Well, I have a job now. Go me. I work at a bar that pretends to be an Irish pub even though no one who works there is even part Irish. lol I wash dishes and empty trashcans and clean, which is a lot better than serving drinks because I don't have to worry about dirty old men. Unfortunately...

I ordered some different opamps a while back because I'd been thinking that the AD8620/AD8610 combo was too bright for my CD player. Because of my general laziness I never put them in until today. I wasn't too impressed with the AD845... it was too muddy. But the AD843s... dayum. DAYUM...

So... who out there has heard both the "new groovalizer" and "the funkalizer?" I'm very curious of the K240S and wondering if it's got the same sort of sound character as the DT440.

I know this is probably posted somewhere, but without knowing the number I can't very well search for it. =P It's the one with a large polished chrome hex nut and I think it's a Neutrik jack. What's the part number?

I just got Sakamoto Maaya's album "DIVE." The vocals and lyrics are Maaya's own, but the arrangement and music is from none other than Kanno Yoko! The song "Pace" even has Seat Belts playing the music. Favorite song from this album would have to be "Getsu-yo no asa." The song is seriously...

I love Akino Arai's ballads, they're so haunting and ethereal and overall simply beautiful. Unfortunately, no one seems to carry her albums! YesAsia.com doesn't have anything on her. The only place I've found them was on Amazon.com for outrageous prices of fifty dollars US or higher...

Just out of curiosity, I tried rolling my AD8620 opamp out of my PIMETA for an OPA2227 that I've got around. So, I power the amp off, pull the existing opamp, set it in an anti-static bag, then plunk the OPA2227 in. Power on, play song... CRUNCHCRUNCHCRUNCH. Clipping... What? Put old opamp...

Woot, 1,001 posts. And most of them probably totally useless too. My purse was much happier when I was around 10 or so posts, though...

Gilmore Lite or maxed-out PIMETA? Is it an upgrade, a downgrade or is it just moving sideways? Curious as I've heard such good things about the Gilmore Lite, it seems very inexpensive to DIY, and the idea of a fully discrete output stage does kinda get my musical mojo going... =P But...

This is the smallest Hammond extruded aluminum available, and I thought I could get a 9V battery in there on its side. But I was wrong, so very wrong! The amp board cannot possibly be made any smaller, but perhaps I can get a smaller bodied power switch. I wonder if I can cram 6x AAAs in the...

Blargh. The restaurant where I've worked for nearly two years closed down tonight. Not the end of the world or anything, but it's awfully annoying. Now I have to spend all my free time looking for another job and not listening to my rig, which is a heinous crime! Ah well. There's a...

Are hammond extruded aluminum cases conductive? I tested the little one I'm going to put my CMoy into, and it's showing infinite resistance. But is that just the coating, or is it that way all the way through? And, best way to isolate the input minijack of my CMoy would be what (if the case...

For the hell of it I think I want to put a charging circuit on my CMoy so I don't have to dig the plainview out every time it needs charging. I vaguely recall how it works, something about placing fairly large resistors on the battery, but... someone please refresh my memory.

I have finally fixed my pimeta... and it sounds good. Expect pictures soon.

I've been reminisicing. About games I played as a small child... I vaguely remember graphing paper and pencils and late-night sessions in the "hot" Monterey Bay summer on my Amiga 500 playing Gold Box Advanced Dungeons & Dragons titles such as Eye of the Beholder, Curse of the Azure Bonds and...

Well, this is not encouraging. I had a working, brand-new functional TLE in my PIMETA, and it smoked again. I checked for solder joints and there are none. Everything looks fine. Also, my 7815 regulator was getting very hot. I noticed something that's definitely not supposed to happen...

Well, some of you folk might recall the post I had about that Pacific Design flip case for the iPod Mini. It's cute and pink and has a white stripe down it. Well, I ordered it and it came in yesterday. My review? It sucks. It looks cute, but that's about ALL it does. It adds entirely...

Seriously. Today as I was trying yet again to unblock all the plugged holes, pull the dead TLE off the board and get the crap out of the OPAG position on my pimeta board, my solder sucker suffered... erm... technical difficulties. Basically, when I hit the button to suck the solder out, it...

Got some spare parts so I think I'm gonna whip up a CMoy from said spare parts. Don't have a volume pot though so... going to make it a drug-free headamp. XD Do I just bypass the pot on the input lines or do I have to put something in its place?

*rant* Oi, I hate what foul tricks the holiday season plays on the mail. >.< I ordered opamps from Tangent on December 16th (actually ordered them before, that's when they were shipped). They still aren't here. >.< Ugh... having no functional amp = ebil. *end rant*

Anyone else playing? ^^ I just got it a few days ago, but I'm on the Draenor server. Level 8 Human Mage Ariene, and I'm in the guild Lords of Warcraft. =P

Well, my PIMETA is nonfunctional, but I don't really want to mess with the board anymore because I'm afraid I'll screw it up. Basically what needs to be done is... one of the PS rail caps needs to be put back on, the fried TLE2426CLP needs to be replaced with a fresh one, the holes clogging...

http://www.ebags.com/pacific_design/...?modelid=44363 omg, I want one. badly. it's like a vaja case for girls!

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I do. =P Most of them don't make me tear up because of the lyrics (as most are in Japanese) but usually because of the sound and the music itself, and the fact that I associate music with people I care about or aspects of myself. Also, many of the songs I like a great deal where the singer...