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I finally bought some HD800s. I don't buy many headphones so this was a big deal. I was talking to someone today, and he asked if the whole cup was the speaker. I then realized that the whole outer shell is supposed to look like a speaker cone. Maybe everyone else knew this, but I had never noticed. They still sound good, but they went from ugly to lame.

It's perfect here today -- we only get a few of these each year. I'm quitting early to go play tennis. It looks like typical Chicago spring weather for the next week or so.

Crime is not any higher than it was in the good old days -- probably lower. It is just more publicized. It is sad that our misconceptions lead us to be less good to people, which probably feeds that misconception. Good on you Steve. A few years ago, my wife's coworker need his car jumped. It was January in Chicago. 10 degrees, dark, snowy. They could not find the lever to open the hood on our car. He (the coworker) found a lever and pushed it really hard. When nothing happened, he pushed it even harder and managed to rip the steering wheel tilt lever right off the steering column. Our steering wheel bounced up and down for a month until we paid $1000 to fix it. Repair place said they had never seen such a thing. The coworker never even offered to help and made some lame argument about how it wasn't his fault since it wasn't his car.

Did this make anyone else think about the Coase Theorem?

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Not the nicest part of the city Downtown, or maybe Hyde Park (by the U. of Chicago). John and Brian both live closer and can probably help more.

Maybe some pics? I am totally stumped on what the problem is -- perhaps because EL84's have 9 pins ...

Ha Ha, I just got the joke.

Early this morning in Chicago:

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Thanks. I would attribute any success to the teacher. My grandfather, and his father, were blacksmiths, so I grew up with some of their work around the house -- I have a deeper appreciation for it now. I also played 2 hours of tennis afterwards, so I am feeling it today.

Have a great one!

I took a blacksmithing class and made a fire pokey. Now I need to get a fireplace.

ecp audio is moving! Rather than packing up all of our amps, putting them in storage for the summer, then treking them across the country, we are selling them at a discount. All prices include shipping to the CONUS unless indicated. Everything is assembled and can ship within a few days except for the L-2 prototypes which will need a couple of extra days to get them ready. All L-2's are 30% off. L-2's with Lundahl amorphous core input transformers and Electra-Print either nickel, or nickel/steel pinstripe output transformers are $2595.00 $1816.50. L-2's with nickel input transformers and nickel output transformers $2495.00 $1746.50. L-2 prototypes (from CanJam Chicago.) These are basically the same as the production version except for the brushing on the metal was done by hand and they are not anodized, and the "ecp" badges are not recessed. Pics on request. With Lundahl input transformers and Electra-Print nickel output transformers -- $1400. With Cinemag input transformers, Electra-Print nickel trimmed M6 output transformers, and Dynamicap parafeed capacitors -- $1200. DSHA-1's are 20% off, $1995 $1596.00 or get a DSHA-1 with the upgrade power supply for $2345 $1850.

QFT

Of you can buy a $25 Raspberry pi and do it http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/airplaying-music-and-video-from-ipad-to-raspberry-pi-its-as-easy-as/

Roku = Netflix, HBOGo, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Hulu+, Local Content WDTvLive = Netflix, HBOGo, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Hulu+, Local Content You can buy both within your budget.

I don't mean this to rub salt into anything, but going forward you might want to install something like Spideroak that does real time automatic backup to the cloud. These things make a backup every time you save the file, and they keep all historical versions even if you delete the file. Good luck.

It can. Recstar's DSHA-0 (which was an experimental one-off) is the same exact circuit, but has 3x XLR input, 2x RCA inputs, and a switch to change between headphone outputs and preamp outputs. On the standard build you'd have to run a wire from the output jack on the front which may not be ideal. We were putting a new front panel on it the other day, so here's what the inside looks like ...

I'll add my $0.02 which is that when I was looking for small speakers for a small room, I listened to a lot of different ones (not powered, so a little different market) from $300 to $2K, and I bought Dynaudios (for which I paid ~$500 used). Nothing else was even in the same ball park to me. Of course I like HD800's more than I like 007's or 009's, so take my opinion as you will

I have one I got from woot for ~$25. I works well enough that I wouldn't spend any more on one unless something critical depended on it.

I had been hoping to attend, but it appears that it won't happen. I will plan to send a Tomb a box of goodies, though.

Mogami is nice because it does not shrink when soldered.