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If a post-message filter/process can take swear words and replace them with asterisks it can certainly send the op an email stating that such topics are verboten. Almost anything is possible with computers if one had the talent, time and motivation to do it.

Just stating the obvious; odds are it's an automated response in a posting filter.

Good question but it is not surprising they did so. The media botches a lot more than just the state of Hi-Fi. The majority of people listening to music don't listen; they multitask their listening along with workouts, driving, work, studying, posting to websites etc. In those environments why would perfect reproduction be a requirement to the majority of consumers? If the majority of people can't sit down to read a book uninterrupted why would music be any different to the masses?

Hopefully they have fixed that issue by now on newly-shipping HP. If not it's hard to take Denon seriously--there's been plenty of time since the problem surfaced. I found them a bit too muddy on the bass end but that might have been part of the Opera emphasizing it. Very comfortable HP though; maybe a touch loose on my head. Trying new things is part of the journey so don't sweat it if you change your mind over time.

You may want to ask Dr Meier to increase the high gain setting a bit. I listen to 701s at a comforable level around 11-12 o'clock setting. I'm planning on giving a GS-X a whirl since it is one of the recommendations here other than going tubular.

Good forward thinking; nothing is as sobering as having to do bare metal restores for a DR test and finding out all the little things that were overlooked that go into a system before the tapes spin. Hopefully those AS/400s aren't as painful. If he couldn't cost justify the $ for backup hardware/server (or pick a colo that offered it as an optional service), an alternate recovery site probably didn't cross his mind.

raid5 is cheap data redundancy. When one has an older array and the disks go marginal and fail, one can find all sorts of minor corruption after a parity rebuild. Enough minor corruptions can snowball into an unusable database table/application and complete rebuild. Has it been established that EMC was the guilty party?

NAS snapshots are normally used to recover from this situation but when the controller flakes out the production volume and snapshots will be equally hosed. The only thing that saves one from severe controller corruption is a tape backup from a time before the corruption began. It is possible for corruption to go on for a while before anyone notices it's severity. Depending on the depth of the backup pool, The last good set may be overwritten before the problem is noticed. Oh, and as people don't generally test their backups by restoring them, people go through the motions only to find out the tapes are worn out/tape drive marginally faulty, etc. and the backup tape can't be recovered. People and companies tend to neglect Murphy way too often.

Controller redundancy won't help when the controller doesn't outright fail. If they are running 2x 12 bay raid array with RAID6 there is a good bit of cost there and I'd expect it to have redundant controllers as a given.

Recommended by a friend.

Exactly. I'm sure the AE-2 purchaser will be happy with his purchase, especially if he never listens to anything else. As happy as I was driving my HD650s out of a porta corda (via 24v), which was stupid in hindsight but sounded better than my slocky stereo headphone jack or laptop out. The first researched pick always sounds fantastc until other products are tried out. BTW, I'm not bashing the AE-2 as I haven't heard it. Just pointing out that what's taken place really isn't any different than what goes on at other sites except the opinions aren't over hyped.