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Headphone meets are a bad influence on my wallet.

I had a wonderful time meeting all of you people, except for stretch who I didnt meet and missed quite a bit. Its OK, the ceiling in this pace was very low, he would have had to crawl or tilt his head all funny or something. At this meet I tried out some very impressive gear. In particular Nate's SB-600 flash for my camera. It is quite a nice bit of gear, I will have to get one. pictars: look here for more pictures some highlights: jin, he has JH13, it says so on his nametag. Nate and the Menace TC lite the floats came out, a picture like this had to happen. This one had to happen too. Ian makes nice headphone cups.

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Yet Another Thread To Talk About Digital Cables. discuss.

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I am also very curious to see what is going on inside vicky's extreme. If there is room in the vicky-mobile, I would advise bringing the drill & 1/8 & 3/16" bits. My luck cracking extremes has not been as good as others. I always need to drill out one or 2 of the screws. I'l send a replacement set of filips head screws ahead of time so I cant forget them.

I would like to come to this meet and hang out with all of you. I am arriving at about 1pm on Friday. Flying home at 930PM on Sunday. I also need a room. Between those times I hope to drink beer, drink scotch, eat food while watching live music, drink beer, drink scotch, drink beer sleep. wake up. eat breakfast, setup audiophile related equipment, hang out perhaps drinking a beer while chatting with everyone, eat lunch, drink beer, hang out some more, maybe listen to some music in there if it dosnt interfere with chatting and drinking beer, then I plan to eat and drink some more beer. do something else, drink more beer, sleep. wake up. dunno what peeps are doing on Sunday, I expect it to be a lot like saturday.

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Happy Birthday Marc!

michaels sells a matte-board cutter for making circles. very good for the big circles. If you are patient, a compass and scissor is 95% of as good, the circular matt cutter is kind of pricey and when I tried it fiddly to set up. Its probably only worth it if you want to take the throne from the guy who was selling these DIY mats on ebay. For the small circles, you can buy uberlarge hole punches (probably from michaels too) for making 3/4" hearts and stars and circles. hopefully they will have the circle one at your local shop Here are some I found: This one looks good! they may have a suitable circulat matt cutter, could not find it myself though. Something like this one will work perfectly and will never break although it is very noisy when you wack it with a harmer/mallet. Also cool if you want to cut dots into the base... just an idea. amazon link The circular punch I have used looks like this one here. Im pretty sure they have them at michaels. the star one could make cool dots too. I have seen DIY mats on audioasylum that use hand cut angular pieces (diamonds, triangles, etc) so maybe the star would be cool. Edited: as a preemptive strike you may want to try this on for size: sorbothane depending who you ask the best or worst thing ever for a mat. easy and cheap to test for yourself

Higher linear velocities allow lower noise. More noise in the outer groves than the inner groves is usually an alignment issue. If noise is audible at all it should be fairly constant across the face of the record or MAYBE a little worse in the inner groves (depending what alignment method you use). I would spend some more time with your alignment gauges. If you happen to have the kind of magnifying glass one would expect an old man to have to read the newspaper or a jewelers loupe, bust it out and get busy with the protractor. Until you are comfy setting up a cartridge just let it take as long as it takes. Even once you have the hang of it, let it take as long as it takes. If you want to try some other alignment methods (or double check your protractor against a different one), the various print it yourself protractors from vinylengine are all very nice. I like the "AccuTrak" protractor myself, It has a bunch of alignment methods, and is reasonably easy to use. As a note, if you are using an "ARC" protractor: ARC protractors may not work with a rega arm on a non-rega TT. ARC protractors require a very specific mounting distance, which sadly doesn't allow baerwald alignment with all cartridges on a rega arm. The solution is to mount the arm 1-2mm "short" to allow baerwald, BUT because of the way they work, arc-tractors will never work properly with an arm mounted 2mm short of what they were drawn for.

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happy birthday Steve!

Happy birthday!

Nice to see you on the dark side. Isnt it nice to have a forum to go to where you can ask a question about an unpopular amp without being reminded how unpopular it is? I may have just reminded you. Whatever, I like the MPX3 too. Unless Im mistaken,the ECC99 fits what singlepower called the ECC-1 adapter. Same adapter as for the 12a*7 & 12bh7 The MPX3 puts about 160V on the plate of the "bottom" triode in the WCF, which looks like a nice voltage for the ECC99 BUT! I would note that the ECC99 will draw about twice as much current as 6sn7 in an MPX3 (about 25mA vs 8-12mA depending on exactly how the amp was built) This puts you very close to the maximum plate dissipation on the ecc99. If your amp can run 6BL7/6BX7 for sure it can handle the current, but the tube will be running just short of its power limit. If your amp has the high-voltage switch DO NOT use high voltage with this tube.

you may laugh (and I encourage it) but I actually own one of those. If its any consolation, I got it for free from a speaker builder/dealer of other audio products who received a case of them as samples but could not bring himself to sell them because the MFR would not/could not explain how it worked to his satisfaction. I have never treated a CD with it so it should still have all 10 "treatments" on it. I have however used it as a card-holder in my weekly Texas-holdum game when my normal card holder (a cube made of 6 2X4 lego blocks) was not findable. I am supremely confident that this mystical device has no effect on poker cards. Despite rubbing vigorously before looking at my cards (and repeating to try to change them mid hand when I was the big blind) I didnt get a single winning hand that night. I did manage to steal quite a few chips with placebo raises and bully tactics but people quickly realized I wasn't catching shit and I took the long drive home early in the night...

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Im not really sure why you all want to drop something onto this guys car, but you can buy a lot of water for $1000