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From yesterday's overcast spring visit to Yosemite:

Just found out that PRS made another baritone, and in purple no less: ...but no Bigsby option. I mentioned that to them on Facebook, and they said they could do it, and to contact their Tech Center, but their tech center couldn't do it. ("Unfortunately we could not install one as the bridge will not work for one and the neck angle is to low for the bridge that will.") Oh, well, there's still the Gretsch.

I would suggest you stop treating your gear like shit. Show it some respect, and it will treat you well. 1-3 months. WTF? Seriously? The headphones that came with the original gameboy will last years with any measure of care. You know, simple stuff - dont drag them in the dirt. Try not to let them get crushed in a car/subway door. Dont roll over the cable with your chair. Play those fuckers loud enough that you will need hearing aids when your 35, they will run for years! Kids these days.

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I've bought a few Blu Ray Pure Audio discs, all classical at this point. They do sound great, but I'm mostly running them through my Audyssey'd HT rig which downsamples to 24/48. I've switched back and forth between the full resolution version (analog outs from oppo bdp-95) and the Audyssey'd version (hdmi out to my humble denon AVR-2112CI receiver) and I like the Audssey'd version better. Bottom line is, just like any "new" format, its the mixing/mastering that counts more than the hi-rezness, IMO. This whole room correction thing has been a real revelation to me. I'd never been able to get my HT to produce audiophile quality sound, particularly because the subwoofer was so out of control. Audyssey gets that in check. Its not completely monodirectional, but its surprisingly how little I'm thinking "the bass is coming from there". Usually it feels like its right in front of me. And the phantom center is perfect. Way off topic I know. I just like Audyssey and wanted to share.

Because you rocked the shit out of that ostrich avatar way back in the day before that prick Patrick82 bastardized it.

Not even remotely silly. I was responding to the idiot Tumblr post with a blank page entitled "original designs by Samsung." Apple's claim that all of its designs spring forth full-blown from the head of Zeus Steve and/or Jony is even more bullshit than the idea that Samsung has no original designs. Here's another example that you can call silly. Sony Ericsson's W950 was released in 2006 when the iPhone was in the form of a larger iPod Mini. This is the Sony phone: It got their attention and they tasked one of their famed industrial designers to make an iPhone design like a Sony. Here is what he came up with compared to the extruded iPod Mini design: It just took them awhile to get it right, but below are the original CADs of the Sony design next to the "purely original" iPhone 4.