Craig Sawyers

Bit of a late reply, but you're right. The BNC SPDIF waveform was not good (slow notchy rise) and TDR looked nothing like 75 ohms on a 50ns timescale. Also there is no DC blocking on the pulse transformer, so is operates with a DC bias. Ugh. So I removed the existing transformer, and replaced with Newava S22083. Fed via 169 ohm resistor and 0.1uF DC block on the input end (from the 74HC74 driver already in there), 43.2 ohms in parallel with the secondary and 39 ohms in series. This gives the correct 0.5V p-p output, optimally loads the transformer, has a TDR that has a couple of 50 millirho 500ps long features from the connector itself, and the waveform has a clean 1.5ns rise and fall time. Again a bit of a late reply, but as you can see I've been getting under the skin of the Transporter. My set up is now hard wired CAT6 connection from router to Transporter, PC and Synology NAS, 2 x 2TB Raid 1. iPad wireless connected to Router running iPeng as overall controller. CD collection is now ripped using dBpoweramp uncompressed FLAC. I'm subscribed to Tidal HiFi for streaming. PC has to be on and running Logitech Media Server for the Transporter to do anything meaningful. Simple menu choices on iPeng give streaming, CD collection or Radio.

Hope you get well soon Tyll

Good grief. I hardly know where to start

Or even higher up the weird stakes http://www.wimp.com/unicyclingbagpipes/

Just to make your day, Torpedo - Clapton, but not as we know it, Jim.

Pink Floyd? Listen and weep. Or something.

Wow - just logged on and pow. Looks good - and thanks for what must have been a massive amount of work Todd

I went though a pens phase a year or so ago, and still love and use them at my desk. A boxed late 1940s Parker 51 Vacumatic plus matching pencil in blue My Dad's early 1950's Parker 51 Aerometric in black A 1988 Parker 95 Insignia A Sheaffer PFM in blue - actually to eventually replace my original which was stolen when a student in the mid 70's A Sheaffer 1001 Targa - actually to replace my original, bought for me by my wife in the late 70's and stolen last year. A green marbled Conway Stewart 75 circa 1950 But I've stopped now - it is a small collection that gets used and gives me great pleasure.

Yup. They are pitched to sound like a baby crying - so they are pretty much guaranteed attention. Cats are pretty straightforward - speaking cat indicates "feed me", "let me out", "cuddle me". It is a limited vocabulary.

Happy birthday!

Oh yes!

Alternatively buy some CAT6a cable http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/cat-6a-lszh-sftp-stranded-patch-cable-blue-a13qyfor next to nothing, then a pair of http://www.amazon.de/Teleg%C3%A4rtner-RJ45-Steckverbinder-MFP8-T568-Cat-6A/dp/B004406KMY (which is what the dissected cable above uses) and away you go. In fact have the cable fabric braid covered by an outfit I know that makes classic car harnesses and sell it for - oh say 500 somethings.

The bit that makes the mind boggle is the sentence "Lube Pump Included"

Hoogerland in hospital overnight after his barbed wire incident in 2011. Note the compression trousers to keep swelling down. And the iPad and phone.

Who can forget the French Television car swiping Hoogerland into a barbed wire fence on day 9 in 2011 - now that was a good reason for the car's occupants to be kicked off the tour. Throwing a water bottle - please! Of course being a tough pro cyclist, Hoogerland got on his bike and rode to the finish, then spent overnight in hospital. Went on to complete the Tour.

At least no one threw a cup of urine over Chris Froome in today's stage

A bit unhelpful in the context of the question, but......

Just for Jacob, Sound-Lab A-1 Electrostatics

In the UK before 1967, any gay sex was illegal and an imprisonable offence (like Oscar Wilde), or "treated" by chemical castration (as they did with Alan Turing). The 1967 "Sexual offences Act" decriminalized gay sex in private for those over 21. In 1994 that was reduced to 18 (even though the heterosexual age of consent was 16) In 2000 the age of consent was equalized at 16 for both gays and heteros There have been further amendments (such as removal of "gross misconduct" and "buggery" from the statute books), but true equality in the eyes of the law is a very recent thing indeed, as is gay marriage (2014).

No idea what they are, But they ought to be christened the PornoHorn

Happy birthday Birgir! mmm cake,

Rapberry-pi based streamer project here http://theaudiostandard.net/thread/501/raspberry-based-audio-streamer-project But I didn't do that. I just bought a NOS Logitech Transporter, due to collect once I've paid the import tax today. Obsolete, yeah, but the sound quality is (allegedly) great.

Happy birthday!!

That's hilarious Stretch