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This.

Congrat, Vicki! There are sure to be ups and downs, as there are with any addition to a family, but I'm sure it'll be worth it.

The internets say 18-25lbs.

Agnes Obel - Philharmonics

This. Hopefully the worst case is delaying surgery until a more convenient time.

I second this.

Still trying to conform, obviously.

Have a great ride guys. It's rainy and crappy here today so no riding for me.

I couldn't believe it the other day when I had the top open and you did not. :poke:

Win.

I have a KGSS that could be made avaiable. It was made by some goofy dipshit with a fake company but I think it'd pass CE inspection.

Cue up the bandwagon... Lorde - Pure Heroin Agnes Obel - Aventine So far I like both, a lot. It's been a long damn time since I've gotten much new music and I have forgotten how much fun the discovery is.

Yup.

While many here believe the LL is a (insert profane description) the level of hatred/disgust/disrespect/etc. in this thread is a little surprising. Alex is nowhere near operating at Mikhail's level of consumer debauchery, in my opinion at least. Are there issues with the LL, Kevin and Birgir think so, Alex does not. All I know is that I'm not qualified to enter into that particular discussion other than to say that his products are not the first nor will they be the last to have exposed terminals on the IEC. I don't find that particular offense all that offensive. It's probably more risky to have exposed tubes on many of the amps that we use regularly given the potential for serious burns to occur. But anyway, back to my original point. HC generally operates with a pretty loose set of rules and we typically (myself included) jump all over the random asshat that comes around trying to start what they believe to be an interesting topic. But this thread, again in my opinion, should be different. Birgir is levelling serious criticism and when the manufacturer takes the time to put forth a response the reply that gets applauded is one where he's told to go fuck himself? If you don't like Alex I'm not going to argue. If you don't like his products I'm not going to argue. If you don't like his business model I'm not going to argue. But the direction this thread is going makes me more than just a little uncomfortable. What I would like to see is more technical evaluation and discussion of the one serious (potential) problem in the lack of output resistors.

Yup, stopped for a good/hard MTB ride on the way home and it did wonders for my mood even after I was attacked by a tree and left with a decent shoulder bruise/contusion.

Well, the government is sending me home so I'm going to hit the MTB trails on my way there and deal with some of the stress of the government shutdown. It's epic end of summer weather outside right now so for the next few days I'm going to enjoy it.

Oh my.

While I did not get crused as badly as I expected that was only thanks to a heroic performance by Tony Gonzalez. Holy cow my team is inconsistent.

Speaking from personal experience there was never any benefit to being a mod there. It was a headache, and if you cared a substantial one, without anything in the form of compensation. Jude is the only one that I'm aware of that gets a tangible benefit out of it in the form of both money and samples from manufacturers. Maybe some of the other mods get that to a certain degree but I never wanted to create/maintain a high enough profile at HF to garner that type of treatment. I'd rather occassionally write for Tyll than wade through thousands of posts by people acting like 5 year olds looking for the rare grain of knowledge.

I had a ripping good MTB ride yesterday at Ft. Rock. I hadn't been on the MTB for almost 4 months and it felt great to be back out again. I'm looking forward to many more fall rides. I did take a little video so I'll try to post some of that up when I find some time.

Happy belated birthday!

A belated happy birthday, Wayne.

Good luck, Larry.

Given the cell-phone level of pictures being provided so far I think it's a little early to make sweeping generalizations about how it'll look in the flesh. I'll grant you that it's never going to be flashy but it maintains the same general aesthetic approach of the other Apex offerings (Peak, Pinnacle, etc.) so there's good reason for it to look the way that it does. And Kevin, I think that one of the top mounted bits is a large, first stage choke. The power supply on this thing is going to be running pretty at pretty high currents (compared to normal tube gear) ~200mA so the first stage choke would need to be a lot larger than the little guys inside the chassis. I'm basing this assumption partially off of the reference to a "multi-staged LC filter" that is in the product description and partially off of the # of wires coming through the bottom panel. I also think they're running DC heaters for the 6NS7, which is a nice upgrade over previous iterations of this amp. I'll be bugging Pete about it more, that much is for sure.

Please, elaborate on your vast experience designing, building and distributing high-end electronics.