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Baseball trailblazer Billy Bean, who dedicated life to inclusion, dies at 60 https://www.mlb.com/news/billy-bean-passes-away-at-age-60

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Do you really need 1600V? The more you push a transformer to do extreme stuff, the worse it will do at the stuff that actually matters. I'd wager that relaxing that spec to something more reasonable would make for a much better sounding design.

Neat. Can you share the datasheet? You can do this from existing Lundahls. For instance, with something like the LL1620 there are quad primaries. So you can use two of them as primaries, and the other two as e-stat outputs (you'd have to check with Lundahl whether the voltage differential from primary to primary is an issue). Then the 8x secondaries give all sorts of ways to combine them for driving speakers and phones of different loads. Similarly, with something like the LL2766 and a push-pull circuit, you can use the OPT as a choke and cap couple the plates for e-stat use, then use the secondaries however for speakers/phones. I've found those solutions to be more novelty than useful (the gain is never quite right for everything, and a fix is no better than a second amp), so I am curious how the specifically designed option will perform.

Happy birthday! 🎈 🎈

If you have moved past the myth that audio wire is somehow special and are willing to use lamp cord, there's a lot of vintage looking cloth covered wire available https://grandbrass.com/18-2-twisted-harvest-gold-rayon-covered-wire/ https://grandbrass.com/18-2-twisted-black-copper-zig-zag-pattern-rayon-covered-wire/

Funcooker!

I hope it's more effective than shark repellent

Yes. Roon acts as a library aggregator. So it will combine everything you have stored locally with everything on the services you subscribe to. You don't have to worry about what is where, you just play it. The system will figure out where to get the file.

@Voltron for roon, you need a server and a streamer. The nucleus one is a server (it's just a small computer in a fancy box). It can also work as a streamer so long as you have a dac that can take it's output (USB or HDMI). You can then also add additional streamers for other systems. For an existing DAC that is coax/toslink only, you'd need some sort of USB to spdif converter, or a stand alone streamer.

Bob Newhart, famed comedian and sitcom actor, dies at 94 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jul/18/bob-newhart-dead-comedian-sitcom-star

maybe noise on the tube cathode.

Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true London Symphony Orchestra to play Black Sunday album at Royal Albert Hall decades after featuring on TV show https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/10/hip-hop-band-cypress-hill-makes-1996-simpsons-joke-come-true-london-symphony-orchestra

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/newsweek-josh-hammer-misogyny-taylor-swift the fact that many people still think of Newsweek as a vaguely reputable brand – has proved very useful to the far right. In 2022, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a respected civil rights advocacy organization, published an extensive analysis that found that after Newsweek positioned the political activist Josh Hammer to run its opinion pages..., the magazine took a “radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders”. In his personal podcast, the SPLC observe, Hammer has frequently spoken about “[shifting] the Overton window” and pushing far-right views into the mainstream; that, arguably, was also his goal at Newsweek. As the New Republic noted back in 2020, it certainly looks a lot like Newsweek’s “former legitimacy is [being] used to launder extreme and conspiratorial ideas”.

Martin Mull, Arrested Development and Roseanne actor, dies aged 80 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/28/martin-mull-dead-arrested-development-roseanne-actor

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Everything about this whole album is great, but I think I could listen to the saxophone part at 2:52 on infinite repeat and be content

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I used to own a Contax G. It's a great camera with great lenses. It will do AP, shutter priority, full auto, or full manual. Olympus OM system (1, 2, 3, or 4, not the consumer level bodies) might also be worth a look as they are much more compact and quieter than contemporary SLRs. I like the picture, but as a personal preference I think the composition would be stronger if you took a step to the right, squatted down, and pointed a little to the left and tilted higher or lower. That would get the vanishing point out of the center of the frame, move the horizon from the center, move the arrow on the parking sign to the right and make it point into the shot rather than out of it, and emphasize either the building, the sky, or the ground. And one of the things that was really hammered home to me was to avoid taking pictures from eye level where people already see. Instead, get high, or low, in order to give a perspective that is a little out of the ordinary.