Craig Sawyers

Just catching up after a few days away, and am just reeling. Go for her jugular Steve - bring her as low as low can go. PS we get our cats from https://www.bluecross.org.uk/oxfordshire-burford-rehoming-centre , and fortunately these are the good guys. They give you a verbal third degree to make sure that you are the kind of person who can be trusted with a cat or dog from them.

Haven't heard anything since that post; but yes like you I'd be up for a bunch (provided they are genuine new old stock).

I'm just not sure where the silicon is in relation to the package. It *may* be much closer to one face than the other.

Happy Birthday!

Dog goes into the telegraph office (this is an old joke), puts his paws on the counter and goes "woof woof woof woof woof woof woof". The lady behind the counter says "You can have one more woof for the same money" The dog replies "That would be ridiculous, it wouldn't make sense with another woof"

That is the sort of faultless logic I use. "Hey - I've got all this free stuff. Let's use that fact that to spend lots of money to get the best value from the free stuff". Been there so many times.....

You can also get the Neutrik RCA's in an XLR housing, which looks kind of cool.

Hey man - have an absolutely great one!

The Naim Statement. About the same price as the boulder above, but at least you get a preamp (the middle slice).

Ooh - shiny

He doesn't say what the measurement bandwidth was. Which really makes it a very loose specification. The only hint is the very sharp mains harmonics in the noise plot, which are way sub-Hz in width. To get to -158dBV (-155.8dBu) from -107dBu on a 20kHz B/W you would need a measurement bandwidth of 0.25Hz, Shockingly badly specified.

The most significant issue with the THAT 1200 series of receivers is noise, -107dBu. It is dominated by the rather large values of noise-generating resistors inside (7k typical). With a good discrete design, or clever use of opamps you can get to -120dBu, which challenges measurement (<1uV in a 20kHz bandwidth).

Cooler is a relative term with the T2 Clone

I have mine on two separate shelves - in a stack it gets pretty toasty!

Have a spiffing day!

Have a truly superb day!

Have a great day, sir!

I had absolutely no idea that Robin Williams was such a keen cyclist.

Thanks mate - will download and have a look. The Ayre stuff is pretty awesome.

I have that on CD (well, now ripped to the NAS too). Great album.

I thought I had a basic grasp of the tourbillon, until I chanced on a 3-axis version. Just a pity the cages look so roughly finished.

I'll probably configure it single ended first. The two small boards can be bal2unbal or unbal2bal. So for SE these would be unbal2bal. Then rewire tonearm in a way I have not entirely thought through yet and go balanced input to balanced output. Then the small boards would be bal2unbal just to provide an unbal output if needed. Casework will come from here http://www.modushop.biz/site/ , at which point I will be financially punished as a result of the stupidly weak pound (globally) as a result of the clowns who voted us out of Europe.

Just put it on my favourites list on Tidal HiFi - will listen to later. Useless factoid number 37a: Mark Knopfler bought his first guitar from the shop I worked in on a Saturday aged 16 http://www.jgwindows.com/about-us .

Happy birthday!