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Completely outside the realm of discussion for whether you'd want to imod, the ipod battery isn't terribly hard to change, and in 4 years, you'll want to upgrade anyway. The battery issue is a strawman. I've replaced ipod batteries, it takes less than 5 minutes, and costs less than $30.

The cables they show on the website are on occasion a lot nicer looking than what you get shipped to you.

I'd find it amusing to put some cheap tubes on the m3 just connected to a heater to make it have a pretty glow without it actually being in the circuit at all...

With a potentiometer, you'll theoretically get better sound the more open you have the volume anyway, so that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Yah, but people want a mint for their existing KGSSs

Third option: buy a set of ESP950s and have a KGSS built with a 620v bias option

fixed that for you

The 2900 chip decodes DSD directly. dunno about others

I recognize those tactics

Nothing about my rig reaches the esoteric levels discussed by many here, but I've had many transcendent experiences with it. Mac Mini, Apogee Duet, DIY M3, modded grados. Most expensive thing was the amp, total rig including the computer and hard drives was very near the $2500 budget for your dac. I'm still not sold on the value of really expensive cd players.

IM616s (airplane phones) SuperFi 3s (no idea, got them in trade for a shuffle, hate them) 3 pairs of im716s (wife's, 2 are still new in package, as backup) I couldn't sell all 5 to get SuperFreqs, let alone UE11s

I don't think 3 headphone rigs qualify regardless, but that's definitely not all I have at the moment. I have 5 pairs of IEMs, 3 ipods, the grados, the koss, the speaker setup, and the ksc75s. Then there's the denon, the cambridge, and the apogee as sources, etc. I definitely went off the deep end at some point, and I did it while trying to reduce.

I think I qualified for most of last year, but recently I blew that .

that's why pelican invented god. errr. God invented pelican. 2 $180 pelican cases and you'd be done

Since you retired, I've had my other mot working on a plan for me

just build a kgss for the esp950s

hrm, I'm overtired, I don't catch subtlety right now It took me almost a full day to find the spinal tap thread on the other site.

darn it

He works for you, right?

"I'm not a communist, so we're not using communist shitty software"

If they bother you, block them. Otherwise wtf. It's just ads. I wouldn't mind a "pay $x to get rid of all ads" tho, to support the site without seeing ads

Well, not according to Christopher Guest.

They're better than how you looked most of the weekend

It only voids your warranty for the things you specifically damage if you damage anything. Since that's always true, it's not that your warranty is voided, it's that apple doesn't warrant their product is free from user caused damage. I don't think that's even an apple thing, I think it's covered in US law. They can only exclude damage caused by the user, they can't refuse a warranty repair unrelated to that.

Seconded. Refurbed macbook, upgrade the memory and hard drive on your own (it's simple) rather than paying apple to do it.