kevin gilmore

It was part of the discussion when ray yelled at me on the phone for over two hours. this was either one or two months after the meet at his house where he was showing off the raptor. Ray said at the time that he was not going to sell the A10. If you will remember, tuberoller actually posted pictures of the prototype A10 chassis. So that is about 2 years before the extreme came out. Plus or minus Hey billy pick up the fucking phone and call ray and ask him. Now the whole deal of who sold a 5687 amp first is a little harder to figure out. Except the brooksie did it years before either of them.

And i have a modification for any of those amps with that particular topology that for about $10 in parts cuts the distortion by more than half and really improves the sound. But i'm not telling for a while There is only one other person here that knows what i'm talking about. And i don't think he is going to tell either.

Yep. You can have woo audio stuff the thing with all blackgates if that is what you want. correct.

As far as the A10, ray himself told me he was scared to go directly head to head with SP. Because that is exactly what the A10 is, an exact copy of the extreme. And exactly the same thing with the darkvoice and woo audio, which are also exactly the same thing.

Lets see, HR2 has 2 x .5 watt toy output transistors with an output impedance of 10+ ohms. Apache has 4 x .5 watt toy output transistors with an output impedance of 20+ ohms. Naw that could not mess up the bass could it?? All the feedback in the world from the front end opamp ain't going to help. B22 has 4 x 40 watt transistors with an output impedance of .1 ohm or something like that. OK, so 2 of the transistors are cascodes, and really don't count, but still. Yep, no difference whatsoever. Ray could definitely do a phono section in a sr71 box... With an external power supply. Hell i'll even give him the schematic since he has absolutely no idea what a subsonic filter is and why you would want one. A total of 4 opamps coated with nailpolish. But ray's pricing would likely be about $500 for what is about $50 in parts. Virtually identical to his $5k phono section without the unbalance to balance TI chips.

And Here I was just going to say about how much better the light a cryo'd lighbulb generates

Well i could not find anything, so i just made one with my video camera. I'll take a picture of this massive practical joke in the next few days. Think stereo b&w monitors connected to nanospray source on PerkinElmer Sciex Qstar TOF MS... (with a remote rf relay button that i can activate without being seen...) The person that normally runs this instrument is already having various neurotic problems, this out to push them over the edge

I need a dvd,mpg, or something i can make a dvd out of that is a 10 minute or more clip of just an eyeball moving and blinking. For those who have been to ABT, they have something like this in the receiving department. That sort of thing. Any ideas?? I'll show whats up once i get something...

To the one with the loud shirts I say Hau`oli la hanau!

plastic adjustment tools formally called "twiddle sticks" absolutely required. Especially for high voltage stuff.

I've been doing cryo stuff for 15 years now, i know what is safe, and i know what is not safe. Nothing even approaching not safe will be allowed, that i will make sure of. Billy's idea of dumping a few liters into the swimming pool for example goes under the NOT ALLOWED. While people will be required to sign a waver of dammages, i have deliberately tried to crack various items by extremely fast immersion into the N2. Never was able to crack a 7 or 9 pin all glass tube yet. Some of the old tubes with phenolic bases, sometimes the glue comes loose, or the base cracks, but the tube is still in one piece. Cooling down over a few minutes slowly and even this does not happen. Whether the venue complains or not depends on if they are going to be told or not

I can do that. OK, billy will tell all this is true. I did offer to be part of billy's team if he does the ground work for the head-fest 2008 in chicago. I also agreed to bring an infinite amount of liquid nitrogen and a dipping dewar. People can cryo anything on the spot. For FREE!!!!! Requirements: someone with a pickup truck, van or other such vehicle preferably with a lift gate so that i can bring the dipping dewar, and as many 100 liter tanks of N2 that we will need. And a strong person. 100 liter tanks weigh about 325 lbs full. Make that 2 other people... Am I crazy or what?? We can start with billy's penis. Anyone have a tweezers and a magnifying glass

So now that things are slowing down a bit, i got this idea to build a massively huge BH. So i'm thinking 4 x 3cx400 should be absolutely perfect. Running at about 50 watts plate each. Designed for grounded grid from the start. Anyone have some with sockets and chimney. Current best price on the tubes i have found is $480 each. Can't find any new sockets, just old pulls. If anyone has any idea on glass tubes (as opposed to ceramic) that are triodes and NOT DHT, i'm willing to listen. Current production a definite benefit. No 811,813,8000... as they are all DHT.

But that is a right handed sky hook. Which is completely unacceptable

I forgot this one. All you really have to do to see how point to point is done is to look at some of the woo audio stuff. Absolutely each end of every single component is mounted to something. Then take a look again at pabi1's electrostatic amp. Notice any difference??

Yes a number of cold solder joints. Or shitty solder. Or both. say 20% of the connections. Those motor start caps are definitely surplus. They are absolutely fantastic caps, and to buy them new these days would be expensive. And likely the materials inside them are filled with carcinogens. Not likely to explode or leak as long as they are running under their max voltage. Botique parts, me, never most of my parts are way past that into the completely unobtainum list. Air mounting of components is only OK if you use left handed sky hooks. Peter is obviously using right handed sky hooks. Remember where justin is now. In ten years he will be making $40k a pair power amps, $50k powered subwoofers... $18k preamps... Hmmm where have i seen this before??

Actually jay's unit did look worse. wandering drill marks all over every single tube socket. HEY PETER, go to sears and buy a cheap drill press. Cold solder joints all over the place. Peter uses the best parts he can buy. At the army navy surplus store that is... Air mounting of components. Just like mikhail's early work. Actually worse. Diode bridges made out of smaller diodes in parallel, and alredy burning their way thru the perf board. I could go on and on, but jay should really either post the pictures he sent me, or allow me to link where they are stored I have pictures of his production power amplifiers. Every bit as bad. Speaking of the BH, i just got from justin the first KGBH-SE. Wait till you people see this thing. If i post pictures he will surely kill me He is selling it way to cheap!

If you all would see the pictures that i have seen on the inside of the thing and knew anything about vintage stuff, it would become completely apparent from the kind of wires coming out of the transformer that they came specifically from machine wound transformers made by STANCOR. Nothing else looks like that. There is also another teltale sign from the bottom that also specifically points to STANCOR. Peter needs to knock off the complete bullshit.

BULLSHIT on the hand wound part!

where i get my precious metals is my own business I'm not getting them where you might think And i'm certainly not paying the going price either.

OK, here you go http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/metals.jpg upper left, my first casting job. Real shitty but i keep it around to remind me how bad my first couple were. upper right, 100 oz of .999 fine silver. Lower left 5 grams of rhodium. 83 grams of 24k for my stax portable. Then 31 grams of platinum and 50 grams of u238

I also have about 50 grams of depleted uranium 238. Sitting in the appropriate plastic bottle on my desk at home. (the radiation emitted is stopped by this particular kind of plastic). Since i don't know what i'm doing in this case i'll not try and cast the stuff. I've been told that machining the stuff after casting is almost impossible. I have a lot of .999 silver. Sooner or later i'm going to make a knob out of some of that. But it does tarnish very fast. One of these days i will have enough rhodium. But not any time soon Copper is way to easy.

That monstrosity from mikhail was coated in about 2 oz of gold. Absolutely the entire thing, knobs included. Can't get more gold than that unless you use my 24k volume knobs. But really gold is so last year. This year it has to be platinum. Another few months and i will have enough to make a 100 gram .950 platinum knob.

that is the seriously shrunk down version. The real thing costs a lot more. I would be happy to tell you the real cost, but as usual i don't have the faintest idea

pens?? Did someone say pens?? http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/pens.jpg Including 2 vintage 14k solid gold cross pens (the fat boy and the one next to it) A sterling silver mont blanc, and 2 sterling silver watermans. Plus a whole bunch of 1940's vintage resin pens...