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Happy birthday Fitz!

G, my AP is only good for B/G.

Never got it working with WDS, just have it set up as a straight extender. I can look at my settings again when I get home though, if needed.

It works fine for that Todd, I have one that my sister uses for airtunes. It is set to extend the wireless network in our house, which is based around a Linksys WRT54g-tm running DD-WRT.

Happy Birthday!

Within Temptation - The Silent Force

Wow, thats hot.

On to this one now. Pumped, because I just heard that they are back in the studio working on a new album. Epica Consign To Oblivion

Indeed! Listening to it myself now.

Happy REAL birthday Nate!

I am not Kevin, so I will have to beg your forgiveness (pleasedontsueme), but I feel like taking a poke at this. I am just guessing at North Star's reasoning for using IC opamps for the output stage on the Mk2 v. Mk1, so could certainly be wrong. The North Star m192 mk1 used a voltage out DAC, CS4396 IIRC. Discrete output stages for v-out DACs are very easy to design, as the output requires nothing more than a buffer and LPF, and there are plenty who even feel that that is redundant, and take the output straight off the DAC. You can make a great buffer with just a pair of JFETs, or a simple discrete opamp, or whatever floats your boat. Works great. The North Star m192 mk2 uses a current out DAC, PCM1792 IIRC. Discrete output stages for i-out dacs are much more difficult to properly design, though there are a few approaches you can take. Common base/source amplifiers are a good way to do this, though I am sure there are those who use simply a discrete opamp. Some also use a passive I/V and discrete gain stage follower, though this really isnt a good approach (IMO). It is much, much easier to just use opamps for the I/V conversion, and they work well enough for most. With a discrete design, you get to choose everything. If you dont want to use NFB, and there are some good reasons not to here, you dont have to. Its more about choices I guess. You can also bias discrete parts much hotter than the transistors inside an IC opamp.

How does opamp refer to a chip? Opamp refers to a specific type of amplifier topology, the center of which is a differential pair, which has NFB fed back into it. Generally though, an opamp is attributed to having near infinite open loop gain, so I dont know that amps like the dynalo/hi fully meet the definition, though the argument could be made either way, and is ultimately unimportant. Your chip is known as an IC opamp.

Thanks everyone for the support. Al, I can definitely see both sides of the issue, though part of the issue is that there are plenty of departments around here that wont even consider me. Baltimore city, county, DC, and I think a few others wont even let me test because of my vision, which is corrected to 20/15 with soft contacts, and has been stable like this for nearly a decade now. Only problem is I am -3.75 both eyes without, and that is a deal breaker for them. Oh, not what I did today, but yesterday. I got a thick packet in the mail from Montgomery County, which is a bigger department than Howard, just as good, and right next to it. I did the initial online mandatory application for them about 2 months ago, and heard nothing back until yesterday. Testing and possibly interview in 3 weeks (3/21), and the confidential questionnaire I was just sent is due at that time.

Not nearly as scary as if I tried doing the casework I am sure you are planning.

Glue job sends up some warning bells for me, as this would seem to me to be the delamination issue you already know about. The Maggies bass portion is, IIRC, aluminum wires glued to a tensioned sheet of mylar, and has some longevity issues. That said, I dont own Maggies (yet), so could be completely off on this.

Four Goodyear Eagle GT tires, alignment, and all the associated stuff. I feel poor.

I only listened to the L3k SE out of Dan's (former) M

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Got a letter. "Dear Toole, Thank you for the time and effort you spent recently in our selection process for Probationary Police Officer. We interviewed many applicants in the job search process. Unfortunately, we hired another individual whose credentials and qualifications were better suited for our needs. We thank you for your interest in employment with our Police Department and County Government and we wish you success in reaching your professional goals. Sincerely,"

Yeah, I think my Yamahas have the most seductive vocals of any of my orthos.

Deposit on four new Goodyear Eagle GT tires in 205/50R16. Get them installed Wednesday/Thursday. Ouch.

The T50v2 sure do have poor treble response, when damped as you had them. If I am getting my history right, Steve was the last person to open these up before I got them, and his initial damping layer had about the wind resistance of cheap craft felt, so about the lowest of anything in my ortho arsenal. They probably started rolling off around 5khz in that form, had absolutely no sparkle, or anything besides pounding bass. I currently have much, much denser stuff (glasses cleaning microfibre, followed by Ludo's black moorbrook cashmere), and the addition of circumaural pads and removal of the stock pads, which act as a bass lense, really help bring the treble out. Heck, I have had them once or twice that I bet MPWI here wouldnt find them too lacking. Well, maybe a bit, but he is crazy.

Yeah, I messed up there too. I was thinking (but didnt make this explicit) about rewiring the electrets to eliminate the SUTs, which would be quite easy since there are no bias concerns. Somehow, this became ESP/10, though I wonder how those would sound off your SRM-1/mk2 too. I had no idea what bias those ran.