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To expand on that: normally you can rotate through the room correction modes with a button, with "off" being one of the modes. Some also have a separate button to turn on/off.

On all the Audyssey receivers I've used it's been extremely easy to change or turn off the room correction.

The irony is strong in this one. I'm still amazed at the "usb spec" wiki link...

Indeed! I'm curious how well the trinnov compares to audyssey room correction. I'm sure there's probably a shootout somewhere on the web, haven't looked yet though

Also interestingly enough, the Smyth Research guys had the Trinnov Optimiser setup and running on the speaker system at CanJam. They told me it was for room correction, but I didn't know at the time that it's a $13,000 piece of equipment. Ouch.

In my short stint with veneering, it sure does seem very simple. Leaving my test piece out on my window ledge with sun baking heat/cool cycles has not caused any ill effect on it either. Have you done any research into the vacuum bag systems out there? I've only had a cursory look and it doesn't look too pricey.

interesting how that "software" part gets dropped off along the way...

I must say that the K702's definitely require burn-in. I was pretty shocked at the difference when I compared filburt's well worn k701's (which I really liked) to my relatively fresh pair of k702's (didn't like nearly so much). After running them for a while they seem to have started to sound closer to how filburt's were.

The emotiva stuff certainly looks tempting, I'll have to look into them myself sometime in the future.

Great looking cases Steve! I do like those dovetail joints, very seamless looking

Too bad you'll never know!

That was a good one smeg!

Happy birthday Justin!

Are you speaking of on-die temp? IIRC, most Intel Xeon chips are only spec'd to 75C or so. Not sure what AMD thermal specs are though.

It's a cable that happens to fit in the USB jacks; connect at your own risk!

I guess there's definitely some interpretation when a spec lists specific requirements.

I think he meant digital volume control

Wikipedia as a reference for usb spec info....nice

I thought that thermal shutdown only happens after the maximum temperature spec of the processor has been exceeded?

I tried a new semi-gloss clear spraypaint as my final finish for my sub (last spray turned out to be incompatible and caused cracking of the paint) and it also caused cracking I'm giving up on spray paint for the final top coat and will just use brush-on poly. Well over 20 coats of paint on the sub....I'm at the point where I just want it done.

You are right, though I didn't want to start listing all the incorrect parts of the cable. It's rather funny that a couple hundred dollar cable may or may not just barely meet usb 1.0 standards in terms of cable build...

Looks like you got a nice PR-worthy reply Nate! I can see needing to send the cable to a lab to be tested for it's electrical properties, but last I checked you don't need a lab to tell folks if the physical part of the cable follows the usb standard. Anyone else take a look at the USB spec? I didn't realize that pretty much every aftermarket "audiophile" USB cable is completely out of spec until I read it.

It doesn't. Just took a look at the spec and whatever the spec requires....they went the other way. I think the most noticeable error was the complete lack of a shield + drain wire. Perhaps the USB cable has more detail from the extra noise brought in?

I gave it a bit more thought on the drive home. If your computer is running that hot, some part of the heat management most likely has failed. i.e., fan has died, heatsink has somehow come loose. The probable reason that you cannot run your programs is that the processor has detected the excessive heat and is slowing itself down to prevent self-destruction. If the high temperature continues, shut it down immediately and take it for service (assuming it's under warranty).

Looking among the thermal specs provided by Intel for their Core 2 Duo processors, the thermal specification for most of them are around 75C/165F. For some of the higher performance processors, they have a higher spec of ~105C/221F. Either way, your processor is running excessively hot. example: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAVN