Dusty Chalk

I should qualify my original response: of what I have, yes. But I've heard better, and I know better is possible. The Singlepower Supra++ preceded by the Musical Fidelity X-Tone is not comparable to the Dragon driving a rewired pair. It's better than anything else I have, but that's about all I can say.

Nice shot! They could use that as the cover to an Acoustic Sounds catalog or whatnot.

You know, back when the first spaceship landed (CD-T100?) -- I was immediately curious, just because of the looks (exposed tubes!). I never got a good gauge on whether or not they were liked or not. It's not just that the reactions were polarized, it's that they were all over the place. That said, I'd only get it myself if I won the lottery -- going to try to stick to universal players.

No, not as a garnish...you know how vodka is fermented potatoes, and wine is fermented grapes, and beer is fermented...uh...barley? I think beer is a family of fermented things, there's rice beer, and barley beer, and wheat beer, and so on...and tequila is fermented agave -- so is there one that's fermented olives? I had a really good olive last night, and I imagine it would be good, but perhaps there's something about it which prevents it from happening (quantity?).

Comfortably_numb: I'm sorry to hear that. pabbi1: mebbe Raoul should be mascot, then? Can you get a shot of him wearing them?

One has to admire their high-end stuff -- I mean, c'mon, Abbey Road uses them as reference speakers (801's, I believe). But yeah, this?

[/lurk]Admittedly, most of the music does not "sound natural", but try listening to Cowboy Junkies' Trinity Sessions on a good pair of headphones and telling me that does not sound natural. "Sounding natural" -- as a system -- to me means that it replicates the live experience. I'm not going to pretend that this is a cut'n'dry with headphones, as (a) there are very few binaural recordings, and you have ( your entire upstream chain to contend with, and © the concern as to whether or not the recording is an accurate recording, in that on some hypothetical perfect reproduction system, the output would match the input.[lurk]

I'll see if she likes headphones -- I have a feeling not, in which case, she could only be a mascot to that subset of people who prefer speakers.

Well, it looks like it works, but it tells the user to download the file, so I presume it is up to the user (and their configuration) to have an application to watch the video or whatever.

My other sister's cat, Frank, as a museum piece

Oblivious? Did you mean: obvious?

Zillamatic Leave it to Nixon to do something that I hadn't even thought of yet -- a black skeleton. Goddamn, that is a thing of beauty. EDIT: Oh, and they made an all-black 51-30: I might just have to make a trip up to New York for that.

What entry? If it's the head-case entry, then someone is fucking with us. We should put a call in to wikipedia, and get that traced back. If it's the head-fi entry...well, technically, even that entry is public domain, and the head-fi martinets shouldn't be allowed to take it out, but then, it's wikipedia, so anyone can do what they want. Technically, it's not advertising, but I could see it as being not apropos to the head-fi entry.

Yeah, there's that, too -- and it's still positioned in a way that allows for breathing room, so there are plenty of pros about the positioning as well.

You're not -- that's the first thing I noticed...at first I was like, "well, that's an unorthodox tube placement...cool", but then I was like, "...but not very utilitarian". Oh, well, if it sounds as good as people say it do, it wouldn't be a show-stopper for me. Just a niggle.

Wrong dimensions.

I prefer to thinking of it as "posting a follow-up".

Raoul is gorgeous! He reminds me of Frank (I'll post a vid of Frank later), one of my other sister's cats. And the kittens are cute, too.

Musical Fidelity A308^CR power amp -- got it for my Dynaudios, which I am in all likelihood selling, but I should still be able to use it on other speakers. It's always good to have at least one good muscle amp lying around. MSB P8000 power supply for multiple DACs -- this was back from before I decided to stick with single box universal players and such, so I may not be keeping it

Yes, you're right, I probably should have specified to keep things in the digital domain.

Does it do .3g2 (which is a variant of quicktime)? I'll give it a try later. I have some more kitty videos.

That's, like, your opinion, man... The default suggestion if you listen to CD's is the Behringer.

Record cleaning machine?

Pretty much where I am. That said, I can't argue with Kevin -- one should be able to call someone out for running websites so shabbily. It should be said -- I know everyone's thinking, "oh, he probably learned his lesson", but there's a difference between knowing something, and hearing someone else say it to your face. Repeatedly. Ad nauseum. Lots of different people. I suspect the correct phrase is "lazy ass". It was laziness that made him not do something -- anything -- about his backups. He knew better, and he just didn't do it.