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Got the Bluesound player set up so listening to some Tidal.

Just got back with my son from his first round of playoffs for tennis, the team won all 5 matches! Woo-hoo! On to the next school tomorrow.....

When Karyl's father retired, he planned to travel. The first year he lost all but his peripheral vision in one eye. The next year he lost all but peripheral vision in the other eye. He insisted on driving. I placed my oldest daughter about 50 feet in front of the car. I asked Karyl's dad where his grand daughter was? He didn't have a clue. That was the last time he sat in the drivers seat of a car. Of course he still tried to help us drive, but he never drove again. Not concerned Mom had an accident. I am very concerned she still has no idea what happened. I'm dealing with a woman who voluntarily left home to live on her own at age 14. No molestation, no abuse, no family problems. Pride and an uber independent streak. I'll stop by to visit and discuss on Saturday. If the car is not drivable (not known at this point) and totaled, that would make the discussion so much easier. Either way, unless she can tell me with certainty what happened, her driving days are done. Brave words perhaps at this point, but I have no intentions of allowing her to buy another vehicle and she would depend on me to find one for her.

First off, why is this in the LCD-2 thread? Second, the 727 has 350V rails so it can't really produce enough voltage to kill the drivers. Now there are two main ways to destroy electrostatic drivers, over voltage on the stators which shorts out the D/S gap and causes an arc and then there is simply destroying the high resistance coating on the diaphragm. Now the first one is simple, keep the max voltage swing below bias*2 and you should be good. This is voltage peak to peak so roughly 1200V for Stax pro bias. This is insanely loud but the BHSE, Carbon and KGSSHV will easily reach those peaks but you also need a very high input voltage. The second part is a bit more complicated. Now for all intents and purposes, there should never be any current flow on the diaphragm. It should hold a charge but said charge should be a constant and never change. Now we live in the real world and it simply doesn't work like that but the charge has to be carefully controlled as little current flow as is possible. When we design amps we account for these things so none of our amps should ever damage the headphones if they are built correctly. We can't control what others do but if follow our lead then they should be safe. This brings us to the people who really don't know what they are doing aka Woo Audio, Cavalli and RSA. Those amps aren't safe and in some cases are guaranteed to destroy your headphones.

I love my 3E. I do 4E with NB. They fit well for me when I got them, but after dropping some weight (and breaking them in) they are now a bit loose. I have something built on the same last as these, not this exact shoe, but this is one that's been on my radar for a couple years. **BRENT**

Talk to Jacob, oh wait. Nevermind. I cannot tell you the last time I wore something other than tennis shoes or boots.

Do you have any experience with their wide sizes? I wear a 4E and have had trouble finding decent dress shoes. After having the current pair resoled 3 times, I think it is time for a new pair. the widest the link you shared has 3E. Wonder if they run wider than usual.

I am guessing this is primarily and Air Jordan and Adidas Yeezy crowd here but on the off chance- For accountants and banker types

Was wondering the same thing and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblypygi

Thanks everyone. Just two more plates to mill and the chassis are done, then off to have them finished The pot will come shortly. I'm going to use an encoder and Kevin's digital attenuator boards.

FUCKITY FUCK FUCK!

It does indeed, it's a great performance. I stumbled upon it on eBay and nabbed it, but no it's not generally available, but a few in the series are available at some of the big places at blowout prices, as they are SACD layer only.

Yes, I love Anniemal too. I keep hoping Annie will be able to do it again (but different).

It's coming together

Combo vermicelli bowl

Went to this place for a fencing tournament- The tournament was called the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Open (fencing tournament) Lance placed third- It was a good day. College fencing has been very very good to us.

Not too far off.

There are two major ambient artists who record under the name Gas. The first is Wolfgang Voigt, who is the significantly more famous and prolific of the two. The other is Mat Jarvis, whose music I much prefer. Thusfar he's only released one album under his Gas moniker, and that was 15 years ago on the storied em:t label. em:t (pronounced "Emit") has never been terribly well-run and has gone out of business at least twice. Supposedly, Mat recorded a second Gas album, but it has never seen the light of day. In all my years on the intertubes using various p2p apps, I have never com across a copy of it (unlike the second Young American Primitive album, which I eventually got in FLAC.) Given how rare and poorly distributed em:t releases are, it was quite a few years until I discovered Gas. I think I first heard "Oxygen" from the em:t compilation 1197 on SomaFM's Groove Salad in early 2001. Later that year, I got lucky on eBay and found a copy of that CD. In early 2002 I joined SoulSeek, which changed my perspective on electronic music forever. There I quickly found mp3 copies of dozens of albums I'd been after for ages. Included in that initial batch was Gas's 0095. It's somewhat on an uneven affair, but the good tracks sound stellar, even in 192K mp3s. A couple years ago, Mat released a remastered version in FLAC and announced it on Discogs. That is the sound of the Information Age working. The video above is for Microscopic which would be my favorite Gas track were it not for Oxygen. I think Microscopic might actually be the better piece of music, but it's not the first one I discovered. Obviously, the audio quality of a YouTube video is crap, but it's handy for embedding purposes. You can get a free download of the song in lossy format off last.fm (and if you ask nicely, Knuckles might furnish you with a FLAC.) Around the 3:30 mark, Mat does a solo with a stunning portamento synth string patch. The main lead in this song is a powerful argument for analogue synthesizers. The lead sound returns again around 7 minutes in to do it again. 10 minutes might seem like a long time to listen to one song, especially embedded on a message board thread via a YouTube video. This is one track that is worth the time commitment. Use your most musical source and most forgiving "euphonic" cans if you must.