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Sounds great. Merry Christmas Justin!

Haven't tried a intel mini as my old power mini's fan kicks on and is a bit noisy when it kicks in. That alone kept me from considering an upgrade and I went with a remote ATV for casual music and listening to podcasts instead.

Thats good to know; I hope he continues to push the envelope as his work is excellent. The 'six year too late' comment got me thinking that if the glite is short for the world the other two would be as well since they're deriviatives. The demand for them is still there, a tribute to his workmanship.

Are there plans for replacement of the GLite/GS-1/GS-X SS line or is there no time for them due to portables and the electrostatic amps?

Standard operating procedure for our govt, keep looking backwards rather than face the difficult issues confronting the country.

Yeah I'd like to know that too. If the SACD eliminates the poor recording of the guitar intro and horns in Brown Sugar for instance I'd definitely pick them up. If its a minor improvement but still scratchy-annoying I'll probably pass. As a side note, the first time I picked up a copy of Sticky Fingers and played it I thought I somehow trashed my stylus.

Yep that and fresh water.

The dead wasn't just about the music. They were about concerts, sense of community, psychedelics, the road trips to get to a concert, etc. I can see it being difficult to pick up after the fact though; they had so many songs in their playlists and never had huge singles.

They are great albums but I could never figure out why they were recorded so badly. Have to be honest that I don't listen to them as much as they deserve just because the flaws bother me too much.

rant Unfortunately neither college or experience really measure troubleshooting capabilities. In fairness, there was probably half of my CS 'boomer' class populations that were totally lost in the subjects and just marking time towards graduation. I took a jr level compiler design course where we broke into three man teams. I got teamed up with two post-grads and thought it would be a cake walk. Nope, they were clueless too and so I had to do their pieces of the project as well as mine. They weren't even TAs so they didn't have the excuse that they were too busy with the other teaching. All this happened way before the dot com boom when IT wages were relatively low compared to other disciplines due to lower demand. Yep, the boomers broke it as we got greedy and lazy. Lay off people for short term results. We tell our kids don't dedicate yourself to one company as you'll just get shafted in the end. Style is valued over substance most of the time. Small wonder we are in this situation. Sometimes I think its going to take a real problem like the dust bowl, depressions, the great wars, etc. to snap the population out of the collective mindset. /rant

Pico Yay!

I'm in retail (Unix primarily, just starting to get into Teradata) so there's no lives hanging in the balance. Your environment sounds like a pretty interesting place to be working. I know where you are coming from on the family front but it never quite got to that extreme. Happy to hear everything is working out for you.

We have an eight week oncall cycle and the systems are pretty stable so its not that bad. We follow the sun and have bodies so it all looks good on paper to mgmt. When the chips are down the biz (and people you respect) have to be helped so I'm just a sucker at heart. Spent too much time as a Boy Scout and even longer being the sole admin for small companies

I like the sys admins who think it's a 9-5 M-F job when the business runs 24x7. Their idea of being on call is to tell the biz they can't figure it out and they will look at it in the morning (really pass it off to the senior admins). Try to 'teach them to fish' and same thing happens next time. repeat. repeat. sigh.

hehe TMI Seriously, I can understand why someone would search and then ask for advice after a thread has been silent for months. What was once heartily recommended might have been surpassed as time passes. Somebody reviewing threads might assume I'd recommend a Move today (based on SQ only). Nope. I was secretly hoping HF would lose those threads in the crash but my naivety is recorded for posterity Ideally a few well researched PMs would be the way to go, otherwise, append to the existing thread.

Sweet, when you figure society out let me know. Most of what I observe and read in the papers, etc. just make me go I've also been amused about the same thing with one-hit wonder bands and a year later seeing stacks of cut LPs or the guy behind the record exchange counter saying No, I don't need another copy of that. On the other hand it's not that much different than trendy clothes etc.

Cool, my hat's off to you. Education doesn't get the credit it should in our society. Thanks for what you do. What's your field of study btw? My statement was directed by the MP3 player as fashion accessory crowd.

I guess it just depends what stage of life you are in (college?) When I was in HS/college music and my rig was right up at the top of priorities. Going on fifty, the majority of my friends/acquaintances are not audiophiles and music doesn't rate so highly on a social level. I understand how they feel when I talk about going to a club/venue vs. their talking about the golf course. Anyway, if I'm full of it, so be it. I can shoulder that burden

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Such originality. Did you cut/paste that all by yourself?

I think bhjazz brought up the sad coworker bit. I just said I got interrupted by co-workers as I listen.

No, I distinctly remember that I wasn't wearing a collar when I wrote that. Sorry for your thin skin It's just a personal observation over time regarding people's listening habits. YMMV.

My intent was not to instruct how you or anyone else should listen to music. Everyone should do whatever makes them happy. I offered up a comment on SQ and the masses and somehow people read into it that I feel active listening is the one true way to listen to music. WTF, nowhere did I preach about what people should spend their money on. You should reread my posts with a clear mind.

The point was that the masses rarely (if ever) listen to music to the exclusion of other activities. If you aren't actively listening an ipod/imod, atv, etc. is fine for the task--who needs audiophile grade components for that? An occasional sour note isn't much different than a door slamming/AC kicking on/dog barking/IM message/phone call. One can speed-read through a literary work but doing so overlooks the nuances. I listen at work and get interrupted all day by co-workers Using audiophile grade components in that environment would be a waste.

Perhaps I have blinders on but I'm not seeing this sentiment trending one way or another. I would agree that disingenuousness is not cool. As you stated, both sites have their good and bad points. Let the people make their own decisions to what they prefer. They may have been gushing on one site not realizing there are other options. They may continue to do so in belief that if they speak up they'll be banned based on what has been written here. Ultimately, one is allowed to change their opinion, right?