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Given how cheap hard drive based ipods are these days, I wouldn't personally bother repairing one.

Ok, I'll go out on a limb and say there are no good notebooks with decent screens that are worth a damn under $500.

I am definitely looking forward to the return of dexter

ah if small is desireable, get a toshiba nb205 and upgrade the drive and memory. I love mine. 9 hr battery and a great keyboard

drove 4 hrs each way to wv, and spent the middle part of the day racking disk for the production team.

save up a little and buy todd's laptop

To take it up a notch, you can do tcp too, but it slows down because of the instability of the transport layer.

I'd shift your bias way toward the microphones if you want to record music. Get the cheapest recorder you can find (I had an m-audio microtrack, but I think the Korg MR1s have gotten cheap), and spend the rest on microphones.

and go to sex addiction meetings?

took my daughter to soccer practice, then got a haircut for myself and the remaining 3 kids. Then wasted a bit of time before driving to Columbia MD where my kid's travel hockey team gave Howard County's travel hockey team a thorough drubbing. (6-0, 30-5 shots on goal). Then went home and had some beer.

nope

They sound more rare that way

That's not what the bear said

Concerts, with and without permission

I'd definitey go with a flash based recorder over minidisc. I don't like atrac as a concept for recording.

Check out taperssection.com too I used to do a lot of recording, so I can give some advice too. Budget matters

Bear fur works

by all reports, his other dacs are spectacular.

The dac1 is also high on my list of dacs never to purchase...

it's bad When I first moved to alaska, I was out in a cabin in the bush, had been there a while. Then one day, I ran into steve. We talked a bit, then parted company. About 6 months later, I ran into him again. Steve said to me "Hey Dan, I'm having a party, you should come." "Oh yah? What kinda party?" I replied. He said "Oh you'll like it, it's an alaska party, there will be some drinkin', some fightin', maybe even some fuckin'" I told him that sounded like a hell of a party, and asked who was coming. "Well, " steve replied, "If you make it, that'll be you, and me..." I moved back to pennsylvania the next day.

My standards for $1000 dacs is pretty high. And the DA10 was beaten soundly by my $110 denon.

Hi gatto. Do read the pm, but otherwise, welcome. We'll only haze you a little

the question is just as stupid when it's $3000 and speakers as it is when it's $100 and headphones. Use your own ears, refine what you're looking for, and ask specific questions

pull the drive, throw in a bigger one, is what I was suggesting. It's also good if you're mostly gonna stream. If I didn't have $3000 due in hockey money in the next 4 months I'd be all over a few of them

I'd say $40 off $229 is a good deal, especially since apple warranties refurbs as new. And $149 for a 40gb appletv is a great deal if you are going to upgrade it.