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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

Just hit the tubes. Listing the string of bad luck... JHAudio: JH3A update http://ow.ly/1s83Tw To all our JH3A customers, We want to personally apologize for the delay and spotty information flow to you all on the development of this amp. Everyone knows the story of how JH Audio got to this point with this amp if not the short recap is as follows: Phase One: Jerry was approached by a designer that wanted to work with JH Audio. He listened to the product Jerry wanted to build and said it would be an easy DSP project. When he realized he was in over his head, he bailed on the project knowing that he had given us a firm delivery date and that we had promised our customers that date as well. At this time we wanted to make sure that everyone that had ordered the amp that wanted a refund could get one. Phase Two: Instead of abandoning the project (which in retrospect probably would have been easier and kept the company's reputation clean), Jerry and Brittany reached out to a middle man in China that had the resources to finish the amp. JH Audio was given a time line of 8 weeks to develop and a few more to deliver the project. That was a long time ago and we do realize that you have all been waiting. During the initial phase, this new middleman had a stroke and communication stopped for a while. He then communicated he was undergoing surgery to open an artery but the Amp was still moving forward. His next email was that the design kit that the original designer had sent was not even close to the state of completion that he had originally told JH Audio and we had to start all over again. JH Audio then received one of the amps to test and the low bass control was not correct (this was the ninth board revision). We are now on revision eleven. The last amp that we received 2 weeks ago was a go until we had a problem that the mcu was not flash based and could not receive updates after the amp was programmed. This is what is now being corrected and the last hurdle we have. We never would put out a product that was not 100%. In recap, the communication from China has been spotty at times and the language barrier has caused most of the issues. Jerry is on his way to China to over see the final assembly of the JH3A and address the spidf input. He will not come back until he has the JH3A with him. Once again, we personally apologize for the delays and communication. We have always lived that we are only as good as our last product. The poor communication is a mistake that we take full blame for. Everyone has our personal guarantee that the amp will be shipped shortly and will perform perfectly. Jerry will be at the factory by weeks end and we will keep everyone updated once he is there. If anyone has any questions please feel free to call us at the office, although this is the most up to date information that we have at this time. Brittany Harvey

Plug In Launcher for Android makes things happen when you connect USB or headphones http://j.mp/fH6EM9

Mexican-style, real sugar, bottled merchandise 7x.

Sorry for my beer noobiness, but a case o' fun...

If anyone is interested in the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, they're at Stanford for a Sunday matinee. Let me know as I'll be there.

I have a cheese-making class tonight, but just queued up Zoe on MOG (she stays off major labels so not in their library), and above Halou filled up selections instead. First couple songs do sound nice Dusty.

Dusty, is this for video playback/matching or simply more pixels? Or recalling a recent conversion, why think 1080p is a target?

Very much looking forward to your review JP. My quick listen with JH13s showed the 2a3 pretty black.

Airport Express (refurbs $50 on CowBoom today)/AppleTV as mentioned. Some USB DACs using Camera Connection kit (unknown on iPad 2). Also plenty of USB coax/opti adapters (unknown on iPad 2). I've used the Airport Express, U-Control uca202 (toslink) and HA Info USB-coax to connect Parasounds and Lavrys. Also FLAC Player iOS app will let you play those FLACs. We don't know AirPlay quality do we (from iDevices)? Sounds good to me, but not AB tested. Regular AirPlay is bit-perfect.

HBD!

The Libyans seem more reliable than long links in Tapatalk (since site upgrade). As there have been a least a few of us that have gotten into trouble complicating rigs when other family members 'just want to play music,' for those with iDevices, the pairing of mobile MOG and an Airport Express is a great easy way add that ease to our systems. I know it's not very audiophile-like, but probably 1/3 of my playback is this way now.

Refurbished Apple AirPort Express 802.11n with AirTunes for $50 + $5 s&h http://bit.ly/g8fWhT Get your AirPlay on.

For those who want to connect their other iStuff... "Apple Digital AV adapter, which also supports video output from the original iPad, iPhone 4 and current-generation iPhone 4 (sic), but mirroring will only be on the iPad 2. Video out supports up to 1080p for the iPad 2 and 720p for the original iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch."

Refurbs now down to $349 and up: http://dealmac.com/Refurbished-Apple-iPads-Extra-80-to-120-off-from-349-free-shipping/440629.html

So for those buying, which model? When work gave me a 32GB to test with (not sure for how long), I sold my personal 64GB 3G model a couple months back. Pretty much only used 3G on vacation and with the unlimited plan vanished will probably avoid the extra cost of 3G model. Can't say I ever came close to filling either (and probably even less likely with MOG, Squeezepad, and Netflix streaming - I was slow to adopt all), so may downgrade from 64GB also. Curious if others who've owned before will stay with same model or upgrade/downgrade?

Like the Bionic Woman.

Smart-cover video: http://www.apple.com/ipad/#smart-cover iPad2 video: http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video

LiveBlog: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-event/ Wonder if rumored iOS5 showoff and cloud mystery announcement may be the larger news?

Now we know what the HDtracks Makin' History comment was about... http://bit.ly/hLxCXm

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Beautiful. Is Electric Cat OS X 10.7?

Apple video in prep for this weeks iPad 2 announcement... .

I've held off posting as I only listened on one rig for a couple hours before my brain, eyes, throat and ears decided to do that whole flu thing, however I'm cautiously optimistic. Will post once everything is working normally again. Will say they look nothing like the previous ones and not exactly like both ears come from the same human head, but... Oh, and if anyone is in a similar bed-ridden situation, the French-German six hour miniseries Carlos is an excellent way to pass the time.