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Seems that I do, as this stuff is just superb. Maybe my favorite bourbon yet (of a very small sample).

Bottle of Elmer T Lee. Hope its decent.

Yeah, I also am gonna need mineral wool pads for my SR-Lambda too, so hoping there is a good source. They did ship to me today though, so I should have them in hand by the end of the week. Really enjoying my SR-404 in the meantime, much more than I like my Lambda Pro. The Pros definitely dont have the foam behind the pads, and I dont think the Lambdas do either, though those pads are pretty new, so who knows.

I guess it could be different if I cared at all how my school did in basketball. Maybe thinking UBC?

Bunch of prototype PCBs for my discrete I/V. Here is hoping this fixes all the problems on the last run (it should).

Hey, I recognize those!

Socy409 take home midterm. Finished up at ~4:30. Man, so tired today, but this is basically half my grade.

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.