Dusty Chalk

...and the B&W Zeppelin, and the Manley Stingray thing, and Fatman iTube, and all the zillions of other integrated amp + iPod dock combos.

Definitely try the angle thing. Orthogonal interaction vs. parallel interaction will make a big difference for little effort. Also, try staggering it (inspired by the asymmetrical umbilical).

PS3?

It's having thousands of dollars cubic centimeters invested in DACses preventing you from buying something else you want that's a problem?

Were these the ones that ran smaller than intuition implied?

Ouch, that's gotta hurt. Twice.

Yeah, I dig 'em too. Though I don't know if I'd want to warm them up -- not to say that they're already warm, they aren't, I'd just want to complement their strengths which are frequency extension and detail (modded X-CanV2 did the trick alright). But if that's what you want, then go for it. Haven't listened to them out of any of my tube amps recently, will give them a try later.

Wait, what? What day of the year?

Well, they have the ES (high end) line(s?) and the R10 & Qualia (statement) lines. Don't know about currently, though.

I'm wondering if there's a way that you can shield one from the other. Ground a sheet of tin foil between the two? EDIT: Colin beat me to another point that I just thought of -- well, maybe I had the thought because I read Colin's post...but yeah -- inverse square law comes to mind.

Really tempted to get the Anchor seasonal brew "Magnum" (silly big bottle -- looks like a prop on the set of the New Year's Eve countdown on television).

I'm just trying to be...what's the opposite of "enabling" -- "...disabling"? "...disenabling"? "...disarming"?

He looks cold. Also, oddly reminiscent of a certain Gary Numan album cover (Berserker).

No, it's having thousands of dollars invested in DACses preventing you from buying something else you want that's a problem.

Incorrect. You only need one good one (per setup, that is).

Those tubes are huge! Looks like an exclamation point at the end, too.

How many DACses do you really need?

Katatonia, Night is the New Day -- "Ashen" is fucking epic, and my iPod got stuck on repeat on that track yesterday, so I really need to hear it now again today right now.

Several RCALSSACD's; Dark Knight and Watchmen on Blu-Ray, and the IceDozer Plus Ergonomic Ice Scraper All for me

Jean-Michel Jarre, Musique pour Supermarch

^ Win. Mine: "eye-wateringly good".

Also, the integration sucks.

Yeah, but then you're still running Windows -- just within a VM.

Buffy box, hunnert bucks

Which is funny, because the link on my computer says that they're in stock. Not to take any "business" away from Nugget Audio, but he really should be concentrating on the Big Menace.