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MachMat VCCS filament supply Gary Pimm CCS Design by HF member Roam, traced out by me while I was over at his place to pick up transformers for my own project. Yes I have his permission to post it. I spent about 20-30 minutes listening to it out of his Capitole CDP and my RS1, this amp is good, stupid good, but also stupid expensive thanks to the transformers and Emission Labs AD1 tubes. He says he has what should be a slightly purer version in the works using WE 205E's on the front end, but it may sacrifice a bit of bandwidth. No PSU schematic yet as he's still waiting for some parts to come in so it's running off an adjustable benchtop PSU. Can also be built with Lundahls, using the LL1676, LL1635, and LL1620, with something like the Prometheus TVC as the volume control. Still not cheap, and it'll still weigh a ton.

Mercury vapour rectifiers. Let's just say dropping one would not be a good thing.

Mayberry on Acid meet impressions thread. It's the big 4 chassis amp, you can't miss it.

Take a Sharpie to them! You could, but then they'd be more likely to pick up hum from the power transformers and chokes. It's a form follows function issue, the signal path of the amp is laid out from back to front to give the shortest possible signal path. The input goes in the back and comes out the front in a straight line. If we do the standard layout where the tubes are in the front and the transformer out back, the input signal has to be brought up to the front, then fed through the circuit, and the output brought from the back to the front panel. Signal path is longer and there's more chance for picking up hum & noise. Misc. notes. A CCS for the DHT filament supply and choke input HV PSU, nice.

Tango and Tamura are overrated, at least as far as their interstages & outputs are concerned. Tributes kill them.

Though I suspect it will be pretty expensive with a 2-3 month wait time, you could order up a set of custom transformers from Tribute. I've heard their input, interstage, and output transformers and they're all outstanding, so I'd imagine their step-up would also be superb.

They used to use the S&B TX103, but I think they had some kind of falling out in the business dealings and had to go searching for a new supplier. The last time I checked which was around 3-4 months ago, I think, they were still looking around.

I remember reading a test on various step-up transformers in AudioXpress sometime within the last year. As I recall, but I could be wrong, the Cinemag step-up had the best squarewave & frequency response specs. I can't really remember what they said about the sound though, or which cartridge(s) they used for the test.

Yeah, it's called marijuana residue.

Don't worry, you're not missing anything, in fact I'd argue it's a good thing to be spared the pain & suffering and PTSD from listening to Ultrasones.

Near blizzard conditions right now, heavy snow with really strong winds. Visibility is around 100-150', and it's fucking cold with the goddamn windchill. I went outside to take a few pictures this afternoon and damn near got frostbite on my fingers.

Once it stops snowing, which according to the forecast is sometime tomorrow evening, I'll go take some pictures of my area. The unfortunate suckers who live on the dead end streets already have 8' snowbanks.

Apparently not...

It does, but then you have to clean off the WD-40 residue with alcohol whereas lighter fluid evaporates away quickly and cleanly.

I have the heaters on a couple RCA grey glass 1633's (25V 6SN7) go bad, one of them was easily fixed by resoldering the tube pins since the heater wire somehow managed to break loose from the pin, the other one was a write-off.

Lighter fluid. I'm serious, it really works. Safe for pretty much all metal surfaces and most plastics.

Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Revisted at Massey Hall. They played the full Trinity album straight through and then had the encore, so it was a good thing I took a wizz right before the concert started since there wasn't an intermission for pee breaks. Best part, Margo saying in between songs (paraphrased) "I'm not sure why people have 'To love is to bury' as their wedding song. It's about a murder-suicide".

Not that I needed yet another reason to boycot Monster Cables...

I wonder if they'll still do that after seeing these videos. [ame=http://youtube.com/watch?v=cqaGE3s8qyc]YouTube - United Parcel Service sucks balls!![/ame] [ame=http://youtube.com/watch?v=HNs0Jv7D7Q4]YouTube - United Parcel Pitching Service[/ame] [ame=http://youtube.com/watch?v=slk6zeM4Of8]YouTube - UPS driver kicking every single package[/ame]

If it can be broken, UPS will find a way to break it. There's a reason they're called United Parcel Smashers.

That doesn't help when one is born with a medical condition, such as the ones I mentioned.

Assuming everyone is healthy with no pre-existing conditions. If someone has asthma, certain allergies, diabetes, hemophilia or any one of a large number of conditions, the premium will be a lot closer to $4000 a month than $400. That is if the insurance company doesn't outright deny them coverage.

I suggest looking at the Medicaid eligibility requirements. You're covered if you're on welfare, SSI, under 6 years of age or pregnant and making 133% or less of the poverty level, and a couple other conditions. Otherwise, you're shit out of luck. Single parent making $35k a year? Shit out of luck. He or she will have to quit their job and work minimum wage at Mickey D's to qualify.

I think a large problem in the US is the mindless worship of Capitalism and the Free Market, American believe that it's inherently right and trust that invisible magic hand of the Free Market will automatically fix all that is wrong and make everything better. Regulation is equated with communism and evil, and therefore lack of regulation is good. They do not understand that Capitalism is just one end of the spectrum in socio-economic policies, instead, it's worshipped as if it's part of the fucking Constitution. Raw unfettered Capitalism does not fix society's problems, rather, it results in the vast majority of the population being bent over and sodomized without lube. See industrial revolution Britain for an example. You had your nice rich factory owners, aristocrats, and merchants, while the majority of the population was worked to death in mines & factories. That's what raw Capitalism leads to, the dicking over of everyone by the rich.

Couldn't agree more. The funniest part is his stance on torture. McCain claims to be against torture, then he turns around and votes FOR waterboarding and all the other shit that's going down in Gitmo. What a great guy.