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@Tchoupitoulas a quick heads up, he's being slow to respond to me. If another offer comes up please go ahead and sell. I'll encourage him to get yours (the cat bite is minor and I'll show him the ad) assuming he likes mine but it may take weeks for a decision on his end. Also I appreciate your generosity!

Thanks for letting me know, @loadexfa. That all sounds good. If I end up selling it, I'll let you know.

Hey @Tchoupitoulas youre awesome!

Here's one sports site that's not filled with bloat. https://plaintextsports.com/

I came across this lecture. You might be familiar with it already

https://youtu.be/kZRE7HIO3vk

@Cspirou I’m not familiar with this one, looks interesting.

“Oh wow, I’m hearing things I’ve never heard before in this song!” :D

It truly is a joy. I remember the first time my wife listened to ZMF headphone at Axpona. She had the biggest smile of amazement.

Years ago we had a Seattle Can Meet at Frye Museum. Two of us had EC ZDSE + HD800 rigs. It was great to observe reactions from museum visitors hearing our rigs. Many would go find their spouses to come and experience a similar auditory revelation.

@loadexfa is speshul.

IIRC when it was introduced the guidance was to let relevant staff know if you make a donation of $20 or more, and you'll get a tag. But if you're already a friend no need to bother, unless you really want to.

So most of those with both will have been contributors before being made friends.

Before it was a thing I did it the old fashioned way. By bribing my way to friend-ship with hookers and blow.

@loadexfa does private 1:1s with me.

Yeah, and if they do have someone doing it right, they are some crazy controlling geek or something.

I always laugh when people in movies/TV talk about the amazing sound of vinyl and then put a record onto one of those POS Fischer Price all in one record player and speakers units and that's supposed to convey the benefits of vinyl haha. It's amazingly common.

I notice more often than audio, how characters in movies/TV who are supposed to be professional photographers or filmmakers even just hold a camera like they've never touched one before. Or have no idea about the basics. Its' especially strange with film gear, since the makers of the program should know this stuff...you'd think...

@Cspirou implementation was definitely at the core of my argument.

My reply was from the experience of other nerds humoring me.

BTW, this guy found the lowest IMD was with a tube amp

https://josephcrowe.com/blogs/news/the-effect-of-amplifier-choice-on-speaker-intermodulation-distortion

In their defense this article was from over a year ago, they are almost certainly up to like $103 in disbursements by now.

YES. Never heard of it until earlier this year.

@loadexfa it's best to listen to it drunk or high.

I’ve been there, I took it on a journey. :D

The important question is... was it an underhand or overhand toss?

Sounds like someone never learned how to hit the cut-off man...

They seem to have gone downhill a lot starting in 2020.

The album that one cannot sit on a park bench without remembering.

For a second I only saw "Aqualung" and was about to go to the watch thread.

Not buying them has become a kind of spiritual practice for me.

30 units at $2999 each. that’s some serious cash flow right there.

I will pray for your soul lost in the pixels and code

Haha, the good news is that knowing the issue makes it much easier to fix. :)

Could you link to the modder? can't find the site

RD is @rhythmdevils . He also mods the Adorama version which is easier to find than the one I have but there are minor differences.

I'm curious how did it fail, start-up or while running? Linlai's are former Psvane employees so I'd expect the same or better with the E permalloy series.

I think I jumped to an incorrect conclusion. At some point after being on for an hour or so, the left channel made some really loud popping noises and then turned to static. Turning the amp off and on again corrected the issue (and I used that chance to change the 2a3 tubes) but it happened again.

Changed the input and rectifier tubes and then it did not happen. Will test a few more times to try and narrow the issue to a specific tube or the amp.

I get that it serves as useful purpose. Usually I’m annoyed that it takes me 10 to 100 times longer to find the change I need to make that I could do in 2 minutes editing a source file.

This case was even more special, the admin was broken and images were pointing to a different domain that was recently taken down. Wanted to strangle the previous person. Ended up fixing the php code myself. I never doubted I could fix it but damn the time wasted …

Go back to the old admin U.I. and tag and date with the exactness of a 150 MPH ace by Andy Roddick. Smooth out the workflow...

The phone number isn't as big a deal as some of you think. He's an MOT and this is his publicly listed number for his business

I'd really like to hear this amp someday.

Yeah, what Cspirou said. When I warned Barry about this on the forums he mentioned that.