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translation: you disagree with me. fine! can't be 'friends' with everyone. (btw, who the hell are you, again?)

ban me? for stating my views? you already threatened me over at headfi. now you want to threaten me here? what a dip-wad you are, grawk. seriously a dip-wad.

negatory. once the bit-squirting hardware has the byte (via dma) the cpu and rest of system has nothing to do with it. once I post a letter in the mail, whatever I do next, the post office is the ONLY one to affect letter speed.

mac people ARE more gullible. they want computing handed to them easily since pcs are 'so hard' (rolls eyes). mac hardware is not better (in any way) than pc hardware but the mac marketing machine has users thinking 'mac will take care of them'. nothing hard to believe about this. its what macs are invented for. computer-phobes, by and large. if the amarra people had 'beef' they'd also release a pc version. why is it they don't bring their 'super special sauce' to other platforms? pc users already know how TRIVIAL it is to squirt out spdif bits. extremely simple. like I said, since win98 pentium-1 days, digital audio has working just fine. but explain to the gullible high-end crowd that, oh my, there's PROBLEM with computer audio (there isn't, btw) then the pocket books open like a cheap whores legs.

prove it, oh clueless asswipe that you are.

the modern mac code is unix based. I have a hard time believing its not *already* bit-perfect and doing things properly. I'm not a mac fan but its incredulous to think that they 'messed up' something so simple as digital audio out to a sound card. folks, that's all it is - clocking bits out to a serial card; same as rs232 (at one level). read a byte, send to spdif hardware. THAT hardware does the proper bit timing and its all hardware these days, software simply does not (and should not!) enter into it. software simply keeps the buffers from being empty. a pentium 200 with win98 (old school) can do that.

disagree. you can explain what you are doing and not give away the shop. this is the same fallacy that hardware vendors use to NOT give you drivers in source form. anyone who does driver work knows that drivers will never let you reverse engineer the hardware or dsp algorithms! so, he could explain what he's doing - but I suspect that there's a ton of smoke and mirrors going on here. there is no other valid reason to hold back the tech info. the fact that 'serious professionals' have bought into this, blindly (no design details) makes me wonder who these so-called pros are and if they're worth anything or are just resting on some name-fame of some kind. in science, disclosure is king. all else is bullshit.

when I was reading up on the amarra website, it 'dissed' nfs and samba and said that remote file access was 'bad' somehow. they lost all cred, in my eyes, with that kind of statement. until they tell us what they are doing, its all just marketing hype to me. computers are quite easy to setup to output bit perfect audio. its not rocket science and does NOT need dsp! dongles only add insult to injury. I hate to say it, but mac people are more gullible and so maybe they are more easily shaken free of a kilobuck (?)

indeed! oops. wrong quote. uhh. yes. yes, it will be there. lol

just for fun....

I'm a heavy freebsd user. that said, I did NOT find freenas stable. but that was about a year ago when I tried it. neat idea, but it needed a newer kernel and bsd is just LOUSY on samba (not sure why!). linux is samba king. linux is a much better fileserver (even for nfs).

650? I'll pass. damn. the point, to me, was that it was semi-affordable. this is just too much. they need to go more large-scale to get the price down. WAY too much on a 'garage project' of sorts (and it looks like it, too).

is this cable worse than, say, the denon d2000 cable? THAT one sucks dead donky dick. so to speak

yes, glt has done some work on the TP dac kits. he seems very interested and motivated toward that I share the same viwe as AMB on this; the NDA stuff rubs me the wrong way and so I won't be spending any time on the ESS chip. it may be a nice chip (never heard one, myself) but locking up the specs (and parts) is not something I agree with.

lcd2? already? I want one!! I missed out on lcd1. gotta have the -2 version now (lol). the top headband isn't appealing but the rest look ok to me. I would change out the bare (sharp?) metal earcup supports or at least cover them somehow. it does not look 'touch friendly'. but the wood cups and leather (?) parts are a nice improvement over the lcd1.