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That's awesome. I've been there once with some friends but it's a little far south for 'dropping in'. Will have to make efforts to get there again.

We've had the Amazon Echo for over a year and we just got an Echo Dot so we have full coverage in the apartment. 90% of our lights are smart bulbs so now no matter where we are in the apartment one of the Echos will hear us and we can control the lights. Light switches are for suckers.
 
We use "echo" as the wake word instead of "Alexa" so sometimes random shit makes it wake up. Especially shit on TV.  But when it wakes up and listens, it uploads the audio too the cloud and you can go and listen. We were going through and listening for weird shit. A lot of TV shows/movies and us saying weird shit to the cats. We clicked on one and it was us having sex and we almost died laughing.
 
 
There were like 10 clips of me watching the new Gilmore Girls and my girlfriend was like "What the fuck is this shit?" and I had to admit to binging through all like 7 hours of the new season while she was at work. Alexa be snitchin'

unsure, but could be a faulty headphone jack... 
 
check this out: 
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/8235/Pausing+itself+in+lock+mode

I have a few left.
 
Shoot me an email [email protected]

I leave for London on Monday. Holy shit. 

richersounds has a bunch of stuff on clearance: http://www.richersounds.com/clearance
 
for example, these are great: http://www.richersounds.com/showclearanceproduct/TANN-XT6F-DK-WAL/Tannoy+Xt6f+Dk+Wal.html
 
or even these: http://www.richersounds.com/showclearanceproduct/DALI-ZENSOR-5-WHI/Dali+Zensor+5+White.html
 
or if you go for bookshelf size: 
 
http://www.richersounds.com/showclearanceproduct/MONI-AUDI-SILV-2-WAL/Monitor+Audio+Silver+2+Walnut.html
 
http://www.richersounds.com/showclearanceproduct/FOCA-CHOR-706-BLK/Focal+Chorus+706+Blk+(Soc).html
 
What's the size of the room? It's very important for determining what type of speakers to get.

We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery

Bent pins on the tubes shouldn't matter, that sounds like a lack of gain or an impedance mis match.
This thing is derived from the Musical Fidelity X10 which is a valve buffer stage with no gain at all, the Chinese modified the circuit to give it some gain so it could be used as a pre amp stage, one thing they do though is to push the power supply to the very edge of being able to work so you might find the output of your transformer is too low under load which would mean the HT voltage on the valves is too low.
What are you using as a transformer to power it and have you got anything bigger to try? it isn't necessarily low voltage to start with but if the current output is low then there will be a big volt drop under load which effectively means you are not giving it enough voltage when it needs it.
I used one of the cheap toroids from Maplin for mine, the one 15VA with two 6V secondaries did the job,  I wired the two secondaries in series to give me 12V
Mine looks like this now.

We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery

Going full on with a 4k - jealous! Let us know how that bad boy turns out.
Haha, it's warmed up every so slightly - still cold though. You never know, could be tropical when you arrive

No, just the extortionate $9 or whatever it was.

Hey, Blue Transparent is back in stock....
 
https://thenakedandfamous.manheadmerch.com/collections/music/products/simple-forms-limited-edition-blue-vinyl
 
 

Yeah, same here. I was giving him the temp in his native Celsius. Haha.
Also, I'm watching One-Punch Man tonight.

Can't wait to freeze my ass off over there. It was 16 here yesterday. Damn global warming. I'm on my way to pick up my new TV. Hello Ultra 4k goodness. : )

ebay
Here's the link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1Pc-6J1-Valve-Pre-amp-Tube-PreAmplifier-Board-On-Musical-Fidelity-X10-D-Circuit-/291786271575?hash=item43efd12b57:g:44sAAOSwMNxXV914
There's lots of different variants of them but this is the one I bought

depends what damage has been done but I suspect it's blown drivers which unless you can find a tatty looking pair to steal the drivers from or some suitable equivalents I suspect they are due a trip to the local tip.

Crazy thing happened today. 6 years ago we bought a house and there was a side door to the house into the laundry room that the previous owner had bolted shut after having their house broken into. We never bothered to use it and left the bolted locks on it, just put the cats shitting box in front of the door and never thought about it for the past 6 years. Fast forward to today, me and my daughter were outside playing in the first snowfall of the year and decided to bug the shit out of my wife who was cranky inside the house playing some nicky nicky nine doors on her. We started at the front door of course but then decided to open the screen door at the side of the house to give a knock to that bolted up side door with the cats shit box on the other side. I guess I had never opened that outside side door since we moved in 6 years ago as to my shock sitting there was a uline type record mailer with bugs and crud all over it. I checked the date stamped on it and it was friggin May if 2012. The damn thing had been there for almost 5 years!! What the hell! I was sure it would be a disaster after opening that mailer up as it had basically been outside here in Canada for all that time.  The sender did a great job packing it as the bloody thing was in great shape still!  I had no clue what was inside though but doubted it was something of any value and was probably something I had either purchased again or didn't give a crap about anymore. Well it was neither, it was a record still on my want list that I never managed to get around to purchasing and the only album by this band I was still missing on vinyl. It was the original pressing of the Photo Album by Death Cab for Cutie and I know it was the original as the repress came out like 2 years after that damn package was delivered to the side door! 

My flight to the UK is booked! NOW HELP ME PAY FOR IT BY BUYING SOME RECORDS! K, thanks. <3

My girlfriend got me two more storage cubes for my records and she's kinda pissed about it. She hates physical media and prefers minimalism as far as the apartment goes.
 
BUT now I've got 4 full cubes and 3/4 of the way to go on the 5th. Once that one is full she will probably murder me.

Slipmat preorder
 
https://mondotees.com/products/copy-of-spider-man-slip-mat

What a bunch of pricks.

What a bunch of pricks.

We are, after all, at the centre of the world...

A few days and I'm already over half way 70% of the way to my goal of getting funds to go see my lady in the UK in January. So fucking stoked. Gonna go for like three weeks, and hit up Belgium and a few other places while I'm at it. Crazy that Belgium is only a two hour train ride from London.