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Burger Normand avec camembert. Not enough bacon for the home team but very satisfying when eaten with knife and fork. 😁

This little battery powered table saw is impressive. And it's quieter than the corded version.

Three of the four courses at a very nice and extremely reasonable restaurant in Normandy

Deck 99

Yeah, the YH5000, a headphone that measures like this: It's ok, for that much money, they can keep it.

Hope it as a good trip! Open invite if you find yourself in the UK - you'll get a tour of historic Oxford for starters.

I'll just say I interacted with one of these this week. Bias voltage circuit was completely dead after being turned on less than a handful of times. I didn't get to even try it before it was inoperable. The fake tube thing...WTF?

My only caution would be the steel bracelet. I own the chrono and I am so grateful I prefer it on a Rubber B strap. The steel is VERY uncomfortable for me. Sharp edges. YMMV but thought I'd chime in... HS

Indeed

so over at ASR, people have commented today that topping said that they used a step down transformer on the output of the step up transformer, an no capacitive load. flat out fraud this is... and completely meaningless published specs. if someone paid attention during the design process and actually used a real 120pf load, or even headphones, they would know how fucked up this is. the topping a90d may be decent. but my testing in the past indicates that stuff with huge amounts of open loop gain, and then huge amounts of feedback to get those magic distortion numbers usually sound like crap. this thing, and their power amp all use one switching power brick to make the positive voltage and then another switcher internally to make the negative voltage. so a switcher driving a switcher. not a great idea.

hard to believe moments like these could happen...but they did...