grawk

Amount of money spent since reading todd rose's signature

I love motorcycles. Love them. Been riding since I was 14 years old. Amazing experience, it's a good one. But the problem isn't the top speed on a bike like that. It's how fast it gets there. Miss the brake one, or forget to release the gas while grabbing the brake, and things get bad FAST. Sportbikes are amazing. A joy to ride. Like nothing else. But they're not cars, they're not bicycles, they aren't even regular motorcycles. They're awe inspiring. Respect that. A HUGE percentage of bike wrecks happen with new riders on sportbikes.

you can get a used bike for $500. That's cheap insurance. You're gonna wreck your first bike. You really want that wreck to 1) happen with a cheap bike, and 2) not happen at 145.

Buy a much smaller bike used, ride it for 6 months, then get back on that one. Really. I'm not trying to be preachy. I have been riding for over 20 years, and a couple of years ago I got on a modern sportbike and it had enough power that it scared the shit out of me. You need your instincts to be good and sound before you get to where a mistake puts you at 140 instead of 50mph.

got lots of riding experience already?

nice jay

Chesky has a few good ear training samplers that are available, and that also have good music on them

nyce

**jealous**

I actually like the SR71 a lot with ER4Ps. It's overpriced, but still very good, in my opinion.

have you met dusty?

That was the first time I'd watched the office. It's very brittish, I like it.

I think Todd said something along the lines of "Pete builds them to order" while Pete was standing there.

As a bonus, it's hand made by the man himself, pete millett.

If you're at all into punk, X (the real X, punk band from LA, in the 80s) is on tour http://www.xtheband.com/13-31.html

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.