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Justin, what's the gain of the Slim? I see that you mention maximum 4.2V @ 250mA, but heck if I know what normal output levels are for a DAP...

I'd be interested.

I watched Hotel Babylon last night, and the quality was better than it was on my computer, if that helps. This was on just a regular old TV though. Our TV is in a place where we cannot listen loud, so I'd rather have subtitles than the fancy sound

2-4 year olds don't really care as much as you'd think.

yeah, this thing is exactly what I hoped it would be for Netflix support. Pretty fantastic.

maybe, maybe... Also, I just bought a TPA Placid bipolar power supply, the appropriate toroid that TPA sells and 8 AA Eneloops.

Fostex T10

why do people think that burn-in always "reduces" things? Is it not possible that burn in can "increase" things as well?

Bimini.

I hear ceramic works well

dunno, I don't read enough at HF for this to be the reason. They suck quite impressively on their own merit

has anyone ever peeked inside the FET-A?

I like the radio. It's pretty cool.

shrug.. heh, well, you have to check the tire for bald spots occasionally I guess

not quite. Basically, think of the top layer being a slab of steel. Then a cut out in that slab, or island that isn't coupled to the steel slab. The motor hangs down on this island. Under that is a 1.25" thick piece of soap stone. This implies that there needs to be a cutout in the soap stone for the motor to hang down, and various other cutouts for the idler and the arm. Then the motor island is bolted down to the soapstone, as is the entire steel plate. Then, there is a constrained layer damping layer of.... IKEA cups? eventually, birch ply. Perhaps a few layers of EAR C-1002 ISODAMP thrown in for good measure, then another 1.25" thick piece of soap stone. All in all, around.. what 150 lbs? heh. The AC motor is controlled via a Mark Kelly kit in fact, an improved "to-be-commercialized" version of what you linked to. It's three phase quadrature drive.. Ironically, I've sorta halted things as I need to shape up the soapstone plinths a bit, as I've gotten the arm board worked out and everything. Then I'll need to complete the birch ply layer.... lots of work, so little time.

puce

Yes, the motor is inside the plinth. Imagine a top plate, then a sub top plate, or island maybe in the middle of the plinth. The motor is attached to that and that drives the idler wheel, that drives the underside of the platter. Then imagine a broken router, oh wait, that's swt61's broken router.. I mean, he called it a "trash router" I think? I'm not sure what you're asking with your last question though. It's pretty much a custom design. I've never been happy with "enough".. I go to the next level of MOAR

I think what Shelly was getting at, that "native support" might work better than something that requires a disc to be inserted.

That and once the older cousins come over and explain to my kids what a PS3 is, mayhem might ensue. I'm not sure I'm ready for the jump from PBS Kids and NickJR games (well, iPhone games too I guess) to a real video game system

agreed. This is why I used a custom island for the motor that isn't connected at all to my steel top plate. They are coupled (non-coupled actually didn't work as well as you'd think), but it's through a massive soapstone block.

aw heck, I'm going to try the Samsung BD-P2500... impulse buyer I am.

yeah, I suppose. I was thinking more along the lines of Samsung-BD-P2500, LG BD370, etc.

speaking of which, I need to buy a Blu-Ray player that has Netflix support. Cheaper the better. Any recommendations?

"Sharper attacks" (by other cats) too