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The HE-1 meaty? Nahh... mosfet flabby sure but that's it... In other news, I just got a care package from Justin...

Fried Chicken and Biscuits... It was my first time for both. Nothing perfect yet. The Biscuits came out a bit better than the chicken.

Lacking brisket, I grilled a tri-tip instead. It’s more CA anyway. Went OK.

Panda Express, in Armistead Maupin's old living room. Anna Madrigal is in the backyard rolling a joint, and Mouse is telling Maryanne about his latest trick. ?

Have not listened to The Final Cut in a long time - thanks for the reminder. -- I guess I should listen to the Pro's and Cons as well - continue the sound.

I think Alex Trebek would differ. Unrelated -- I believe the intention of this was to show what dancing with Anthony Hopkins looks like from the perspective of his dance partner, but it came out like this:

Hard to find a place that does not sell donuts here. The ones this morning were Blue Star and this one is Voodoo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nope, too busy trying to hit all of the 85,000 brew pubs in Portland today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Today's project... 50" X 19" Birch butcher block, stained Gray. This will be the top of my new A/V rack, which is your typical wire shelving, but epoxy coated Black.

Yeah, Roger Waters’ first and second solo albums make for a great twofer.

Panda Express? Armistead would be rolling over in his grave if he were dead.

So...Justin knows how to make me do crazy shit so I'm now the proud owner of a set of these. What strikes anybody holding these is just how fucking cheap they feel, they make even the old Jade feel well built in places. So let's start to examine them, I'll take some pics later when I have some time. The drivers are metal (copper?) mesh on a spacer ring. I'll get a better look at them when I take these apart. No solid dust covers on the back, clearly woven nylon so a huge fail there. The earpads are woeful... some odd mix of what feels like fake leather and cloth. They are also very badly fixed to the phones which means the baffle seal could be compromised. They feel ok on the head but are just so fucking cheap looking... They also smell like cheap fake handbags from China aka. a whole isle at Marshall's or HM... The headband is the standard HFM fair with the same fake leather headpad. These cost 6k$ so leather was out of the question? Seriously...no money left over for that? Very Sennheiser in 1991... The housings are aluminum and feel solid enough but they are not a one piece unit as Stax would do it. The back is a separate plate and how it fits with the rest of a the housing is a bit of a joke. No gap on the bottom...1mm at the top. Pure quality here. Now the for the best part, the cable. This thing is so fucked... Now the plug is a clone of the Stax one but they used the wrong pins (look identical to the old Jade pins) so they had to make a spacer which fits over the end of the plug to shorten the pins. Such quality and attention to detail... Now the actual cable is clad in the cheapest tech flex from the 90's that money could buy which makes it look a bit like something which would be shipped with a cheap computer PSU. You can see the wires through the techflex if you push it together and they are super tiny with transparent insulation. Not formed into a proper ribbon either so this is not good at all. I wonder if this cable would last a year with normal use, it's just that flimsy. I'll report later on the sound but spoiler...there are issues I don't hate them.

Guessing all the (fun) experimentation has over time totally conflicted that J79...

While in truth, I have been listening to Bitches Brew too much lately, what I choose to link is this: It is a dangerous earworm and has been stuck in my head for the last week. Fuck you, Tim Minchin, you talented bastard. Someone else can suffer now.

The trick with fried chicken is to get the oil really hot, like fondue hot. Causes the chicken to sear and crust and keeps the moisture in.

Since when did people care about speaker building here? Heh. I want to get back and measure the speakers and can post info here - I did a similar speaker with Jordan JX92S a while back and these are similar idea but larger box. I can post both designs if folks care. I have a third design with Raidho ribbon but screwed up the boxes and haven’t gotten around to fashioning some nice pieces of wood to hide the mistake (I mixed up the top and bottom of the speaker when working on some stand attachment mechanism) I should do that sometime!

Elk Burger and Garlic Fries. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Once I’ve tested everything, we can run a group buy.

Sploosh.

Brisket

Reduced voltage on my “modified” T2. DHT by night.

Acoustic guitar is wonderful. Haven't really rocked out yet, still loving Alison Krauss and Adele ATM. Hey, I'm gay, what'd you expect?

Done! These are not just your standard two ways. Instead, Marc has paired basically a full range driver and a super tweeter, then customized a crossover to take best advantage of that pairing. These drivers have to stretch their legs before I can really assess them, but so far I'm impressed. They're bigger than I had originally thought I'd build them, but still, make a pretty good nearfield monitor. Bass is far better than I expected. Eventually, they will darken to match the Parasound case. The window will speed that process up.

Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and Ohm are in a car. They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No, but I know exactly where I am" Heisenberg replies. The cop says "You were doing 55 in a 35." Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts "Great! Now I'm lost!" The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Do you know you have a dead cat back here?" "We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger. The cop moves to arrest them. Ohm resists.

WTF humans? Actual signs from bathroom at work I took today

Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions, Volume One:

RIP to one of our cats, Gryphon "Diablo" Just got back Saturday from 2 weeks in Australia, and while we knew he had some issues, it turned out to be a large and aggressive tumor of some sort. According to our neighbor watching the house and cats, the "eaten" food amount dropped significantly on Thursday. We took him in today, got the bad news; then I got Andrew at school so he could say goodbye. Pics from when we first got him (he's the tuxedo cat), and a couple years ago. RIP bud.....

Suddenly left channel went down – turned out that one mosfet 2sj79 had transformed itself to a PNP.

Older, cheerful stuff.