Oh that's horrifying. There are probably more than a few alternate universes where there is no Schiit Audio because I tripped and went head-first into our Frankensaw in the speaker days (think 5HP motor, 8' table, no guards, blade usually all the way up). I'm a giant baby now, and use a Dewalt...

Everything is relative. I'm originally from a comparatively hot part of California, where heat ranges from "hot as balls" to "hot as Satan's left testicle" for 4 months out of the year, not the perfect LA weather as portrayed in a lot of screen fantasies. In Texas, it's more like "hot, HaB, or...

I finally ordered a couple of bottles to CC.

A few years back, I had the chance to buy 50,000 of these for about $10,000...should have done it. Argh. Notes to past self: 1. Paint everything 2. Make all 6x9 products 1/2" larger on each side 3. Make all 16x8 products something like 14x9 (less important, but still, while you're at it...) 4...

Now targeting the 30th. See Jason's Law. Better to be perfect than fast, or rich than dead, or here than there, or something like that...crazy times.

Welcome to Texas. Enjoy the, ah, "weather." Edit: last night in Corpus it went from hot and muggy to cool and breezy and dry (Texas style dry, Corpus style breeze--think 20-30mph winds) to torrential horizontal rain for about 15 minutes, to an insane sunset and still kinda cool and dry to next...

Not to be pedantic, but being pedantic: it'd be more correct to say "the silent killer of vintage tube gear is filament voltage." Modern gear is much more apt to be designed for current AC line voltages. We take high line into account (5.7V at 110 to 6.5V at 125 typical target), or in some...

Maybe. But not the highest priority, I'm afraid.

Unfortunately, even if it fit, Vali 3 doesn't have the right voltages to run it...it's a very very very minimalistic design. So unfortunately no chance of that happening.

More on topic. Not a comment on the Lyr+. Or maybe it is.

Hey all, The time flies by. Too many things to do right now! Sooooo, a quick update, before I go into Weekend Documentation Hell (long story, you'll read about it this year): 1. You may see Kraken as early as next week. Think "media capability, music quality." Not giant power. I've been using...

Lots of wacky ideas in play. The catch is--we are very far along the performance/value axis. This means that: 1. Many of the wacky ideas are too wacky, and won't work. 2. Multiple prototypes of multiple wacky ideas are required, with listening of different candidates needed to determine...

Okay, I'll bite. You guys are crazy.

Yeah, 20K tanks, 4200SF roof collection area, 2 people, half time (keeping Corpus house), literal xeriscape...I don't think we're going to have a problem with rain capture. But it's not for everyone. For what it's worth, the local rain capture guys recommend 30K tanks if you have a family and a...

Sisterdale is on the list. They seem legit, and worth a visit. Also of note, Newsom Cellars is in the same area (Comfort) and the winemaker frequently mans their tasting room, so if you go by on a slow day, you may be able to spend a few hours talking wine. Fredericksburg is also nearby, and...

Oh gawd, here's where we are at: Yeah that's a rainfall capture/solar house in Texas. Quick update: 1. Valhalla 3 has two transformer ideas in play. It may happen. Probably not this summer. 2. Working on chapter for something that will happen this summer that changes everything (no not...

Oh you guys are hilarious. And the way things are going, you're gonna be very lucky if there is a Valhalla 3. Ever. Warning: mini-chapter ahead. Today, after months of painful back and forth with transformers, the whole Valhalla 3 thing came to a head. As far as transformers go, we are...

I need to try some OSD! (This is not a beg. It's a reminder to myself.)

Oh no, this is Texas, not California. They're used to building homes. Cali: 7 years, including public hearings and city supervision of the entire construction process (that we paid for) and engineering reviews and threats to rescind all approvals to date based on disagreements with contracted...

Let us now proceed on the sinewave to smart toilets featuring Flush Nexus (TM). No, not our next business.

Oh and I remembered why I dropped by, before getting sidetracked by freezers and stuff: Magni+ is gone. Magni Heretic is still on Last Call, for a while at least.

The reason I hated sandwiches as a child. (Seriously, I had no idea why friends had great-tasting sandwiches until I had left my parents' house. I thought Miracle Whip was mayonnaise, not some weirdly-sweet completely-wrong bizarre-ass concoction made by evil food scientists who hate life.)...

Always a Bosch dishwasher, whatever else you have. At least IMO. Fun anecdote: a friend got two "free" Viking dishwashers when he bought a bunch of Viking stuff. I told him that our experience with Viking dishwashers was, ah, not ideal. He said, "Who cares, I have two of them." A year later...

Portrait of crazy people: we buy fridges without icemakers. Why? Because we make ice only with RO water. We don't want the ice to affect the taste of the drink. So we use an external icemaker, fed by a reverse osmosis unit, to make ice that is then stored in the freezer. We can also talk about...

Yes, California operations are moving to Texas beginning this summer, and wrapping up before the end of the year. I announced it in video, and I'll probably have a longer chapter about it eventually. Corpus Christi keeps operating as the "smaller products" production center. When the ink is...