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Some damn, dirty hippie with entirely too many guitar amps. Taken in St. Petersburg, FL in 1973 by Joel Bernstein.

My new guitar idol -- so virtuosic, yet so melodic And a collaboration:

I stumbled on this looking for something to listen to now that my queue is empty. I didn't know it existed. It's an interesting combo. All three of these musicians are obviously great. I enjoyed it but their styles didn't mesh all that great for me. ex.

Not For Lack Of Trying by dodie (2025) https://open.qobuz.com/album/ukgy6v7yfn6tb Example: Second time through the album, and like it better than the first time. Released the same day as queen T above. This will have staying power in my queue.

A new daughter board to my Megatron something. It sets the grid potential of the output tubes. A few resistors, one trimmer set offset and the other the balance plus a small 120V GRHV supply completes the whole thing. So, I removed cathode resistor along with its decoupling capacitor. EL34 has Vgk 40 V and 2A3 has Vgk 92 V. The amplifier has solid state CCS (no top tubes). Works? so far so good.

I made stroganoff the other day. I put too much black pepper in, but other than that, it was delicious. It was super spicy, and I wasn't even trying to make it so (the spiciest thing I put in there was black pepper, but I put my usual amount, which is about 1 cubic inch).

The pressure gauge looks like one I used for fuel pressure on a 2009 Challenger I tracked for years. Love it! HS

Nelson Pass apparently mentioned it at Burning Amp last weekend. I wasn't there so don't know what he said about it, but the insinuation was that he was favorably impressed by it.

https://theonion.com/travis-kelce-gets-cold-feet-after-listening-to-new-taylor-swift-album/

This is one of those songs that when I first heard it I just liked the little, subtle hooks in it. And the overall mood. Then slowly, I actually started getting the lyrics and, well, fuck.

I have questions. I don't want them answered.

One and done, with quesabirria tacos today. I'm With Her was enough and now we're happy to be back in Fairfax before the traffic jam.

Chase by Giogio Moroder from the Midnight Express (1978) soundtrack:

Are you OK? That tirade would have to be the least intelligible one I've ever read. Maybe a giant and calm edit would improve it so I (and probably many others) could understand what your point is.

RIP Ken Parker, designer of the most advanced guitar ever, the Parker Fly Deluxe. This one hits hard, I regret having to sell all my Parker Fly Deluxes over the course of the last year, they were the most amazing guitars. I just pulled the bass out of storage to fix and sell (it's just the battery compartment).

RIP, Dame Jilly Cooper

My take away is that we are circle jerking

Long post, ADHD warning, am old school. With respect to the usual suspects and in danger of disrupting the circle-jerking? Which, by all means, keep at; The 007 variants were as non STAX as they could possibly get. - Certain people that would have found nirvana(tm) decades ago if only they'd bought a certain Sony, or specific Fostex/Audeze/Rosson headphones? They elected not to. Went the hard way (read: "i ride the different rain", read: i just must spend more, read: i feel so refined), when all they'd have had to do was find the chain that would be best for said type of headphone; and between interface/transport, DAC, pre-amp, amp and cabling, it does exist and in infinite variations. Only of course, they do not "believe" in chains, or do not "believe" in the need of a pre-amp, or do not "believe" in cabling, or, reasons. And instead, we're.. here. For nigh two decades now, congratulations One headphone gave them something they'd not heard before; but only because they were clueless, blame's on them for sheer ignorance. Put differently if it helps, not sure when people needing anything (insert adjective) low end pronounced or focused went for STAX? I mean, since when exactly? That's right, since never, not until that accursed thing came out. And sadly it sold well rather than flopping; sadly, because it showed, even to STAX, where the curve is. And i do blame each and every one for re-inforcing said conclusion (be it due to ignorance or monetary gain mind, yeah?). Find a few people with big pockets, there you go with the trend shifting, just like that. There were, are and shall remain many, many headphones for those folks, but.. they're not niche now are they. Where's the class, the individuality if you will.... if only you knew how many times i've seen this. Four+ decades and three continents over by now. - Contrary to elitist, individualistic, circle-jerking-focused belief? The world does not revolve around you. Sorry to break it to you. Head phones requiring significant power, ergo headphones that require significant investment in amplification, are headphones most folk cannot buy, not if they know what they're doing (and folks usually don't, not even here; i do read). The money involved to do it right is just prohibitive. You can have a halo product or two, as it drives sales all the way down, but you need a realistic approach. What you're wishing for would close STAX down, not help it grow back up; may not seem so in this glass bubble of a virtual corner, but out there, that's where it'd lead. Competition in what you're after is beyond fierce and they're too old to play the social media hype game. Entering the rest of the issues STAX faces, because those exist, yes.. nothing to do with 007 however, nothing at all. Kindly keep it real and differentiate your bloated self-want from the expansive reality governing one entire ecosystem. Kindly. Just because someone needed to say it. I mean we read your posts, if once in a while you get to read ours, yeah?