{"id":8830,"date":"2007-06-15T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/sniping\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:42","slug":"sniping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/sniping\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniping!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh, thanks to the wonderful eBay sniping tool known as a kitchen timer, I was able to bid on some tubes <a href=\"http:\/\/offer.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&#038;item=250129176268\">four seconds before the close of the auction<\/a>. Now I&#8217;ll also have <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;rd=1&#038;item=250129176268\">five NOS 12AE6A tubes<\/a> for the Millett Hybrid MAX headphone amps, which seem to be the most widely used part. I figure it&#8217;ll be good to test both tubes and see which sound best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh, thanks to the wonderful eBay sniping tool known as a kitchen timer, I was able to bid on some tubes four seconds before the close of the auction. Now I&#8217;ll also have five NOS 12AE6A tubes for the Millett Hybrid MAX headphone amps, which seem to be the most widely used part. I figure\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12800,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions\/12800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}