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Cause you were the dork who brought it. Backpage for you.

Elex x Vali 2 v1.1 same same.

Vali 2+ really is the little amp that could.

I was actually listening to the very combo when I saw op. Warmed my pea-pickin' Lil heart.

Thanksgiving 1998 in the Mountain Top Surf Club, Choteau MT ("Clinton slept here, but not with me"): somebody had taken out the critical power pole so the bar was run off a generator on the owner's truck. Couple of outages but otherwise an excellent night featuring great pizza, locals vs visiting hunters vs college kids back home from Missoula and a cowboy one-man band playing Beatles songs in waltz time. Good times!

At least it wasn't 15˚F outside. We've had several "fun" power days.

Glad you got your power back.

I didn't lose anything as I have surge protectors for all of my electronics, but some other stuff in the neighborhood did get damaged.

My stereo needs some tuuubz. Looking at Freya+. I mean it sounds awesome but my gut says get some fucking tubes dude.

Freya+ is excellent. Highly recommended for sure. What’s the rest of your chain?

I posted it here https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/whats-your-chain.8814/#post-287931
Some minor changes like lower crossover due to different position. The shd is doing preamp, dsp, streamer and crossover duties. Will need to sort out some stuff. Since integration is perfect now.

So... When are off to France?

Hopefully next year. Who knows though. Dream is to go and just go around the country and eat (good) food for a month. Ideally I'd even take some cooking lessons but I don't think I can get fluent enough in 1 year.

Wow! My comment was flippant --- but you really are off to France! Great! Hope stuff like covid doesn't stop you doing all that magic stuff.

I think their redundant backups were compromised and bots were mining data or something like that, so they had to shut some stuff
down.

@Azimuth, I think it was far less competent than that.

We have discovered that three different public-facing-products all ran on the same system. We then heard that even stuff like office-door security locks were affected because they ran on the same system too. Who designs systems like that? Competent IT folk? Or... Just my hunch... a megalomaniac boss who is not as clever as he thinks.

... Facebook is his hammer and the whole world looks like nails.

Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

The museum with more art stored in closets than many others have on display :)

I flew out of St Petersburg once. I will always regret not planning a day to see the city. We just did a driving tour in the light of late night/early morning.

You fit right in.

2) Also, the "sand" component of it is now sticks to everything but doesn't feel sticky. I looked down and my fingers were black from it filling in my fingerprints (it's that fine of a sand). Used petroleum jelly as a release agent before it could really set on my hands and still took 1.5 hours to scrub out. Made a mess of my project too.

To top it all off, despite it sticking to my hands and everything I didn't want it ti stick to, once the object I actually wanted to make cured, it wasn't as sticky as regular Sugru. In short, an inferior result.

But yes, going to start keeping it in the fridge, and even then, once it hits expiry, I'm tossing it. $4 for a single small packet is expensive, but I value 3 hours of clean up more than $4.

Thanks very much. If I ever find, and try to use, what I might still have in the fridge, I now know the warning signs to just chuck it and not attempt to use it.

Learning from experience: good. Learning from other's experience: better! :)

I sometimes miss personal endgame number 3. Number 5 was memorable as well.

Upcoming would be #2 for me. When I first started 10 years ago I didn't think I'd go beyond a mid level amp and dac, 3-4 transducers including IEMs, and a few minor accessories.

Obviously way past that now.

My power went out like half an hour ago

Yeah, man… that was some stuff up here in Waco too

Diabetes

Die-uh-beetus

Wish they sold this version of beetus in more places.

@Biodegraded - Just saw that Ginger Man pub is closed for good (or at least until a new owner takes it over).

Sad to hear - hope it'll indeed re-open.

I dunno how much you want to subject yourself to more meat but Corkscrew BBQ is an idea. Another place I always check out is Anvil bar, they usually havesome hard to find Scotches available.

take 3 nights off and listen again at 2am the 4th morning. Guarantee it will sound better.

We got tons of those in Jax.

Almost excuseable for Jax. Not excuseable for 95% of Southern CA.

That's a kick in the nuts...

Haha, yes, I tend to be understated online to mitigate how things escalate.

The issue is much broader than those calling for change, too many are interested in keeping a portion of the population ignorant and/or "skeptical" so they can continue on as usual.

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One example, the oil industry has known about this issue for at least 50 years and has done their best to undermine popular understanding of this science in the service of their profits.

Back to the post - a high of 77F (no C today b/c george bush murica) today has never felt this hot to me before nor has it ever resulted in a heat warning as far as I can remember.

While beyond my knowledge and capabilities, some sellers reuse the tube base for converters. I have a set to use a 12B4a tube in a 1626 socket.

Sounds like they're going into the trash then.

Turn them into Xmas lights!

That's happened no matter where we've lived. We call it "the chorus of the hounds."

The last time I experienced this in a socal neighborhood was about 8 years ago so. No idea why every canine went off and then all suddenly stopped - was just happy to go back to bed.

When I hear the dogs wailing I count my cats.

https://www.audiosanctuary.co.uk/sennheiser-replacement-foam-headband-pad-for-hd650.html

^^^ Nice shop, if anyone happens to be in SE England. Easy train ride from Waterloo (iirc) or Richmond.