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PCB group buy; The pcbs are in the post to you. Just come back from the Post Office -19 packets in the system. Give it up to a week.

Friday - walked 2 miles. Saturday - walked 12 miles. Sunday - walked 8 miles. Monday - walked 8 miles. I laughed when the cab driver who took us to the hotel said that New Orleans has something about it that gets in your blood and gets you addicted. You keep coming back for more. I see it to be true now. Still have another half a day left tomorrow but just an amazing time so far. Julie and I were long overdue a vacation. with med school starting we didn't have much couple time so this was a much needed getaway from reality.

From a top to... http://www.omone.com/om-one "The first time I saw the OM/ONE my friend asked me for feedback on it. 'Feedback?' I asked in disbelief. 'The speaker is LEVITATING...in the air!'"

Coil - Music To Play In The Dark Vol. 2 - freaky and good.

Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr Bond, I expect you to listen to every version of all the albums of Roberto Carlos!

because of another thread...

Today I learned the value of calling around for car repair quotes. It saved me at least $400 over the original quote because they wanted to replace the whole control arm rather than just the bushings.I also got them to match the dealer for the exact same service and saved $120 right there.

Well fuck me sideways!

I'd kinda like to hear Momentums that are broken in and on a rig they get along with. Shelly's pair were straight out of the box and it was hardly love at first sight with my portable. Portable stuff is still finicky. Nobody's gotten it quite right yet. Musings aside, I think the point that portables should be heard with stuff meant to be used with portables - which the Momentums are - is really well taken. I'm optimistic. Hi-res DAPs are selling by the boatload - by audiophile standards, anyway. CDBaby is selling FLACs. The crappy headphones I see on heads at Urban Brew are getting a little less crappy. Kids are buying records. The other day I found an intern cutting video with a pair of Shure SRH 440s on. Quality is edging toward the mainstream. The real main part of the stream will always be garbage. It's the littoral zone where there's life. Remember the "good old days". Most people listened to scratched LPs on systems that couldn't aspire to reach absolute crap status. Or cassettes that were dubbed at ten or twenty times speed. And yet, they still manged to make enough records that sounded good enough that we could enjoy them. Win or lose, this Pono thing is bound to help.