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Hi RATs!

Nobody has any rights. This wretched asteroid has a few cheap trinkets
scattered over and under its surface, and we spend all our time
fighting over who owns which. As if anybody is watching, or, if they
are, gives a ****. We are self-propelled gimme geezers.

Bikes? Hitch-hike, or walk, to the nearest retailer and simply buy the
biggest one he or she sells in your favorite color. Big tires are nice.
Knobby is only for younger, sexually active, people. Those of us with
tenderer digestive systems deserve a bit of caution. My cheap 12 speed
behemoth took me fairly to the pharmacy when I was doing years and
years of penance for my Leather and chrome mini-van excesses, long ago.
Somehow, I am listening to Sketches of Spain. Miles before his
social-economic balls dropped in the way of his view of Heaven and gave
us Kindred of Blasts.

Boom boom is easy to reproduce. The life forms it crushes will,
perhaps, visit again, but, I can see no economy in their destruction.
Eve, nor, otherwise.

Godlet Geo II has shown us clearly that the quick path to societal self
destruction is always available. He attacked some sandpit with lots of
oil and not much crash and steal experience and now has millions
wondering if anyone will ever smell the flowers they plant. Big deal.
Geo2 is not my kind of guy, but, neither were most of the world leaders
in history.

I like Music and building circuits. Living among the testosterone
poisoned monkey brains who think they are meant to Rule the Universe is
a bit less exciting. They may kill us all. Big deal. We were all gonna
die, anyway.

Maybe the next step of evolution will support fine Music.

I doubt it, sincerely. But, at least I feel sure they will be tempted


SIGH!

Happy Ears!
Al



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Hi RATs!

Somehow, this is the tenth post on a thread without stupid SPAM ass
kram from the Deranged keyboard Droids of Dullsville. (DDD,
forevermore)

I am happily listening to the DIY version of a 6550C P-P amp from Hong
Kong. I know, it is the bargain basement version of the old M-100 from
Opera audio. The Chinese are well on their way to becoming the only
functioning society on the planet. Somehow the great powers of the 20th
century wandered into an oil pit with the rest of the dinosaurs. What a
****ty planet, I remember being a child travelling across America with
my parents and meeting nice people in small towns everywhere. Now, the
inscrutable fiscal wisdom of the fantastic future has left all those
clean, crime free little towns to rot on the prairie as everyone
huddles in the city waiting for the pollution to kill us all. It will.
Sigh.

Imagine living in a world where robbery was so exotic they wrote books
about it ... and people bought them!

Anyway, this amp is really decent It has a choke in the PS filter! I
built my own amps for years. I used way too many chokes One is
better than none. You can trust that to simple arithmetic. Well, not as
simple as Grayhumbug, but, pretty simple.

I have the amp on 24/7, sometimes playing, sometimes not. I ain't
always culturally receptive ... that sweet young thing coming out of
the grocery store yesterday really was sexy ... relax, guys, this old
planet will continue to be haunted by our miserable race. Nobody can
resist her I did not resist her, I am just old and feeble. Not the
same thing.

Ella has been mod-o-fied The tubes have been swapped. A lot. She now
has no global NFB. The output tubes are dioded to triodes. What a
CONCEPT!

There are more caps than originally supplied. Simplicity is not Holy.
Sorry, morons. Nothing real is as simple as your pathetic imaginations


If you haven't heard Perlman Goes Pop! I will continue to enjoy it for
you ...

I think I should mention effective power of amps. Yes, you can hot rod
circuits to produce lots of watts. People will pay you to do this. It's
a living, but, basically, there is more to making ears happy than
pegging a meter. Enough said.

I just type and type. Sorry. I have nothing better to do

Happy Ears!
Al