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These pics aren't going to help much but here is what I could do with an iPhone and a partially opened PSU. One end piece was removed because the top has 4 capacitors strapped to it and all the tube socket wiring and I couldn't get much of an angle. The insides contain the following, although I have not seen any FETs or any chips of any type that I can recognize: 1. small transformer at the IEC input. Hammond 266N12 2. two larger transformers. Hammond 278X 3. one small PCB labeled "ES1HTRSPLY Rev. A Aug 2006" on the bottom left rear 4. one larger PCB on the right side wall labeled "PMOD Rev. A 2006" and I cannot get much of any shots of it

Our GE Arctica fridge recently went kaput but it was a really simple and inexpensive fix when they came out to service it. Good luck.

Yeah, but how could he not buy them for $149 each?!

I left Nick a message this morning. Thanks. RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

That's the idea, Gene, lemons into Lynchburg lemonade! Sounds like a plan and Claire's trip is the first two weeks of August so . . .

Thanks for the detective work guys. I will be tracking leads this week.

I am definitely looking locally. Nice of those helpful people to fuck up your HE90s for you.

Hard to say what killed the amp, but I don't really know why the meet would have anything to do with it. Maybe the tree falling into the power lines yesterday did something. I might try to open it up, but damn there are lots of hex screws top and bottom. Need some advice on that front. BTW, Grahame, I hate cats but that kitteh looks cute.

Beer companies shouldn't buy hops from Proctor & Gamble.

I would do that in a heartbeat, all expenses paid. When are you free to visit Mayberry Nate?

I am really going to work on this because there have to be people here. I am thinking that ironbut and amphead and others gotta know somebody from the pro world or the DIY crowd that can troubleshoot and work on amps. The gin has a nice bite to accompany my pain. It's hot here and whisky really didn't sound good at the moment. Who knows what 30 minutes from now will bring...

That's punny given the way that tube blew. Thanks for the condolences. Definitely my favorite amp ever. Not sure exactly what to do now, other than drink this glass of chilled gin I poured after writing that up.

Well, the Curse of the CanJam has claimed another victim. After being banned from the meet, Mikhail seems to have jinxed the SinglePower amps in attendance. First Neil's, now my SDS-XLR is dead. I really hope that Andy's amps are not next. Have you checked the amps? I set it up yesterday for the first time since CanJam and had a very strange incident where the left channel did not seem to be working on the K1K and then I switched in my K701 with Black Dragon and the left channel was still out. I swapped the driver tubes and still no left channel. Even though the left channel had been out on two cans, I decided to double check and swapped left and right and the left channel worked with the right side of the cans plugged into it. I then tried the K1K again and both channels were working. Eventually I tried the origninal 2c51s in the driver position and they worked too. Weird that I would find out the damn K701 lost the left channel -- again I might add -- at the same time, but I carried on because the left side was out when I tried it on the TTVJ FET-A. The amp sounded good but not great but I was doing lots of things and listening to speakers and didn't pay super close attention. Tonight, I wanted to settle in for some listening and the SDS-XLR started up just fine. I had HD800s plugged in and it sounded kinda lame so I thought I should warm it up with the volume down. I had the Moth playing on the Cicadas and all of the sudden there was a pop in the regulator tubes and all four went out. I quickly turned everything off and swore profusely but quietly because the kids are around. I felt the regulators and they seemed cold. I don't know how hot they run usually but they seemed damn cold for tubes. I gave it a few minutes then pulled the regulator tubes. One of them rattled so I thought maybe it was a bad tube situation. I replaced them with new ones to see if it was the tube(s). Rectifiers switched on fine, although one of them seemed less bright than the other, which was true yesterday too. Heaters came on and the amp powered up fine. Switched on the plates and no ignition even with just two regulators, which always works. No sound was coming out of the amp and in about a minute or less there was a spark inside one of the rectifiers so everything was turned off again. Now unplugged and presumably dead. Happy Fucking Father's Day to me.

Sounds like it was a great hike Peter, and the pic is awesome. They ended up taking down the rest of the oak, which is sad, but apparently the remaining half (it was two major trunks) hung right over the road.

Cowboy Junkies -- Whites Off Earth Now (MFSL)

Spent the day mostly in Mayberry. It was quite windy all day and on the way home from some errands I was driving down our small street when a large oak tree split at the trunk and crashed into the road about one house in front of me. At first, the high branches were swaying like the Iron Giant was about to walk through them or some large person was up in them. Then the whole thing was falling into power lines and the phone line. The power lines were sparking and smoking while bouncing all around after the main branches fell past them. The tree blocked half the road right in front of me, although a fair amount of it was still stuck on the thick telephone line that was the lowest running along the street. I went around in case the lines snapped and after pulling over I went back to the tree and the smell of the cracked open trunk was incredible. The fire dept. and PG&E showed up and started cutting up the fallen part, and the rumor one the street is that they had to take down the other trunk because it really hangs right over the road and is far less stable now. Weird stuff, but glad I wasn't going any faster.

Charles Lloyd -- Charles Lloyd in Europe With Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette

Postal Service -- Give Up (red vinyl)

Nice work on the setup so far! The black Alpha DAC is killer looking and Meier really did a good thing for those guys if he was indeed the inspiration (which he told me as well). Glad you bought from him because it makes it worthwhile that he went to the trouble to bring two Alpha DACs to the meet and hang out there, etc. If you are going to buy a Mac and Amarra, then you should decide whether you are going to get Mini and some means to get FireWire converted to AES or you are going to have to get a tower and use a card like the Lynx to convert directly from the CPU. There are people on ComputerAudiophile.com who suggest that the tower/Lynx card combo is better for purest digital signal out of the CPU but I have a Mac Mini with FireWire into the Amarra Model Four and I am very happy with it. I have heard the Alpha DAC in two situations. First at a dealer with a CD transport feeding the DAC and second at the meet in LA with the Model Four's digital output into the Alpha DAC. Both times it sounded great and I think you would get similar results with the Amarra software directly into the Alpha. Enjoy the rig, and make sure you get some hi-rez audio pumping through that beautiful Alpha DAC because that is when it is supposed to shine its most... What does that last little text imply? Are you considering something, or just that I am alone out here so far?

Jimmy Smith -- At the Organ Vol. 3

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Random. I guess I will see if these are better than the Headphile version I have and sell one [or both] later.

Zing!

Yeah, what you both said was in my mind when I posted.