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Austin seems like a good fit. People here love to eat well and be active. However, I've known (from the west coast primarily) who just get depressed and cite the weather as being a contributing factor. I'm assuming you've visited all of these places more than once?

buy commercial gear and reverse it... enjoy listening to the new piece of equipment and learning how it works.

godaddy will just charge them for the burst in traffic, I'm sure it will be fine.

swt61: when are you scheduled to have yours up and going?

I like the VK-3i as well, but despite all my recommendations no one as tried it out.. It has an excellent phono stage as well and the remote can serve for home protection as well.

good point. I imagine I would use the remote 90% of the time, but who knows. All good suggestions guys, thanks!

I have some inserts that will be lighting the knobs. Nate pointed out a build that did something like this and I just copied the idea. The switch is actually a standby switch. I might use the smaller 16mm Bulgin, like these: here's the entire line: http://bulgin.co.uk/Products/Switches/16mmSwitches.htm I don't really like the polished look, but it is reasonable compact. getting closer

those are cow bells on the headphone icon...

revision with different knob layout...

will do. Just playing around with that anyways. Do you feel that the order of the knobs and connectors makes sense? I wish I could find a nice momentary switch that looked good and was the scale of the (tiny) Lemo jack, but no dice. Something like this perhaps, or does it look a bit pedestrian? (can find those anywhere in stock around here though...)

as promised...

so, I'll post my panel tomorrow, but... in general.. I have a very large VFD display that I'm putting in the middle and trying to squeeze a small IR receiver in this spot. Then I have 2 knobs and a small Lemo jack as well as a place for a small power button (momentary, but I haven't found a good switch that matches the scale of the 4-pin Lemo connector that will be on the front too... the Bulgin switches look nice, but they just look too big). At this point, the layout moving from left to right is: knob power VFD Lemo knob... but I'm just not super satisfied with it. I ditched the ideas of using buttons and everything will be remote controlled, including perhaps the power if it doesn't look right on the front. I guess it's hard to get feedback without the design, but hey ... any other layouts I could think about? The knobs are 1" in diameter and the VFD is Newhaven M0220MD-202MDAR1-3. The Lemo connector is EGG.00.304.CLL. The entire panel is around 12" wide and not much taller than the VFD, just to give you an idea. ... just not happy with the look, consider what I'll be paying for the panel ... you know how it is.

I think 60dB is about as much as you will ever see from a non hybrid design. I could be wrong though.

exactly my opinion as well. Thing is that makes this discovery problematic for me is that I don't like what step-ups do to the sound. I had the S&B silver wound unit for around 3-4 months with an upper end Zyx (and in fact, a friend still has both my old S&B and cartridge and lives 5 minutes away, so it's easy comparison) and it just didn't do it for me, when compared to direct amplification. So, this conclusion pretty much limits me to solid state phono units, or a SS head unit with tube phono (haven't tried this yet though).

you're drawing less than half the current you will when the board is populated. I bet your voltage will be fine once everything is up and going.

What voltage are you getting across R2?

yes, that would make sense...

man I this was going to be about something good, like:

he'd be "doing" that after he got high...

I have plans to use styrene box caps for the RIAA filter and need to parallel "a few" to get the right values. We'll see once they get here if this is feasible or not.

excellent!

nope, those are Steve's. I have something totally crazy lined up for mine... waiting for some parts to arrive. Let's just say that I have 100 or so caps per board. The replacement zeners shipped on Friday, as well as a few more parts. I have some matched parts on hand I can ship out for the "over eager" They're matched by Idss, which is sorta the "normal" way of doing things. Anyways, maybe I'll make my first shipment on Friday of next week? The next week I'll be on a business trip to visit "The Evil Empire" in Seattle, so I'll be out of town... Have you decided on a case, or perhaps tested the unregulated supply portion of the circuit? If you're going to do some sort of LEDs, I'd attach them to this portion of the circuit, before the boards.

hm, I might be interested in some quick and dirty transplants ... I'm looking for a pair of low-Z headphones and perhaps these might fit the bill... what's the standard cheap donor recommendation for these?