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What's wrong with the shape? They're ported. Not sure about the brown plastic myself, but that can be easily remedied. I don't actually have them yet, so no idea as to the sound except for what I've heard through the impressions I've read. I've wanted to try Ortho's for a while, and Steve's woodwork is impeccable... and these were tweaked by Wualta, and he is as much of a crazy mad scientist as Patrick, except that he is sane. That combined with the nice fit of the beyers and the L3000 earpads tells me that this should be a nice companion for my K340's.

Ok, the suspense is killing me...

Did you get the optional rivets option? I hear it keeps 909 from your amp like nobodys business.

Figured it was baseball, that makes sense.

Huh?

You're getting bagel pads for your RS-1s? But those aren't the kind of donuts I'm talking about. Though there is definately wood involed.

This thread is really... quite... riveting.

I like Tim Hortons for coffee myself, but I'm canadian. Don't like donuts much for eating.

This is in the Headphones forum, please stay on topic.

The MS2i is definately in the below 300 sweet spot for Grados. One of my favourites. Earl - Looser101 has both the MS2i and the MS Pro and could probably give you some impressions. I haven't spent enough time with the MS Pro yet myself. Boomana - The MS2i is a big step up from the MS1. Looser101 would probably give a better description of the sound though as he has owned both for some time. Maybe I'll send Renato a PN and ask him to check in to this thread...

The bottom plate of my amp is secured by four self tapping wood screws for christ sake, I WISH I had allen keys.

Ok... anyways, speaking of google. I had a look at the TV's at costco and vizio is only available in the US. They have a Daytek one for a bit more with similar specs though... http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10291162&whse=BCCA&Ne=5000000+4000000&eCat=BCCA|79&N=4008767%205000014&Mo=7&No=2&Nr=P_CatalogName:BCCA&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1〈=en-CA&Sp=C

btw, what is a woot off?

Oh, burn.

Cool, my dad has a costco membership I think.

Where did you get it? Ive been considering a new TV for a while.

Not that I have anything against the ES-1, but have you considered the new Blue Hawaii SE that Justin is putting out? Looks like a nice amp.

Like I said, it was a guesstimate, I will try to do up a virtual build tonoght or tomorrow, as I'm kind of curious if it can be done as well.

I wish I was playing hooky today... still, had a headache and one of the admin assistants gave me a couple tylenol 3's, so I'm feeling OK.

No, I wasn't talking about skimping on the quality.

Sure, give me the money. Nice, that is a sweet deal. Granted, and the one cable aspect is very cool. The top end iMacs are 24" now. My father owns one of the last generation ones [not silver], and it is a great piece of kit. But at the price he paid it had better be. EDIT: Grawk, where did you spec that [i think I could do a little better]? What display did you choose? Also, I thought we were talking linux computers, not Windows...

Yes, it's a front end, but the fact that it lists all of the software in descriptive groupings along with mini reviews and such makes it a great tool. My Wife's Mac was a breeze to setup, I'll give you that. I think my Linux install took around an hour to get it to the point where everything that I need worked fine. Add another day of tinkering to figure everything out, and it has been pretty much unchanged since. Now, if I had to do it over again, it would likely only take me a little over an hour to get to the same point. I would roughly geusstimate that I could build a computer with the specs of a top end iMac for a little more than half the price, with the only difference being that I would have a box to either stick under the LCD or in my desk somewhere. So, I figure 4 hours max to do the build and get it running perfectly. I would gladly take that $1000 saved as my 4 hour wages. Now the Mac mini is a great deal... I've thought about getting one, but have no need right now. Where is the best place to watch out for refurbs? On the apple website?

Have you tried it? It is seriously cool, basically functions like windows add/remove programs, except that it automatically updates with nearly every software package available. If you choose to install something it just grabs the most recent version and installs it, along with the dependencies. And yes, I know how to use apt-get, but why bother when they lay it out so nicely for me? Grawk - Yes, I'm cheap. This is one of the main reasons I don't own a Mac... though I did buy my Wife one.

Yeah, you're probably right. Reks - Cool, both good things I guess. I've been very impressed with the way Linux gets updates, after being in Microsoft land for so long. I'm also loving the add/remove programs app in ubuntu.