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How's that? To be honest I've only played with it a bit, and my negativity towards it is mainly due to all the problems I've heard friends and family having with it. I've also got a rule that I don't touch anything Microsoft until it is service pack 2... at least not on my computer. Grawk - Whats a thrash?

Wait, you're using Vista? I feel for you. Though it can't fix poor coding, with nLite you can choose to REALLY only install the barebones. You can leave out IE for instance, or any services that you please. My install can't actually contact the outside world in any concievable way. It just has the patches I need, my video card drivers and sound card drivers... thats it. Just for games really. That is why it runs so fast. Yeah, compatibility layers was perhaps poor wording. I guess I was just trying to give a nod to the horde of services that are running 'just in case'. If you don't need them, and disable them, XP becomes pretty spry. This is exactly what I was trying to get at with my drivers comment. Thanks for wording it more eloquently Todd. Postjack - OS/2 was great... BeOS was kinda cool too, except that it basically had no driver support.

Just checked, the D-Link router I use is a WBR-2310. Not sure what the current lineup is like, but this one has been a dream after all the problems I had with Linksys.

No dance, unfortnately... He just did the whole creapy Dead Zone act and said, "The Reimyo sucks balls, keep the Eastsound." Then Lawrence Fishbourne came in, they both did a line of coke and left when they spotted that red haired guy from CSI watching them from a parked van.

I've had zero issues with the dlink I got last year. I forget the model number, but can check when I get home... Of course they have probably revised the thing a hundred times by now.

Reks - Harddrive space taken up is hardly what I'm talking about. Its not just the drivers themselves, but compatibility layers, and all the various services that you may or may not need that are loaded by default. When I went over my windows instal with nLite and got rid of all the garbage it made a huge difference. It boots faster than Linux now and the memory usage when idle is excellent. I rarely boot into Windows unless it is to play a game or something like that, and even less now that I got the Wii, but it is nice to have it respond so well when I do use it. Bloat aside, the fact that their hardware selection is so small is likely the main reason you never hear about Mac driver issues, which is the main complaint with Linux and Microsoft operating systems. I'm also not trying to say in any way that XP is superior to OSX, because it is not. Linux is another matter entirely. As long as you have a bit of knowledge and are willing to spend a bit of time getting it working the way you want, I do find Linux superior to OSX. For a turnkey desktop solution, it is hard not to recommend a Mac... If only they weren't so goddamn expensive.

My modded Eastsound is better than the Reimyo... or at least that is what Christopher Walken told me in a dream last night.

They might not have any shitty configurations, but the inability to use what you want is a big handicap for some. The upper strata of technology is always denied to you until they decide you are ready... at which point it is time to buy a whole new damn computer. Same argument as always, and a pointless one. My Wife loves her Mac, and I'll admit that it runs great and is very stylish. If we ever decide to upgrade her computer I will probably just relegate that one to another room as a backup or something. Any Unix based OS can handle any architecture out there as well as nearly any piece of individual hardware. What I was trying to get at with my comment is that Windows is so bloated largely due to its supporting all the hardware out there [eventually anyways, Vista excepted for now]. Even if you count previous generations of apple computers, the amount that they have to support is pretty minimal, which is a huge advantage on their part. Funny thing is, if you completely hack the shit out of XP and remove all the bloat, it actually runs well. Likewise if you get Linux running perfectly on a PC you are most of the way there to OSX, just missing the iLife suit.

It is easy to make a sweet OS when you only have to support two or three hardware configurations.

I'd get Nate to mod a squeezebox for me with a custom PSU.

Not in my experience. I wouldn't buy a dell computer myself since I like to build, but if I was looking for a laptop now I would either go with a Dell or maybe an apple if I could afford it.

Those new Dell Vostro's are cool, cheap, and you can pimp them out for gaming... that is the way I'd go for a laptop right now.

Every time I read that ipod thread on head-fi I get dumber... I've really got to stop.

BOOO! Send your headphones to meee!

Well, you're listening to good music anyways.

Ice caps... political... suuure. Welcome! I always thought it was 'fighter' too, go figure.

Nice, the fact that there wont be mods actually makes the 6G more attractive to me.

Yeah, the voltage swing part right? That's a pretty big part of the equation with the K340's. I'm positive that both amps can drive the K340's, in fact I've heard a balanced M3 and it did a great job, but I don't believe it had a gain of 2. I'd be worried about having to max out the volume and having no breathing room for adjustments. Maybe if Thrice is around he would know what the gain setting was on the balanced M3 that he brought to the first national meet... Speaking of, what is the gain setting on your balanced beast from Toole?

Paralleling the tubes with half the output impedance correct? Should be a positive improvement.

We're talking about a gain of 2... 4 balanced. Why do you think a balanced M3 would have a better go at it than a balanced beta22? Now, I'm not sure if all of these gain ratings are directly comparable, but if they are... The K340's are not going to be happy at the levels I listen, given my experiences with the 10 gain dynahi and assuming that a gain of 4 is 40% relative to a gain of 10 being 100%. Hmmm... I wonder what the gain on my amp is. Any way to measure it?

Must be a bitch with the fingerprints though. Earl seriously needs to replace the dinky knob on his though. I mean, with that much real estate you could go with a 10" diameter knob if you wanted to!

I don't think a gain of 2/4 would cut it for me with the K340's considering my old dynahi had a gain of 10 and I was usually around 12 oclock...

Ummm... but there is a LOT of other stuff that is different about your CD player and Biggies, no? And I would think that the Simaudio Eclipse is significantly different than a modded TEAC.

Neither do I, my 24 step singlepower stepped attenuator is great.

If I ever get a singlepower amp made I will probably go with something other than blackgates [maybe elna silmic IIs or something similar], V-Caps [or something comparible] and the upgraded iron. It seems to me that upgrading a transformer down the road would be a much bigger pain in the ass than upgrading caps. I also think that the upper strata of caps is more than likely a little overrated. I'd also love him to build it in one of the old toaster style enclosures. Am I the only one that prefers them that way?