The problem, Peter, is that to make a good, timely amplifier requires good,
timely beer. The projects you've started and not completed were undoubtedly
started whilst sober, the worst possible situation.
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." --
Henry Kissinger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Chadwick [SMTP:Peter.Chadwick@zarlink.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:31 PM
> To: 'Barry Kirkwood'; Steve Katz
> Cc: 'amps@contesting.com'
> Subject: RE: [AMPS] Tuned Input, what me worry
>
> Steve said;
>
> >the beer "expires" pretty quickly.
>
> A good 'beer' doesn't. In the 16 and 1700's it was common, as country
> landowner,
> to 'lay down' a barrel of strong 'ale' on the birth of one's first son, to
> be
> broached by all the tenants of the estate when he reached 21........
>
> 'Ale' and 'beer' being used synonomously, although one definition is that
> ale
> doesn't have hops and beer does. The hops help it keep.
>
> Some of my best home brews (beer, not amps!) were really excellent after 5
> years. They may have been even better after longer - just that they didn't
> last!
>
> OTOH, some of my amps have been nearly 20 years in maturation - and still
> aren't
> there.......
>
> 73
>
> Peter G3RZP
>
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