ph0rk
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Cheaper for Ayre, not Wavelength. Clearly, advantageous for Wavelength.
(or that's how I read it)
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No, this is a Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Assuming street price is tame enough, I'd like to try one. I don't think I'll chomp at the bit though.
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argh
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You thought the k701s sounded dull? I thought they were erring on the side of bright/fatiguing, but different strokes for different folks. Perhaps you are referring to something other than frequency response?
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I probably shouldn't have used the word common, as I don't think I've never read anything else about it.
I'll try the hot glue if it pops up again, thanks!
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A week or two ago I snagged a used GS-1 from HF (from doobooloo). It arrived and I let it adjust to room temp before firing up, and all seemed well until the left channel cut out almost completely. Flipping the high/low gain switch seemed to almost fix it.
I contacted doobooloo and he said that it was a common problem with some GS-1's with the DACT stepped attenuator, and that popping the lid and reseating the molex-like connector for the left channel at the DACT SA would fix it. It did... for about 10 days. I noticed it again today, and so I popped the lid and reseated again. The molex connector grips firmly and none of the pins seem to have any play.
So... is there any goop I can slather on the pins or the connector for a more permanent solution? I doubt I can vibration-proof my apartment. (And certainly not my desk. Undergrads make me pound it with my fist at least once per week).
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And to think how many times you fought me over the quality of the 0404s onboard amp...
Well, if i could gotten an assembled M^3 for $150 I wouldn't have had that argument
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I'm cheating...
I have a metal plate that has 2 fans underneath that I put the laptop on. USB powered. Stays pretty cool that way. Might have to try a test without the cooling plate.
It really is something else when they go full blast.
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Not mine. 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/4 gig of ram.
Mine is a 2.4 santa rosa also with 4 gigs of ram. It takes a moderate to heavy load - gaming will do it in either osx or xp. Fans make it over 5500 RPM. A well ventilated room or conductive tabletop will prevent it, however.
Come to think of it, it might require heavy graphics lifting, not just cpu intensive tasks. So, two separate computer vs computer chess games -and- a game of plasma pong, or pretty much any recent DirectX 9.0 game in windows. 3-4k RPM isn't really all that loud, though.
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Did anyone ever make an actual 0404 usb to duet comparison w/ just the line outs (bypassing the onboard amp for both)?
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I expect the majority of macbook users don't use firewire. Of course, apple has gone and made that decision for you with the new macbooks.
The fans in my macbook pro sound like a jet engine when fully spun up - if the macbook is anything like it it is much louder than you'd expect from a laptop.
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more juice going through the laptop means it pulls more from the wall.
Perhaps a stand like the rain m-stand would help? (with my MBP the fans never come on in my office, even when running statistical models or some hardcore computer vs computer chess action to run down the battery. both cpu's pegged at 100%)
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The spdif out works in osx, but it seems the 0404 treats the spdif outs as channels 3 and 4. So, you have to route audio specifically to outputs 3 and 4. Crud.
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Oh, I somehow missed that the mic inputs were separate from the instrument ins. hmm.
You are right, it is gaming, and it isn't all of the time.
The 0404 has a pair of main outs, so I can have speakers connected at the same time as headphone gear, so an spdif dac would more or less be a painless drop in upgrade. I guess taps/splitters would mostly solve that problem, though.
At present, the only I/O unused on my 0404 is the spdif out
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I use a mac, but the duet's I/O is just a bit less than I want - I'd want either an spdif in or two (stereo) analog ins.
The duet also won't work in bootcamp, which isn't critical but is annoying enough for me to look elsewhere. So maybe it is.
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...to either replace or chain off of my 0404 usb.
Music: Rock and Electronic, not much jazz or folk or acoustic, the occasional classical listen.
Amps: aside from the 0404 are a Rockhopper M^3, a Gilmore Lite
Headphones are: HD650, K601, DT250, K271.
Long, wordy version:
I'd need it to either have toslink or coax inputs, or if usb only be able to fully replace the I/O functionality of an 0404 usb - I make use of the analog in and occasionally the second digitial input (it will mix the usb and spdif inputs). This unfortunately rules out the duet, as it won't play nice with everything else. Keeping the 0404 is fine by me, though.
I had an eye on the amp-less pico, but it looks like it will be USB only (I will be happy to be wrong here), so won't really work - an spdif version would hang off the 0404 perfectly.
My budget gets me close to used the DAC1 and DA10 area, but I haven't heard either (or any other dacs in years - if MOTU gear counts). I have nothing against DIY options (assuming I can find a builder), and I am a sucker for lots of I/O.
I've been eyeballing the DAC1 in the FS forum, but I've read that some consider it too bright. I have no reference and (afaik) no easy way to hear anything, so any suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm not really sure who to trust or take seriously on the other site, so I thought I'd ask here, instead.
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The official Amazon app is up. Like I need to be able to spend even more money there on the go.
The take-a-photo-of-anything-and-we'll-figure-out-what-it-is-and-send-you-the-link-to-it-in-our-store feature is quite cool.
That is evil, but if you can read the reviews sort of handy - I was already using the iPhone to check things like that in stores. Well, when I was in a store, which ain't all that often.
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Realizing I had engaged in thread necrophilia was an order of magnitude more funny than the comment, especially as I noticed immediately after I'd quick replied. Guess you had to be there.
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No, that was coco-treating... different.
A friend told me that he heard from someone that if you do the dynamat mod, it takes like 47 man-years for burn in or something like that. I'd let em go 50 before listening, just to be safe tho...
What is that in woman years?
...Shit.
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Did you miss that M^3 thread? And the fact that some people have found the M^3 so good as to not really want to go higher, at least for a long time?
I must have, or I'd probably have jumped sooner.
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The k701, more often than not an 0404 usb's onboard amp (I know, I know), the k271, a gilmore lite.
I have a beast of a dehumidifer in my apartment (not optional), so open headphones don't get a great deal of use right now.
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I just fired up my spanking-new Rockhopper M3 (Thanks, Stephen!).
Power is good. My k701 almost sounds bassy! My k271 almost has slam!
My crappy music sounds slightly less crappy! There is still treble! I'm not even drunk yet! I have a half fifth of Gentleman Jack on my desk!If I had only known what this could sound like I'd have ordered one a year ago.
I really hope this doesn't mean a β22 is in my future.
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Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett.
That man's footnotes will test any ebook reader, thats for damn sure. Stanza no likey.
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Thanks mate...When the nature calls there is nothing you can do except artifical refusing.
Its not only sexual thing, way more, imo. Look, how many people like wine? A lot, isnt? But, how many people can buy a realy good wine, not many, so again, artifical refusing. Accepting something that not really worth or true at all, but who cares.
Sometimes I have the feeling that we are dying consume species which are living somebody else dream, or would I say nightmare:cool:
I am not a freak, just trying to be a human...
There is the argument that that those unlikely to be able to afford >$200/bottle wine don't have the taste for it.
How this class-based bounding of tastes is affected by late western hyperconsumerism I can't say.
Plus, I prefer bourbon.
My crappy music sounds slightly less crappy! There is still treble! I'm not even drunk yet! I have a half fifth of Gentleman Jack on my desk!
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And how.
Or just do what I do: drink liberally before listening
...also posting.