The Monkey

Sorry I missed this, Ken. My condolences. I'm glad he was able to go peacefully.

I would think the taqueria would do it's own, er, smoothing in that regard.

I'm upset I didn't get one of those cases despite the fact that I don't need it. Also, for those of you interested in Pelican cases, but unsure of sizing, I recommend the following free thingy: PelicanOEM.com - Free 3D Case Fitter

I'm kinda glad this is USB only. Less want now.

Dropped off and picked up my son at "school" today. Nice way to bookend the workday. Now I'm mooching his mac n cheese.

I agree the see thru rubbermaid stuff is easy and practical. I still want something MOAR awesomer.

See also Insurance Company.

I don't make enough AND I have complicated taxes.

It's clever, but a little bit onerous for a tax return.

Seems like there's a big speed advantage to the single-function units, but I guess that's only as useful as how many big docs I have.

Why are the non-all-in-ones so much more expensive? Ripoff?

So is an all-in-one basically the same thing?

I want to go as paperless as possible at home. Receipts, manuals, invoices--physically storing all that crap is making me nuts. I use sheet fed scanners at work all the time and I love them. But the industrial-strength versions of these things are too expensive. So, based on some initial research, I have identified the following two products: Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Scanners | Sheetfed Office Scanners : FUJITSU United States The Neat Company - NeatDesk for Mac Your job is to help me decide on one of the above, or find another competent machine (not a lackey). EDIT: Oh, and it ideally should be Mac-compatible. Go!

This is killing me.

I have a ton of DIY parts, cables, old iPods, accessories, etc., as I'm sure most of us do. Living in an apartment means little storage space. I have those big clear Rubbermaid bins and the little parts cases, but it's still sort of unwieldy. I want something perfect. How do you store your crap? Any recommendations?

Do you have the KGSS yet?

I don't understand electricity.

Exactly. It would be nice to be able to trim the volume using the Skipjack.

I haven't fixed it yet, but here's how others approached the issue (simply replaced the "door"): Broken Pioneer door/flap on Optical 1 input. - AVS Forum

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And abandon team $1k source? Never! Well maybe not.

I got thrown for a loop tonight. Using the Skipjack, now it's the ECD-1 that is sounding more forward. Weird. I'm using the SRM1/MK2 as the amp now, so that could account for some differences, but the mids on the ECD-1 seem to outshine the North Star pretty easily. Volume matching could be an issue here. Regardless, the ECD-1 is doing better with vocals, especially female. The mids just sound great. Better than the north star. And while the ECD-1 sounds just a bit more congested than the NS, I think that may be due to the more forward mid presentation, which seems to de-emphasize some of the more complex musical passages. However, if you listen enough, the ECD-1 still gets it right. It seems that the NS designers chose to give equal prominence to both. A matter of taste perhaps. The NS might be a little blacker between the notes. And the ECD-1 still has the more lush sound. This is not to say that the ECD-1 is forgiving in the mids. I'd say defintely not. The ECD-1 seems to do a better job (by a fair amount) with female vocals, and that is important to me. Some classical tomorrow should make this even more difficult. For now, advantage Electrocompaniet.

I wish it could volume match.

It's refreshing to see someone admit to this while doing a comparison.

So far I love the thing, and I have only had a chance to tinker a bit. Will do some major cabling tonight/tomorrow to do some more listening and will report back.