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^ 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/

Happy Birthday!

I've been watching Bosch, series about a somewhat jaded detective in LA. Pretty good; into the 3rd of 7 seasons now.

These were made from 1985 to 1990. Here is a link to one guy's experience in rebuilding one of these. https://www.facebook.com/groups/242963289391919/permalink/2153779211643641 I've decided against it. Thanks for the input!

I currently have an Odyssey Stratos Plus power amp which I have used for I guess going on 20 years and have been pretty satisfied with. I was thinking about upgrading it as these have gone from the Plus model to Extreme models. Klauss of Odyssey is now offering a Kismet amp. I can get my Stratos upgraded to the Kismet pcbs with a larger power supply for a fairly reasonable price. However, I ran across an opportunity to get a Mark Levinson No. 23 for around the same price as upgrading the Stratos. Reliability is a large factor in my decision. I've read a number of threads on diyaudio related to repairing Mark Levinson gear, and most of them seem to be a massive PITA to work on. This amp is no exception. The amp I am being offered would be coming from a Chicago dealer. It was repaired by Stereo Rehab in Chicago with some thermal issues (one bad channel). The explanation given doesn't really make a lot of sense to me, and I can post that if anyone wants to see it. Stereo Rehab is not an authorized ML repair facility; they do warranty the work done on this for 1 year. My only interest in this amp relates to the superlative reviews it got, and thoughts from some that these still hold their own with pretty much anything on the market. They apparently were very well built (and designed), using high quality parts, but the parts and architecture of these is jam packed together. Cosmetically, the amp looks virtually new, at least outside. Any thoughts on this appreciated. Right now, I'm leery and leaning against going for this.