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Hi RATs!

It's OK, despite billions of dollars spent in other vectors, the
contents of your posts here are free. Some are empty, such is life.
Some of us like recreation.audio.tubes, The rest have no such kinship
nor enthusiasm. I don't give a flying mosquioto fart.

I use tubes to listen to musical recordings. OK, some are marginally
musical. Some are atrociously humorous.

It doesn't matter to me if Bret thinks I am a fag junkie or Graham
knows SS sounds better. They just are pals in this really cheap pub.
The brew is better than the conversation, and we have to bring our own
brew

Sorry if they offend you. Everybody offends somebody.

Write interesting or funny or shut up.

Simple enough, eh?

Happy Ears!
Al

PS No Pirate Talk, I will belittle your ancestors, me matey ...

[Andre Jute]

wrote:
Hi RATs!

It's OK, despite billions of dollars spent in other vectors, the
contents of your posts here are free. Some are empty, such is life.
Some of us like recreation.audio.tubes, The rest have no such kinship
nor enthusiasm. I don't give a flying mosquioto fart.

I use tubes to listen to musical recordings. OK, some are marginally
musical. Some are atrociously humorous.

It doesn't matter to me if Bret thinks I am a fag junkie or Graham
knows SS sounds better. They just are pals in this really cheap pub.
The brew is better than the conversation, and we have to bring our own
brew

Sorry if they offend you. Everybody offends somebody.

Write interesting or funny or shut up.

Simple enough, eh?

Happy Ears!
Al

PS No Pirate Talk, I will belittle your ancestors, me matey ...

My ancestors dealt with pirates summarily.

RAT isn't dead. It is a historical figure looming large in Google.

The interlopers will suffocate in the effluvium of idiocy from their
own fundaments, and the phoenix called RAT will fly again.

If not, I have my own phoenix.

Meanwhile, remember the heron (singular) we discussed about ten years
ago? There are now several. This one has bred twice already:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/D...DVENTURES.html

Andre Jute

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Hi RATs!

My ancestors were pirates, they got dealt with. Everybody's ancestors
got dealt with. Time is slow, but, really, really tough.

Birds **** all over my little house and yard. Wonderfully poetic
creatures.

Hummingbirds hang still in the air and stare at me in astonishment.
Yes, friends, I am getting uglier with each passing day.

Looking at your heron reqired me going thru a page asking if the young
woman pictured was sexy. How the Hell am I supposed to remember?

Happy Tuesday & Ears!
Al

[Andre Jute]

wrote:
Hi RATs!

My ancestors were pirates, they got dealt with. Everybody's ancestors
got dealt with. Time is slow, but, really, really tough.

I took my son up the hill before our house and, pointing down at the
picturesque ruin of the abbey at the head of the bay, said, "Our
ancestors expressed their opinion of oppressive authority more than a
millennium ago by sacking that abbey three times in only two hundred
years." Everybody's ancestors were pirates; the Irish branch of my
family landed here as pirates in 440AD.

Birds **** all over my little house and yard. Wonderfully poetic
creatures.

Allah, ever-merciful, is already arranging that Lord Valve be
reincarnated as a sandhugger and you as nightingale. There is justice.
It just takes an awfully long time to arrive.

Hummingbirds hang still in the air and stare at me in astonishment.
Yes, friends, I am getting uglier with each passing day.

Don't worry about it, Al. The rest of us are getting more forgetful
with each passing day. We can't remember when you were Prettyboy Marcy.

Looking at your heron reqired me going thru a page asking if the young
woman pictured was sexy.

That must be my newest young assistant feeling undervalued again.

How the Hell am I supposed to remember?

I'll get you to explain to her why I can't remember their names. I
think they plot against me by swapping name tags every hour on the
hour.

Happy Tuesday & Ears!

Tuesday was cancelled for lack of interest. First day of the real
autumn (American: Fall) here, ****ing down, so I had to cancel a
planned bikeride to Kilmacsimon Quay; irritating to have to work
instead.

Al

If someone will tell me my name again, I'll sign this letter.

[Sander deWaal]

"Andre Jute" said:


Tuesday was cancelled for lack of interest. First day of the real
autumn (American: Fall) here, ****ing down, so I had to cancel a
planned bikeride to Kilmacsimon Quay; irritating to have to work
instead.


I'll look around for a decent Citroen CX for you.
Just promise you'll come over to the Netherlands to drive it home
yourself!
There might even be some RHD models available.

Mine isn't for sale, it's just fixed again after they decided to
shorten its trunk length with a few cm ..........

That car must be worth more than my house ;-)

--
"Due knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl miss steaks."

[[email protected]]

Hi RATs!

Went to the market. It is Wednesday, out there. A young woman leaving
as I arrived reminded what sexy is. The girl on the monitor was not
sexy. I confuse easily.

Some of my ancestors have been dead longer than some of yours. Not all,
but, points is points

I have never owned a Citroen, but, I had ride in big black one once,
home from the bus stop coming home from Junior Achievement in the
winter snow. Seemed comfy. It was another Alan's Dad's. My Pa never
owned a furrin car. Rambler was as exotic as he got. First car I bought
was an MGA 1600. It was a fine marvel to attract girls, when I could
get it running. A girl wrecked it. She made me even happier, months
later. Great deal!

Sorry, I am not old enought to ever get back to Prettyboy. I was
wretched at birth, and it keeps getting worse. See my portrait on
Ardunam's web site. My wife looks about the same, only more hair and
less teeth At least she really was pretty Old age ain't for
sissies.

First Day of Autumn.

I bought two dinners at the market. lost one before I got to the
checkout. ****!


Happy Ears!
Al

[Andre Jute]

Sander deWaal wrote:
"Andre Jute" said:


Tuesday was cancelled for lack of interest. First day of the real
autumn (American: Fall) here, ****ing down, so I had to cancel a
planned bikeride to Kilmacsimon Quay; irritating to have to work
instead.


I'll look around for a decent Citroen CX for you.
Just promise you'll come over to the Netherlands to drive it home
yourself!
There might even be some RHD models available.

I'm tempted but I'd better not. The bike is what has kept me alive
these fifteen years; I have the heart of an ox.

A Dutch dealer has a branch in Ireland, and sells quite a few cars from
the Netherlands here. Oddly, his most beautiful Citroen is from New
Zealand, but it is the wrong model Goddess and rather pricy even if
near-perfect. See http://welcome.to/classiccarsireland.


Mine isn't for sale, it's just fixed again after they decided to
shorten its trunk length with a few cm ..........

I assume there are body parts for the CX still? I saw a guy park a
beautiful LHD DS, powder blue, over a long weekend a couple of years
ago and assumed that he keeps it looking that good by not driving it
when wet, etc, because there can't be many body parts left.

I have never seen the point of collecting cars unless to drive them; in
fact, I take the view that you should drive old cars as they were
intended to be driven and take the consequences. That said, I have
never totalled an irreplaceable car, though I have owned a few
one-offs. The nearest I came was when I had one of only eight Bertone
Spider 850 and a fat lady in an old Holden drove right over it, and
over my ankles too; there were of course no body parts to fix it so it
had to be scrapped. I really regretted that because that twee Fiat was
actually a better car than a Ferrari I had not too long afterwards
which in the two months I owned it was out of the shop only eight days,
and on those days refused to run very far, usually not even as far as
back to the garage. By the way, Al, that Fiat had a hood which fitted
snugly once one's girlfriend broke her nails putting it up (my hands
are far too soft for a convertible -- I'd rather be wet than wreck my
hands). Was your MG's top waterproof?

Talking of rare cars destroyed: I once bought a Jaguar, the ultra-rare
MkV saloon (I promised a DS as part of the payment for it...), and
while the owner was driving it to me it was totalled between a truck
and a flyover support pillar. Ouch!

That car must be worth more than my house ;-)

My Gazelle Toulouse can do with updating in the light of my two years
of satisfactory experience with a Dutch bike, which will probably mean
new front hub dynamo (NX70) and rear premium Nexus 8 wheels and a
complete new automatic light set, which gets expensive enough (Gazelle
parts prices would make Mercedes blush! even Volvo never had such a
cheek!) to wonder if I shouldn't just buy a new bike and sell the
Toulouse on to some lucky commuter. What should I have on my shortlist
besides the Koga Miyata Lite Ace and the RIH Prisma (attractive because
of the disk brake front wheel -- I weigh near enough 100kg)? Opinion on
those two? One of the reasons I have those two on my list is that they
have smooth welding at joints; the only irritation of my Toulouse, a
superbly secure and comfortable fast touring and city bike, is that the
welding in the bottom bracket area does not match the smoothness of the
welding at either end of the top tube; that is enough to rule out
another Gazelle if I decide to buy another bike, because the bike
should be perfectly pleasing in all respects, not the slightest
irritation, now matter how minor or irrelevant to its smooth function.

"Due knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl miss steaks."

I sent your sig to an Australian friend and he wants to know what is
wrong with it. He says dyslexics have rights too.

Andre Jute

[Andre Jute]

This is just to correct a model name:
What should I have on my shortlist besides the Koga Miyata SilverAce
and the RIH Prisma (attractive because of the disk brake front wheel --
I weigh near enough 100kg)? Opinion on
those two?

--- AJ

Andre Jute wrote:
Sander deWaal wrote:
"Andre Jute" said:


Tuesday was cancelled for lack of interest. First day of the real
autumn (American: Fall) here, ****ing down, so I had to cancel a
planned bikeride to Kilmacsimon Quay; irritating to have to work
instead.


I'll look around for a decent Citroen CX for you.
Just promise you'll come over to the Netherlands to drive it home
yourself!
There might even be some RHD models available.

I'm tempted but I'd better not. The bike is what has kept me alive
these fifteen years; I have the heart of an ox.

A Dutch dealer has a branch in Ireland, and sells quite a few cars from
the Netherlands here. Oddly, his most beautiful Citroen is from New
Zealand, but it is the wrong model Goddess and rather pricy even if
near-perfect. See http://welcome.to/classiccarsireland.


Mine isn't for sale, it's just fixed again after they decided to
shorten its trunk length with a few cm ..........

I assume there are body parts for the CX still? I saw a guy park a
beautiful LHD DS, powder blue, over a long weekend a couple of years
ago and assumed that he keeps it looking that good by not driving it
when wet, etc, because there can't be many body parts left.

I have never seen the point of collecting cars unless to drive them; in
fact, I take the view that you should drive old cars as they were
intended to be driven and take the consequences. That said, I have
never totalled an irreplaceable car, though I have owned a few
one-offs. The nearest I came was when I had one of only eight Bertone
Spider 850 and a fat lady in an old Holden drove right over it, and
over my ankles too; there were of course no body parts to fix it so it
had to be scrapped. I really regretted that because that twee Fiat was
actually a better car than a Ferrari I had not too long afterwards
which in the two months I owned it was out of the shop only eight days,
and on those days refused to run very far, usually not even as far as
back to the garage. By the way, Al, that Fiat had a hood which fitted
snugly once one's girlfriend broke her nails putting it up (my hands
are far too soft for a convertible -- I'd rather be wet than wreck my
hands). Was your MG's top waterproof?

Talking of rare cars destroyed: I once bought a Jaguar, the ultra-rare
MkV saloon (I promised a DS as part of the payment for it...), and
while the owner was driving it to me it was totalled between a truck
and a flyover support pillar. Ouch!

That car must be worth more than my house ;-)

My Gazelle Toulouse can do with updating in the light of my two years
of satisfactory experience with a Dutch bike, which will probably mean
new front hub dynamo (NX70) and rear premium Nexus 8 wheels and a
complete new automatic light set, which gets expensive enough (Gazelle
parts prices would make Mercedes blush! even Volvo never had such a
cheek!) to wonder if I shouldn't just buy a new bike and sell the
Toulouse on to some lucky commuter. What should I have on my shortlist
besides the Koga Miyata Lite Ace and the RIH Prisma (attractive because
of the disk brake front wheel -- I weigh near enough 100kg)? Opinion on
those two?

That sentence should read ---
What should I have on my shortlist besides the Koga Miyata SilverAce
and the RIH Prisma (attractive because of the disk brake front wheel --
I weigh near enough 100kg)? Opinion on
those two?

One of the reasons I have those two on my list is that they
have smooth welding at joints; the only irritation of my Toulouse, a
superbly secure and comfortable fast touring and city bike, is that the
welding in the bottom bracket area does not match the smoothness of the
welding at either end of the top tube; that is enough to rule out
another Gazelle if I decide to buy another bike, because the bike
should be perfectly pleasing in all respects, not the slightest
irritation, now matter how minor or irrelevant to its smooth function.

"Due knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl miss steaks."

I sent your sig to an Australian friend and he wants to know what is
wrong with it. He says dyslexics have rights too.

Andre Jute

[[email protected]]

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

[Patrick Turner]

" wrote:

Hi RATs!

Went to the market. It is Wednesday, out there. A young woman leaving
as I arrived reminded what sexy is. The girl on the monitor was not
sexy. I confuse easily.

Some of my ancestors have been dead longer than some of yours. Not all,
but, points is points

I have never owned a Citroen, but, I had ride in big black one once,
home from the bus stop coming home from Junior Achievement in the
winter snow. Seemed comfy. It was another Alan's Dad's. My Pa never
owned a furrin car. Rambler was as exotic as he got. First car I bought
was an MGA 1600. It was a fine marvel to attract girls, when I could
get it running. A girl wrecked it. She made me even happier, months
later. Great deal!

Sorry, I am not old enought to ever get back to Prettyboy. I was
wretched at birth, and it keeps getting worse. See my portrait on
Ardunam's web site. My wife looks about the same, only more hair and
less teeth At least she really was pretty Old age ain't for
sissies.

First Day of Autumn.

I bought two dinners at the market. lost one before I got to the
checkout. ****!

Happy Ears!
Al

When the young dudes ride past me fast up-hill on a push bike
I smile. I think it'd be a waste of a bullet to shoot them in their arse.

But the older you get, the better you was.

And if you can remember slightly more than you forget, your'e doin OK.

And girls who would, if they were willing and didn't charge, make you
very tired and leave you gasping for breath after an hour, are not
really all that sexy.

Patrick Turner.

[Sander deWaal]

" said:


I have never owned a Citroen, but, I had ride in big black one once,
home from the bus stop coming home from Junior Achievement in the
winter snow. Seemed comfy. It was another Alan's Dad's. My Pa never
owned a furrin car. Rambler was as exotic as he got. First car I bought
was an MGA 1600. It was a fine marvel to attract girls, when I could
get it running. A girl wrecked it. She made me even happier, months
later. Great deal!


A (first) ride in a DS, SM or CX is something you'll never forget.
Each and every person I've had as a passenger, laughed at first, but
after an hour ride (from Schiphol to my house/company) was sincerely
impressed with its comfort, handling and overall performance.
No exceptions.

You won't attract girls with it, of course.
That's also not the purpose of a car IMO. ;-)


Sorry, I am not old enought to ever get back to Prettyboy. I was
wretched at birth, and it keeps getting worse. See my portrait on
Ardunam's web site. My wife looks about the same, only more hair and
less teeth At least she really was pretty Old age ain't for
sissies.


The older my wife becomes, the more beautiful she gets.
Despite her illness, she's always happy, laughing and a tremendous
support for me.

--
"Due knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl miss steaks."

[Sander deWaal]

"Andre Jute" said:


I'll look around for a decent Citroen CX for you.
Just promise you'll come over to the Netherlands to drive it home
yourself!
There might even be some RHD models available.


I'm tempted but I'd better not. The bike is what has kept me alive
these fifteen years; I have the heart of an ox.


A Dutch dealer has a branch in Ireland, and sells quite a few cars from
the Netherlands here. Oddly, his most beautiful Citroen is from New
Zealand, but it is the wrong model Goddess and rather pricy even if
near-perfect. See http://welcome.to/classiccarsireland.


They seem a bit overpriced to me, indeed.

I tried looking on the Eire E-bay for a CX, none to be found.

You'd have a unique car there, Andre.............


Mine isn't for sale, it's just fixed again after they decided to
shorten its trunk length with a few cm ..........


I assume there are body parts for the CX still? I saw a guy park a
beautiful LHD DS, powder blue, over a long weekend a couple of years
ago and assumed that he keeps it looking that good by not driving it
when wet, etc, because there can't be many body parts left.


The strange thing is, one can get almost anything for the DS, as it is
regarded a classis, and new parts are made.

The CX hasn't reached the classics status (yet, if ever), so all we
have left is NOS from dealers, or junk yard parts.

I dare to say it is easier and cheaper to drive and maintain a DS than
a CX, even here in the Netherlands.


I have never seen the point of collecting cars unless to drive them; in
fact, I take the view that you should drive old cars as they were
intended to be driven and take the consequences.


My thoughts exactly.
I have my black beauty to drive in, each day, winter or summer.
The consequences I've taken, believe me!

I simply can't drive another car, I get a backache, or am simply
disgusted by the "modern" way of suspension and handling.
Not to mention the boring interiors they make these days.
A Kia looks like a Skoda looks like a VW looks like an Opel....

I've had XMs, Xantias, I even tried the C5, they all drive like BMW or
VW.

When I drive a Citroen, I want Citroen behaviour, with DiRaVi and all
the comfort.


. What should I have on my shortlist
besides the Koga Miyata Lite Ace and the RIH Prisma (attractive because
of the disk brake front wheel -- I weigh near enough 100kg)? Opinion on
those two?


I wouldn't know, I haven't had a bike since 10 years ago, when my
aging Rayleigh with Reynolds 531 frame and Shimano 600 gear was
stolen.
It wasn't a terribly good or expensive bike, but I never got around to
replace it.

These days, I doubt I could even stay upright on a bike.
My sense of balance is severly disturbed, one of the reasons I had to
turn in my motorbike license...........

--
"Due knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl miss steaks."

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Sander deWaal wrote:

These days, I doubt I could even stay upright on a bike.
My sense of balance is severly disturbed, one of the reasons I had to
turn in my motorbike license...........

--
"Due knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl miss steaks."

Hi RATs!

My son recently sold his scoot. Big H-D chopper. He says he just didn't
enjoy it like he used to ... I still own my only motorcycle. It has
been in a friend's farm outbuilding since 1978. I never had any
thoughts of selling it. It was my present to myself for not getting
killed in Nam. It is one of the few things I want to remember about
that era. I never got a motorcycle license. They are more modern than
me. My Pa bought his first Driver's License at the Post Office, I
think. The PO used to be the only gummint building in town, unless the
town had a sherriff or fire department. Many in Minnesota didn't.

This morning I noticed an interesting sense of piano in the room I had
never noticed on a recording before. It was startling. It was a normal
piano event, but, it just never happened to me listening to a recording
before. I must be getting sensitive, huh? Or those film caps are
breaking in? Or I am hallucinating? It would fit into my general state
of health that the only hallucination I have only happens on one
recording on one instrument

Happy Ears!
Al

[Eeyore]

Patrick Turner wrote:

And girls who would, if they were willing and didn't charge, make you
very tired and leave you gasping for breath after an hour, are not
really all that sexy.

Sexiness is in the mind of the beholder.

Graham

[Eeyore]

" wrote:

This morning I noticed an interesting sense of piano in the room I had
never noticed on a recording before. It was startling. It was a normal
piano event, but, it just never happened to me listening to a recording
before. I must be getting sensitive, huh? Or those film caps are
breaking in? Or I am hallucinating? It would fit into my general state
of health that the only hallucination I have only happens on one
recording on one instrument

Human perception changes. It's not a fixed thing.

A dose of cannabis makes music sound stunning for example.

Graham

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Eeyore wrote:

Human perception changes. It's not a fixed thing.

A dose of cannabis makes music sound stunning for example.

Graham


Hi RATs!

What? How can every film cap ever made sound exactly the same if our
hearing doesn't hear the same?

Must be that caninebus, huh?

Or, did a real machine tell you

Did you test the machine for illegal substances?

Happy Ears!
Al

[Eeyore]

" wrote:

What? How can every film cap ever made sound exactly the same if our
hearing doesn't hear the same?

Must be that caninebus, huh?

Or, did a real machine tell you

Some test equipment told me that there's nothing non-linear about any film cap
I've measured. As such by definition they are incapable of having a 'sound'
since they are for audio purposes totally indistinguishable. Even more so than
many resistors in fact.

The idea of 'running them in' is equally berserk, since there is nothing to
run-in.

Note that this isn't true of some ceramic caps or mis-applied electrolytics.

Graham