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Message started by Lon on 01/29/26 at 23:10:44

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier
Post by Lon on 01/29/26 at 23:10:44

Well, another delay. Frustrating. "The delivery date will be provided as soon as possible." There is no bad weather here today. Sigh. My gut told me something was up. Tomorrow is the worst day for me to be here waiting for a delivery. Sigh.

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by CAJames on 01/30/26 at 15:53:51

I can only imagine how frustrating that is Lon. Hopefully today is the day.

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by Bluzrover on 01/30/26 at 17:45:12

Our UPS driver left a package on a pile of ice burgs (our snow has turned into frozen chunks of ice) at the end of our drive. Only saw it this morning and didn’t get a notification it had been delivered. Not sure how long it had been sitting out there but damn, this is a bad time to get stuff delivered.

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by Lon on 01/30/26 at 22:37:30

Well, this is the third day in a row that UPS has canceled the delivery, "Delay: Emergency Situation or Severe Weather." All while the package are in the area. Other than cold, all three days the roads are in excellent shape and there have been no snowfalls yesterday and today and very little on Wednesday.

In the words of human/alien ("resident Alien") Harry Van Der Spiegel "This is some Bull^%$#". . . .

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by Kahuna Jack on 01/31/26 at 01:08:46

Thats crazy torture. Driver probably took the 845 tube over to his homies house thinking he scored a new bong.
I'd be out driving around looking for the UPS truck. They must be stopping downtown at local businesses ?

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by Lon on 01/31/26 at 01:42:21

There aren't many local businesses to visit here, so I don't think they'll be out there hopping around. I don't know if they will even suggest they will deliver tomorrow. . .so I guess I may have to wait til next week.

Ah well, delayed gratification. I have lots to listen to and it is all sounding very good right now.

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by Lon on 01/31/26 at 11:03:57

Well, once again a re-delivery notice, the packages are now separated with due to arrive in the 1:00 to 5:00 zone and another in the 5:00 to 7:00 zone. One package arriving doesn't help me, I need both. . . . We'll see. My confidence is not high.

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by JBzen on 01/31/26 at 11:27:36

Can't you just tell them to hold and you will pick the packages up? In my area the UPS warehouse is only 30 minutes away. I've called in the past and was given the drivers number so to coordinate a meet up along his route for a time sensitive delivery. I think UPS is holding signature required deliveries on the bottom because of logistics with the current situation. Read people in general are not clearing snow to give access and snow piled along roads make stopping very dangerous.

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by Lon on 01/31/26 at 11:59:50

I've had bad luck doing that here. The place they say it would be is 45 minutes away. The one time I did do that years ago when I got there . . . it wasn't there. It had not been held, and was delivered two days later I'm not inclined to repeat that. I've wasted a lot of time talking to these people on the phone as well, to no good outcome, in the past. UPS sucks imo. I would have chosen to have this delivered by USPS, which has delivered mail here every day this month, if I had been able to choose, but I was not given the chance.

IF the packages don't arrive today I'll be forced to do that, contact them and see what the next step is. We'll see. I'm frustrated mainly because I'm excited for the product, but my life goes on.

Roads in the area here are very well cleared, have been day after day during this storm, and UPS drivers have no problem just parking on the road and putting their flashers on (more's the pity)--they don't pull into driveways. I don't know what the issue is other than I think they are dealing with a backlog and our neighborhood is always the last area they deliver to before returning to the hub so if they get behind we are sacrificed. Perhaps they are short drivers from the weather or perhaps yesterday from the nationwide "boycott." From the start I waived signature necessity for these packages so that is not a contributing factor.

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by Lon on 02/01/26 at 00:28:51

Update: The fourth time is the charm--about forty minutes ago a UPS truck pulled up, with both packages. I just set it up and it's a very interesting change. Right now it sounds a bit "bright" for my taste but I will mess about with the gain structure and also let it settle in a few hours before I will "solidify" that initial impression.

I hear a bit more soundstage width, about the same depth, if not a bit more forward. And perhaps a bit more dynamic. Still early though. Definitely a change . . . . I may reverse the fuse direction tomorrow because it does have that "sound" when the fuse is in the direction I usually don't prefer.

This is a BEAUTIFUL component. Glad I went with walnut for the base, and I've never had an 845 before and it's HUGE tube, will serve as a night light for anyone afraid of things that go bump in the night.

Okay I just rolled back in my most familiar tube in the ZROCK3 and immediately it's better, not "bright" but with clarity and separation.

This is going to be fun. My favorite rectifier in the amp is excellent to listen to, this Dynaglide Jr. is a new thing that is exciting to listen to tonight. . . .

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by CAJames on 02/01/26 at 02:19:31

Yeah! Glad you (finally) got it Lon. Looking forward to your adventures.

I was equally surprised by the size and the brightness and the heat of those 10V triodes. You only have one of them, you can imagine the scene with two.

Title: Re: Decware's DynaGrid Rectifier design log
Post by Lon on 02/01/26 at 02:59:37

Yes, two of them or more. . .reading light intensity. I could imagine two of the Jr.s one on each side of the rack, that would be visually more balanced than just one on the top left as is the situation now. But. . . there's only one rectifier in this system (not that I could get another right now).