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Happy Birthday Mike!
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[top-down-arm-chair-designer] How can you claim to have a tube amp when you have stooped so low as to use a Cathode LED? I bet your going to try to tell me that you use SS CCS's next. Whats the world coming to? [lolerskates]
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The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.
nikongod replied to Knuckledragger's topic in Miscellaneous
+1 for the tops of the trees. Whats with the funky halos around the trees? Dont like that. -
Dynamic amp? / 2nd to main Stax rig / small / $300-$600ish?
nikongod replied to s1rrah's topic in Home Source Components
Yes, yes it is. -
Squirt turned 2000 miles on the ride home tonight. The new hub, which has been converted to oil lubrication, is significantly awesomer than the old one which was just greased.
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The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post
nikongod replied to Knuckledragger's topic in Off Topic
Perhaps he live(d/s) in Paderborn and work(ed/s) at a zoo nearby. -
Happy Birthday Grahame!
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday Frank!
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While I think the whole custom thing is a funny joke in and of its self, I must commend you on your nice use of an oxymoron.
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Happy Birthday John!
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The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.
nikongod replied to Knuckledragger's topic in Miscellaneous
Well, that sucks. http://gothamist.com/2013/06/24/photos_illegal_party_in_an_abandone.php#photo-1 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/nypd-investigating-secret-subway-parties/ -
The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.
nikongod replied to Knuckledragger's topic in Miscellaneous
No-pants subway ride is this Sunday. Didnt even take a week. Ooh well. Is there is subway near you? Will people be riding with no pants? Go take some pics. -
The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.
nikongod replied to Knuckledragger's topic in Miscellaneous
My monitor is at least 10 years old. I edit by feel & histogram. Seriously. You can keep it for a few weeks, at least. Anything I see myself doing for the near future can be done with other stuff. This of course guarantees that the perfectest shot that would only work at ISO3200 will fall into my lap in about a week -
Wine is never the answer. But I will have some too.
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You didnt pay nearly enough to remove said gunk.
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I am also interested to see what is new, but I don't necessarily expect better. Does Kaizen need to affect the finished product to apply? It sounds like it is being applied well if you have a consistent product, and you just improve your worker's lives a bit by upgrading their chairs or doing something else that is not necessarily obvious to the end user.
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FAE=failure analysis engineering? I don't think headphones (or speakers) are that easy to simulate. Advances in computer tech & more importantly the VERY good availability of compact rapid prototyping machinery might help things out, but I think senn is large enough that they could afford older & more expensive rapid prototyping. Once you reach a certain point is just really hard to make improvements.
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This sort of thing pisses me off. Like a lot. Why should they be expected to? Moore's law does not apply to mechanical things.
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The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.
nikongod replied to Knuckledragger's topic in Miscellaneous
I gotta reply to like a zilion PMs sorry. Since even the great and wise company Nikon has to do one stupid thing in their existence the D700 will not upload from the camera*. The L-plate will also need to be loosened to slide over and access the port. Less of an issue, but still. * It MAY work with proprietary Nikon software, but has never worked in Linux. The D200/300 both said "durrrr, I'm just an external hard drive" and hook up to anything perfectly. Because nobody ever leaves their CF card reader home.... Fuckers. -
The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.
nikongod replied to Knuckledragger's topic in Miscellaneous
NOOOOOOOOOOO! -
I don't have any specific fitness goals for 2014, but some rough ones. I want to make MOAR POWER! Strava says I average like 75W. I needs mores! I want to get home from work in 1 hour (according to my cheap computer) while maintaining a low (~137bpm) average heart rate. On Squirt, obviously. This may not actually be possible. Keeping up with Nechama on her Gunnar would be cool.
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R2 is totally un-necessary. R3 will bleed the whole circuit without any help. C1 should be smaller. 22uF tops, but 5-15uF would not hurt anyone or anything. Have we learned nothing about the perils of big input caps from the WOO amps and countless Chinese piles of fail? I guess the guy who designed this did not. R12 should probably be 470ohms. Probably a typo, but it should really be a few LEDs in series. Or a funky voltage source/CCS like Doug uses. What choice did the designer have for the heater supply? AC heaters? That is not an option in an amp like this - if someone puts in a microphonic tube (but its my absolute favoritest) it will hum like what. This is true even if you bias the heaters well above ground. And then you are responsible for building a $4100 amp that hums when the same tube did not hum in my old amp - it is clearly something wrong with your amp. no I will not try another tube, this is the best tube I have. What? You say its microphonic and I should smash it up with a brick? You are a fool! No, the tube you sent with the amp does not hum, but its a cheap eastern-block tube. This tube was handed down through my family from mr RCA (what the fuck!) himself who gave it to my grand-dad. Yea it was buried in the back shed for a few years behind an old Ford Fairmont, but we could not get the old radio out from behind the car until we got the car working again, and that never happened. As luck would have it the shed fell over in a storm and all I could salvage was this tube and by golly I'm going to use it. In your fucking huming amp. Except your amp hums. so I'm not going to use it. Is now the wrong place to say what filaments? 5ar4 is indirectly heated, with the heater hooked up to the cathode on one side of the heater supply. Tube rectified heater supply? LOL WUT? Whats with the hate? Its an overpriced amp, clearly. But, that seems to be the overwhelming trend in hi-fi. I hope anyone with the skills to p2p this takes the extra hour or 3 to design their own thing at least this nice and get some extra pride from that. Anyone who wants to build it on a PCB should sit down for a few hours and learn to wire things p2p then design something better. I wish the circuit were just a little more interesting so that more people could learn from it though that is a shame. The DNA stuff is as boring as you would expect.
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The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.
nikongod replied to Knuckledragger's topic in Miscellaneous
DO. IT! It is a very under appreciated lens. Such Bokeh! Please ignore clipped ear -
Have you considered the Pico DAC?