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And DON'T ask your spouse (goes off to check life insurance policy)

RIP to E.L. Doctorow. And fuck cancer....again.

I prefer separate units.....I use the SB6121, no issues since plug-in. And I can do what I want in regards to Wi-Fi....going to 802.11ac soon, will cover more of the house and with faster speeds.

"I shall call my HA-1 DAC Chappie....."

Situation dependent. For me, I have a fine integrated amp already in the LFD. So, for me, yes, DAC sound is more important because it will only play that 1one function. The Parasound looks quite nice, I've heard some Halo separates and they were very good. And even the Z-DAC has been shown as good for cheap money; so one assumes things would scale up nicely. If you already have an amp, though, then the NAD is a nice option (and it is modular, so is quite expandable/configurable). I heard it with their new amp using a variation of the n-core modules from Hypex. Lovely, lovely sound!

I sold my HA-1. Liked it a lot, but just couldn't LOVE it (I'm with JP# on this one). Ultimately a little too analytical for my taste, and I wasn't using the headphone out on it, one of its best features. It DOES have a lot of I-O options, including both balanced and single-ended analog inputs. Does the PCM & DSD, has the cool display panel, etc. When I got my LFD LE Mk V integrated, I had my Sony HAP-Z1ES going balanced in to the HA-1, and then to the LFD. Sound was VERY good. Changed it to go single-ended directly from Sony to LFD, sound was GREAT. That was the tipping point for me, when I chose to sell the HA-1. I just took some time to find which DAC would replace it; chanced on the Exogal, got a demo deal from Audiogon, and am not looking back. The HA-1 has more I-O options than the Exogal, but for me and my limited use, the sound improvement is way worth it.

Excellent idea to meet with professor, and lots 'o' luck!

Probably not worth TOO much effort, but do you have restore disks? If your Blue Screens are SW related (and having BIOS recognize the optical drive but the OS not makes me wonder/think that), maybe a restore and Windows Update keeps you going for a bit longer......

Wow....getting to be some scary extremism on all sides in this country......

Just made reservations for a place in East Boothbay Harbor Maine for Karen's birthday weekend. Same place we stayed at last year, we both loved it. Happy wife = happy me!

Wow, sad indeed. Reminds me a bit the situation of Eva Cassidy. Checked out some songs, a haunting and soulful voice. Will certainly check out more, thanks Dusty.

I hear they also have the Stax Fart

From what I've read, Bowie basically saved Iggy from a heroin-induced downfall and possible death.....and Bowie all but ignored his album at the lime (was it Lodger?) to tour with Iggy. Cool stuff..... BTW, silly side story: when I had an apartment with a no pet policy ~ 1987, my girlfriend and I shopped for hamsters. We found a nice pair where one had a zig-zag stripe on his back. And as such, Iggy and Ziggy came to live with Todd (girlfriend Barbara did not live with me, though; ultimately a good thing, I was not good enough for her at the time. TMI).

My 5S is the same way.....odd, even......

Crap....RIP to Arthur Cave, Nick Cave's son Worst thing in the world to me is to have to bury your child.....

Cool, I'm sure I'd use the credit anyway, so will probably do the same. Thanks!

Those speakers look like they could be used for Jacob's avatar....pretty nice stuff. I luv the Electron Luv amps up front, too (unless someone else is copying that style)

Supremely put, Steve. Apologies if it was seeming like I was making any comparison between child molestation and gay sex, certainly not the case. It was more along the lines of calling the religious hypocrites out for being against one thing (love and sex between consenting adults) while allowing, hiding, or DOING the other.

So good on you, Steve. Don't let them drag you to their level. I read an article on the slight "softening" of the anti-gay-marriage stance by the pope, and it had this quote "Intrinsically disordered" Okaaaayyyyy. Wonder what all the priests who molested young boys have to say about that...and what god would say about them as they pray....and were hidden and protected by the church itself. Hypocritical fucktards is pretty spot on Carl!

It's too bad they aren't doing the trade-in ANY DAC option again. I scored the original NuWave DAC cheaply, by trading in a eBay Chinese DAC I paid less than $100 for (and got $300 off the PS DAC). But honestly, I didn't love the NuWave DAC....on base 16/44 material, I thought the DL3 actually sounded better. I sold the NuWave fairly quickly....very good, but not great IMO. I'd think/hope the NuWave DSD would be better, but not going to try it...too many other DAC's.....

Couple biggies....RIP Snake and Omar.....

Great to hear the progress, Tom, and way to go Purk! Indeed, NFLO!

RIP to Irwin Keyes, actor who played many a character and a few main roles. A cop in The Warriors, a semi-regular on The Jefferson's, Police Squad (one of my favorite lines, "What's a Goonluca?" -- he played Luca, a mob man), Oblivion, Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses, and a LOT more..... Apparently he suffered from acromegaly, a pituitary gland disorder that causes abnormally large hands/feet/face....

[Airplane] "I'm not barking...and stop calling me Shirley" [/Airplane]

All of the above! Looks like a beauty!