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Yeah but that would require just two more cuts to fix. Whoever said I was any good at math...

Tom, have you considered using one of your big paper cutters with the wooden base and a big blade pivoted at one corner. Comes down in an arc like you are pulling a lever. We have em down here in office depot and FedEx kinkos stores. Cut the original 600 into 6 strips. Then feed all 6 at the same time and keep pulling the lever. Postpone joint pain for a few years you know and cut your cutting action down 6 fold.

Happy birthday jacob

congratulations ric and family

The box from tom is finally in my possession as of 15 minutes ago. Holy mother of all things well packaged...Tom, I hope you don't take this the wrong way but you are insane brother man. i used to think I was a fairly cautious packer but you put me to shame and swept the floor with me. Still waiting on the parts from Mouser but put whatever I have so far together to see how it all fit and am quite pleased so far. I haven't had any financial dealings with Tom in the past but I can definitely see where he gets his good name from, and deservedly so. Hopefully the mouser stuff will arrive tomorrow otherwise I have to wait till Tuesday to stuff this puppy. Any tips before I do anything in terms of grounding or noise/hum reduction?

Happy bday chris

Happy bday Andy

I have both of the suggested ones. The bugle boy and the black plate mullard set me back a fair bit but the 421a and the 5814a seemed to sound the best - probably why they stayed in as a combo for over a year. I have the bugle boy in right now and its a very very clean sound. I don't want to call it clinical but it is colder than the hytron. Don't have a dremel tool but do have a drill. I'll see if I can hack up something from it. Or perhaps ask around my neighbors. Might throw in some 5998 or a 6AS7 for a different flavor tonight since I changed the input tube too. Needless to say a much cleaner sounding amp with the input tube replacement.

after a year or so with this amp, my cbs/hytron 5814a seems to have stopped wanting to play clean noise. too much static and warbly noises continuously. Reseating the tube would help for a minute but once the tube warmed up, the noise would come back. I don't want anything too expensive as I already have a slew of tubes for the amp but I loved the sound of the hytron. is there anything similar to the tube anyone can suggest? i will probably get one of the hytrons as they aren't too costly but something new/similar to try out would be reasonable.

Happy birthday sir

Is that even enough clearance for the power cable? Don't know if the 1 cm was a serious number.

Happy birthday sir

I was going to wish everyone in Hindi but I don't think there is a Hindi word for Christmas. Oh well. Merry Christmas. Hope everyone enjoys a safe holiday.

HP envy on woot today.

Anyone know about a sigma sa7n camera? Looks to be in pretty good condition. Comes with 28-80 and 70-300 lenses. Sigma mount. Lenses are in pretty good condition. $110? Want something decent and cheap to play with film. Something with decent resale value would be nice in case it doesn't go too well.

i think the sfbags one will probably fit the bill perfectly. thanks all.

what are the specs of this magical laptop? surely there are deals floating around these deals that are comparable. ill keep a look out even though you seem to have your ear closer to the ground with these things.

The install disc needs to be aware of the Hdd controller though. Which if has some weird firmware or drivers that the installation media does not like it will keep throwing errors. Happened on a really old dell when I tried to change the Hdd. It may very well have been something else entirely but the drive worked elsewhere so I don't know what else it could have been. Second what john said. Ask for refund. If you get it take the money and save up for something more reliable. Otherwise settle for a replacement.

I hate running around chasing Microsoft gremlins and usually format at the first site of trouble. Hate to say it but have you considered starting with a clean slate?

We are all parroting! Happy birthday sir.

found what i was looking for.

what are you guys using to carry your macbook airs? mom and dad are both looking for something to travel to india with. they dont care for anything fancy. just something functional.

i was wondering how mine said 45mb/s class 10 on it. i was halfway through an email to sandisk asking them to send me a class 45 card...

a wee bit off topic but anyone using jh 16s with macbook air? no amps or dacs in the middle. just headphones straight into the laptop? i am getting more hiss than i do with my thinkpad. i keep hearing claims of completely black backgrounds but i cant get it. not on an iphone or ipad even. actually the ipad is the closest ive gotten to a dark background. the issue was brought up with mike when i went to his house to borrow a pico slim i think. he couldn't hear the noise i was hearing initially but following a seemingly random set of events he heard it. 1. plug in headphones into iphone while the phone is in sleep mode. 2. enter your password or swipe to get into the phone. 3. turn the headphone volume all the way up. 4. click on music but dont play any music. 5. if you don't hear the hiss already, keep the music app up for a few seconds and then click the home button to go back to the home screen. 6. wait for a few seconds before the audio link is cut out from the music app and you will hear a blimp and then complete silence. 7. if you were to go back into the music app, there would be a little blip and then the hiss will resume. should take a minute at most to do this and i would appreciate some feedback on the matter. the problem i have is that the hiss that mike heard at the highest volume (he didnt hear anything at the lowest volume) is what i hear the moment i plug in the headphones into anything - iphone, shuffle, ipad, ipod touch, thinkpad, and now mba regardless of the volume level. fwiw, i heard it on the pico slim with the iphone as well. ive gone to get hearing tests done a few times over the past few years because of tinnitus and ive always scored well above average even though the tests only go up to 8khz i think. the issue is not with high frequencies though which tinnitus might screw up the results for, but with a low hiss. almost like the constant hiss of a cassette in a walkman. in the mba, the same thing happens when i open itunes. for instance it is still there in the background but with itunes the hiss gets much more annoying and noticeable. if anyone has solutions on getting rid of this, please let me know. after hearing the crack + 650 on the mba i was reminded how pleasant a black background was and well what i had gotten used to over the past year has started bugging the shit out of me yet again. could i use some sort of adapter cable with a resistor inside or anything else to reduce the sensitivity of the phones? i tried emailing jaime about the issues a while back but she quoted jerry saying that he was using the jh16s with the macbook air with a completely black background. i dont claim to have golden ears - just that i might be able to hear part of the spectrum that they can't.

i actually thought it was him under a different name on diya. but i guess the design has been adopted for sale by others who are selling built amps. didn't have all the facts before posting. nice casework though. very clean.