Dining with martians

^Time for me to get a feel for the used amp market in that case. Anything in particular I need to look for/be wary of when dealing with used tube amps?

Apple, 50g seeds 420/11

300g chicken, 200g dry red lentils w garlic and frozen veggie mix, 3tbsp sweet and sour sauce. 1400/136

Quark, whey, 100g crunchy. 910/93

2730/240

TDEE ~2500 (short day, 5km walk)
Balance +200
 
golvmopp said:
^Time for me to get a feel for the used amp market in that case. Anything in particular I need to look for/be wary of when dealing with used tube amps?

Apple, 50g seeds 420/11

300g chicken, 200g dry red lentils w garlic and frozen veggie mix, 3tbsp sweet and sour sauce. 1400/136

Quark, whey, 100g crunchy. 910/93

2730/240

TDEE ~2500 (short day, 5km walk)
Balance +200
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Most good tube amp owners will be able to tell you when the amp was last retubed. When I bought my Mesa Bass 400+ the guy had a certificate from when the amp was converted from US to UK power by a Mesa engineer, and when the amp was retubed at a Mesa service centre (it had all Mesa branded valves).

Now, in the case of Mesa, there are a few extra quirks that you have to deal with when buying - such as them essentially lying about the nature of tubes and pushing their own branded product onto people. You kind of get this with Peavey, as some of their amps have a fixed bias power section, so as the tubes age they fall out of the right range and start to sound shitty. Some of their newer amps have a variable bias so this isn't a problem, but you'll have to break out the multimeter if you buy a new batch of power tubes.

What I did on the Mesa was actually retube the whole amp with a matched set of Tesla/JJ's from Bob at Eurotubes. If you're unsure about a tube amp after purchase, this is always a wise move, as the tubes are the first thing to be affected by the amp getting knocked in transit etc (they go microphonic and squeal). If you're getting the amp shipped, the tubes should be removed beforehand so you don't have an amp full of broken glass in the mail.

I suggest reading up on Eurotubes about biasing and his tube reviews - Bob has a Tesla/JJ agenda to push and he is US based so I wouldn't order from him every time, but for ease of use you can buy a matched Triple XXX set from him, plug them straight into the amp and get chugging. He is quite helpful via email, especially on aftersale, but the tubes are made in the Czech Republic so you may find a reseller that sells matched pairs/quads of power tubes for less shipping locally or in the EU.

There is a lot of good info on his site about the tonal properties of each type of tube - 6L6 vs. EL34 vs. 6550 vs. KT88 for example.

Other than tubes, you can maybe have the occasional problem with a power capacitor blowing, but any half decent technician can swap these (I've actually done it myself on certain amps where the chassis construction allows you access to the PCB) for not much money.

Lastly, cosmetics such as missing knobs and scuffs on the Tolex are your only concerns. Tube amps are old school engineering and lend themselves to modular and component replacement over long periods of time - my Bass 400+ has been going strong since 1996 through 8 owners of which I'm the most recent, and there are tales of Peavey heads still going 20 years after shipping. Compared to a solid state head, where generally if something fails it takes the whole amp with it, and you're making a more solid investment in the technology.
 
^Jesus. That's an exhaustive answer if I ever saw one - I've got some reading up to do. Thanks mate!

Apple. 5 eggs, 90g cheese, ~120g bread, cabbage, bigass carrot, tomato, garlic, ginger. 1450/62

Quark, whey, apple, 1.5tbsp jam, 100g nuts and seeds. 125g ice cream. 1555/107

Whey. 250g chicken w cabbage, carrot, garlic, ginger and 3tbsp sweet chili sauce. 775/99

3770/268

TDEE 3400
Balance +350
 
What do your numbers mean? I presume the larger one is Cals, is the small one P? And TDEE?

Still eating the quark, eh? Tsunami jizzstorms still on the regular?
 
Calories followed by protein. TDEE is a total daily energy expenditure-estimate. And yeah, still trying to crack the riddle of the enigmatic jizzunami - when I visited Gothenburg last month one of the girls in particular made me cum buckets, which might have tied in to a previous... emm.... "procedure".
 
Evening weight (after 7hrs sleep): 96.1kg

Carrot. Oatmeal*3, whey, 2.5tbsp brown sugar, 100g nuts and seeds. 1255/59

100g cheese 330/25

Quark, whey, jam. 570/84

350g chicken, 4 eggs, cabbage, carrots, tomato, ginger, garlic, 2tbsp canola oil, 2tbsp sweet chili sauce. 1320/133

3485/291

TDEE 3650
Balance -150

Sleep is turning to shit again due to stress. Need to relax, get laid and smoke some chron. Preferrably a combination of all three.
 
golvmopp said:
Calories followed by protein. TDEE is a total daily energy expenditure-estimate. And yeah, still trying to crack the riddle of the enigmatic jizzunami - when I visited Gothenburg last month one of the girls in particular made me cum buckets, which might have tied in to a previous... emm.... "procedure".
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Tell me more..............
 
Too much info-warning in effect.



I've always been a "heavy blaster" so to say, which made the change in quality and quantity I've faced over the past year and a half quite worrisome. I wrote it off as exclusively stress-related, but as prostate-related symptoms worsened - poor stream, having to piss more often - I started reading up on the subject and found out that the problems could very well be attributed to prostate health, rather than age- and stressrelated problems with semen production. Regardless of what the problem is, the first course of action when you approach health care services with a description like this is for a doctor to stick a finger up your ass to wring your prostate out in order to improve circulation and drain the gland of clogged up fluid. "Fuck that gay shit", I go, and decided to... well... solve the problem on my own.

TLDR: a self-administered prostate drainage later I covered a FB with a load reminiscent of me being 16 years old again.
 
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I also am a "heavy blaster", but lead a life full of stress and my lays are fewer and farther between due to children, I have noted that at times my output is less than it once was, which shouldn't be the case as I still receive manually stimulation. How did you drain your own prostate?
 
Quark, jam, 100g nuts and seeds. 1070/84

300g ground meat, 170g dry red lentils, veggiemix, garlic and ginger. Tiramis
 
Oatmeal*2, whey, 1.5tbsp sugar, 100g nuts and seeds. 1050/57

250g pork, 5 eggs, 100g cheese, 2 tbsp canola oil, carrots, cabbage, half a bellpepper and garlic. 1630/122

130g ice cream, tub of quark, whey, banana, tbsp sugar 940/84

3610/263

TDEE 3250
Balance +350

Pleasant weekend!
 
Morning weight: 98.5kg

50g nuts, 100g cheese 700/34

290g baked pork, 5 eggs, 100g cheese, 2tbsp canola oil, cabbage and lettuce, cucumber, carrot, bellpepper, garlic. 225g ice cream. 2200/128

500g quark, whey, 50g nuts, 1tbsp honey, banana, apple, orange. 1100/90

4000/252

TDEE 3500
Balance +500
 
90g cheese, 50g nuts, apple. 500g quark, whey, .5tbsp honey, banana, 50g seeds. 1670/122

Orange. 5 eggs, tbsp canola oil, shredded cabbage, carrots, celery, garlic, ginger, half bellpepper. 800/35

Apple. (520g /400g pork), 200g dry red lentils w garlic and ginger, lettuce, carrot, cucumber, bellpepper, tbsp canola oil. 1790/146

Lots of ice cream (~470g) 1130/20

5490/323

TDEE 4000
Balance +1500

Can confidently say that I've earned the right to pig out today as I've just chewed through my fourth term. 2 years down, 3 to go!
 
Afternoon weight: 96.8kg (dry and empty after a 4.75km jog)

4 eggs, 80g cheese, 1.5tbsp canola oil, apple, orange, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, cucumber, half a bellpepper, celery. 1180/44

Banana. Whey w vanilla, cinnamon and 2dl milk. 350/31

430g marinated pork tenderloin, 150g dry red lentils w garlic and ginger. 220g ice cream 1895/151

Chicken, salmon, chips. Tub of quark w jam. 870/82

Oatmeal*2 w honey 310/7

4615/315

TDEE 4200 (4.7km jog, 1hr10m lifting, 8.5km bicycling to/from work, work-related stuff)
Balance +400
 
Coffee w 2tsp sugar. Banana. Whey w 3dl milk. 440/35

330g pork, 5 eggs. Cabbage, carrots, cucumber, half bellpepper, two celery sticks, ginger and garlic. 220g ice cream. 1770/94

Banana. Salmon and cold cuts. Chips. Pinch of almonds. Buttered hard bread w cheese and smoked ham. Quark w jam, apple and orange. 2010/118

4220/247

TDEE 3900 (2hr lifting, 8.5km cycling to/from work in total, work-related activities)
Balance +300

Admittedly dry updates as of late. Here's some piece of ass and quality DnB for your patience.
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Oatmeal*2, banana, tbsp honey, whey and 1dl milk. 580/33

350g chicken, apple, cabbage, cucumber, lettuce, carrot, celery sticks, ginger and garlic. 5 eggs, 100g cheese fried in olive oil. 1600/165

Tub of quark, whey, ~80g almonds, 1.5dl milk, ~tbsp sugar 1080/106

Smoked salmon, hard bread, smoked ham 470/24

Apple and orange 200

3930/328

TDEE 3800
Balance +150
 
four porkchops w veggie sauce, six eggs, tomato. 1370/144

Tub of quark w whey*2, tbsp honey 640/108

2010/252

TDEE 3000
Balance -1000

Back on track. Gonna hit some fairly large deficits with lowcarb to clear up the waterweight I'm lugging around my midsection. Been very frivolous with my diet, which has been good for my mental well-being up to a point. The excess has gone overboard the last few days though, as I'm getting a bit cloudy and complacent, so I'm gonna clear the system and boot back up before heading to Sk
 
150g pork chops, an egg, tomato. 375/43

800g tilapia, 200g tofu, ginger and garlic. tomato. 1050/166

tub of quark with whey, two peaches 620/84

2045/293

TDEE 3100
Deficit -1050

Dropping the flab quickly, but feeling beat up from Monday's squats still. Only been doing a couple of 5-6k walks to bring the deficit up.
 
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