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“Wendt showed up as Norm over the years on St. Elsewhere, Wings, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Frasier and The Tortellis and as himself on Seinfeld and The Larry Sanders Show. He also had recurring roles on The Naked Truth and Sabrina the Teenage Witch and guest-starred on other series like Alice, Soap, Hart to Hart, Becker, Hot in Cleveland, Columbo, Harry’s Law, Fresh Off the Boat and The Goldbergs.“ That’s pretty impressive. Also in Hairspray on Broadway.

Rest in peace big guy.

Chicken tinga enchiladas

Irish feminist country is good country.

I listened to that album before going to sleep every night for probably 5 months.

Putting $6,000 of parts on a Walmart bike:

Six worthless posts in the first 30 minutes on Head-case is a recipe for pain. If there is still a welcome message, I suggest that you read it and heed it.

Holy shitballs those look nice! Would love to hear them.... Saw an ad for these, would love to hear them, too! The Göbel Divin Noblesse....

Several years back, I met a Head-Fi member from San Antonio, known as plaid platypus. I visited his home and was very impressed with his Genelec system. Today Genelec's pinnacle loud speaker is the 8381A. It's a 5 way adaptive point source monitor. At $32,000 per speaker, it's not cheap. But as a fan of the Genelec sound, I'd love to hear these speakers.

He's done upgrades on things for years, including reasonable upgrades on the Ozark Trail hardtail a couple years ago. Started with intro: Then the Ozark Trail Ridge Pro Max Ultra... Studio:

Seth is fantastic; have been following him for SO long.

Ok, I stand corrected. The Megatron XL uses a 'hybrid' biasing scheme for the 300B. The grid is adjustable between 0 and 0.99% of B- ('fixed'-biasing), which cancels out less than 10% of the bias generated by the cathode resistor (self-biasing). The voltage between the cathode (K) and the grid (G) is the actual grid bias (Vgk), regardless of self-bias or fixed-bias. In a fixed bias setup, you’d measure between GND and G when K is grounded.

I'd say that's a high operating point for this amplifier; the math of push-pull output stages is different from single ended and as long as the transition is smooth you can pick much lower operating points. See for example: https://www.valvewizard.co.uk/pp.html Sorry, I should have remembered; Megatron is NOT push-pull. Megatron (XL) has about 22-23mA through the EL34 current sources. I've tried up to ca 30mA but not beyond that.

This.

Yes; gives roughly +/-4V of adjustment range in my build. Can be upped if larger range is needed.

Ukrainian folk song performed by the wonderful Pelageya. This is why I own Grado RS-1 headphones, songs like this one become hauntingly beautiful.

The latest version of Megatron XL comes with 4 pots each 300B. What are those pots adjusted for(cycled in the pic)? I'm not familiar with the DHT tube.☹️ I assumed they are for Grid voltage adjustment.

Deck heat'n'serve Special

now lunch.

Banana bread for the birthday boy - somehow Andrew is 14.

Did this today today – in full dayligt. Replaced EML 20B-V4 with 2A3 tubes in a Megatron with solid state constant current sources. Changes are filament voltage and cathode resistors (from 640 ohm to 3600 ohm. Only light is from blue and red LEDs and some light from the tubes themself.

This is hardly porn, but... I got a Velodyne CHT powered sub for the low price of "you're first in line, come pick it up" today. #MVLife

Re-reading a chunk of Isaac Asimov's stuff - Foundation series, Robot yarns etc. The Foundation trilogy was published in 1951-3 and have really stood the test of time. I became curious how Asimov died. Turned out a too early 72. But in his early 60's he had a triple heart bypass (in 1983), and was given a blood transfusion tainted with AIDS - and that was what killed him in due course. Same thing happed to the tennis player Arthur Ashe aged 49 - again following heart bypass surgery in 1983.

This is a couple a months ago but a Woo Audio energizer blew the driver of a SR-X9000.

RIP George Wendt. AKA Beer-Loving Norm from Cheers. Died at 77.