kevin gilmore

Yes but where would be the fun in that. More than half the parts would not be needed. And yes i'm waiting on fets, but may have a different solution to that problem anyway soon.

Its the pumpkin preamp has output capacitors. Yuuch preamp does not have dual balanced differential input. Yuuch Does not do so well with unbalanced inputs. Many people will think that this is excellent, which it is. Power supply extremely excessive in the style of john curl. Lightyears ahead of anything ray samuels could ever come up with.

Actually my opinion is a bit different. You had a tube preamp, and a levinson solid state amp, so the tube preamp takes the edge off of what many consider to be a slightly dark amplifier. Overall still a glorious combo. Depending on what headphones you settle on, you would be much better off with an extreme, or anything similar because the first gain stage tube is most like the gain stage in your old tube preamp.

Would there be any interest in a preamp with a sound signature very close to the CTC blowtorch??? For about $5k (wild estimate) Fully balanced, with unbalanced inputs that get converted to balanced before the 512 step constant impedance relay attenuator (.25db steps), remote controlled and with adjustable balance. Fully solid state. Cause i'm working on one... Design almost done...

stax already went out of business once due to stupidity. Sennheiser is a very large company and has been swallowing up other companies in a bid to own much of the professional world. Neumann and B&K. Even so, with the current management, they are not likely to produce anything again when they know they can't make a profit at it. The he90 amp design comes from the late 1950's and was never patented and was not sennheiser's to begin with.

aerius, you are but an amateur. http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/workarea1.jpg http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/workarea2.jpg I have since cleaned up, as i moved offices, it will look like this again in a year or so.

The head3 design is all solid state with the apex chips. The NE-2's are actually better because they are significantly stiffer. But then the rest of the thing is highly boring, as only 8 tubes are visible, and no pretty glow lamps.

http://www.vwrsp.com/catalog/product/index.cgi?catalog_number=EM1.02584.1000&inE=1&highlight=EM1.02584.1000

That is why you can only take 500mg every 4 hours. The container has all sorts of warnings on it. Picture on monday. If you take 2 grams at one shot you are likely dead in 20 minutes. Powerful stuff.

I have a LARGE bottle of pharmacy grade caffeine that i'm willing to donate to the cause. (About 2lbs left in a 5lb cannister) Maximum safe dose is 500mg every 4 hours. 2.5 grams per day. I could ship enough to make sure jude stays awake for at least 2 more weeks...

There are 2560p projectors also available. (about $125k plus lens) http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/DisplayModel?m=10007&p=12&sp=96&id=85495 There is one of these on demo at abtelectronics on a 20 foot screen with all the room lights on. Very impressive. 8 inch exhaust tube for the massive amount of heat generated. used in the high end digital movie theaters, with massive hard disks downloaded off of highly encrypted satellite feeds. Double D5 resolution. There is only one camera that can record this, and it is still shipping in beta versions only (about $80k with lens) http://www.red.com/cameras I can't see any new consumer standard in 20 years or more that is going to be better than 1080p.

Liquid crystal on silicon. Also known as reflective lcd (as opposed to transmissive). Sony and JVC are the only ones currently doing this. Sony has both front projectors (vw50,vw60,vw100,vw200) and single piece rear projectors. JVC just released the RS2 which is a front projector. JVC stopped making a single piece rear projector last year. Absoutely fabulous pictures. The front projectors require continuous tweeking to maintain perfect picture. Shading, gamma, and adjustment of the 1/4 wave plates. i made a lot of money writing software that does this automatically. So i'm pretty picky when it comes to making things absolutely perfect. Still in addition to light bulbs these things really do deteriorate over time, and really are not able to be made perfect after about 5 to 6 years. By which time they are worth absolutely nothing anyway. And issues with dust are still a big problem.

That is no way to do low impedance headphones, with one winding completely unterminated. Needs to be wired with a switch that puts both secondaries in parallel for low impedance phones.

I've gone thru every single version of burn up or burn thru technology. Don't believe much of what you read. Plasma's do in fact still exhibit burn effects, especially when you push the contrast to get the absolute best picture. Newer ones are much better at this, but burn in is still noticeable. Current best technology is the 5 wavelength backlight 120hz lcd panels, ala the top of the line sharp's. CR's way into the 15k range. Trailing certainly shows up on the cheaper models of many companies. But not with the sharps. Although some sets do show some banding (the old 45 inch version) Many people see rainbows on single chip DLP machines, both front and rear projection. Just like the lcd versions (ala sony) they all use a UHP projection lamp, and this is clearly a replaceable part. And an expensive replaceable part. With varied lifetimes, as low as 500 hours to about a max of 3000 hours. Many devices both lcd and dlp use organic light filters/wheels, and these things also deteriorate over time. The holy grail of front projection is not here yet for home use. In my opinion after burning thru 14 different front projectors (lcd, dila, lightvalve) and having the blue filter get trashed, shading issues etc what i want is a 3 chip dlp projector with 1920 x 1080. With dichroic glass filters. Then the only burn up item will be the bulb. We are about 3 more years away from led solid state light sources. The same kind of sources that will be showing up in a few expensive cars as the headlights in 2009.

6sn7 is a 8 pin octal. 6gu7 is a 9 pin miniature. You will need an adapter to run a 6gu7 in a 6sn7 socket.

if you people want something kickass you can get this http://eshop.diyclub.biz/product_info.php?cPath=85_221&products_id=451 only $530. 256 steps. remote controlled. fully balanced. kind of big though.

So in this politically correct society we now all live in, a moron as in 1. A stupid person; a dolt. 2. Psychology A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive. is considered to be unacceptable. I'm sure that there may be acceptable ways to say the same thing, but that is not the point. Now i have called Jude a Maroon. Which by many definitions is also considered offensive. My definition comes from the bugs bunny page on wikipedia, which has since been deleted. 1) A person who acts like a Moron when they clearly are NOT so. Jude like him or hate him is clearly a person of above average intelligence. So what (politically correct term) do you call someone that runs a major website with great influence that has no hot failover capabilities and no backups? It is clear that this is going to cost Jude huge and in many different ways for a significant amount of time. And it is not necessarily over yet either. Will jude learn from this, i certainly think so.

Buy a 10 foot C band dish at closeout pricing. You will have enough material for years.

That was then. This is now. I did some consulting for IRI about 20 years ago. They had a xerox that was something like 30 feet long and did 500 copies a minute. An easy $500k

quoting grawk's picture Nope. Way better than those. I could post a picture, but i would definitely get in trouble.

You have no idea. I continue to age, and they all stay 18 to 22 years old. Its distracting I tell you.

There is a very intelligent grad student here with an absolutely amazing rack. On more than one occasion now, when she is in the mood she wears name tags, one on each breast. Usually followed by the line "you are going to stare at them anyway, at least now you know their names"

How much for the ray samuels polish very large breast version?

The small advents are 4 ohms or less, and are known to piss off many low powered amplifiers.

OK,OK. I just figured out a way to cut the number of fillament transformers, thus balancing the two tubes of one channel together such that the reactance of the transformer no longer matters and a one pot hum canceling thing. Will post schematic in the next couple of days. Need to go synthesize the thing to make sure it really works as intended. So who is going to build one?