The Monkey

Eagle Rare. Again.

I'm getting a camelbak.

What's a grocery store?

Water is good. In fact, I'm looking for a new water bottle. And yet another obsessive quest begins...

Right on, naaman, good to have you back...once again. In your honor, I just finished a Pliny. Now I will have some Eagle Rare.

I think it's bullshit that they won't announce the new colors. Doesn't exactly strike me as a trade secret or anything.

Woo Audio: http://wooaudio.com/headphones/stax/sr007mk2.html

Ugh. Shelly (and others), looks like Tom Bihn is discontinuing the 1050d Indigo color, which means no more indigo tri-stars if I read the posts correctly. http://www.tombihn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3577

That T-shirt is the best; I would love to wear that shirt to work. It would be my last day, but it might be worth it.

In this economy, you take what you can get.

Little Monkey and I fell asleep while I was reading to him. I woke up. Now--Eagle Rare. This stuff certainly is more mature than I was at 17.

Hmm, you are not as psyched as I want you to be so I can justify my own purchase. What is the interior color of your tristar? Also, you might consider the steel with solar interior (Marc's looks awesome) or even the black with ultraviolet.

Just finished a bottle of Pliny the Elder. Running low. Will move on to the Eagle Rare after I put the Little Monkey to bed because that's the kind of fantastic parent I am.

Yay Dan! Happy Birthday. Have a great one.

Thanks, Ric. DLing now. I keep trying to get into jazz, and I keep failing. This app looks cool. I have too much good stuff on this here computer now to not learn more.

Eagle Rare.

Glad to hear everything came out ok.

Really? If you did, that's an awesome deal. I like my ID more and more every time I use it.

Thanks Brent. I'll probably go thru amazon because I can use Amex points there.

Thanks mpi. Lesson learned here. And I gave those caps a good long time to discharge before I put the cover back on.

Some pics: Inside Amp, see scorched PCB: Inside top cover with sear marks, yum:

Good advice, thanks. Printed on the fuseholder is "300V maximum" so I think it's ok, but I will get the same fuses asap. In other news, a little arcy-sparky tonight when I stupidly tried to put the amp cover back on while the thing was running and caused a nasty spark on top of one the big caps. Huge "SNAP" and spark. No shock to me, but it was scary. Seared part of the PCB, too. But the thing is still running fine. That surprises me. I'm not so good with the electronics.

Ok, so I did some research and replaced the 8A 32V slow blow fuses with 4A 250V fast blow. So far so good. I will let the amp run a bit to make sure all is ok (OR UNTIL ONE OF YOU TELLS ME I WILL BURN THE HOUSE DOWN), then shut it all down and find the correct spec fuses.

I feel like I'm always asking this question, but fuses confuse me: I have an 8A 32V fuse. I will replace it with like kind if possible, but if I can't find one around (likely) what kinds of ratings can I use to at least see if this thing works? For example, would a 4A 250V fuse suffice or is that what makes things go boom?

Happy birthday!