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This post claims it is a 12AX7 SRPP.

No one distro is right for everyone, so it depends a lot on what you do with it. But, if the goal is to install once and not mess with it for years, then perhaps CentOS would make sense. Otherwise, Fedora seems like a good lowest common denominator. Or, Gentoo since portage is cool.

Don't you know that bankers who confess to their crimes get a free house once they are out of prison?

I guess the obvious of matched JFETs -- what would be really nice would be the ability to order by spec. Case parts are always hard to find. Perhaps little modules to compete with TP?

You might look at the powered Dynaudio studio monitors, too. I listened to a pile of sub $1000 unpowered monitors and none could really touch the less expensive Dynaudios (which were slightly more.) I found a used pair (again unpowered -- 42W's in my case) for $500 and could not be happier. (I've been listening to HD650s pretty exclusively for the last couple of months.)

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Have a great one!

Both use Alps Blue pots. In the DSHA, it is configured as a shunting pot which removes it from the signal path.

The console has a DAC (which is a scaled down version of the Walnut circuit) fed from a built-in Airport Express, a tube phono stage, and an EL84 based fully differential, Class A power amp. (The speakers were designed for us by Dave at Planet 10.) As of now, the components are not really stand-alone products, but the power amp could be at some point.

that's a terrible joke.

I tried it and was not very impressed. Even wired via gigabit it failed to play iso's. I ended up sending it back. I love that they advertise "up to 300Mbps wireless" and then put 100Mbps ethernet jacks on it. Of course, you won't ever get near even that anyway, so it hardly matters.

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It's going to cost them less to rehire you, than to hire a lawyer to defend against you ...

If you put your cursor over my kitty's belly on my old website, it allows you to pet him, as well. It doesn't link anywhere.

Half and half compressor and fan. I'll see if Erika can borrow a db meter.

I picked up one of the little Kenmores to test for noise. Quiet it is not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/arts/music/donna-summer-queen-of-disco-dies-at-63.html?hp

That would be fantastic -- just append gmail to my username. Thanks, I'll look into it. Sears is ideal as it is walking distance for me -- even carrying an AC

Happy Birthday, Chris! Hope you are out on the links enjoying the day.