Dusty Chalk

I know, I's just giving you carp. Chicago roxors as well. I been there (used to go there all the time -- relatives).

They exist. I've heard people on audiokarma like the...erm...something "audiophile"...soundblaster? Then of course there's the FOTM from several years ago...the ART DI/O...but that doesn't have USB.

Yup. LOL. Yeah, screw universal player -- you can always get one of those later -- get the L3000. Especially since it's recabled.

Hey! Hey!

I watched a couple more episodes of Serenity. 2nd time through, at a more leisurely pace.

link #1 link #2 link #3 Sweet -- MoFi is involved.

Well, the joke doesn't work if you throw actual logic at it.

No, you could always use one machine to cryo another, then use that machine to cryo the first. That way, the last machine to get cryo'd gets cryo'd by a cryo'd machine. That is, if it still works after the cryo process.

Someone should put those in a fortune file. No, wait, who would use it? Never mind.

MSB Link DAC III, yes. The previously described setup is -- SACD/DVD transport with analog outputs plugged into analog inputs of DAC, then listen to outputs of DAC. If there's no digital input to the DAC, then it plays through the analog inputs, so there's no plugging and unplugging necessary, but a small amount of deterioration due to the additional connections. That's my home system, which I hardly listen to. My work system is the 3910, pretty much. The Apollo is currently not being used. I'll probably hook it up to my speaker rig once I fix my vintage Pioneer SX-5590 receiver which blew an output. (It sounded pretty good right up until it blew the output -- had it refurbbed with black gates.)

Yes, and yes. I love my 3910. I just put 'shiny disc' in, and it plays. I don't need to think about it -- do I listen directly out of the player for SACD or high-res DVD-A, or from the DAC for redbook, or turn off upsampling for HDCD and DAD's? Shiny ==> play. The end. But hYdrociTy was talking in the digital domain. If not, one can always get an external HDCD DAC. I think someone (grawk, perhaps?) once posted a link on how to use WMP to decode HDCD's in the digital domain.

Epica, The Divine Conspiracy

The only options that exist are the Pacific Microsonics Model One and Model Two -- on the order of US$12K. These are what studios use to make the HDCD masters. They're studio quality -- studios don't necessarily get them for their HDCD capabilities -- sometimes they just get them because they're wonderful DACs and excellent digital sample rate converters. I've been tempted to try to find the standalone chip (for example, in the MSB HDCD upgrade daughter board), and trying to figure it out myself. I bet Justin could do it.

That was real interesting -- nice write-up! I'll post to this thread when I can do something that is worthy. The hard part is going to actually figure out what my favourite albums are -- I know my first two (they're a tie for first place, and have been for quite a while), but I don't know the rest. Will get back to you.

Where are you, again?

You don't know who Merton is? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byqFeevFZYk]Harry Potter's Puppet Pals, in "Bothering Snape"[/ame] "Naked Time!"

Which one was you? I'd have been the "dad-old grizzly-type" one.

Yes. If however, like me, you enjoyed reading the books, then 'uh, no' stands.

What makes you think he isn't?

Ew.

You left off the 'm', 'primate'.

Yeah, but they just look like a poor man's Strad -- these are cute...but in a cool way.