Everything posted by aerius
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So, my amp sort of had a makeover. :D
Well, it can come in handy if you have a hearing imbalance in your ears, or if you happen to get a weak tube but still want to use the amp while waiting for the new tubes to come in.
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What is your current project, or what will be your next project?
Is that on the B+ or the low voltage filament heater supply?
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Melos Tubes
Tyrion was being a fucking idiot as usual and clogging the board with lawyer-speak. I mentioned that you'd have a better chance of crapping out a TS Round-Plate (a rare and expensive 6SN7) than you would of getting a straight answer out of the dipshit. Hirsch noted that he'd have to check his toilet more often.
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What am I gonna get?
It is actually surprisingly good. There are of course a few drawbacks; Being an open baffle dipole, they needs some room to breath, just like electrostatics You're not going to get big bass, but you won't get that from a monitor speaker anyway Treble's going to be kinda soft Given the needs of hungrych, the first point pretty much rules them out as he wants to stick one of them on a desktop close to a wall. Unfortunately I can't really answer the question as small desktop or bookshelf type speakers are something I have little experience with.
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The Live Music Thread
Sting & Copeland were mouthing off at each other after every few songs, and for I while I thought Copeland was going to whip his drumsticks at him. Despite all that, they still put on a pretty good show.
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The Live Music Thread
After seeing their antics last night, I'd be surprised if The Police manage to make it to the end of their tour without killing each other.
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The Live Music Thread
In a few hours, The Police.
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book-buying compulsion
I just log on to the city library network and reserve myself a book, and within a couple days it's delivered to my local branch for pickup.
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So, my amp sort of had a makeover. :D
Next step, order a balanced autoformer volume control...
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No longer IP banned from head-fi
Speaking from personal experience?
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What are you EATING right now?
Half frozen watermelon. I left it in the freezer a few minutes too long.
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No longer IP banned from head-fi
What's wrong? Afraid of getting perm-banned from Head-fi? Oh no, what a tragic loss that would be, however will you live if that happened?
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What are you reading now?
It's a big change from my normal light reading (John Ringo's books for example), the style's quite different and there's a lot more layers & subtlety so it takes some concentration to keep everything sorted in my head. I'm liking it so far, the political intrigues can get a bit tedious though.
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What are you reading now?
Finished Children of Dune a few days ago, just started on The God Emperor of Dune.
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Your recent music purchases
Vinyl, must have more of the sweet black analog goodness.
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You know what really grinds my gears?
Protip: Sounding like you've just finished greasing the shaft and getting the name wrong is generally not a good way to pick up chicks.
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What are you EATING right now?
Atkins diet is hell on the kidneys & liver over the long term though, it's about as bad as being an alcoholic.
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You know what really grinds my gears?
Wait a sec, you have a wife and a GF? That would definitely explain why you live in Hamilton and work in Toronto.
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What are you EATING right now?
That's why man invented condoms.
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Do I set out looking for an R10?
The woman or the decapitated horse head?
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What are you EATING right now?
There's no shame in hiring an "escort", though that gets really expensive really fast...
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What are you EATING right now?
That's why I have lots of sex with my GF every day, workout and stress reduction, all in one package.
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What are you EATING right now?
Diets work both ways, there's diets to lose weight and diets to gain weight. It would appear grawk is on the latter...
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You know what really grinds my gears?
My GF and her sister refuse to do a 3-some with me. You have no idea how disappointing this is, my life will never be complete.
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Do I set out looking for an R10?
I heard a pair a couple months ago and I have to agree with Biggie & Iron Dreamer, the R10 is pretty much made for acoustic & orchestral music and falls apart on anything with significant bass or "heaviness". 90% of my music is missing weight & impact with the R10, I've heard electrostatics with more bass & punch down low for fuck's sake, that's just ridiculous & unacceptable to me. Unless your music collection resembles the Stereophile "Records to Die For" list, I can't really think of a reason to buy them.