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Oh you heard about the Accent wall in the lounge? Lighter/ Darker / Shorter / Longer ? Previous short / long comparison OK long it is, But Rich Cream? Or Desert Tan? The Correct Answer, as always, is: Yes, Dear.

It’s alive! Getting the offsets adjusted is so touchy…finally got it below 2mv as it drifted about. Did it without heatsinks after being on for a while. It seems to settle in around 14ma with the LTST-C170CKT LEDs and the 402R. Running 240R vice the 255R. Will likely let this cook for a while and see if it needs any tweaks. That front panel light is a bit bright…may need to tone that down a bit… 🤓

And don't forget the old chestnut of having a feature wall in a deeper / darker shade so that you can struggle over two colors in one room!

Or at least multiple references...

Because of that Rick Bateo video... ex.

I doubt I got a security ping, it's just a meme. It says, "The American government could take every billionaires' assets the same way they stole Venezuela's oil".

Apparently, "blurple" is a freak of nature that took the recessive genes from both parents. As nature is wont to do on occasion.

Interesting, I like my shirts blue, the darker the better I always knew I’m a psycho.

Harder than I thought, but got a lot more than I thought I would.

But wait. There's more! Joanne is having second thoughts on the north facing rooms and is considering something lighter ( or technically a higher LRV) so our friend with taste (she worked professionally with fabrics and has a good eye) suggested "Rich Cream" as a lighter alternative to Desert Tan. A soft beige sweetened with a touch of peach, this neutral brings to mind a decadent crème custard. https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/2153-60/rich-cream Time for another trip to the hardware store for a paint sample and paint up a color board.

I prefer blues and greens myself. Water/sky, grass.....calming colors (though not too dark on each). Helps keep me from doing the things my mind screams at me to do to some people.

In case you need to replace the onboard battery.

Ditto. I have a Sony UHP-H1 as an SACD player, so it's probably not comparable to a stack of separates from dCS or EMM Labs 💸 There have been very few pop/rock albums that were recorded for hi-res from the beginning - the few recordings were usually converted from old masters. I have a few jazz and classical SACDs, but most of them were also from old sources (1950s-60s) so it's hard to say whether the better sound quality comes from the format or the number of times the masters have been fixed and edited. In general, I get the impression it would take a knockout recording and an extremely expensive chain of equipment to notice the difference - also, I think people underestimate how good CD quality can sound on modern equipment. In the early days of hi-res, I think much of the novelty came from the new multi-channel mixes (like 5.1 or more), rather than the actual quality improvement on a stereo recording. And don't get me started on HDCD... Personally, I'd still rather buy CDs and SACDs than invest in a high-res digital streaming or files library setup.

I do a lot of live concert recording at 96/32 or 192/32, and so I do playback at that, but as you say, the primary advantage is hi res sources are likely better mastered. 48/16 has plenty of dynamic range and resolution for most recordings.

so the idea is to keep the voltage going to the 10m90s that drives the zener string between 600 and 900v. depending on voltage input, just a standard voltage doubler will push the voltage well above 1kv. and no reason for this. so in the very original spoilers, a pot was added to spoil some of the voltage that would normally have been generated by a standard doubler.

Hi All, I have my first of two Dynalo minis populated. I fell into the same trap as Congo with the orientation of the 680 ohm resistors, but once fixed it came up without issue. I had already checked and tweaked the on board regs. My question is about the biasing. I started with the default recommended 422ohm and 255ohm. Then I tried adjusting the combinations as others have before, and I am summarizing what I found into a table. However, I seem to have the opposite effect to Pars, which is confusing me. I have the Liteon LED's, and +/-20V supplies. With R1,R3 = 422ohm, R14,R29 = 255ohm: 13mA With R1,R3 = 402ohm, R14,R29 = 255ohm: 16mA With R1,R3 = 422ohm, R14,R29 = 240ohm: 11mA With R1,R3 = 402ohm, R14,R29 = 240ohm: 13mA Can someone help explain this? Attached document is my collection of bring-up notes and some copy-pastes from the forums. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iJ_jL2ojQpJ2f_3crzrbiI6Gti7ZWHiXPHGWbkdjHDA/edit?usp=sharing

Not a lot of cinema giants left, but we just lost another - RIP Bela Tarr. https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/bela-tarr-dead-1235171338/ https://www.npr.org/2026/01/06/nx-s1-5668240/bela-tarr-filmmaker-dead

^ And Blurple?

^^ Not available anymore....did you get a picture? Or maybe a security thing?