The Monkey

Interesting. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on these. Also, it appears that they are all acrylic. Are any of the custom mfrs. doing softer materials?

Sweet. Ask Nate about a certain Beyer that he might have in his possession...

Headphone stand in the shape of a Christmas Tree for multiple phones. Made out of some very cool/exotic material.

I heard it briefly at CanJam. Good stuff.

I'm not even in the market for it and I'm tempted.

Me like Project. EDIT: Also, Nate, you're getting hiss regardless of source? I ask because isn't the Touch a bit hissy to begin with?

Thanks for the tip. Tried it--I still prefer tag & rename under Windows.

^^ You gonna hurt me Reks? I'm already pissed off at the coffee maker. The Bodum will be replaced this weekend. Coffee is a pain in the ass.

Krups Coffee Maker.

Well now THAT's immature. Sheesh..."real life."

I think morphsci just thinks an asshat is an asshat.

I think I will be getting one. EDIT: Although Wild West Electronics keeps pushing back the arrival date.

^cankin, where did you order from?

Funny, I was just listening to my Sigs and thinking how good they are. But I have not heard the 404 in a while. My rig is very different though.

So in order to use the 5/5.5G iMod, you must purchase an ALO superblingLODsilverwhosit? And this is not a violative tying arrangement how?

Forgive my density, but these ALO products are just line out docks, right? The straight ipod LODs don't bypass anything internal to the iPod, correct? And the iMod LOD has Black Gates in it. Why does it need caps? Someone please 'splain.

I think it's laid back compared to the DAC1.

I wouldn't call the m192 MKII laid back. Rather, I would call it musical. I agree that it has a somewhat forward presentation, but it doesn't have the top end splash that the DAC1 has. But despite the musicality (is that a word?), it is not forgiving and will expose poor recordings. In other words, I agree with tkam about the resolution. Finally, the m192 has a spacious, airy soundstage that contributes to what might be mistaken as being laid back.

Does this mean I'm not going to win any more stuff from them?

Yeah, but I'm wondering if I can make iTunes do a sweep of the changed files and basically import them. Do I have to do that manually?

So I've started using Tag & Rename for XP under Fusion. It's a very good program. Does exactly what I want it to do. But when I fire up iTunes, it wants me to reassociate (my word) the song that appears in iTunes with the underlying file. For lots of reasons, this is a pain in the ass. I feel like this shouldn't be so hard because I am not changing any of the locations of the files (though I am changing file names). Is there a way to get the library to automatically, I don't know, update? Or some such shit? Damn computers.

How is ieatbrainz?

They are, and by your ready admission, you haven't heard them and have no idea what you're talking about.

Johnny Blue, as catscratch suggested, I recommend getting your hands on a pair of Lambda Signatures. Try those. They just might be what you are looking for. I think they give the O2 a run for its money when the Sig has better synergy with the amp.

How about a used North Star m192 mk2?