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Happy birthday Dan! Wishing you the cup for this year.

Happy birthday!

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Too bad, I thought you were coming to America in a viking ship, pillaging a couple of villages on the way.

Harmonium - s/t

Happy birthday to head-case, the best headphone on the web when it comes to speakers, drinks, food, penis jokes and pretty much everything non-headphone related. Well, it's also the best headphone forum.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Dio - Holy Diver There's no sign of the morning coming, there's no sight of the day You've been left on your own, like a Rainbow in the Dark

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Citizen Cain - Serpents in Camouflage Great overlooked Scottish band for fans of early Genesis.

Stuur 79,99 dollar en maken de check out aan het Head-Case CanJam Liquor Fonds.

Your new ISP? Google launches 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home trial Sounds interesting for you guys in the States.

Apparently, it doesn't matter if you wear them backwards.

Is there really a headphone called Titanus? What an unfortunate name.

CeCo III Composers circle at the Faculty of Music of my university. About 60 people in the room, at least 3/4 of them are the actual composers and performers. All creations, mostly solos, duos, trios and quartets, some enjoyable, others not so much. There was a bit too much of electoacoustic stuff, it's not really my kind of thing. Anyway, it was an interesting night to broaden my musical horizons and I plan to attend these future events, if only for encouraging one of my friends who's one of the composers.

Yes, the HA-006+ has volume controlled preamp outs on the back.

Boulez/Vienna Philharmonic - Mahler 3

Thanks for the offer mate, but I don't think it'll be worth the effort. From my understanding, the GLite and Dynalo should be very similar, since the GLite is based on the original Dynalo and I'm not really the kind of guy to spend countless hours trying to hear the small (existing or non-existing) differences. I don't plan to go to Toronto anytime soon, but I'm applying for internships these days so I'll remember the offer if end up there! What's scary is that one of the reasons why I bought the JH13 was to have a small and not too expensive rig, I thought the Dynalo would cure the upgraditis, but on the contrary, I still have ideas of grandeur such as Beta 22 and Luxman amps.

I still print assignments for school occasionally... for old teachers!

I posted a few thoughts in the JH13 thread, I thought everybody on HC was reading that thread. But seriously, I've been really pleased with my purchase. It took a while to receive the amp, because on the first shipment it arrived with a dead channel in a totally beat up box. David, the guy behind Acoustic Fun, handled everything very professionally, keeping constant communication and fixed things as fast as he could. The amp construction is very solid from the outside and I dig its industrial look. I haven't opened it, but there are some pics of the internals on their website if you're interested. I can't comment much further on the sound than what I already did in the JH13 thread, because frankly I haven't listened to that many amps in my life and I have no other amps right now to compare to. It shouldn't be hard to find Dynalo impressions here and on Head-fi though. One thing I didn't mention is that apart from being used with the JH13, I also use the Dynalo as a preamp for my active 11L with the loop outputs. I haven't done serious A/B listening, but I could swear my speaker rig sounds better than it did previously when I controlled the volume using the Squeezebox digital volume, and I find it more convenient to turn a knob than having to use the remote.

Happy birthday!

What's even more incredible is that he announced today that he retires from politics for a while to treat a prostate cancer. I wish him the best, he's one of the very few Canadian federal politicians that I like and respect.

I've read a few comics on my Touch, but the screen is too small to make it comfortable. The iPad sounds like the perfect device for that kind of stuff.