Thanks for straightening me out, not that it matters. To me, he's the worst shill among the various audio magazines and has been for years. However, I haven't read any in the last couple of years, so maybe somebody has supplanted him.
Did Sam laugh his "evil laugh" all the way to the bank?
My understanding from posts years ago on Audioasylum is that Sam's real name is Sam Gillet and that he reversed his last name to get his pen name.
Nate, you should send Stacey this picture as an example of right way to build an amp. It would be a kindness.
I considered this once but decided that grilled pellets weren't that appealing.
You have to understand that Chris doesn't actually listen to his amps. He only measures them. So you should only ask him which amps' measurements he prefers.
You have to go in the spring time to get the full effect. It was pretty spectacular. I did it with a group of friends. We were going to do the upper Hudson next, but never got around to it.
When auditioning new gear, I typically use the Burmester Art for the Ear(CD-II) demo CD. I start on the first track, which is Radja Toneff singing The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It's an excellent check for how the system handles women voices. I move done the tracks from there.
It appears that the power button and its label are treated as a unit that is centered from top to bottom. I agree that it would look better if the button were centered. I don't care whether there is a power label or not.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I went with Wireshark mostly because it was the first one suggested. It showed a TCP problem. Further investigation showed that parts of full size packets were being lost. At work, we recently changed the router. This was over the VPN and the first time I tried it that way since the changeover. Reducing the MTU of my connection allows me to work from home again. Hopefully our IT consultants will be able to figure out what the router problem is (bad MTU setting, no MTU discovery, ...?) and fix it. Worst case is a little network performance is lost over the VPN.