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Thanks for the kind wishes, everyone It will help immensely on what is shaping up to be quite a crappy day at work

Considering I turn 30 today, I don't know whether to laugh or cry

Apologies if anybody else has posted this, but I don't generally follow this thread....... but just had to pose the CD I picked up yesterday, after hearing it in a coffee shop: XX by The XX. Really awesome Sunday morning chill out music. Homepage: The xx And sample clip from Youtube:

Is this being produced by American McGee? The guy that did Alice? [EDIT] That video link flags up a virus warning for me. View at your own risk.

Be careful not to misrepresent me, I said that I had read that the Pico is better. Search for yourself; the comment I am referring to is in either the y1 or Pico thread on this forum.

That would be a good option. Saves you having to recable if you don't want to do that, and more elegant than adapters.

Waterproof-breathable winter jacket and a waterproof laptop backpack. Just need some waterproof pants and to re-waterproof my boots and I'm ready for winter!

According to one reference I found quickly (which agrees with previous reference I have seen for CD and vinyl), the dynamic range of reel to reel tape tops out at 5dB above vinyl. So the hierarchy is: Vinyl 60-65 Reel to reel 70 CD 90 Though tape does seem to have many tricks to increase DNR and SNR.

This points to wasting of CD as a medium more than anything else. At a technical level CD has, I think, 20-30dB higher dynamic range than the best vinyl.

*shrug* The Headroom Ultra DAC based on the older Sabre 9008 is $1300......

Let me guess...... 'the stranger' wasn't quite so strange?

Its looking fucking fantastic, Kevin

Medical Marijuana | Glaucoma Research Foundation

Passed the road test for my driver's license. I managed to stay on the right side of the road, and only turned on my windscreen wipers instead of my indicator twice Also started the process to sign up to a H1N1 vaccine trial, to fund headphone/DIY purchases

Did you at least hurt yourself enough for a decent scar?

Maybe a little bit too close to a start

Oh great, there goes my whole damn afternoon......

Cool beans. It looks like the amp may cost well over US$600 to build it to the standard I want, so I'll see how it goes......

Let me clarify...... where do I start with a tight budget?

Not looking to de-rail too much...... but the potential of building myself an eXStata has me seriously looking at Stax, rather than moving to a balanced dynamic setup. So where the hell do I start?!?

Absolutely. The HD555 are awful.

Not to mention that it strongly suggests there were no comparative measurements performed during the design process, to confirm the product's performance level. But, but, but....... scootermafia says it is good! And it just keeps getting better as it burns in!

Why am I not surprised? I would have thought at $1300 a pop, you could make time to at least back up all the crap you've been posting.

You sound just like my girlfriend

I don't really see how "you wouldn't understand because you aren't willing to pay that much" is addressing criticism. I'm naturally a skeptic, and really despise audiophool bullshit...... but your loopback tests do look nice. So why not try to nail the coffin by similarly testing some competing solutions? Or doing some properly controlled blind listening tests?