Craig Sawyers

Absolutely. The first investment needs to be a good ceramic burr grinder. When I bought mine, I mentioned in this thread that it would take lots of cups of coffee to pay back the price, and Dusty said "No - only one cup!". Sage words. It goes way back. In Nevil Shute's 1950 novel "A town called Alice", the opening is in a Gentleman's Club in London. One guy is bemoaning the poor quality of post War coffee, and saying that they don't understand that real coffee ought to be made less than 10 minutes after grinding the beans. When I'm just making coffee for me, I use the Aeropress. When I'm making for me and my wife, or when we have guests, I use a French Press (I have two sizes).

McIntosh has been around since Adam was a lad, and there they are still manufacturing drop dead gorgeous audio gear.

I'm a great fan of my Aeropress. Costs peanuts and makes superb coffee, from freshly ground beans of course.

I don't know whether this is the case for the OP27, but some op-amps can get internally unhappy in some applications. A good example is the LM4562, a dual op-amp which has truly superb specs - but if you use it in follower mode it works perfectly as a radio receiver. It is impossible to measure noise performance because it is swamped in radio. Nothing you can do stops this - battery power, screened enclosure - nothing. Wire it as a gain block, or a filter, or just about anything else and all is sweetness and light. Follower mode - RF. Possibly there is some internal RF instability in this mode and it acts as a mixer. Not saying that the OP27 suffers woes when operating as a servo, but there seems to be some evidence that all is not well in the camp.

For some reason that made me think of this

Have a great day Knucks!

You're absolutely right Jose - any patent covering the DT770 will have long expired.

Territory dependent, but 17 years is a good guide.

Great to hear you are on the road to recovery, Jose! Well, other than the downer on sex that is ?‍♂️?‍♀️?

I know this is small beer compared to what Jose has gone through in the last couple of days, but three weeks post op on my finger this is what it looks like now. I'm really pleased with the outcome, and the remaining scar will fade away pretty much totally.

WTF? That sounds distinctly not nice at all. How are you post op?

Happy New Year from across the pond!

Well that was a real shock. Neil Innes - suddenly, and only 11 years older than me. Bloody hell. RIP Neil. In honour of the brilliant idiot musical genius

That looks like my kind of wine shop

Oh yes yes yes! Salivating

Toroidal transformers are not completely symmetrical, because of the wire exits. The usual way of reducing hum induced by the asymmetry is to leave the leads long (or solder on temporary extension wires), loosen the chassis fixing and rotate the transformer to minimise or reduce below audibility the hum. Then tighten up the fixing bolt and tidy up the wiring. Also make sure that the primary, and secondary wires are twisted. Open wire loops can induce hum and buzz in signal circuits through simple transformer action.

Do you have a hum problem you are trying to cure?

What a mega-turd! Whoever deposited that must have broken into a sweat.

That is a superb rack. Looks like he (I'm assuming he) is either a real craftsman, or he knows one. Awesome deck too!

OW. Both big toes. Why did we both do this sort of thing just coming up to Christmas?

All I see is the woman

Ha Ha!

Well that was fun (not). I'd booked to have a minor op to the middle finger of my right hand today, originally when Carole was going to drive me there and back. In the meantime of course she broke both wrists. So I had it done anyway. So now between the two of us we have only one functioning arm . Still numb with local anesthetic, I expect it will throb a bit when that wears off.

My interpretation. My wife says it is derivative art.