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Just spent ten days on a trip with Ety HF2s (needed mic so took instead of ER4P/S or JH13). Really plenty good. Since drivers aren't matched as closely as ERs it may depend on pair how closely they approach the other Etys, but with added functionality, significantly lower price and very near sound they'd be the model I'd recommend. Triple.Fis 10vi another option and most would likely prefer the bass (I go back and forth), but would suggest waiting on those $99 sales.

HBD. Remember the 100s are the new 90s.

Happy Birthday Jacob. Get well. Avoid the Amish.

Having a iPhone 4 and Nexus One, I have to disagree with the UI rankings, but it's a close race, both significantly ahead of the others and probably the only you could live with once you get a taste of the other. Tyll, you may want to check out WunderRadio and This American Life apps for audio streaming. I can't imagine going back to non-networked DAPs. HifiMan, etc. would just be giving up too much content.

Thanks for the Crown Imperial feedback. That and Organ Sensation by Felix Hell I'm debating between HRx and HDCD. RR sale v. Amazon GC. Hmmm.

Always getting in the way of progress.

I tried, but the Amish kept slowing down traffic, so grabbed an evening bunker instead.

Spent a day underground in Millersburg, OH. Heading back to Bay Area tomorrow.

I think many if us with plenty of goodness with the combo, but never with a Clip myself.

After a bunch of Christmas/birthday gift certificates... A few Reference Recordings redbooks: Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite/Nightingale/Rite of Spring Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man; Appalachian Spring Suite; Third Symphony Eiji Oue Sullivan, Sibelius: Shakespeare's Tempest Michael Stern Yerba Buena Bounce The Hot Club of San Francisco A couple RR SACDs: Britten's Orchestra Michael Stern Tutti!: Orchestral Sampler Going to place an order for some organ RR HRxs tonight. And after hunting around for Living Stereo SACDs, went Redbook when I discovered on Amazon: Living Stereo 60 CD Collection Box (Import)

Merry Christmas.

Thanks everyone and happy birthday Guillaume. Fresh baked banana cookies awaiting and a white Ohio Christmas out the window this morning. A very good birthday. Hope everyone gets time with family and friends and a few drinks along the way today.

Hope you had a great day Ken.

As some retreated from the Midwestern cold back to the Bay Area, I headed to Ohio. So far visited with family, had some Elliot Ness beers and Dan Dees Cheddar Cheese-flavored Corn Twisters and discovered FiveFingers aren't remotely made for snow. Also Melissa and I fed some ducks.

How about SSD-USB v. SSD-Firewire?

Fishski here's a fun attachment to consider... Ion DNA sequencer with an iPod dock -- Engadget

My Franklin case plastic hooks lasted three days. I just go commando with Timbuktu sleeve when transporting now.

He's actually already clearly stated in an interview with that boring guy from the WSJ that if the market dictates Flash so be it, but he's not going to invest any of Apples resources in the current Flash. We need to remember in the future when Jobs was battling Flash, it wasn't fully operational on any other mobile platform either. Anyway, we'll see where it's all headed after Flash works well and completely on any mobile platform. And I think they're waiting for hardware acceleration on the Air.

http://img89.imageshack.us/i/imagebir.jpg/ Just arrived and perfect timing for new music to load on iPhone. Heading to airport in a few hours. Thanks much Asr/Steve.

I agree. My old Thinkpad held up far better than the previous HP or Toshiba, post Dell, or overlapping 1G MacBook, but hardware is just there for the software IMO, and that's where Apple is ahead for my needs. And, as others have said, the iPad is nearly pure software. As Androids mature over the next 6 months (though I really thought they be far further ahead in development by now - losing a holiday season seems a big loss), it will be interesting to see if they catch up (though in marketshare they surely will). Always thought the cloud would minimize OS preferences, but not so sure anymore. Maybe the Apple-app v. Android-browser (though they obvious have both) leanings a sign? Know Google has finally hired Android designers, so we'll see. Anyway, have less faith in Motos contributions. So far 'pure-Android' has been better than non-pure, but maybe tablets will be different?

Apollo's Angels. This Fresh Air got me interested in trying to understand ballet before I completely reject it.

Speaking of the future, anyone have any hopes for Moto? Not setting too high expectations...

Last year around this time there was a crazy Concord sale on SACDs (~$6 a pop). Besides Reference Recordings current 20% off sale, anyone know of any others?