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Latest NYTimes piece. Seems some evidence mounting with worker exposure, etc.

Shit did Paul Thurrott almost give the iPad 2 a positive review [cached - currently down]?

Oh, love Liberals ( at least ones at B&B ). Bottle of Russian River Temptation tonight. Great, but Gene was right, it's no Supplication.

AKG K340s from a local seller. Not sure why, as I've never liked them, but rumor is their production variance is large and I got them on the cheap.

Video please.

In what's kinda turned into my weekend morning cleaning listen...

Anyone got the bleeds? Poll: is your iPad 2 backlight bleeding? (video) http://j.mp/eMwzqS

Thanks everyone.

Innards.

Only $350 more over at Colorware gets you "blush" colored.

Online ordering wait is now 2-3 weeks. Keep us up to date with the first "touch." Curious of responses.

A little follow-up in today's paper... "The Wire" actress's tragic plot twist - Crime - http://j.mp/hB1Nvh

Congrats on the new comp Shelly. Evidently you need an old laptop that runs IE6 for the gold coins.

The History of Science Fiction.

Joni Anderson aka Mitchell Link.

Well, finally over the illness to give the 53rd refit of the JH13s a close listen and the balance issue has been resolved [cue: Leonard Cohen 'hallelujah']. Nice to listen straight ahead and overall it's a very nice sound. I'm pretty sure the soundstage has simultaneously shrunk (both in size and 'closed' sounding/feeling). Is that because things are now aligned as intended or another quirk of the fit I'm not sure, but it's a trade off I'm willing to make. Will say after hearing the same pair in so many different states I really would recommend taking all comments about JHA, or possibly any custom, IEMs with a bolder of salt because I'm really unsure if any of us are hearing the same thing. I still have a JH3A + JH16 on order and will make some comments in comparison when they arrive, but don't know the use to others. If you order either I'm not sure you'll get anything similar. So easy to disrupt detail, tone, separation, etc. and the margin of error inside ears must be pretty small. Thank you evolution.

"According to Geekbench, there's now 512MB of RAM in the iPad..."

Warning Musicland is Windows only if that matters.

I've be waiting for V-Link reviews. Would probably be my default right now.

On Thursday, “sometime between 1:23 and 1:38 p.m. Pacific time,” Mr. Lynch, the celebrated “Twin Peaks” creator and director of films like “Mulholland Drive,” will reintroduce davidlynch.com as a digital music store and “sensory experience.” There will be sound experiments from the past (some unreleased from his film and television projects) and new music. http://tinyurl.com/4j48hkc

Why watch TV at all when you can just read the reviews?

iPads for $329 over at Woot... http://deals.woot.com/sellout

McSweeney Sale going on this week. Everything from How to Beard Yourself Like Brian Wilson poster to George Saunders' childrens book on genocide. Also bonus codes for free stuff: This Week's Free Books Today (Monday): Fountain City (promo code: "fountain") Tuesday: The Wild Things (promo code: "things") Wednesday: The Clock Without a Face (promo code: "gus") Thursday: Be a Nose! (promo code: "nose") Friday: The Polysyllabic Spree (promo code: "spree") Saturday & Sunday: Maps and Legends (promo code: "chabon")

Sorry to hear everyones sick. Thought I was out of it, but infected GF who started coughing on Friday, deteriorated from there, and seemed to pull me back in today. Even the cat seems sick. Who's well at this point?

I haven't seen recent stats, but awhile ago the number of iTunes users (even when iTunes was strictly tunes) far exceeded iPod owners. Assuming all Airport Expresses aren't sold to "audiophiles" or portable router users, there's likely a lot of people, who buy music expecting to listen to the files in other situations than walking down the street with an iPod/iPhone. Doesn't negate most of the 24 arguments (can't image the masses care for real CD quality anymore, let alone better), but perhaps even the AAC users are at least thinking of better listening environments. And... I know this is going to make some cringe... Apple does have a history, in desktop publishing (fonts, graphic support, etc.), early music creation applications, some displays, that smartphone, the recent GarageBand demo, etc. of rising exceptions for the market as a whole. They could be looking at the numbers, say 'hey there's cash there', and dramatically increase the audiophile population... even why most have no use, or ears, for it. Who really needs a calibrated cinema display after all? 1%? Loosely reminds me of the caption of this video I saw in the Twitterverse today: "They are coming–hordes of kids raised on a diet of Final Cut Pro and Canon 7Ds. Prepare to be eclipsed." http://ow.ly/1s85iU