I'm happily stolen, with whatever size speakers I wish to put wherever I like
except in bedroom, music not allowed while Boss sleeps
except in bedroom, music not allowed while Boss sleeps
Frankly, there's such a 'bro culture' on this board that it almost scares me off. I can't imagine many women would feel comfortable here.
well .......
naah ......
majority of males and females are on fcbook anyway
me - I really don't care what you are, if you are here, not there
naah ......
majority of males and females are on fcbook anyway
me - I really don't care what you are, if you are here, not there
Hi Guys, can someone take a look at the pics below. I am in the process of building an Aleph J. The power supplies are good measuring +25/-25vdc. I have the same voltage to both channels boards. I am trying to set bias and offset. My bias is 0mv and my dc offset measures 25vdc. See pics. No matter which way I turn the bias pot, I get no bias at all. The dc offset pot varies the 25vdc slightly up or down a volt or so. I have the same situation identically on both channels so it’s obvious I have made the same mistake, but I’m not seeing it. Can someone please throw an eyeball on the pics for me and let me know your thoughts. Thank you in advance.
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The zeners are in backwards.
Once you have that sorted, this channel isn’t going to make any sound as the resistors must be attached to the topmost pads.
Once you have that sorted, this channel isn’t going to make any sound as the resistors must be attached to the topmost pads.
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I honestly have much difficult than you finding sexism here: don't take everything too seriously, life already gives us enough sadness. My 2cents...
Talkin' about Klipsch, I have listen to Cornwall MK1 (original, only "refreshed" crossover) many times and I love them. Not so easy to drive with tube amps (especially if SE) but sound gorgeous. I will try them with Aleph once completed & report here.
Well spotted!
Just shows how important it is to check everything... the parts' values, the tracks on the PCB (as I did just now on my spare Aleph J PCB), transistors... and of course, what seems to be the latest requirement these days on this forum - the ancestry DNA / the family-tree 🙂
Copy that. Will strive to be more serious. Just that ime, a good laugh is good for building, and health etc. But from now on Vinz and I can discuss the family tree on pm 
Please do not pay too much attention to what I wrote... I think my attempt to be funny failed miserably. My intention was not to kill the mood 🙂
I didn't mean to say everyone has to be 'serious'. It's fine to be silly. But surely we can do that without all the gender stuff?
I spent my whole childhood being called a 'sissy', and it was not fun. It still hurts, just to see that word. Think about what we're saying. A sissy is a boy who's girlish, and the implication is that that's bad. Why is it bad? Because there's a very clear gender hierarchy there: who's better (boys) and who's worse (girls).
I wouldn't go so far as to say we need affirmative action for diy audio, but it is pretty striking how male this hobby is, and we could maybe use to think about why that is. It seems quite a lot like why women get driven out of tech-related fields.
I spent my whole childhood being called a 'sissy', and it was not fun. It still hurts, just to see that word. Think about what we're saying. A sissy is a boy who's girlish, and the implication is that that's bad. Why is it bad? Because there's a very clear gender hierarchy there: who's better (boys) and who's worse (girls).
I wouldn't go so far as to say we need affirmative action for diy audio, but it is pretty striking how male this hobby is, and we could maybe use to think about why that is. It seems quite a lot like why women get driven out of tech-related fields.
@rikicheck
hang little more here and you'll realize that Sissy and Pooftah and Greenhorn and whatever - here are not derogatory terms and that we are making difference between not-being-serious and - not being-responsible
do not invent issue where it not exist; this is not case where you're recognizing thing, you're bringing it here
I don't care are you female or male
can you say from my writing - which one I am ?
am I on her shoulder or am keeping him on my shoulder?
hang little more here and you'll realize that Sissy and Pooftah and Greenhorn and whatever - here are not derogatory terms and that we are making difference between not-being-serious and - not being-responsible
do not invent issue where it not exist; this is not case where you're recognizing thing, you're bringing it here
I don't care are you female or male
can you say from my writing - which one I am ?
am I on her shoulder or am keeping him on my shoulder?
I searched for the meaning of the word sissy. I must say that even before I did the search (which I did just to make sure my understanding of that word was not skewed) - I had never related the word sissy to gender equality (or non-equality) and who may be better: boys or girls.
But then I found out that the American explanation of that word does use another confusing word: effeminate.
So, I can only conclude that the American explanation is gender-biased 🙂
But then I found out that the American explanation of that word does use another confusing word: effeminate.
So, I can only conclude that the American explanation is gender-biased 🙂
@ZenMod
First, I've been here quite a while, thank you very much. And I have learned a lot from you, so please do not take this the wrong way.
Second, yes, it's completely obvious from your posts that you are a man. No woman would ever talk the way you do. Nor would any genderqueer, or anyone with any consciousness at all of gender. The fact that you don't get that is astonishing. (PS: I've seen pictures of you, so don't bother continuing this charade.)
Third, your intentions do not change the history behind the words you use, and those of us who lived that history feel it every time those words are used. The word "pooftah" is every bit as awful as the n-word, and if you don't understand that, then you need to educate yourself. People have been killed with that word, and "sissy" isn't much different.
I understand that you do not intend to offend people, so I am not saying that I am offended. But you are hurting people, and you are excluding more people, because you use words that hurt people like me. That is not on us. We are not the ones who made words like "pooftah" instruments of violence.
So, in a spirit of education, here's what Wikipedia has to say about "poofter", which is the original version of "pooftah":
Poofter is nowadays one of the most pejorative words in Australian English, perhaps because of its use in the phrase poofter-bashing, which arose during the 1960s and 1970s during organised hate crimes against homosexuals across Australia and particularly in the Sydney district of King's Cross, a major centre of Sydney's gay social life. Beyond its use as an anti-homosexual slur, it is also often aimed at males who do not conform to normative ideals of masculinity in other ways, particularly in the fields of art or academia.
Is that really what you want to convey here?
Here's an exercise: Look up "faggot" in the dictionary, and try to figure out why it came to be used to mean "gay man". When you figure that out, you'll understand why that word is so offensive. (Not that you've used it. I mention it to make a point.) If you can't figure it out, google it. Or ask me.
Now, however, you have been told that your words hurt people, so it is up to you how you respond.
Other people here recognized right away how exclusionary some of the language that is used here is. If it takes other people a bit longer, that's ok. What matters is that we respect each other in the end.
First, I've been here quite a while, thank you very much. And I have learned a lot from you, so please do not take this the wrong way.
Second, yes, it's completely obvious from your posts that you are a man. No woman would ever talk the way you do. Nor would any genderqueer, or anyone with any consciousness at all of gender. The fact that you don't get that is astonishing. (PS: I've seen pictures of you, so don't bother continuing this charade.)
Third, your intentions do not change the history behind the words you use, and those of us who lived that history feel it every time those words are used. The word "pooftah" is every bit as awful as the n-word, and if you don't understand that, then you need to educate yourself. People have been killed with that word, and "sissy" isn't much different.
I understand that you do not intend to offend people, so I am not saying that I am offended. But you are hurting people, and you are excluding more people, because you use words that hurt people like me. That is not on us. We are not the ones who made words like "pooftah" instruments of violence.
So, in a spirit of education, here's what Wikipedia has to say about "poofter", which is the original version of "pooftah":
Poofter is nowadays one of the most pejorative words in Australian English, perhaps because of its use in the phrase poofter-bashing, which arose during the 1960s and 1970s during organised hate crimes against homosexuals across Australia and particularly in the Sydney district of King's Cross, a major centre of Sydney's gay social life. Beyond its use as an anti-homosexual slur, it is also often aimed at males who do not conform to normative ideals of masculinity in other ways, particularly in the fields of art or academia.
Is that really what you want to convey here?
Here's an exercise: Look up "faggot" in the dictionary, and try to figure out why it came to be used to mean "gay man". When you figure that out, you'll understand why that word is so offensive. (Not that you've used it. I mention it to make a point.) If you can't figure it out, google it. Or ask me.
Now, however, you have been told that your words hurt people, so it is up to you how you respond.
Other people here recognized right away how exclusionary some of the language that is used here is. If it takes other people a bit longer, that's ok. What matters is that we respect each other in the end.
I'm curious: What did you think it meant before?
I mean the question in all seriousness. I am a philosopher, in real life, and I work on philosophy of language, among many other things. Over the last ten to fifteen years, there has been a lot of work on 'perjoratives', such as 'faggot' and 'kike' and 'sissy' and the n-word, and it's relevant to all of that work that, sometimes, people are ignorant of the history of the terms they are using. So I have a professional interest in this issue.
There are other, less fraught, examples of the same kind of phenomenon (the word "livid" is a good example), but slurs are a vivid case.
I was always relating that word to what others thought (expected) an individual should do in a given set of circumstances. This is bad at so many levels.... and I always remember that saying: "God give me the serenity (strength?) to accept what I cannot change".
I know for sure that the guys here are just trying to entertain themselves. I also firmly believe that whenever they use the word sissy, the last thing on their mind is to offend someone.
But, I can easily see how people may find that word offensive.
I know for sure that the guys here are just trying to entertain themselves. I also firmly believe that whenever they use the word sissy, the last thing on their mind is to offend someone.
But, I can easily see how people may find that word offensive.
I thought sissy = wimpy (not in a rude way)
Never googled.
And that's the cultural differences thingy here at play, which I pointed out earlier.