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Somewhat overpriced considering Mackie Original HR824 High Resolution Active Studio Monitors (Pair)

Thanks for the recommendations guys. Keep 'em coming.

Joanne wanted to see Vancouver, so that's what we are going do next week. Thanks to the internet (esp. Hotwire.com: Discount airfare, hotel reservations, car rentals, vacation packages and cruises) , we've arranged transport and accommodation downtown at all the above locations 5 nights Vancouver, 2 Nights Victoria, 3 Nights Seattle, in that order (with coach / ferry Vancouver to Victoria, Victoria clipper to Seattle) We plan on mostly walking / using public/mass transit, but we might rent a car for one for one day to visit whistler, depending on the weather while we are there. As ever, Chowhound Boards - Chowhound, have come up with lots of recommendations for decent places to eat, without paying over the odds. The guide books have come up with the usual suspects for playing tourist. I wonder if the local residents, or previous visitors have any recommendations for sights/eats/drinks that we might not otherwise be aware of, or should not be missed. Thanks, Grahame & Joanne

Yeah, but where's the fun in a proven good solution that "just works" If you want to future proof, and pamper your bits, you could always spec. Category 6 cable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aren't these people near you? J&R: Electronics, Digital Cameras, Computers, Appliances, Software, Video Games, DVDs, CDs .

Yes it is. But its role is the capturing/differencing, rather than the output generated from the mac. This would only be an issue, if you don't have access to a windows based system or a VM to run windows in.

Better yet, run Audio DiffMaker and let us know the results

You can use a nokia 770 (or 800, or 810 or the upcoming n900) with the 770 skin, or an iPhone, or iTouch using the iPeng skin or [url=http://penguinlovesmusic.de/ipeng-the-iphone-webapp-for-squeezecenter/]iPeng

How would you justify your assumptions? If you can do that, then you have your answer. It has been argued that extracting clock and data from the same signal (as in the case of S/PDIF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is inherently flawed). Variations in the recovered clock being jitter. Jitter being audible above some threshold would imply that lower jitter is better. Word clock gets round this by supplying (a hopefully low jitter) clock, turning the issue into how do you populate a buffer that the word clock can clock data out of (hint: you'd want a bidirectional async protocol with error correction and retransmission as opposed to a synchronous forward only protocol ) This only solves the getting the right bits at the right time to the inputs of the DAC. Other people have argued that the quality and the design of the the analogue output stage connected to the output of the DAC (both onboard the DAC, and downstream) is a far bigger determinant of final audio quality. Computer audio can be tricky, as there are many ways that the software pathways can muck up the bits before the DAC even gets to see them e.g. Digital volume controls, re-sampling etc It constantly surprises me that we don't have a digital audio standard that is a "solved problem" rather than one that is based on a broken protocol. But then, how would you sell upgrades?

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Lego - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An Onymous Lefty: Lego bricks vs "legos" The company is still completely right, though: calling the bricks "legos" makes you sound like a total fuckwit. fischertechnik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia FTW

PhotoshopDisasters: Samsung: XXL-CD Notes to Eddie before posting: Check people in India are not all dwarfs Have CDs gotten bigger? Maybe this is like a CD LP? or a CD 78? Is it unreasonable to expect people who make CDs to know how big they are? They seem so happy

Have you considered this? http://www.maa.org/pubs/calc_articles/ma062.pdf

^^ Doesn't it need words to be a song? otherwise it's *just* music, or a tune

you've been reading this [url=http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/18/116-black-music-that-black-people-dont-listen-to-anymore/]#116 Black Music that Black People Don

Back in the day, I was able to spool up my dad's Reel to Reel without out too much effort. Together with a friend we discovered the fun you could have with a microphone and a set of headphones, given that the record head came before the play head (quality heads, optimized for their dedicated tasks) - lookup tape echo loops, and feedback. Manually advancing the tape to get vari-speed, or recording at one speed and playing back at another to get pitch-shifting. Dragging on the reels, when two were playing back to get Flanging! Reversing the tape to get backwards playback. (Think of all those backwards piano sounds with a slowly rising attack) The simple joy of pausing and restarting the recording, when using this as a source, enabled you to get Troy Tempest saying the craziest things (thing of making an analogue, manual, near real time, mashup) . Ah Happy Days. And the discovery that you could get "modern" tape formulations (think CrO2, or Metal, like cassette tapes compared to the original Ferric (rust coloured tapes, that shed on the tapes heads like no ones business)) with better S/N - at 7.5 or 15 ips, no hiss, who needed Dolby! Back to your problem with the counter? Does resetting it back to 0000 help (i.e. is it slipping in its current position, is it stuck, or just disconnected) . Essentially it's a mileometer (odometer) for the tape distance, driven by reduction gearing off the tape capstan (roller). If that doesn't work, you could get really old school, get some mark-able tape you can write on (think masking tape), put it on one (or several) of the radial arms of the tape spools, and mark the radius of the tape on the spool when the track begins. Annotate the Mark, and then key the marking on the spool to a track list on the case of the spool. Think of it as a .cue file for the tape. Then just advance/rewind until the radius of the tape matches the marking and you should be close to the track start/end! (7.5 + 15ips makes this easier , as the tracks are "fatter") Have fun and enjoy! Its all good character building stuff

Vicki, sorry to hear about your day. No doubt your evil twin made an appearance for a few (or many) choice words.

As stated before, if you have a HDCD capable HDCD, and you can bit perfect rip, you get to light up the HDCD light If you don't have a HDCD capeable dac, you can do on the fly expansion in squeezecenter using hdcd.exe, or preprocess using hdcd.exe , or use the HDCD plugin for DBPoweramp. Helps if you have a 24bit capable DAC for the expanded output. MeridianWiki - Handling HDCD Or just use expectation bias in you favo(u)r, and think to yourself before listening, that "man, this HDCD special sauce really is the shiznit"

Works for me, looks like the opening sequence for a Top Gear review

Hmm, I must have mis-remembered Can Jam and a certain weasel, then

Nah, XFR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU0fF3zhfCs

Maybe he digs Hippy Chicks? Maybe not?

Happy Birthday to you, Sir!

John Peel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia said about Teenage Kicks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'There's nothing you could add to it or subtract from it that would improve it.' In 1978, John Peel played the song twice in a row on his Radio 1 show. Peel often rated new bands' songs with 1 to 5 stars. He liked "Teenage Kicks" so much he awarded 28 stars. "Teenage Kicks" was acoustically covered by Snow Patrol in tribute to John Peel, and was played at his funeral. He wanted the lyrics on his tombstone, and his wish was granted John Peel gets Teenage Kicks epitaph - Telegraph