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We've been using Canon inkjet printers for quite awhile (had two). Our current one is a TR8500 something or other IIRC. I buy the ink off of Amazon (EZ Ink store there) and it has worked fine. I had used Epson prior to that but got tired of their print heads clogging and bricking the printer. Ink is $25 for a full load for our model (currently on sale for $16). EDIT: Our is a TR8520. Best Buy has a similar TR8620 now, here.

Happy Birthday Dinny! And what Todd said as well.

I used a 3M (Adafruit) thermally conductive adhesive tape. Mouser 485-1468 (80x80mm sheet).

Happy Birthdays Mikey and Chris! Hope you both have great ones!

^ I need to get back to watching that. Not sure I watched the whole 1st season yet.

Happy Birthday Marc!

Happy Birthday Dusty!

Happy Birthday gents!

Ordering from places like JLCPCB is pretty economical. I hope you did 2oz copper and at least 1.6mm PCB thickness? 10 boards for ~$90 shipped (this for the v1.2 full board).

The gerbers are available. Why not just get your own run?

There's an awful lot of solder on your SMD parts.

Someone had a massive snake oil OD... good god. Must be a vibration damping freak.

Nelson Pass apparently mentioned it at Burning Amp last weekend. I wasn't there so don't know what he said about it, but the insinuation was that he was favorably impressed by it.

I know these aren't Stax, but have any of you tried Audeze CRBN2 in lieu of the 007s? Bob Katz seems quite enamored with them using one of Birgir's Carbons as the amp. Kinda expensive, but not sure what 007s are running these days either. https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/imersiv-d1-dac/

Happy Birthday and sorry to hear about the back! Heal up!

Black Rabbit (Netflix) I'm finding it enjoyable and trying not to binge it too fast...

Happy Birthday Jim!

They seem to be some sort of discrete voltage reg made to replace std. 78xx/79xx regs. Sparkos makes some, and I saw some on aliexpress, but nothing that looks exactly like these.

Happy Birthday Stretch! Hope it's not too hot in hotlanta!

I was recommended LCSC by someone on diyaudio so used them for some LDOs which were on extended backorder everywhere else. I received what I believe to be genuine parts (they work like they should).

Yes, that one isn't there. There are some balanced input boards up there but not sure what those are exactly. There was a GB back in 2017 for a bunch of stuff that the diffinput3smtd board was mentioned in, but not sure if those were actually included in the GB or not. Pinging @kevin gilmore @sbelyo ran that GB and might also have the file.

Here are the links to Kevin's files for PCBs and schematics etc. i think that for your application you would be fine without the buffer.

generally that is how these are used unbalanced out to balanced in. Take a look at this post which should tell you everything you need to know. It usually helps to read the entire thread when possible.

Belated Happy Birthday!

RIP Rick Davies, co-founder of Supertramp. Wish I could have seen these guys live. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rick-davies-supertramp-dead-obituary-1235422832/