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They looked retarded with a price to match

Correct it's high efficiency, single driver speakers like the Hemps are designed to be very efficient requiring only a couple of watts to reach loud volumes. The problem in my experience with single driver speakers is that you'll usually have a big roll off at both ends of the frequency spectrum. They have a unique sound due to this roll off and not having any crossover. It's a sound that has a pretty strong following. But you can count me as one that doesn't like it.

Yeah see the problem for me is that the SB wouldn't be located in place that'd be easy to see and I'm usually around a PC when I'm listening to music so a USB sound card is sounding like it might be the best solution for me.

ones that hiss at you are

no but it's equally badass

Everest: Beyond the Limit

If you do try it out let us know how it is.

Watching National Treasure on USAHD right now.

Dusty thats a pretty good idea, I'm looking at th Thats a pretty good idea, I'm taking a look at the EMU-0404 USB right now.

Switching between folders and just browsing through the file tree in general. I'm referring to using the web interface here btw.

I've had these recommended to me in the past: http://www.musicdirect.com/product/73429 For RCA plugs I've always liked the Eichmann Bullet Plugs.

Nate, check out page 20 of the datasheet for the 1000ASP modules that I've attached. It talks about the inputs a little bit. icepower1000aspdata.pdf

I've been thinking about getting a squeezebox or a sound card with bit-perfect output. I'll be feeding the digital out from the squeezebox or sound card to the digital input on the Opus 21 (coax in only). The squeezebox would be the more convenient solution but I really hate the slimserver software. The last time I really used it, was early this year (february or march) and I couldn't stand it. It was slow, and seemed very buggy. Has it improved at all? Now if I go the sound card route, it'd be cheaper as I'd just need something with a good digital out (coax). Plus I'd get the benefit of using foobar which I absolutely love. The downside to the sound card idea is that I'd have to go with a very long coax run, 20-25 ft. That might not even be a downside but I've always heard that its best to avoid long runs like that. Any thoughts?

The 12at7 will work in the ecc1 adapter. I'm not sure you can use the 12bh7 at all. I'm not aware of SP having an adapter for those.

Yes that's correct.

Here's a few more pics of the d-sonic's that I took the other night: [img width=150 height=100 alt=d-sonic 001]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=771&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=1a5f64119461c39b8b9069bd17e125bf [img width=150 height=100 alt=d-sonic 002]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=776&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=1a5f64119461c39b8b9069bd17e125bf [img width=150 height=100 alt=d-sonic 003]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=780&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=1a5f64119461c39b8b9069bd17e125bf [img width=150 height=100 alt=d-sonic 004]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=784&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=1a5f64119461c39b8b9069bd17e125bf [img width=100 height=150 alt=d-sonic 005]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=788&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=1a5f64119461c39b8b9069bd17e125bf [img width=150 height=100 alt=d-sonic 006]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=792&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=1a5f64119461c39b8b9069bd17e125bf [img width=150 height=100 alt=d-sonic 007]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=796&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=1a5f64119461c39b8b9069bd17e125bf

The 396A is not a replacement/equivalent for the 5687. The 396A = 2c51 so you'd need to get the 2c51 adapter to use them. If you want to use them at all use one as the input tube, they'd be useless as output tubes.

Nate, so they're actually going to send you a couple samples?

Might also want to check out the Cambridge Audio 640A

If your running Windows give Paint.NET a try.

I'll 2nd that

His review is based on the current production version.

GS1K treble soft? I think thats the first time I've ever heard that. I think their treble is brash, harsh and bright as hell.

He doesn't own one of the prototypes, though he did hear both prototype pairs well before they were introduced at the national meet. If I recall correctly he preferred both prototypes to the final version.

They are just talking about motherboards with eSATA integrated. There's no reason a eSATA pci card won't work in any pci slot.