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I spent the morning replacing all the wheels under the large baking racks in the bakery. These go through multiple 24°C->230°C->24°C cycles every day so after a few years the wheels are toast and it was no fun removing all of them with all of the bolts seized up. After that is was time to prebake 250 new baking plates to remove all the residue from them and to feed them through a machine which polishes and oils them. The upside was a visit from Norway in the afternoon. I was selling my T1 amp on HF and this guy asked if he could just pick it up in person. He had some friends here so why not save on the shipping. I knew he would arrive here yesterday but we hadn't set any specific time to meet up. I told him where the bakery is so he just showed up there and we had a lovely chat.

Same here but I wouldn't say I was working at 100%...

I would have loved to see that dust cover disappear into the vacuum... The only way to remove the dust is to open up the driver and hope you can clear it out without adding some more dust. If the phones still have warranty left then Stax will exchange the drivers since this shouldn't happen at all. The drivers are assembled in a clean room just to make sure of that.

Tube amps are indeed the name of the game here or very well designed SS amps. Sunlight will kill most plastics, let alone those that are 3.5um thick so I'd try to block it out as much as you can.

I did, the wool backing in the SR-Lambda and the Pro's. Even the HF reviewers could hear that difference but the foam makes no difference. If it did then the foam next to the ears would make a vastly bigger difference, same goes for the cloth on the new series. I've tried it and it doesn't have any effect. The foam is just there to obscure the drivers from view.

Zen

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