VPI

You're right I fixed it to make it more personal to the reader.

Nope, it is only the start up process and if you push the initializing button on start up you can turn off the feature altogether. My future Head-fi Review: "Dearest Reader, I have about 50.73 hours on mine now and while I thought I might lose her at hour 22.36 when the burn in process reached half-life and the low end and upper range switched places for a moment, it has really come back together and become part of a squeezebox set up that I would say bests my upper mid-fi CDPs (Cary CD 303/300, Meridian G-08, Esoteric SA-60). I figure with one to two thousand more hours the chip will be burned it and I can really listen. I truly love you Dearest Reader, Forever Yours." I had to throw in that scientific stuff so I look like a pro and can maybe get some freebies in the future.

He can get one new for a tiny bit more and it will be drop shipped from the factory. I paid $2,400 shipped.

He will upgrade to that one after he hears it at the NY meet. I am really enjoying it now. It is like a Swiss Army knife I can change the sound a song by song basis if I really want to but I have pretty much settled on filter 1 or 3 for the Squeezebox and have no complaints.

So I guess I am getting my ass kicked in Fantasy Football by a ghost team. 60 Point favorite my ass!

Great bit of modern Bluegrass. Punch Brothers - Punch

You can get the Dock and the new matching DAC from Wadia that is supposed to be coming out end of this month I think.

By the end of the year according to some accounts but first quarter of next on others. I have signed up for the beta program so maybe I will have one sooner.

If you make it onto the convoy to the NY Meet it will be there to play with. It has three HDMI inputs and soon I will be able to access network drives and control music play with my iPod touch as a remote which should be pretty slick.

Well I have a few hours under my belt with the new PerfectWave DAC and though it has its quirks, the sound ranks up there with some of the best digital I have heard in my system. I am mostly using Filter 3 which is MP Soft "Minimum phase soft knee filter. Low pre-ringing, minimal group delay, minimized post ringing, good phase vs. frequency, soft cut-off." I have the upsampling set to 96. PS Audio recommends the Minimum Phase Apodising Filter but I prefer Filter 3 out of the Squeezebox. I don't know what any of that crap means but this filter sounds the most like an excellent Vinyl set up, which I will always use as the standard. Sounds closest to my VPI TNT-HRX with Lyra Titan Cartridge with the same huge dynamics and to my ears maybe a little less bass. Same midrange richness and also has that wonderful ability to recreate the recording space, which is something I feel Vinyl will always do better than digital. The most interesting part is that the differences in the filters are not small, the changes are immediately recognizable and I think I just gravitated to the most analog filter to my ears. I definitely prefer it to the Weiss on all levels.

The first contender showed up today for round two of the great Squeezebox DAC shootout. The Perfectwave DAC is in the house. Haven't listened much as I am trying to figure out the millions of filters, etc. The packaging was very good with the unit wrapped in a nice cotton sack and riding in a suspended film cocoon for shock absorption. I don't have any I2S sources so I am having to settle for Coax out of the Squeezebox. Sound varies greatly based upon the filter used so I think this would not be the DAC for the Anal amongst us as you just get through sampling all the filters when the song finishes and you have to start all over. I wanted to thank Ron at Liquid Audio for getting this out to me so quickly, much appreciated.

I just bought one of his DACs Dinny so I can assure you he does have some, at fantastic prices.

Happy Birthday Wayne.

Happy Birthday to the guy that has answered a lot of stupid questions for me over the years.

I have found that all three of my Macs have slowed down and I am getting many more spinning beach balls than before. Mine are all less than a year old and worked fine before SL. I did not do a clean install so I might have to try that next. I have not noticed any wireless issues with the MacBook Pro and the others are hard wired.

Wow, Houston must be having a cold front moving through.

Yep, something that I would have doubted either could do before they made the play. Good chance you will be 3-0 after tonight.

No one would have expected the injured Thomas to blow up or the always useless Santana Moss to have the game of his life.

Ouch, I think you meant to say your bench beat down your starters.

Well it looks like one of our undefeated teams has fallen. The other one is still a possibility but since his opponent started an inactive player that possibility is rather low. I thought for sure that our zero win team Salt Peanuts was going to beat me when my team was failing so miserably but it looks like he will have to wait for another week. Great weekend of FF as there were some close games this time.

Wouldn't have even known the AR existed if you hadn't dug it up. I am still looking for a nice vintage DAC for a full vintage system I want to put together.

and Unfortunately neither will be making it here very quickly.

DAC fever is spreading around here. I am buying a PS Audio Perfect Wave DAC and Audio Research DAC 7 today for round two of my Squeezebox DAC challenge. The Weiss DAC2 is leading at the moment but I think when these guys get into the house it will fall and become a meet source only.

[*] The 90s were a Bitch for VD.

Happy Birthday