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Serious suggestion - you should have the two white guys building company build an outdoor kitchen with integrated gas grill, flat cooktop, and stuff like storage drawers, etc. I mean having some cart-based solution seems rather plebeian at this stage, no?

Crazy, I thought about that amp recently and couldn't remember where it went. One thing, I have NO memory of adding those boards/caps and they certainly looking like output coupling capacitors. The Ventus had/has(?) a history of DC on the output IIRC. I don't remember all that well, actually, but I've never see PMBs like that, that I can remember anyway. One thing to check would be the influence of the transformer, since it's both unshielded and in the same box with the amplifier boards. I'd try very carefully rotating it while you're listening to the noise and see if you can find a position when the noise gets better. I remember chasing something like this on the first M3 that built and in the end the only thing that fixed it was aggressively shielding the toroid.

This is immediately where my head went. Sell one of the spare DACses, the NAD, and the displaced monitors and call it even? I know, fuzzy math, but isn't that your thing, Shelly? 😈

Fully concur on the fun recommendation. The first track is ultimately best skipped in my opinion but the rest made for a pleasant morning.

^^^ I'll give that a listen shortly. Current guilty pleasure: Dru Down - Greatest Hits If you don't smile listening to Pimp of the Year I'm not sure we can be friends.

Yup, had one of them last night and from a "was it cooked" perspective it was great. The recipe for the actual cheesecake needs tweaking, but it was a fun first effort.

Sous vide Oreo cheesecakes are submerged and cooking.

Fajitas: 1. Lime marinated chicken 2. Peppers and onions 3. Homemade refried beans 4. Sour cream 5. Guac 6. Salsa 7. Cheese Delicious.

Happy Birthday, Brent! Maybe this is the one day a year when you get to have a biscuit and not cause catastrophe? Tell you what, maybe wait till next year. 2020 seems like it's already in enough trouble.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

This. I loved listening to that thing at meets when one would show up. If I owned one I wouldn't be looking to upgrade.

Perfection is the enemy of excellence, Al (and Steve). And to my eye that thing surely is excellent, so don't sweat the lack of complete perfection.

Happy Birthday, Chris!

I feel like an idiot - I still don't understand what I would use this thing for.

Got up early to ride out to the coast. Stupid weather won't wake up to the fact that it's may. It was 30F when I left the house at 5:40. Still, view was nice. @Augsburger - I won the coldest ride challenge today.

@shellylh - I love that you have an extra M51.

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^^ I bought a couple to use in my old garage which is woefully inadequate in terms of power outlets.

Looks ok, you can get it for a few bucks more at Amazon w/ free shipping.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Ari!

Going to be hard/impossible to be done without removing material. The pain will be directly proportionate to the depth of the engraving and at some point just becomes infeasible. If it's a very light engraving it may be able to be polished out but that seems unlikely.

It's currently sunny and snowing with the wind gusting 20+mph. In other words a totally normal, pleasant, spring day.

Snowing here too, Todd. What the actual apocalypse is going on?!?!?j. Also, my parents who live about an hour further north have 2" on the ground.