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For a hand held 2 second exposure in 30mph winds, it's pretty damn stable.

Looks nice, but for some reason, I don't exactly have high hopes for its durability.

It's not the camera, it's the guy behind the camera. Some of my best pictures were taken with $5 disposable cameras. That's why I have a point & shoot instead of a DSLR, my Canon SD800 goes everywhere with me while the DSLR would spend almost all of its time at home. I can't lug a DLSR and its lenses around with me all the time and as a result I'm going to miss a lot of nice photos.

I haven't had any real issues with my digital Elph unless I'm trying to do something dumb like taking long exposure pictures of people at night. The picture below is a hand-held 2 second exposure at night, image stabilization rocks.

In my area, the only time I see square or rectangle pizza slices is when the pizza place makes a rectangular pizza. Every round pizza I've ever seen until half an hour ago has been cut into wedge shaped slices, and I did not think there was any other way of cutting a round pizza.

This is the first time in my life I've seen a round pizza being cut into rectangular slices. I am deeply disturbed and confused.

As told to the class by one of my university profs. A group of Polish tourists is flying on a small airplane through the Grand Canyon on a sightseeing tour. The tour guide announces: "On the right of the airplane, you can see the famous Bright Angle Falls." The tourists leap out of their seats and crowd to the windows to see the falls and the plane violently loses control and crashes. Why? There were too many poles on the right side of the plane.

Needs more cowbell! Literally.

I hear your mom likes them. Stuffed up her ass.

It is also a speaker amp, for when/if you get Duos.

Tell him to go nuts and build this.

If you build it, don't use the 12AU7. The joy of DIY is that there are many excellent tubes you can use which the commercial guys can't since they'd have to stock 10,000 spares. Use a pair of 6J5's (single triode version of the 6SN7) instead, or if you don't need quite as much gain, the 6P5GT which is the octal version of the 76.

What was the question again? I got the naked chicks part but I seem to have missed something important in the process... Ok, seriously now. I have a burning hatred for the Beyer 880 (painfully bright, harsh, and sibilant) so it's gone, I dislike the K701 as well (more bland than vanilla ice cream) so it's gone too, meaning the Stax wins by default. Even the entry level Stax 2020 which I heard years ago can match the 880 & K701 in terms of detail, and I find it's more neutral than both, ie. doesn't bore me to death or make my ears bleed. It won't play loud and dynamics are kinda meh, but I suspect that's more the fault of the cheap wallwart powered amp box than anything else. I'm not exactly satisfied with the Stax either, but at least it doesn't outright piss me off like the 880 & K701. That's basically what I meant when I said "win by default".

Every Chapters/Indigo store I've been to so far has it on their shelves. Some branches of the Toronto library system carry it, and the Mississauga central library has every issue going back for at least 2 years. Please tell us more about your man-love relationship. On 2nd thought, maybe not...

I read them for free thanks to the local library. I just have to wait an couple months or so for the issues to go into circulation.

I haven't done that one yet, but I've reversed left & right on RCA input jacks a few times and then wondered why the channels were reversed.

True, but chances are we've both made enough goofs so that we can tell stories about them for a long time to come, well, at least I have. Did I tell you about the time I forgot to put the fuse in and wondered why my amp wouldn't turn on?

The great thing about diyAudio.com is that there's boatloads of information and in-depth technical discussions with lots of highly knowledgeable people. The bad thing is after a year or two there, you come to realize that many commercial products are pure utter shit.

I know someone who put a Van den Hul Colibri on a Pro-Ject Debut for shits & giggles. As far as I know, that's the most absurd cartridge to turntable price ratio I know of. Anytime PJ, anytime!

Somewhere, there's an XV-1S which is crying out for you to buy it.

This just in. The real reason I use film caps in the power supplies of my tubes amps is so that I don't have to worry about getting the polarity wrong and blowing up the cap.

Liquor. Beer makes me sleepy.

I'm just going to take this opportunity to say that you're a worthless dipshit.

The solution of course is to rip out the tranformers in the speakers and build a high voltage tube amp which couples directly to the electrostat panels. Or you could build a transistor amp that runs at around 200V or so and use a transformer with a smaller step-up ratio to drive the speakers. There's a guy in my area who uses the latter approach with great success on his Quad 57's.

For sure. I have albums which sound better on my SR225 than my RS-1.