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All right. The pool for how long Mike keeps it starts now. I'll take 7 months, 3 days.

Use SneakerNet. Burn a CD and mail it to him.

Buying yourself a 2009 or 2010 Xmas gift?

This is a great idea for a separate thread. I'll add my sin here. A mod can decide whether to split this out or not. I only committed one audio sin in 2008. I bought a Bendix 6385 tube for my Extreme. It's a great tube but it cost $200. If I had it over, I wouldn't have audio sinned this year.

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Are you going to be a booth babe for Barely Legal?

Peter is easy. He likes slow tone poems on period instruments.

Stacy and I bought these a couple of Saturdays ago after a nice wine tasting. I finally got around to taking pictures today. Semi-retired life is hell. Last and certainly least, but how could we resist? Buying a sixth bottle got us 10% off the total, which was more than this bottle cost.

He's probably sold it already.

Mike, you have a future in politics.

I guess a motorcycle trip across 138 would be a little chilly about now. That reminds me. I've gotta figure out what's wrong with my electric vest setup.

Everybody knows you have a big head, Hiroshi.

What does the heart-shaped thing do for the headphones?

Maybe that's why Mikhail is so slow? Maybe he's really a college student?

I'd say that the Qualia is the most polarizing high-end headphone around. People either love it or hate it. It's definitely risky to buy a pair without listening first. BTW, what amplifier and source are you going to use with them? It's pretty much a waste of money unless the quality of the source and amp match the Qualias.

Is Colin in training to work with Mikhail?

I bought jp#s' HP2 headphones. Sold my Darths and MS-1s. Amp-wise, I bought some new tubes. For the new year, I plan to set my speaker system back up. Part of this will be a new stand so I can finally set up my analog system. Then I'll be able to play my old albums and the new ones I've recently bought.

Glad to hear it got there Antonio. It's up to you whether you open it now or later. Please don't go past Christmas though. If the disc you are planning to get is going to be a long time, why don't you get me something else for the moment and, when you do get the other disc, we can do another disc exchange. I have another disc I'd like to send you anyway. I don't know if Mike has told you, but he's moving to Santa Barbara next week. Go ahead and send the other package to me and I'll see that he gets it.

Definitely. In another thread, I mentioned that Nate was one of the few amp builders I'd commission to make me an amp. I was only half kidding. If I was employed and thought Nate would happily do it, I would. He does great work. Oh yeah, Lily is really cute too.

Oops, I wasn't supposed to mention him. Sorry Birgir, I forgot. I see that the mere mention of Bargir's name has gotten to you. Sorry.

I don't know them. But it looks to me as they spent more time and money on the aesthetics of the box than on R&D. While I like a nice enclosure, that's not where the emphasis should be. YMMV.

Both of the image URLs are returning a "Not Found" in my instance of Firefox.

If you did it in true Rudistor fashion, you put a metal box over it so it won't interfere with other electronics in the room.

Absolutely. Rudi is Bargir's favorite amp designer/builder and Rudistors are his favorite amps. To prove my point, he's building a Rudi design now.