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Weekend at Johnson’s
Read more: Weekend at Johnson’sSpent this Labor day weekend at Rich’s house. Was able to help him out with this chicken coop build and learn come carpentry! Looks pretty good the hens have a lot of ladders to play on. We worked on the boxes for the chickens to lay eggs in. Changed the floor so the bedding is…
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Rega Planar 3
Read more: Rega Planar 3I keep getting a hum from my Planar 3. Don’t understand why Rega doesn’t put a ground on this table. Going to do a modification this weekend by adding a ground wire from the motor to the arm then out to my phono preamp. Think it should cure the hum. It’s weird because the preamp…
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Went to a Great Gatsby inspired wedding!
Read more: Went to a Great Gatsby inspired wedding!Went to a Great Gatsby inspired wedding! One of my girlfriends friends got married this weekend in Nutley. They held the ceremony at The Mountsier Garden, cocktails at their house accross the street and then the banquet on the front lawn of Grace Church under a big tent. It was a pretty interesting wedding! Congratulations…
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Made some hamburgers today.
Read more: Made some hamburgers today.Made some hamburgers with my Ninja Woodfire grill. Used oak pellets and smoked them for an hour at 225 degrees. Came out pretty good, but dry. I used 80/20 beef but they got a little dry anyway. Going to reduce the temperature next time and see if that improves it. Been loving this grill, figured…
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Record haul fell thru
Read more: Record haul fell thruDidn’t move fast enough and missed out on the big record haul.😔 The guy really wanted them gone due to finicial reasons. He was paying $700 ish a month for storage and he needed out of the contract. He found someone able to move faster then James and I. Now I need to get rid…
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Anybody know what’s going on here?
Read more: Anybody know what’s going on here?Take a look at these EL-34’s from NessTone. I think they are OEM by Shuguang in China which I thought was a pretty good factory. What is the brown stuff? It’s not getter, the top is nice and silver where the getter is. It looks like a burn on the glass but I don’t know…
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Kubernetes project
Read more: Kubernetes projectRealized that it’s been awhile since I have put any computer content here. I have my home lab running perfectly with everything running on a cluster of Intel NUC’s and I don’t want to mess with anything. Decided to pick up 4 older small form factor computers to use as a Kubernetes cluster or whatever…
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Working on my Audible Illusions amp
Read more: Working on my Audible Illusions ampHad to install a new AC in my moms room and then was planning to go to Long Island. Had some last minute changes so ended up back home. Put on some tunes and continued digging into my Audible Illusions project. I remove the old capacitors, some of them really look like candy! Hard to…
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Record haul!
Read more: Record haul!Might have walked into a huge Record haul! Like thousands of them from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s Going to Long Island this weekend with a friend to to take a look. Already have a temperature controlled storage locker secured. Fingers crossed it works out!
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Wiim Ultra
Read more: Wiim UltraMy latest audio acquisition is a Wiim Ultra. Lots of online audio influencers have been talking these things up and I wanted to check it out for myself. I was able go get it on-sale over at Amazon. I’m planning on doing a more thorough review but for now here are my list of of…
