Craig Sawyers

In the bedroom: Stax Lambda originals bought late 80's fed by KG T2 clone. An absolutely awesome headphone! In the dining room: Stax ST007 fed by original design of BH In the other bedroom: DT990 and K701 fed by original Dynalo with Borbely discrete regulators. I also have a pair of Koss PRO4AA, bought for nostalgia sake, because they were the first headphone type I bought in the early 70's. Truly lousy SQ and a real head crusher weight. And Koss ESP9, with a bias source and amp that is the biggest POS ever, but sounds good. Both pairs of Koss started life with their fluid filled pads that were supposed to seal the things to your head, that were no longer fluid filled and rock hard. Replaced by soft pads that seal well enough. The other thing that needed replacing on both Koss's was the foam cup filling, which had gone like tar. Hell of a mess to clean out.

What is the sack for? Wotcha going to build?

Fitz you're the second person I've heard of (recently) who have had failure of Fluke multimeter input jacks.

Happy birthday, squared!

Happy birthday!

That is awful Jose. My heartfelt condolences. Fuck cancer!

Amelia Earhart, 1931. Photographed by Edward Steichen.

Happy birthday tall fella! Hope you are having a spectacular one...

Just catching up with this thread. About ten years ago we had a Renault something, and it had a quirk. If you half closed the door the central locking would fire. So in January I parked in a remote car park to go for a run in cross country shoes through the mud and slush snow. Got back to the car soaked in sweat, tossed the keys on the drivers seat and as I moved to the boot (truck) to put dry clothes on, the door half closed - clunk. Keys and phone inside. Me outside in freezing temperatures, soaking wet, and it is getting towards dark. Fortunately there was an elderly couple in this carpark in the back of beyond. Their children had bought a mobile phone for them for Christmas, which they had not used. They offered to let me use it to phone for recovery from the company we paid for (RCA). "What is the postcode" "No idea - it is a remote car park" "Can't help you caller if you don't have a post code" "Please understand - if you don't help me I will die from hypothermia!" "OK - I'll walk to Little Whittenham and your guy can meet me there" "What will be the post code caller" "Look - Little Whittenham is about ten houses - he won't have a problem finding me!!" To cut a long story short, the recovery guy extracted the keys and I got home unscathed. Craig

RIP Diana Rigg, aged 82 from Cancer In her pomp: BBC obituary for Diana Rigg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27986272

I thought the kookaburra impersonation was impressive too!

I saw the title of this thread and read "mistresses" instead of "mattresses" That'll be an interesting thread I thought...

Diamond based semiconductors have been worked on for at least a decade. Note on the site there are no specifications for such devices. There are still massive hurdles to be overcome in fabricating semiconductor devices on silicon. And - a real irritation - how many women do you see on their team?

OMG I can't unsee that....

And looks a hell of a lot neater than my rig does!

Honey - I bought some new speakers. Honey? Honey??

That is awful. I have two friends in their 50s that are living through this. One has been through hell and back and is still here. The other went into remission for it to come back to the extent he has to wear a bag permanently. If ever there was a case for extending screening to those younger than 60, all these horrible examples would stand a much better fighting chance.

The leaning shed of Nebraska?

RIP Chadwick - 43 is no age at all. And to work through operations and chemo is really gritty determination not to just roll over. Carole's mother died at 42 from the same thing - colon cancer - when Carole was 18. There is no logic to it hitting someone so young. Once you get to over 60 in the UK, every two years they send you a poop-kit, and they screen it for bowel cancer (free of charge of course - this is the UK). There has to be a case to roll that out to younger people.

You're missing a trick

Happy birthday!

How did they get away with calling it Veryron? Didn't Bugatti object??

All I can say Nate is that I'm glad I'm not trying to keep up with you!

A warning. The voltages inside an E/S headphone amp can kill you stone dead. If you don't have experience frigging around with something of this complexity and lethality - don't. And if you get something wrong and kill any of the silicon it will spoil your day. I have not found the schematic for this, but I'm betting that many devices in there are now obsolete. Proceed at your own peril.

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/stax-727-voltage-conversion-100-to-117-help.679447/ Just noticed that link was for a 727, and yours is a 717. They are very different beasts.