morphsci

$139 on closeout at Home Depot

^^^ Wow, the resemblance is uncanny. I do want to hear it though.

Yeah, I have little hope of anything happening at TPA. I have been waiting for over a year to pick up kits to make a balanced Darwin. Plus I have a certain fondness for the name.

^^^^Pffft ...

In Salt Lake City I think even on marshland setting you would probably be OK.

It takes time to get the new and improved model, dontchyaknow.

@Tom - Hope you find the perfect music to compliment your pain meds @Aura - Sorry for your loss @Al - Sounds like whisk(e)y time. @anyone - So I am confused. Is Dan New Mike? Or was Al New Mike and that makes Dan New Al? The New Guy needs to stop moving around so much. Makes it too hard to keep up.

If TPA ever gets off their behinds a balanced Darwin would be just the ticket or you could ask Steve to sell you his.

Flash will be gone soon. Even sooner when the ipad is released.

Happy 25th Young Man!

For some reason I have this feeling that the flood of ipad software will soon make the iphone apps seem like a trickle.

My thought exactly. They are well under that used I'm thinking that the 404LE may also convince me to sell the HE-60.

I'm OK but if were going to do acronyms it should be HC EFOTM. And Black is the new ... err ... Black.

Not really. Mine gets only slightly warm and I have left it on for days. One of these days I will have to open it up and check the output stage.

You do have to be careful with the DacMagic as it does have a very hot analog output and can easily push some headphone amps into distorting. I cannot use it without attenuators with the little Audio Alchemy Amp. It works just fine with the GSX.

Plus they're white.

Miguel, If you are still looking for an X-10D, drop me a PM.

I was originally a sceptic about Amarra making any difference and my initial listen to it at CanJam did not improve the situation. However a later listen at DanJam with more familiar music and headphones as well as the ability to easily switch it off was a reveletaion. Luckily, I'm an old guy with early onset memory loss so it was relatively easy for me to do a bunch of switches and lose track of whether Amarra was on or off. About as close to a blind test as I'm willing to waste my time on. Damnit, if I wasn't perfect on picking when Amarra was on and when it was off. After that I was able to focus on the sonics and it took the "edge" off the music without losing detail or transient speed. Sorry, but you are being a close-minded dick and your skepticism isn't healthy at all. It is just as much based upon faith as position you are criticising. Oh, and my time is worth infinitely more than my money because of my family friends and life. So either chill out or pick up your

^^^^ Yes, Yes, Yes. I have a tablet PC and it works great. Sitting on my desk. As a laptop it is big, clunky, quirky (Well it is Vista) and it takes fucking forever to boot up. I also need to consolidate information (with adequate backing up) and I want it all available to me all the time, everywhere. We should already be there but I will take what I can get. So wrap me up an ipad and I'm good to go.

Spent all of last evening putting together our replacement treadmill. Put it together, wouldn't turn on, took it apart, checked everything, put it back together, it still won't turn on. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

Your audition was certainly longer than mine and mine was not in my system. I did not mean to indicate they sounded exactly the same only that they were competing for attention in the same neighborhood and it was a pretty nice neighborhood.

Yes increased processor speed is very important but controlling a 24" Hi-Def monitor with the touch involves a lot of zooming and scrolling so the extra real estate really does help. I also use my tablet at home as a remote and it is much easier and faster to accomplish things. So yes I really do want moar real estate Yep that was the conclusion I came to after my initial techno-geek disappointment. The one ring to bind them all.

I think you can also get an Aesthetix Calypso on Audiogon in that price range. I haven't heard them in a while but last time I did I thought they performed on about the same level as the BAT preamps.

I'll second Chris's suggestion of the GSX.