I'm not sure about the eAR 202... Peter was known for his crossover without capacitors. My Studios have big inductors and a full-on power resistor with integrated heat sink.
Avatars would be the cherry on top. Mr. 6L6 brought his own print out to add to his badge which was great. Though I already knew him, I'm sure it helped some make the connection.
I got them from the factory direct. Emailed Peter. I guess it was his El Cheapo Keep The Lights On Income Stream sort of thing.
RPTFLOL.... I just searched my emails... from 2006. The transaction was nuts as he didn't accept credit cards (no Paypal then)...
Tony,
I have a got new PC and I can't logon Escrow and I don't want to use more time on this system.
Therefore: It is only possible to wire the money, else we do not send products.
BTW: We do not earn money on the eAR 202, it was used to be a "visit card" to show that the amps can do, but not in the future.
Best regards,
Peter
And
Dear Tony,
We do not accept US dollar cash, except if you put the money at our account.
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I can't believe anyone are spending that much time to save a single dollar!
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BTW: We have no time for visitors that don't purchase for more than US$50.000.
Best regards,
Peter
The guy was pretty weird. I mean, I had the money, I had to wire it to him... that's how he treated us the Little People customers.
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the sub sounded (as well as looked) great! It integrated into the system with almost no effort. I was gain limited and couldn't run very loud, so I'm sure it had capacity we didn't get to explore. It rattled the HVAC vent near where we were set up, who knows what would have happened if we had pushed harder!
Adam did an amazing job quickly configuring a channel with his DSP... he clearly has a great command of his rig! Cool to see.
While this subwoofer isn't intended to compete with the ">100 db at 10 Hz" kinds of builds, it's also true that it barely even got going in the demo. Dual 12" high excursion servo-controlled drivers with a combined 800 W of Hypex power on tap definitely has some capability. You even get a free lamp. 🙂
Fortunately, it can also easily keep up/blend with the 7" ScanSpeak Revelator drivers in my Studios.
While this subwoofer isn't intended to compete with the ">100 db at 10 Hz" kinds of builds, it's also true that it barely even got going in the demo. Dual 12" high excursion servo-controlled drivers with a combined 800 W of Hypex power on tap definitely has some capability. You even get a free lamp. 🙂
Fortunately, it can also easily keep up/blend with the 7" ScanSpeak Revelator drivers in my Studios.
As I showed you the picture, the Entecs in my room are also quite fast but they look massive compared with your Little El Pipo (*). They are fast enough to keep up with the Maggies... but they never visually disappear. Big Black Boxes With Big Woofer Cone.
And, I got no lights in them.
How high does the woofer go? I assume it's stereo? Have you tried making it mono? Running two of them? How did you attach the drivers and the amps to the tube?
I'm sorry I missed them. Will you bring them back next year?
Waiting for the construction and design details. If you remember, I saw you carrying that to your truck from like 40 feet away and the Waters of the Woofer Sea parted in between us. El Pipo Jr my mind screamed... Just what my room needs.
(*) Things are relative here. "Small" compared with the El Pipos.
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BTW, the Super Minis and the Metronome speakers are playing great music together. I'm actually hearing a soundstage "outside" of the speakers. I got them pointing straight ahead off the rug. When played too loud they do congest but played loud enough, say... a 9, they are open and holographic. The top treble is really extended, not smeared: cymbals come out realistic. The vocal harmonies are clearly defined.
Oh, to top it off... my wife actually said that they're beautiful. B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.... the FIRST TIME EVER she's used that word towards a piece of audio hardware. She was commenting on the wood finish and how they look.
Awesome... thanks guys.
And, I got no lights in them.
How high does the woofer go? I assume it's stereo? Have you tried making it mono? Running two of them? How did you attach the drivers and the amps to the tube?
I'm sorry I missed them. Will you bring them back next year?
Waiting for the construction and design details. If you remember, I saw you carrying that to your truck from like 40 feet away and the Waters of the Woofer Sea parted in between us. El Pipo Jr my mind screamed... Just what my room needs.
(*) Things are relative here. "Small" compared with the El Pipos.
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BTW, the Super Minis and the Metronome speakers are playing great music together. I'm actually hearing a soundstage "outside" of the speakers. I got them pointing straight ahead off the rug. When played too loud they do congest but played loud enough, say... a 9, they are open and holographic. The top treble is really extended, not smeared: cymbals come out realistic. The vocal harmonies are clearly defined.
Oh, to top it off... my wife actually said that they're beautiful. B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.... the FIRST TIME EVER she's used that word towards a piece of audio hardware. She was commenting on the wood finish and how they look.
Awesome... thanks guys.
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Bad typing. Message should have been 'big thanks'.... One of these days I might learn to type........
Since I'm already posting IR pictures (in the Zenductor II thread), here's one of the right plasma speaker. Apparently they don't emit all that much in the infrared.
And a short video
(nice that one can upload video on this forum; I hope I'm not wasting too much bandwidth):
One more picture, of the whole setup:
And a short video
(nice that one can upload video on this forum; I hope I'm not wasting too much bandwidth):
One more picture, of the whole setup:
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And here is a short video of Paul's Ampex in action:
This is 'only' 1/2" tape; if I remember correctly what Paul said, this machine can take exchangeable head carriers from 1/4" all the way to 2".
This is 'only' 1/2" tape; if I remember correctly what Paul said, this machine can take exchangeable head carriers from 1/4" all the way to 2".
You are spot on - the plasma is not a black body radiator so all the cameras 'sees' is the hot ceramic felt. Below is a more representative shot with a camera that I borrowed from work. The felt surface is more than 670C.
I also wish to thank all of the organizers for their hard work!
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That movie was a damn documentary, which one might expect because in real life Mike Judge was a Silly Valley engineer for a time.
Then there's this classic:
I've been in startupland, it rings true to life.
A pain in the *** to deal with, condescending, and snobbish for the trifecta? I would've reached back to an old job and used my Truck Driver words.
Honestly... I have never seen software developers like that... perhaps it's because they're all application Python hackers and that isn't real software. I mean, on his desk, either you have real hardware or lots of monitors ( for simulations, for accessing the hardware in the lab, debuggers, DIYaudio on the browser, etc.. ).
And, nobody will ever unleash an automatic tool to destroy your Gitlab repo. Besides, you have it all backed up on your nightly builds (hourly in many places).
But then, I work with Computer Engineers... and we do real time stuff.. parallel processing, etc..
Did you notice no headphones, no audio equipment on the desk? That's inaccurate. Everybody has their own headphones nowadays and some funky amplifiers. I've seen some of the best tube headphones and USB DACs on people's desks. Not so unusual to have 1000 bucks of audio hardware on your desk.
But I did think it was funny, the hamburgers delivered.
Just Hollywood being Hollywood... an interpretation of engineers by people who flunked their only science class, in the 8th grade.
I prefer The Office.
And, nobody will ever unleash an automatic tool to destroy your Gitlab repo. Besides, you have it all backed up on your nightly builds (hourly in many places).
But then, I work with Computer Engineers... and we do real time stuff.. parallel processing, etc..
Did you notice no headphones, no audio equipment on the desk? That's inaccurate. Everybody has their own headphones nowadays and some funky amplifiers. I've seen some of the best tube headphones and USB DACs on people's desks. Not so unusual to have 1000 bucks of audio hardware on your desk.
But I did think it was funny, the hamburgers delivered.
Just Hollywood being Hollywood... an interpretation of engineers by people who flunked their only science class, in the 8th grade.
I prefer The Office.
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I work with a guy who, at a previous gig, was sufficiently enraged by a meddling manager that he force-pushed all the manager's changes into oblivion. With good reason, I hasten to add.
What was that about not destroying the repo again? 😈
What was that about not destroying the repo again? 😈
Well, you can not really destroy the repo because of the backups. Whether you lose the latest changes or not, depends on the frequency, and timing, of the backups.
Although, I find it very amusing that someone would specifically remove someone's changes. That is definitely creative.
Or the one time, using a Vax, just two of us. The other guy went to lunch, so I saved the file system, then I rebooted the machine with the clock set 6 hours back, and then restored the file system to that time. Then I rebooted, set the clock to current and restored everything, except his latest work.
;-)
We played games with each other, the idea was to figure out what we had done. He never did figure that one, so I restored everything before COB...
But he did get me by slightly unplugging the console cable.....
Fun times.
I used to have two T-shirts:
"I am root, fear me"
"%rm -fr *"
They were my favorites when I had to meet with IT. ( Hint: no love lost between R&D and IT ).
Although, I find it very amusing that someone would specifically remove someone's changes. That is definitely creative.
Or the one time, using a Vax, just two of us. The other guy went to lunch, so I saved the file system, then I rebooted the machine with the clock set 6 hours back, and then restored the file system to that time. Then I rebooted, set the clock to current and restored everything, except his latest work.
;-)
We played games with each other, the idea was to figure out what we had done. He never did figure that one, so I restored everything before COB...
But he did get me by slightly unplugging the console cable.....
Fun times.
I used to have two T-shirts:
"I am root, fear me"
"%rm -fr *"
They were my favorites when I had to meet with IT. ( Hint: no love lost between R&D and IT ).
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That's why Guilfoyle was very busy restoring the sourcebase from backups. Remember Mike Judge had been an engineer before he fled screaming.
The changes were garbage. If they weren't something innocuous like adding a blank line here & there they were actively deleterious. And you must have context for "sufficiently enraged" -- the engineer force-pushing that stuff away is the sweetest guy possible, the sort of fellow with hard drives full of cute puppy pictures -- so for him to get torqued required truly superhuman levels of inanity.
In the heroic days of yore one could binary edit the error messages in command.com, for example changing "Bad command or file name" to "You want me to do WHAT?" Then a friend's graphics terminal had a gremlin spin the boot screen around à la mode Exorcist while a red glowing 72 point font 666 stared back at him. Good times.
There's something to the Metronome speakers and Super Mini that are beguiling.
Sure, you can't play them too loud ( they get shouty ) and they don't have that much bass, but their sound, their midrange is outstanding.
I'm thinking of buying a pair of woofers for them and a miniDSP
https://www.parts-express.com/home-a-v/home-speakers/passive-subwoofers
Or maybe build Nelson's two way passive crossover?
I have amps to drive it... ;-)
EDIT: @Tom V You got another pair of these? Take them in your travels. Play Flamenco through them. Play Saetas during Semana Santa. You'll miss them
Sure, you can't play them too loud ( they get shouty ) and they don't have that much bass, but their sound, their midrange is outstanding.
I'm thinking of buying a pair of woofers for them and a miniDSP
https://www.parts-express.com/home-a-v/home-speakers/passive-subwoofers
Or maybe build Nelson's two way passive crossover?
I have amps to drive it... ;-)
EDIT: @Tom V You got another pair of these? Take them in your travels. Play Flamenco through them. Play Saetas during Semana Santa. You'll miss them
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I think we are severely drifting off the Burning Amp 2024 topic.
Edit: sorry, disregard; I just didn't keep up with the quickly changing topics. @tonyEE drifted us back!
Edit: sorry, disregard; I just didn't keep up with the quickly changing topics. @tonyEE drifted us back!
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