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[update Nov 18 2007]: We have made significant progress in the past 24 hours. Please stay tuned.

Correct the APL DAC will use the ECC99 but the modded UX-1 is for the time being the top of the line product they offer. The APL DAC will run about $4-5k vs the $20k+ that the nwo 3.0 is. They will be offering a total cost no object product sometime late next year that will be based on Esoteric's top of the line transport and mono dacs.

Fixed. [img width=150 height=100 alt=modwright 023]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=58&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=1c1885db375d8ba90e57558a86afd3a1

Thanks for pointing this out, I enabled this extra feature of the gallery without even testing it out. I've disabled it for now and will enable it again when its working.

The whole idea of Black Friday is utterly stupid. Though it doesn't affect me much as I do as much of my holiday shopping online as possible.

What model # Marantz was this?

I'd like to hear more impressions on the APL NWO 3.0.

Two more features added today: http://www.head-case.org/index.php?page=6

Since you already have RS-1's I doubt they'd be worth getting.

Well you would have poisoned it so I can't blame him

Well I think the problem your seeing in this case is that the live data and the backups were kept on the same NAS device this is a major no no. I'll assume in your case that you'd be a little smarter and not keep live data and backups on the same device . Hardware fails it's the nature of the beast which is why backups should always be on a different device and/or off-site depending on the importance of the data.

47 new members since last Saturday and traffic has increased from roughly 400-500 unique visits a day to 900. Bandwidth usage is still so minimal it's not even worth mentioning.

They didn't disappear they were removed

Since I'm too lazy to start a new thread, there will be a brief amount of downtime tonight. Probably under 5 minutes it should occur sometime in the next hour.

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I had tinkered with the two foam layers back when I owned a pair (probably over a year or so ago now) and I always felt that taking either layer out made the treble brighter and taking both out made the treble almost unbearable.

The Oppo players are really hard to beat and support both divx and xvid. I've played back plenty of xvid encoded files (on both cd's and dvd's) without any troubles on my Oppo 981.

The guy I bought it from actually included a Mullard 5ar4 that I've been using since it arrived.

Ever since I sold off "The Dragon" I had been debating what I wanted to do with my speaker rig. The obvious thing to do was to just buy a new pre-amp but I also thought about selling my power amps and going the integrated route. Low and behold I found quite a deal on audiogon for a Modwright SWL 9.0SE with the bybee upgrades (yes i know they are worthless) and more importantly upgraded caps (mundorf silver oil caps which appear to have a good reputation). I've had it for about two days now and it really matches up well with my ICE Power based amps. It has absolutely wonderful tone and every note has the proper amount of texture and depth to them. I'll post more detailed impressions later but suffice to say I'm impressed so far. Now for the gear porn:

Hard to beat the Panasonic Toughbook series for a laptop that can take a beating.

I don't think Exemplar ever offered balanced outs on the denon 2900. I think they started that with the 3910 and 5910.

Done

I thought last nights Criminal Minds was fantastic, the ending was really good I didn't quite see it coming. Am I the only who has enjoyed the season more than the previous ones now that Mandy Patinkin is gone?

yeah blame that one on me i made a small typo in the dns settings when i was changing them. it's fixed now barring the typical dns propogation delays. that being said you should use www.head-case.org address otherwise you get some issues w/ cookies

Yeah the meier group buy price was $5k, the current going rate is about $7k+ though.