horrible concert experience. Just sat there solo playin his guitar and singing. Style more appropriate for a coffee house. Living in Michigan "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" holds special meaning.

Doing Gord's Gold vol's 1 and 2 myself.....

Couldn't pick an album - so just the playlist of all. etc.

^ During college I was in an on and off relationship that ultimately was impossible. Lots of emotion, heartbreak, great times, etc. It was a bit too much to bear, so we decided, we needed to not see each other for a bit to get over our feelings, so that we could just be friends. After not seeing each other for awhile, we decided to go out for some coffee. I remember how strange and awkward it felt compared to being around her before. The excitement and connection was no longer there. It felt empty in a way. So, just us in a small coffee shop kind of quiet, then If You Could Read My Mind, came on. At the part, "I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling is gone, and I just can't get it back", I couldn't help but laugh out loud. She asked what was funny. I decided to just say "nothing" and take in the moment.

Gordon was a complex one for me. I grew up during the age of angry punks and metalheads who were reacting against "boomer rock." His style of music was the least hip thing imaginable around the time I got my first Walkman. In spite of that environment, I always liked his songwriting and his incredibly distinctive singing voice. As is often the case, Gordon Lightfoot wasn't actually a boomer (1938, Silent Generation.) I remember hearing "Sundown" on the radio when I was quite young and finding it captivating. It was many years (which are big ones when one is so small) before I had an artist song title I could attach to it. It's apocryphal/not proven, but the lyrics to the song are often described as referring to the woman who indirectly killed John Belushi. That adds a whole additional weight to an already quite dark song. Also I've noticed that younger generations (later Millennials and Zoomers) seem to unironically (as they say) like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." I remember a few years ago someone posted a graphic illustrating how lake Superior had its own weather systems to reddit and a bunch of users there wrote out the entire lyrics to the song, one comment at a time. That's some lasting impact right there.

And we cheerfully eat these clearly sentient creatures? Discuss.

Idle Moments Grant Green 1965 https://album.link/i/724724533 Example: Frikin' Blue Note. How were you so consistently good at making recordings? Just a wonderful recording capturing the magic of Grant Green. You know, the usual.