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A - I was giving Ryan a hard time in a friendly way (hence the suggestion to go to the store 2 blocks from one of his favorite restaurants). B - call it what you will, but for me, vinyl is about experiencing music in a way that has been lost with digital and streaming. Slowing down listening is certainly one part of it, but so is being able to dig through record bins, talking to people at record stores, holding a large physical object with real cover art, etc.

Isn't the point of vinyl nostalgia to reconnect with the old way of doing things? Laurie's Planet of Sound is 2 blocks from Garcia's ... http://chicagoist.com/2014/08/20/the_best_record_stores_in_chicago.php

I don't use it myself, so I cannot offer any comparison, but anytime Matlab and R are mentioned, it is always worth including scipy in the conversation: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.18.1/reference/tutorial/signal.html

Happy Birthday!

I feel like "lawn" is funnier than "grass" here.

That's very sad to hear. Such a handsome dog.

Lawsuits against table saw manufacturers who have not included standard safety equipment, and companies who have not supplied their workers with said equipment are a thing. Riving knifes are bog standard at this point.

Sounds like it wouldn't. The Sawstop mechanism is for stopping and retracting the blade when it is touched. But you'll have to ask Steve whether the blade guard or kickback pawls that also come on it might have helped. I think the general consensus with table saws is that kickback injuries are more common, but blade injuries tend to be more serious. However, kickback injuries can become blade injuries in a hurry.

http://www.audiotubes.com/el34.htm

This and this. Hope you're OK Steve. Table saws are terrifying machines.

There's only one - but I am sure he'd love to show it to you. And we'd of course love to make another one for somebody

My wood working friend is in Carroll Gardens/Red Hook, in case you feel the need to go shopping after drinking ...

I barely have plans for tomorrow, let alone February. I'll play it by ear to see where others are going to be, so I should be able to accommodate whatever works best for you.

I'll likely take the train down for a day to see everyone, though I'm not sure I care to see what the latest IEM tip manufacturer has on offer. And my door is open if anyone feels like venturing up to beautiful Hartford ...

I wasn't saying it was. I was saying that there is a long and documented history of Lampizator designing poor, dated, and/or inappropriate circuits and trying to pass them off as state of the art.

The difference is that Mikhail could at least design something decent, if not build it. http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/169421-lampizator-srpp-help.html

That probably works, though it might not be my first choice in transformers (not knowing what is inside). Lundahl makes things that will work, as does Jensen. http://www.lundahl.se/din-unit/ http://www.jensen-transformers.com/pro-audio/ Here's an explanation of how to do the wiring: http://www.rane.com/note110.html

Have you tried just sticking a 600 Ohm transformer on the output of the metrum?

Seems more or less correct to me. In general less distortion sounds better than more, and low order is less offensive than high. Most people can tolerate a bunch of 2nd harmonic distortion and very little 7th for example. Exactly how much is unclear, and how much 7th you might be willing to tolerate for no 2nd (or vice versa) is also unclear. Some of us are also willing to tolerate slightly more 3rd to eliminate the 2nd (and this seems to be a divider of preferences). What is clear is that the brainstem amplifies dissonant sounds and diminishes concordant ones, and that how much your brain does this is dependent upon a lot of factors, including musical training. Additionally, if you take a distortion free signal and purposely add 2nd harmonics to it, it won't sound like a tube amp. It will just sound worse than it otherwise would have.

None of this is actually true. The problem with tubes in a DAC is that they are high impedance devices with low transconductance. That makes them less effective as buffers, and less effective as low input impedance devices for IV duty. They also tend to be a little noisier. Moreover they are lower distortion devices than transistors. They sound good in spite of any distortion they might add - not because of it. As a cure for digititis, whatever that might be, tubes will do precious little. Arguably they are useful to add some gain (perhaps in a DAC with a simple resistor IV) where they may be superior to transistors.

And for good measure ...

I listened to a lot of speakers in that range a couple of years ago. Almost all of them were not worth having. The only things I found that were were used and said Dynaudio on them.