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So the monolith is a mono setup?

This is just AKG trying to capitalize on the "HD" craze by releasing the same phones with minor differences. Fundamentally the same phones as the K271 et al.

Woke up around 3PM, feel like I've been hit by a truck.

It'll probably change again, I was too lazy to find a good image off the DVDs so I just used something I found on google image search. Yeah, if only I knew a good source for a nice wooden chassis...

A bunch of beta22 parts.

Filed a police report.

Switch to ArchLinux then type "pacman -Sy firefox"

Geisha Transform FTW.

So you did get a chance to deliver Dan's special message to him.

Yeah, I guess not everybody found out when I quit being a stripper.

I havent used the AVR-790 yet (slow economy means I don't necessarily get to see every year's new model ), but I've put in a ton of Denon 700, 800, and 900 series receivers. They're definitely excellent units. If you're even remotely likely to expand the system some in the future, I would agree that it's a very good idea to go a couple steps up from the entry model. Besides the additional connectivity there's always little quirks and missing features on the lower models that only become relevant or noticable when you start trying to do more (for example: speakers in other rooms running off zone 2 being unable to use any digital inputs as their source, only analog inputs, unless you went above a certain model). I'm the lead tech for a low-voltage contractor. Which means I pretty much do just about anything related to wiring and electronics. Home theater, burglar & fire alarm systems, phone/TV, computer networks, CCTV, access control, etc. Being a small company and not specialized in one area means my job is very ill-defined with a lot of one-off situations doing new things (or different variations on the things I've done before; nothing is ever "routine"). I'm also the guy who's responsible for figuring out "impossible" situations like: We got 5 conductors left between here and the control panel, but we need 7 conductors to hook this crap up correctly and it would take over half a day to get another wire across the warehouse without a lift, what the fuck do we do now? I dunno, but it's Ryan's problem now.

Yeah, definitely also check all the small details for what it does or doesn't have. Especially when you're going with the more "budget" models of any brand, things you might expect to be there aren't always actually present. But yeah, you know you're welcome to send me a PM anytime if you got questions on something.

I've never big much of a fan of Yamaha AV receivers... my vote would have to go to Denon. The vast majority of the ones we install are Denon, with the occasional Onkyo.

Last person I expected to make a write-up like that, good work. I don't really have much to contribute beyond what's already been said.

No, you do nothing with pin 3; don't connect anything to it. You're only using 2 channels for single-ended, the other 2 are only relevant for balanced, so they don't get connected to the headphones in this situation.

Don't tie the pin 3 connections together, you'd be shorting the output of two boards together. Use pin 1 as your connection to the TRS sleeve; you might have to open the amp up and add a wire from signal ground to pin 1 on the XLR jacks.

Awesome. The preorder is cheap enough that I might just go ahead and pick it up now for when I eventually upgrade my PC.

That doesn't really answer the question though. There was a way you could use a Vista upgrade disc/key to do a clean install, without an existing copy of windows installed (besides a temporary install from the upgrade disc itself). I'm wondering if it still works for W7.

With the upgrade versions, can you still use the trick to do a clean install from it rather than an in situ upgrade?

That would've been some epic fail right there if you drove all the way down here today, Brent.

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And make purple a requirement.

I always forget that videogon exists.

I'm technically a cable MOT and even I find a lot of the things said about cables to be rather ridiculous. My opinion is that if you get a very noticable night-and-day difference on a cable swap, then something was broken... either one of the cables or the listener's head. Of course, it's kinda difficult to say this when somebody is expecting a recable to selectively fix all the problems with their headphones while enhancing the good traits, rather than just make a subtle or even unnoticeable difference. I volunteer for the sighted test.