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  1. So Colin and I heard from someone (@grawk, perhaps) that Costco had some OK-ish steaks. Slim pickins, but we found some that didn't look too terribly bad. Wagyu cap, seasoned with salt overnight and left on a wire rack in fridge, then hit with ground peppercorn before hitting the Weber. It didn't suck.
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  2. Happy Birthday, Andrew! Time for a new business card to pair with with that birth year wine?
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  3. Sorry, CS. Was on my cell and hit the wrong button. So sorry for you loss. Doug is indeed correct. Lost my old girl about 5 years back so I know the feeling.
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  4. Everything in F360. Since that part worked out I threw caution to the wind and did the top of the coffee table.
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  5. Totally agree. I helped my mother order one last night to replace her 2016-vintage iPad. Should be a nice upgrade for her.
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  6. I think the best of the phones they just introduced is iPad mini.
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  7. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r3g2TAtBUaBdiMorTWX7yYgeJ7maQbYW?usp=sharing new link, files uploading includes all new zip files published since the first upload.
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  8. Ah - gotcha. Sorry I knee jerked - I'm just kind of raw at the moment. Can't sleep tonight very well - it is 2am in the UK
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  9. Would have preferred they call it SR-ΩX to pay homage to the original. Anyone with the Ω planning to get the X9000 to compare?
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  10. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29661446.amp Thank you, Scotland.
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  11. I really like to try to make some wire stators for my DIY electrostatic headphones. I've bought some wire mesh, but I have no idea how to stretch it so that it's absolutely flat and tight. Any ideas?
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  13. I truly don't get the name... why 9000? The TOTL amp is the T8000 so is this 1000 better...? Doesn't make any sense and is actually worse than the names I come up with...
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  14. Thank you for exposing those crooks. They always advertise their wares on a couple of facebook groups I'm on. I might start circulating a link to this page.
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  15. Sorry to you and family Craig! 18 1/2 years is a great run, thank you for taking such great care of her.
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  16. Sorry for your loss, Craig. I know how much it hurts. Thank you and Carole for loving Cleo. RIP Cleo.
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  17. I'm sorry for your loss 😢
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  18. Yes, that's something that the SR-Omega has over the SR-009 as well, even shows up in measurements. A comparison against an SR-Omega is in order, probably in a few months' time when / if I'm given the chance 😉 Fujiya Avic video [Full English translation amongst the comments]
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  19. It was a great day. Winds for the second half of the ride were a bit painful but we all made it and thanks largely to you guys, fundraising was another huge success.
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  20. Here is something that has been cooking for a while but I've been just too busy to do anything about it. So JR Audio out of China have been building our amp designs for a while now and I started to hear horror stories almost immediately. They naturally have no right to use our designs and work in their crappy products but since when has that stopped anybody... I have been looking for one of these amps for a while now as I want to rip it apart and well... one owner contacted me. I'm going to ask him to come here and tell his story which is quite the tale. Let's just say Caveat emptor... So here is the amp and it arrived dead which will soon be clear. It is the KGSSHV version and well... it doesn't resemble my amp in any way... 🙄 One funny thing is that the Stax socket is made from nylon so the quality starts there. 😉 Nothing remarkable here but that voltage marking is directly lifted from my amps. Completely identical... Here is where I started laughing, this thing uses clone versions of old PCB's I made back in the day. The amplifier board (as can be seen by the date which they also copied) was in some of the older KGSSHV mini amp but this one is quite a bit bigger. Same goes for the PSU which was in the first KGSSHV minis but this one is 2.5cm wider and 1cm taller. All the components are in the same spots... it's just a bit bigger. Now here is whats wrong with it, see the bridge rectifier in the middle. That larger chunk of plastic shouldn't be sticking out of it. Here is one amplifier section and I just find it hilarious that they do a direct copy of my 7 year old PCB but manage to completely fuck it up while doing it. So all of those resistors are 1/4W units and that is a big no-no. Most are well shy of that power level (though not all) but the voltage ratings for many of those resistors is well below safe levels. It also annoys me (Kevin even more) that they have removed all values off the boards and replaced them with generic labels. We have always pushed for proper markings on all boards so they can be serviced at any time. Another thing clear in that picture are the 10M90's on that small heatsink on the PSU. They have a lot of voltage sitting on the metal tab so they naturally use a silpad and metal screw. Fucking amateur hour here. Another picture of the damage and one more of the underside: One nice attention to detail... or lack thereof is no thermal paste or silpad on the PSU pass transistors. Nothing at all and since the chassis is powerder coated, it has a hard time passing heat through the thin metal below. It's a shame I don't have any of these old PCB's in stock just to show how much of a blatant rip off they are. I'm tempted to order some (as I have the Gerbers for everything) just to show off what they are up to. Now what happens to this amp, well it belongs to me so I'm going throw out the PSU and the transformer plus replace all the necessary resistor on the amplifier boards to make this safe. Then I'll just keep it for shits and giggles. I'll update the thread when I do some more work on this clusterfuck.
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  21. its here filament transformer for sure smoked. as in hole in the potting likely where the flames were shooting out. has that wonderful singlepower extreme smell. If anyone knows where to get transformers like this made, let me know. specs are as follows. Filament transformer, mounting holes 85mm square threaded with 4.5mm bolts 4 x 6.3 volt at 2 amp 2 x 6.3 volt at 4 amp 1 x 12.6 volt at 1 amp 18 volts @ 1 amp Primary 2 x 115vac High voltage transformer, mounting holes 100mm square threaded with 4.5mm bolts Primary 2 x 115vac 2 x 5 volt at 2 amp 2 x 630volt center tapped at 200ma 510 volt center tapped at 130ma 6.3 volt at 1 amp So many bad solder joints. grounding shields on the small tube sockets essentially force removed with a side cutter. Yikes. Notice the required missing corner out of the new board. Fucking idiot made the case first then found a way to cram everything inside.
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  22. It was an account I started for us but I don't have any way of getting in there as I don't know the password... or the user name for that matter. 😂
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  23. We had to say goodbye to our old girl - 18 1/2. Until yesterday she was great, eating like a horse. And two days ago I took her to have her nails clipped. But in the last day she went downhill real quick. In the end she could hardly stand, and had even lost the will to get out of the litter tray. At the vets there was no option, and we had to make that difficult kind choice. Carole came along for moral support, because we reckoned that the end was not far off in any case. We're having her cremated, and we'll bury the ashes in the garden RIP Cleo, you were a splendid cat.
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  24. RIP Sir Clive Sinclair BBC News - Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521 https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/16/sir_clive_sinclair/ If you are unfamiliar with the man and the impact he had on a generation and their introduction to computing via the zx80 and it's successors, you could do worse than watch micro men. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men https://www.theregister.com/2014/02/14/monitor_micro_men/ We'll just gloss over the C5 out of respect for the recently departed. https://nocanvas.zame-dev.org/0004/
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