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Yeah if it's a custom job, like that ES-1 you mentioned in another thread I would honestly expect about a year wait. Mikhail will quote you a much shorter time period I'm sure but it won't be realistic at all.

I really wouldn't bother with the AudioNote caps, V-caps will be just as good and will cost a hell of a lot less.

cause thats where he bought his

You realize that the add/remove ubuntu app is just a pretty front-end for apt-get right?

LOL OS/2 really did own back in the day

Again I'll disagree, if MS like Apple sold Hardware (Full Systems) I guarantee there'd be less problems because they'd have much tighter control over the drivers. I'd say 80% of the problems Windows users have are in some way related to poorly written drivers. MS is attempting (well a half ass attempt I admit) to curb some of those problems with Vista-64bit by only allowing digitally signed drivers to be installed. Yes this can be bypassed, but you get the idea. I'm not going to turn this into a windows vs macos argument cause we know where that will go and we know how pointless they are. Both have their strengths and weaknesses end of story.

Jacob I have to disagree a bit here, your running Vista Ultimate. The entire purpose of Ultimate is to have every single possible add-on/component/whatever of Vista installed. So by its sort of bloated by default. I've been running Vista Home Premium on my Core Duo laptop and it runs pretty fast.

Unfortunately all consumer grade wireless routers are really hit or miss. For every 10 people that have never had an issue you can probably find 5 that think they are garbage. I've had fairly good luck with the Linksys WRT54GL and you should be able to find them for $50 or so.

That pretty much sums up my general thoughts on Apple, paying a premium solely because they have enough rabid fans that don't mind forking out the extra cash. I mean I can't blame them for that they've done a wonderful job of building up a following, but other than the ipod I'd never buy anything Apple makes unless their pricing falls more in the line with the competition.

Yeah failures are pretty much par for the course, they'll happen at some point to every one. In my opinion what matters is how they are dealt with. For example the power button on my 24" dell lcd died a few weeks back. They sent me a replacement monitor w/ overnight shipping. Hard to beat that IMO. I've yet to have any problems with my Inspiron e1705 in the little over a year or so that I've owned it. Nate, since cost seems to be a pretty big driving factor for you here, you might also want to take a look at: discountlaptops.com . They have a pretty good reputation but I have no idea how good their support is.

I've been happy with my Dell Inspiron E1705. If you do go with Dell remember to search around for coupons to get even better deals.

LSU vs VA Tech GO TIGERS!

Penn State vs Notre Dame Watching ND lose always brings a smile to my face

Those things are ugly as sin. Let's not forget that they also likely sound like crap as well.

The funny thing about that is the record won the Grammy that year for best sound engineering....

Your essentially paying for the HE-60 only since the hev60 isn't very good. You'd almost certainly end up building yourself a KGSS at some point in the future. Personally I wouldn't do it, your happy with your dynamic rig so why kill it off for a basic stat rig that you might not even like.

I would stick with the v-caps the Audio Notes are terribly expensive and probably not any better.

Transformer Volume Control's are pretty much the best volume controls you can use, but they aren't practical in some applications just because of how big they are.

I tend to prefer the pcm1704 but out of the current delta-sigma dacs i like the AKM4396 the best followed by the pcm1792/4/6

Too bad those chips are the most overrated dac chips in history.

I'm pretty happy with The Dragon driving the K1000 but I think you can get a great sounding K1000 rig for a relatively small investment. Something like a used Pass Labs Aleph3 or Prima Luna Prologue One can be had for about $1k and will sound damn nice.

Yeah the emm labs and zanden is still a crap load of money, more money then I'd ever throw at headphones.

I like the new classic, metal casing and 160gigs is not a bad deal for $350. The nano is kinda nice I guess but I'm not interested in that little storage space. The touch is an utter joke.

Actually at the end of their production pretty much everyone including TTVJ had them going for $900-$1000. It was a few years before that he had them on sale for around $400. Man I wish I had bought 10 or 20 pairs back then.

Congrats Dan I hope it sounds great