Everything posted by Dusty Chalk
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The Apollo has landed.
I think the Saturn is taking over for the Jupiter.
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Your Guilty Pleasure....
I have so many guilty pleasures, I've stopped feeling guilty about them: Pink, Kylie Minogue, and yes, even the occasional Madonna. Screw the frowners.
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6moons review - Headroom Maxxed out Desktop
If you can't fit in the enclosure, how about mini monoblocks? I mean, you already have the power source...and I really like the idea of a "class D" power amp -- the Sonic T-Amp is already the thing to beat, if you could just ramp up something like that without getting out of control, like the Super T-Amp, that'd be awesome. Oh, and would it be ridiculous to have a "class D" amp without an analog input? I would think that a digital input would translate pretty easily to the necessary signal. Just thinkin' out loud (which I liken to eating with one's mouth open), so feel free to disregard.
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Religion and Poltics...
Uh, no dude, someone just bought a domain called bobsagetisgod.com, not the same thing. Politics doesn't suck -- politicians suck. Politicians give politics a bad name. But religion, however, does suck.
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Prog/Psych/Space Pop/Rock
Never heard of Hash Jar Tempo, will have to check it out. You've not steered me wrong yet.
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GE balanced senn cable in the house
No, it's a little more complicated than that. Something like this: - disassemble outer casing; - notice how tiny the wire is; - sweat; - go to head-fi and post to shed some nervous energy; - change mind, reassemble; - change mind again, disassemble outer casing; - clip alligator clips to drain heat; - sweat; - go to head-fi; - pee break; - drink; - pee break; - warm up soldering iron; - wipe hands; - do it; - reassemble; - let cool; - listen; - breath sigh of relief; - go post on head-fi; - drink heavily.
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Any chance on more off topic forums (politics religion and outside, ala head-fi)
...not that there's anything wrong with that... But just because you frequent those boards, doesn't make you a gay pinko heathen.
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5 minute edit window too short...
As has been suggested before -- if you're going to post a long post or response, just do it up in notepad first or something, then copy and paste it in.
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Any chance on more off topic forums (politics religion and outside, ala head-fi)
You know, if you need to talk about religion and politics, there are whole boards for that. And they're frequented by gay pinko heathens.
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6moons review - Headroom Maxxed out Desktop
There is one rule: keep your privates private, private!
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Mnaufacturer Forum?
I don't think you should make child boards unless they're going to be made out of actual children. :rimshot:
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Sony and DualDisc, DualDisc and Sony
One of which was Sony. But yeah, I hate the specific subsets of those companies (EMI, Universal, Sony/BMG, Warner, and 5.1) that pursued DualDisc as a distribution medium. WTF?!? Is it that much cheaper to glue a CD and a DVD back-to-back than it is to just give us both, separately, in a digipak or double-sided jewel case or something?
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GE balanced senn cable in the house
They're on the blanket underneath the cables? They're not very deep impressions. :rimshot:
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6moons review - Headroom Maxxed out Desktop
Um...you know it's no longer an invitation-only forum, don't-cha? MHO: HA2 -- just so that Dave gets off my back about mine. A more entry-levelly-priced balanced amp would definitely be a good thing. The world has enough DACs -- if you want to enter into that fray, be my guest, but jebus, I'd stay hella far away from it, myself. Unless you want to give yourself a twist -- like a USB driver that bypasses that mixer problem (K-mixer? G-mixer?), or upsamples post-HDCD-decode. Something to stand it apart from the crowd.
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6moons review - Headroom Maxxed out Desktop
Double-post, please delete this one.
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Time of "Last Visit"
Downgraded to a lower priority -- I discovered the "View the most recent posts on the forum" link at the bottom of the front page, under Forum Stats. I can use that.
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Sony and DualDisc, DualDisc and Sony
I was (web)crawling around the Sony site to see if there was an update to the OS of my SCD-CE775, and stumbled across this -- sorta explains why my Sony player fucked up my God Forbid DualDisc, dunnit. I could come to hate Sony. I think I'm going to get rid of my player and get a Pioneer universal.
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Prog/Psych/Space Pop/Rock
Wow, bizarre. I'm pretty familiar with Bad Religion's sound, and I just don't picture them doing that kind of music. I'll have to check it out now.
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Upgrading my home source from Denon DVD-3800... what to get?
I think he meant modding the Denon, but I think what the rest of you aren't getting is that the Denon, being a DVD player, stays with the TV. So a DAC is out, he needs a transport, too. Is that right? PS I have no suggestions. I also have no bananas.
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Oakville Meet (3-26-06)
They do? I don't know, the PS-1's I heard had a bit too much bass, and the Leatherheads I heard did not...I don't see how that can be called similar...Hirsch? Do you still have the PS-1's?
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New Beginnings
Not really. Or rather, not really well.
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Prog/Psych/Space Pop/Rock
Early Pink Floyd == acid rock. So yeah, that qualifies. Radiohead == jury still out. They definitely have qualities of "space" and "psych", but they're basically a pop band, IMHO. Yes == to me, they define prog. One of my top 10 favourite bands/artists of all time. Going to see Rick Wakeman (solo grand piano tour, retiring afterwards) in June. Easily my favourite pop/rock keyboardist. Can -- now listening to Future Days -- weaves a curvy line between pop, rock, space, kraut rock, and just plain jamming. Recommended. Need to get some of the other SACD's of theirs that came out.
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Member Invites
What's the difference between censorship and not letting people join? I mean, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want Merton on here -- some people win arguments through sheer stamina, and he would be one of them, I'd relent just to get him to shut up -- but if this is an experiment in open expression, I really don't see that happening if you are that careful to pick and choose who can join. To me, it seems like the same thing.
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6moons review - Headroom Maxxed out Desktop
You should also be thinking about either HD radio or XM or Sirius or satellite or possibly just internet radio...
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Prog/Psych/Space Pop/Rock
Thought I'd start this thread, seeing as I'm listening to Sky Cries Mary right now. Check 'em out. Well, can't have this thread without mentioning Porcupine Tree, so I'll mention them: Porcupine Tree -- so there, I mentioned them. If you like this type of music and you haven't heard them, you should at least check them out. No, seriously, they've recently been remastering a lot of their back catalog, and the impossible to get Lightbulb Sun should be coming up soon. Stars Die (the compilation) is a good place to start. Warning: multiple versions of practically all their albums exist, so do your homework first -- decide, for example, beforehand, whether or not you must have the remasters and bonus tracks, or if you'd rather just get all the important tracks for cheap on the used market (both are certainly viable decisions).