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Yesterday I bought: Who Killed Amanda Palmer - Order Today! It's the solo project of the lead singer of The Dresden Dolls, a favorite of mine.

You itching for a ban hotdog? Or do you just want to sell me the PS3?

But this will let us run a dedicated COD server next weekend so it's win in this case.

Well, I'm now posting to you live from a Windows Vista equipped Macbook. It's hilarious, it actually runs Vista Ultimate very well and the install w/ BootCamp went without a hitch.

Once Al gets his SimpleSE monoblocks you'll be singing a different tune. note: this is a huge joke, I'm not building any more than one simpleSE, and it's for me.

Just read on Head-Fi that Steve's area of the state came through just fine.

Did you make it through ok, Steve?

It'll be better when you have a second beta on the left to regain symmetry.

Given the cheap bastard way in which I'm approaching this it sounds like boot camp is the way to go. Thanks for the advice.

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Yeah, the MAC will remain a mac and only be a windows ho everyonce in a while. It will be interesting to see how the Macbook does with Vista Ultimate. I've had a couple of copies for a while now and saw them this weekend which got me thinking that I might as well use one of them. Yay Mojave. :|

I'm confused, what do you mean by booting into either OS exclusively? I thought that once the partition was installed that in order to select the alternate OS all I had to do was boot and hold the option key? At least that's the way the Boot Camp install instructions read. And this would be one of those things were I'd use OS X 99% of the time, Windows 1%.

So I've got enough free space on my MacBook that I'd like to have a go at running Windows on it, just for kicks. So is there any reason not to use boot camp? i.e. is there a better way? With the single largest caveat being that I don't want to have to wipe the drive and reinstall both OS's.

Nugget Audio approves of this setup.

Errr, emmm, Pete Millett might belong on that list...

If that term (14A) is supposed to describe the external power supply only I don't see how it could be considered 14 amp. As it is wired it's a 6.3V/8A power supply, maybe he's counting something inside the chassis as well?

I'm glad you got through, I heard there was quite the snafu last night when they tried to open up the first round of ordering.

Ahhh I see now, I missed the bridge on the back panel. Does the .15ohm serve to help drop some of the excess voltage he must be having to deal with after the rectifier?

Kevin, Are you sure that he's running DC filaments? I figured the rectifier and filter stages were for B+ and that he'd just be running AC filaments because of the current required even for the 6AS7. And if that is a DC filament supply on the left side of the pcb what do you think he's doing with B+? Just lots of filter stages?

I'd put the over under on this pair at $2000.

Thanks for that, even if it's really not good news. I'm hoping they are conservatively rated. I would say that he misspoke in this case. Even if he's still running the 6SN7 heater off of the original, chassis mounted trafo you still don't have anywhere near the current capacity that you need for the 6528s. That's ignoring the previously mentioned heat issue as well.

I'd say that those are different enough that it's not exactly a fair comparison. The Zana is larger, and at least has some ventilation at the base of those tubes. Does the Extreme have any? I'd respectfully ask that you go back and look at the pictures and notice that the trafo in the outboard supply is a 12.6V/4A - 6.3/8A unit. You and I both know that this is not the HV supply. Mikhail may have built other Extremes where he's moved the HV out of the main chassis (that sounds like what he told me at Canjam) but that is clearly not the case here. I'm guessing that this Extreme didn't start life as a Platinum and therefore doesn't have the Plitron trafo, but I'm guessing there. The 5998 is my personal favorite in this type of amp, but the right 6AS7G sounds pretty darn good for $10 tube. The 7236 can also be good and not break the bank as well.

I'm not defending Kevin, he's perfectly capable of doing that himself if he feels it's neccessary. I'm saying that individuals with either a) insufficient technical ability to fully comprehend the scenario (myself included) or no further first hand information should just be quiet for now. Your post, saying you talked to Mikhail is worthless. So, like I said, I don't really care to hear from anyone about this till there's some first hand, picture documented evidence to go along with it. Get it? You must often find yourself uncomfortable while browsing Head-Fi, no?

Honestly I'd be pretty concerned about running 6528 tubes w/ their 5A heaters in the Extreme, regardless of power supply. The amount of heat strikes me as borderline unhealthy as it is. I know Vicki does it pretty regularly and should I ever find myself in Florida again you can bet I'll be cracking open her amp to check for signs of heat stress on some of those components. Minor tangent - does anyone know what the operating temp range for BG's is? I've never worked with their HV caps and can't find a pic on the web that shows the label clearly enough to show it.