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Not forgetting Rum, Sodomy and The Lash

Sweet! Sir, I applaud your efforts! I have been watching the various threads on this matter with interest. From a personal perspective, I've been interested in a High End SS amp, having seen what various people have done with the B22, naamf amongst others. Given the likely cost of such an endeavor , the incremental delta for adding decent control, monitoring and display over and above the power supply, amplification and casework seems worthwhile. (If I'm spending this much on amp, it should do double duty as a speaker amp, and thus have a remote control of some sort!, etc) Given the block diagram, how much of it is tied to the use of DynaFet gain stages, e.g could you substitute B22 boards? I think there is a lot of mileage in this approach, and look forward to your progress with interest. (Disclosure: As a Transporter owner, I'm very interested in the direct external control - you could imagine the duet/controller controlling the amp functions -etc)

For those of you considering the MSI Wind Hackintosh: Run OS X on the MSI Wind Mini Laptop The cheapest MacBook you'll see this year: MSI Wind with OS X Hackintosh - Webmonkey and its not too slow AppleDifferent Blog Archive Leo in the Sky with Diamonds : benchmarking

The Captions just write themselves? (original title: A member of the of the Beija-Flor samba school parades at the Sambodrome)

Someone ought to tell these people The World's Largest Anechoic Chamber [audiojunkies] They wasted their money, then

FTFY Proper (Black) Tea BBC - h2g2 - Tea requires Boiling water!

^ Do I Detect a Tom Brown's Schooldays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia / Harry Paget Flashman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reference? What our colonial cousins have overlooked ( understandable, given their preference for obsolete technology, like the stove top kettle: Forget your stove-top kettle?go electric. - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine ), is that with the aid of an electric kettle, the UK system allows you to boil water for a cup of tea, in half the time of the US system. electric kettles take about twice as long to boil in the US as in the UK Google Answers: 110volts vs. 230 volts -- Pros and Cons? And they call themselves the land of instant gratification!

Ahh. Good old BS 1363 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shuttered Sockets, Longer earth (ground) pin that ensures that the earth path is connected before the live, and remains connected after the live is removed, and ensures correct polarization of the Live And Neutral wires. Definitely a case of [Crocodile Dundee accent on] You call that a Plug? Now That's a Plug! [Crocodile Dundee accent off] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN_-_eRDvf0 THE ORIGIN OF THE BS 1363 PLUG AND SOCKET OUTLET SYSTEM (PDF File) But don't try This at home! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-GEmHtIRNk

Have a good one!

So, If I belatedly wish Steve well for his Birthday, we're good?

Keep Calm and Carry On

Two threads on this over at the squeezebox Audiofile forums With titles CD red book de-emphasis? and Pre-emphasis Part of the Redbook Spec, but derived from RIAA equalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Think of it as Dolby (Noise reduction) for Vinyl Master was pre-emphasized prior to transcription to vinyl Playback would be de-emphasized (RIAA EQ curve) - thus allowing you to overcome some limitations of the medium Ripping to FLAC with EAC will store the pre-emphasis flag in the CUE file. The above threads discuss this, and suggest the EQ is best handled in the analogue domain. It can be done in the digital domain, but it is lossy function - leading to information loss if re-truncated back to 16 bits. It appears iTunes and sox can handle this - as described here in the steve Hoffman Forums - thread Question about "pre-emphasis" for Abbey Road (Black Triangle) I'd post links - bit they come back as **Internal Linking (Threads)

Have a good one, Birthday Boy.

So, what about the Nurses, and the Drugs? or is that a "... Stays in CanJam'09" Tale? Glad to hear that you are improved, Ken. Remember, chicks dig scars.

Happy 200th Chuck D. The Santa Barbara Independent Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Darwin

Why have mayonnaise when you can have Baconnaise

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or get these for your "legacy" outputs Composite & S-Video to COMPONENT Video Converter Component Video + Digital Audio to HDMI Converter

Just in time for your low serial number HD-800 you lucky, lucky, man I guess finding that TacT came in handy.

100x100 video if you didn't see the pictures