DJ; hello young man - sorry, I haven't had time to study the DAX...
...DAI did real good, despite "elk test" at ~75 (^_^) where I flipped the March CALLs slightly above strike. After lunch today at the local caf‚ (wonderful veal-chops flavoured with cumin - 58 Francs) MadameGonzo and I walked over to the Village Voice Bookstore and there I found a really cool book about Akira Kurosawa and his films (in English). Thought about you immediately, Janko. If you would like for me to send it to you, please send me your post info by E*MAIL. I ended up getting a copy of Steven Holtzman's "Digital Mantras", which - among other things - has some thought-provoking essays on Kandinsky's Point and Line to Plane realized on (and by) computers (… la Douglas Hofstadter's "G”del, Escher, Bach" ).
Meanwhile, have been studying the cult of the vacuum tube amplifier, (or "valves", as the British call them) and have been learning the circuit schematics of Kondo-San (Audio Note amplifiers) and Nobu Shishido (WAVAC amplifiers). The Japanese make these tube-amp cum art-works creations with silver wire-wound transformers and chassis carved from solid aluminium billet, with Western Electric 300B tubes (9 watts per channel!) configured as single-ended triodes (they go for $20-70,000). For a thrill (request a brochure via E*MAIL) surf on by yoshiki.co.jp and audionote-nyc.com for a taste of the ne plus ultra in retro high-end audio outrageousness!
-Steve |
