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iceman94

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  1. too bad they couldn't have both lost. same with the ND/UM game.

    Totally agree.

    It'll be fun pounding asshat extraordinaire Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan whores up in the Big Outhouse this year. I mean, hopefully that's what will happen...

  2. Wallingford/Cheshire area is a great treadeoff IMO.

    Cheshire can go suck it. Damn snobs.

    Here's a kind of out there suggestion: Minneapolis area. My fiancee is from there, and I've loved the feel. Everyone's so nice, there's a great balance of city/suburb, wide open spaces, etc. It just clicks well.

  3. Stacy,

    Every time you brag about being a Northwestern engineering student the way you apparently do (which is news to me, as I haven't been on Head-fi), it does an incredible disservice to the university and is pretty damn insulting to your fellow students. Your actions impact your peers, too.

    If you want to talk about overenthusiastic business ventures or sudden reality checks, ask me sometime about stuff I played around with in high school or a wonderful letter I received from the university after freshman year. In some ways, I've been where you are, so maybe we can talk. Also, I'm curious how Nic and Jon got involved in this (I assume its them), but that can be left for that time too.

    Anyway, game tomorrow. You should be there. 'Cats win. Please take all of this seriously. Lurk more. Listen to people. Reread the advice posts in this thread carefully. Not sure what else to say right now.

    Matt

  4. I reckon they probably did. Whatever you think about CA in general, they do a good job of picking their spots in the market and I suspect they wouldn't have bothered with balanced output unless they were seriously looking to take some customers away from Benchmark et al.

    I actually like CA a lot, and I do hope it does well. But, with absolutely so much packed into the digital end of this thing (which conveniently pads the spec sheet), combined with the $400 pricetag, there isn't much room left for the rest of the unit.

  5. aesthetic points noted, all, but for this unit we're sticking with the cheap, reliable and awesome sounding motif. Future releases will improve in the looks dept., but the niche we looked to fill here is similar to the 'xin' model, but with good service and proper customer care. For fancy looking units that trade SQ for looks, and/or cost a pretty penny (but sound awesome), other makers can be consulted.

    That's completely not the point. With some careful thought and design you can come up with something that looks better with little to no extra cost. You can be cost-effective and reliable and Spartan-looking without looking "cheap".

  6. ...Ray, etc.

    And they all have products aesthetics down to the 'T'.

    :kitty:

    The success of the Purity Audio stuff begins with the name. Find something different- if you want to stay within your theme, call it KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), because that's somewhat recognizable, and it rolls off the tongue well.

    Details matter, and the "oh so extreme pure signal paths like whoa" thing can only take you so far.

  7. If we're talking about expanding budgets, the Cain Wall of Sounds (designed by Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio) look really interesting. Supposedly do bass for a single driver, but that's the designer's claim. There's a used listing here that probably isn't still available, but what the heck.

    Hornshoppe Horns fall in the budget...

    Edit: both suggestions are probably worthless vs. already having the Cicadas...

  8. So if I like released a movie via the web and happened to be using Chrome when I did it Google would own it? That's just ridiculous. It's like a gas station claiming they own your car as long as you're using their gas. :palm:

    But it's Google, so it's OK.

    I will say the one thing that really should get developers going is the absolutely ridiculous Javascript performance. Hopefully that'll light a fire under some people. The sandboxed tabs are also cool, but the JS has more immediate relevance.

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