Dusty Chalk

Isn't that what was going to happen anyway?

I'm afraid that my cat is officially in non-attendance as well. Sorry to let any of you down, but I still hope you the greatest success in your conflagration of people.

In an interesting coincidence, I just bought a quadrablender today.

Watched and listened to a 45 minute advertisement disguised as a Webinar for "Jacket" (Matlab/Cuda bridge software).

Win

Whut? I think they're quite reasonable, but then again, I'm only using a 22" monitor. Oh, and get something with ribbons. Ribbons rule. Or perhaps the new mini-Magnepans.

Well, it's not like the output stages of those DAC's don't look the part. I say dew et. And then report back on your findings.

I dig 'em. I like both their earlier spacier/post-rocky stuff, and their more recent more organic pop-rocky stuff.

I'm a member -- if you need me to buy and turn it around and ship it to you, just say the word. With the understanding that it's probably not worth it to pay shipping twice.

Gilels playing Rachmaninov and Saint-Sa

No, that's exactly what I'm saying is not happening in my case. Maybe we're programmed differently, but there's just no feeling of "missing something".

For those of you getting cold feet -- consider a single-ended version? I'm out, but I have to admit to being very curious how these are going to sound.

Love button? Wiggle back and forth? Touch the two together? Oh, I think it was intentional, so that all the little girls and occasional boy could hide it in plain sight.

Marquesote -- or as I like to call it, Twinkie dough.

AT05C - case of 24 tins: Silver Sampler Tin x1 @ $15.00 ea. AT40C - Case of 6: Brushed Steel Tin (150g) x1 @ $17.80 ea. SD30 - set of four teas: Basic Darjeeling Sampler x1 @ $15.50 ea. SC21 - set of four teas: Ceylon Sampler x1 @ $13.00 ea. SA38 - set of four teas: Assam Sampler x1 @ $13.50 ea. TB70S - 15g sample: Finest Russian Caravan x1 @ $1.00 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk TB10S - 15g sample: Bond Street English Breakfast Blend x1 @ $1.00 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk TB60S - 15g sample: Russian Caravan x1 @ $1.00 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk TB86S - 15g sample: Richmond Park Blend x1 @ $1.50 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk ZY02S - 15g sample: Season's Pick Yunnan FBOP x1 @ $1.00 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk ZY51S - 15g sample: Yunnan TGFOP x1 @ $1.00 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk TP04S - 15g sample: China Black Flowery Orange Pekoe x1 @ $1.00 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk TT11S - 10g sample: Oolong Standard Grade x1 @ $1.00 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk ZO10S - 12g sample: China Oolong Se Chung x1 @ $1.00 ea. packed for: Dusty Chalk

I think my first download was...uh...probably a naked girl or something

Dosh, Wolves and Wishes -- saw these guys open for Notwist, and they were great.

That's not necessarily a bad idea.

Whut? No. Incorrect. You're thinking "Yesterday" and "Long and Winding Road", but you listen to most anything else off at least the red era ("Help", "Hard Day's Night", "Day Tripper", etc.), and I challenge you to find anything in either MJ's or MB's catalog that "rocks" like that.

'appy belated!

Who did?

I think deepak and I are VdGG fans, too.

It depends on the driver -- if it goes through the kmixer, my understanding is yes, it does. Someone feel free to correct me.

I don't know, I went straight to the model I use. More difficult to dislodge?

That's not presence. You can talk about "visceral" impact, but that's not presence. Admittedly, presence doesn't have that specific a meaning when talking audio, but that's so far from what I would term as presence that I have to disagree with you -- it's merely one element. I have heard headphone reproduction so good -- with the exception of feeling it with my body -- that I did not miss the visceral impact, it was that good. It had presence, that feeling of the music being right there in front of me, alive, and lively and whatever other pseudo-synonyms you want to throw in there. Maybe it's just me -- though I kind of doubt it, although I won't argue that we're in the minority -- but once you get beyond a certain threshold of headphone music reproduction, you stop getting distracted by it's lack of impacting anything other than your ears. Those people who continue to get distracted by that are just stubborn in my opinion. I don't know if it's a subconscious stubbornness or what, but that's the best word I can come up with for it.