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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Binaural

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This is another one I haven't seen before.    This nicely pigmented album only appears to have two tracks but in reality it on...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

B is for Boron

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Best taken in 4.4mm doses.
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

High Current

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Lets pretend I have a friend who is in need of some 2.5V @ 25A filament transformers. It seems you can scour the world and not find an ...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Audio Intersections.

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I had the fortune to visit a house a few hundred feet from this intersection and thought the names quite fitting for audio.  On this vis...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

Resist!

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So Johhny tried some 450 ohm copper resistors under his 75TL's and liked what they did so he asked for some 600 ohm version...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Solder Bars

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I was getting a bit low on bar solder for my leaded solder pot so off to the 'bay I went.  The first purchase was 12 pounds of Alpha-Sol...
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Friday, March 27, 2015

New Toy

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I always found it frustrating to be working with an automated limit of ~90Kz from my 192 sound card since the good stuff, particularly with ...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Name that SRA.

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I'd call it close enough to 92 degrees but the sound wasn't the greatest.  It was sounding really good until things abruptly ...
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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Hudson Valley hiking in March...

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. means hiking *on* the river... as you know I moved to the Hudson Valley from Memphis before last winter... quite a...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

finally got his 16-A....

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... and Elmore James has never sounded better...  initial placement it is a Subaru thing road trip! ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Round Plates

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This is a circa 1990 Alessa Vaic copy of a Marconi R-type and it has that beautiful round plate structure we have grown to love. U...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

DIY Western Electric 417A Kit.

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 A four+ year ebay hunt finally payed off when I bagged this little gem.  I first saw one down in DC at mikes place and from that moment I...
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Friday, January 2, 2015

proud papa....

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in the realm of DIY, "proud papa" usually refers to pride in a work that you have created... in this corner of DIY, usually an amp...
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Friday, December 26, 2014

Choke me in the shallow water....

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...before I get too deep. What is pictured above is 14 pounds of copper and amorphous in the form of some 12hy 200ma PS chokes.  The in...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Bjorn must be one unlucky guy....

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with 13 as his lucky number it finally paid off. contact me by email with your delivery info. dave
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