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The last new ESL57 was produced by Quad in 1984 (not counting the new production German units) so show me a dynamic speaker which is still going strong after 30-50 years. Not that many even last 15 before the cones have to be refoamed and the crossovers rebuilt. You will still get sound but it isn't up to spec. Same with most of the old Quads. Add to this just how abused the Quads are and used by people who have no idea how to use them. There is one guy here who has a few sets in his house and they are all 100% functional with minimal servicing after 30+ years. He also knows how to use them and most importantly, keep them out of direct sunlight.

Of course they do. All Lambdas have it and don't start that foam making a difference nonsense!!!

Probably dust but could be a bias supply issue. Unplug the headphones while this is going on and if it is still present after unplugging then it is a dust issue.

Nahh, just use PCL86's. That's what Sennheiser are doing now after some pesky people drained the entire supply of ECL's...

Happy Birthday!!

Good show Andy!

I quite like the fact that some of the T2 parts wound up in other Stax products from the same ere. K216's as output devices is the first "portable amp" for instance. I think Justin and I need to get cracking on cloning research...

Voff, voff...

I'm sure we can have some heatsinks made for us plus some bolt on panels. 240$ for the transistors isn't that much when a quad of Mullard XF2's is ~400$. The transistors will last a good while longer and we can push more current though them...

Hasn't this been tried time and time again in the US because of UK lyrics using "fag" meaning a cigarette? PC utterly missing the point as usual...

There is already an edited version of the song out there which has those lines removed. It was even on the HDCD best of release...

We could blow that on some silver WBT sockets!! Not that I don't have some of those...

I think that is the second time he's been cited for crap like this. Now he has an improved version with some crap on the cable which is naturally moar bettah but also moar money....

Ok, now we are talking!!

Happy Birthday John!!

Sssshhhh, it was supposed to be a secret special ingredient....

Didn't you once say I should do stuff like this in the bakery ovens...?

We weren't told what cake was in second place as there wasn't a price for that spot. All of the other cakes were a variation of the "standard" skyr cake though. That one has an oatmeal based bottom and with a thick layer of skyr/cream combo on top. Some of them played off that by adding layers but the basic setup was the same. This makes for a rather bland cake and you need to mix the flavors a bit. Having one layer sweet while another is sour makes for a great whole. We have been getting complaints all day that the cake is just too damn complicated to make. While this is pretty standard fare for us that isn't true for other bakeries here so I get their point. I also believe that the whole point of a competition is to push the envelope and encourage people to try something new instead of just doing the same old time and time again. This one is also pretty cheap in terms of the materials used and the only "E" substance used is titanium dioxide for the white ganace plus the E300 which is always mixed into the flour. One interesting thing about skyr since it is at the heart of this cake. When the Brittish "invasion" force landed here in May 1940 they were very badly supplied and needed food from day one. One of the things they were given was skyr and they didn't have a clue what to do with it. Many tried to fry it or do other stupid things to it. You can imagine what happens when you try to fry egg whites...

Thanks guys and here is the cake in question: The quest was to use an Icelandic product called skyr. It is basically a 100% milk protein yogurt which doesn't mix all that well with cream. To make it, well great, we added raw vanilla and lemon bark to the mouse with gelatin to stabilize it. The red line is raspberry purr

We won the cake of the year here by a bloody landslide. The judges remarked that they didn't even have to go back and compare with others after testing ours but they did almost finish the bloody thing. This means a lot of publicity for us but it also means I have to make a few hundred of these now. I'll post some pics when I have them but it is a pretty thing and tastes even better.

Happy Birthday!!

I don't think you can get matte powder coating to look like the back of the BHSE. The small Lundahl box is powder coating without the clear coating. First time I used that place and I didn't realize I had to ask for it...

Edit: What KG said

Yeah, going without sleep can lead to very stupid stuff. Once I wired up a time delay circuit so that it shorted the neutral and live from the wall instead of passing it through. The gigantic spark did wake me up...

I've had something similar happen once. I thought I'd save a bit and not solder in terminal blocks in every spot on a Blue Hawaii PSU which lead to a lot of fireworks when I decided to use one of the unpopulated spots during testing. A short to the between the two supplies will do that. Now this PSU is current limited so it might have survived the ordeal...