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Especially considering it wasn't that successful a movie. Was it? I mean, I saw it, but that doesn't mean a whole lot, I was seeing a movie a week back then. But I don't remember it generating a whole lot of discussion.

I think that's all relative. My tolerance for cruft has seriously declined. I mean, besides, isn't it all about the signal to noise ratio?

Cardiacs, Sing to God -- unholy carp, this is gloriously mental.

Listen, chaff, blow elsewhere.

Sounds like squeezing blood from a stone.

Two Hobbit fangirls film their reaction to the newly released trailer for The Desolation of Smaug... Evangeline Lilly, Orlando Bloom, and Lee Pace film their reaction to the fangirls' reaction to a newly released trailer for The Desolation of Smaug... The two Hobbit fangirls film their reaction to Evangeline Lilly, Orlando Bloom, and Lee Pace's reaction to their reaction to the newly released trailer for The Desolation of Smaug..... http://imgur.com/gallery/Uw15B/comment/162795786 <-- "Hobbit-ception", obviously

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Why even post that? I think we all know that. I think his point was that if you believe in the manufacturer's aural vision , then the best way to achieve it might be to find the same source and amplification. The way you said it takes all the art out of it. Now I don't personally believe that all manufacturers of high end audio are artists, but I think at least several of them succeed.

Aw yeah! I'm so happy for them.

Let's call the whole thing gone and in mah belleh! I wish.

It proves that the rumour monger is the bigger troll? It's just macho/juvenile bullshit, and it's pervasive across the internet.

But it would presumably impart their intent, I think was his point.

You say, 'schnitzel', I say, 'tonkatsu', Let's call the whole thing off...

Damn, dude, you're ahead of me.

Happystyle Pooku Yay just for the delightful name. I mean, just think about "presentation" -- you'll be smiling before you even put them on.

Yup, the power of suggestion. ...AND IT WAS DELICIOUS. I'm definitely going back there. It's only about 20 minutes due South of me on Route 1. Very authentic, they even spoke to me in German. "Auf wiedersehen", indeed. Kudos to Yelp for picking out a good one for me.

You just watched 3 episodes in a row? Wow. I found every episode draining. (At least as far as I've gotten.)

That's correct. As I already explained, it's encoded into the bitstream, so the bitstream needs to be untampered with. Think about it, they're putting a signal that has nothing to do with the audio into the audio, so if you do anything with the signal at all (including mixing it with nothing), it's going to disappear like a thread of string in a volcano.

Oh man, Dubliner on a cheeseburger? (Hint : I love Dubliner so much, I eat it 'neat'.)

Want pork buns, now.

First of all, if it lights up, then it was encoded. It's determining whether or not to decode HDCD (the same condition that causes the light to light up) directly from the digital audio stream (the bottom-most bit, to be specific). There are a variety of encodings, that might be what is throwing you. Secondly, are you sure the "doing the opposite" thing isn't an indication of a bug -- specifically, what I interpret that to mean is that when you check 'use 24-bit-audio', you're enabling upsampling, and it might be upsampling the undecoded stream (as many DACs did, back in the day, which is why I always wanted a digital means of decoding the bitstream, like the Pacific Microsonics Model One or Two), hence destroying the encoding bit pattern? In other words, how are you confirming that the decoded stream is decoded when it's supposed to be and not when it's not (and please don't tell me, 'by ear')?

Thanks for the reminder (wanders off to buy Notes Falling Slow -- which turned out to be surprisingly cheap [US$16 for a box set worth of music] for lossless download version from their website...hour download though). In the meantime:

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)