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So that's what a hipster bike looks like.

Better than if they said you had a good Tiny Tim voice. No problem singing like Ringo. Drumming like Ringo is another thing ...

Happy Birthday, Todd. :prettyprincess: Have a great one. Thanks again for providing such a great club house.

Nah. I stopped when I felt the blood flow in my Coronary arteries reduced by half.

This is from Sunday night. I started to prepare the T-bone steak that I bought a couple of days before and noticed that it cost over $15. I buy my steaks from a local Mexican market and they have been running a special at $3.96/lb. I thought that maybe they had gone back to their normal price, but no, the price hadn't changed. Then I noticed that the steak was just under 4 lbs. Here it is before cooking: OK, it was a little larger than normal. Here it is after being grilled and removing that night's portion. It was (and still is) delicious. Tomorrow night's dinner will be the 4th meal from it.

Maybe you could try cloning. Congrats.

Nate, the HD800 is the most comfortable headphone, short of earbuds, that I've ever tried. That's one of its huge advantages for me. I can listen to them for hours with no discomfort. I do think that they are the best sounding dynamic (and maybe best sounding period) phones that I've heard, but would not swap them for a slightly better but less comfortable pair of phones. I realize you probably didn't want to hear this, but if you are looking for comfort in a high-end headphone, the HD800 is a must try.

Yes. Wonderful P2P build, Frank. BTW, I live in Noleta now. Would you like to get together in the near future to hear the ECP DSHA-1 with HD800 and any phones you'd like? Either your place or mine would work for me.

Happy Birthday! :prettyprincess:

Happy Birthday, Antonio. I hope that you had a great one.

I didn't say it made sense It's probably like the vast majority of subjective preferences in audio. I also prefer the envelope of the 6AS7 so that probably plays into it.

I prefer the 6AS7G to 6060 and 5998 tubes in the Extreme. I also like 6336 tubes a lot. FTFY. One of the big causes of problems with SP amps was Mikhail making all the tube adapters for tubes that really shouldn't be used. Use only 6SN7 and its equivalents in the driver position.

Steve has to wear a helmet, it's the law in CA. Please make it a full face helmet, Steve. Also please wear protective gear. Your scooter goes as fast a small capacity motorcycle and if you fall at any real speed, you could easily damage your pretty face, arms, hands, knees, etc. We'd all hate to see that! Plus you kind of need all of those in good shape for your type of work. Well, everything except the pretty face.

I'll disagree in that I think the HD800 sound great with ECP L-2 and DSHA-1 amps. I don't think that these amps have a "sound".

Yay for Delicate Steve and Susie! Is this code for something?

Aren't we all!

I ordered 2 lbs just because you guys all love it. I've never tasted it and want to remedy that situation.

If you want the time to the second, look at your cell phone. Watches are jewelry, not for telling time.

I believe that the L-2 and DSHA-1 ship with such adapters.

I have Joseph Audio RM7si mini monitors. I love them. I've had them since 1997 and haven't felt any need to upgrade.

How did this online translator do? hamingju með afmælið

I managed to burn out a TMP36 temperature sensor chip. This happened Thursday. Here's the story. In an attempt to both wake up my brain cells and learn something useful, I recently bought this Arduino start up kit from Amazon. I've been doing the examples without problems until I got to a circuit that used a photo resistor to control the brightness of an LED (using PWM) such that the brighter the ambient light, the brighter the LED. I built up the circuit as described in the guide, and my circuit worked, kind of. The LED got darker as the ambient light got brighter. I checked out the schematic and it looked to be correct. It uses a voltage divider to convert the changing resistance of the photo resistor to voltage. So then I looked more closely at the circuit guide, which which tells what electrical components are needed and how to wire them up in the prototype breadboard. Lo and behold, it had photo resistor on the wrong side of the voltage divider. Putting it on the correct side fixed the problem. I thought, "what lousy quality control" and then moved on. I should have remembered the lesson. The very next circuit is the temperature sensor circuit. It's a very simple circuit where the +5 from the Arduino card is connected to the +5 pin of the T36, the GND of the card is connected to the TMP36 GND pin and the sensor TMP36 sensor pin is connected to an analog sensor pin. I verified that the circuit guide accurately reflected the schematic (it did) and hooked it up. However, when I powered up the Arduino board, the indicated temperatures were about 20F less than the ambient temperature. I lightly pinched the TMP36 to increase its heat and the indicated temperatures rose over time, but were still too low. The TMP36 chip is +-2% accurate, so I new that I either had a bad chip or something was wrong with the circuit. I found the data sheet and discovered that the manual from the kit had the +5 and GND pins reversed. At least it was consistent in this. So I unpowered the board, reversed the TMP36 and powered the board back up. Success, the temperatures were now correct. I did something else for about 5 min and everything was still working. So off I went for a shower. When I came back, the indicated temps were in the 450F range, I could smell something burning and the TMP36 chip was way too hot to touch. I verified that the +5V of the Arduino was still putting out 5V, so all I can think is that the TMP36 chip has shorted. I'll be buying a new TMP36 chip just to satisfy my curiosity. Sorry for the long post, but mainly I want to warn anybody buying this kit to verify everything in the manual before applying power to your board. I will be for the rest of the example circuits and any circuits I create in the future. Edit: Here is the Guidebook in question. The pertinent circuits are #6 and #7. I looked at the pdf from the website and it still has the problem. So beware of the contents of this Guidebook. I will say that the presentation is great and this would be a top-flight product if the information was reliable.

Happy Birthday, Birgir! :prettyprincess: I hope that you baked yourself a tasty cake.

Happy Birthday, Mike! :prettyprincess: Hope you had a great one and especially hope you had time to visit Waterbury.

You can join, but you'll be on probation until you buy a BMW.