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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.

Sorry for your loss KD. Me: Just took apart our broken treadmill, returned it and picked up its replacement. Waiting for Karen and Peter to return from swimming lessons so we can drive up to Champaign and get some Sashimi.

I liked that article and I think they absolutely hit the nail on the head. I also do not think all tech-saavy users are decrying the ipad (Ok well maybe everyone thinks the name is pretty lame). I think you can see it right here and in the work place that many are seeing how it can be used to solve specific problems for them. That is what computers should be, problem solving tools, not problem creating tools. The creativity will now be in thinking up new ways to use the device and extend its functionality in new directions. I may have just joined the cult of Steve. @Dusty - There are many uses that will be realtively platform independent. I plan on using it as a VNC remote device for both Windows and OSX machines. It will be very much more functional than my Touch just by virtue of the larger screen.

I think most pharmacy's carry it.

We'll let VPI guard it. Should be safe enough.

Yes I generally wear them slightly more forward so my ears are more towards the rear of the pads.

Definitely agree with that. The camera interface thingy just got me thinking.

More interested in just having it read from it for music storage. Knowing Apple they may even hobble that in some way.

Yes we have. Our current plan is to use the hotel to receive vendor shipping and have the local crew provide package handling for members. Of course if any members prefer to use the hotel for shipping then we can certainly go that route and provide the details. The hotel has a storage area for shipped packages as well as a defined set of rules and charges. The charges are why we decided to help with receiving packages from members.

I wonder if that camera connection kit would also let you connect an external USB HD?

Since I am moving to Amarra in the big rig you can color me interested as well.

More importantly, which one is going on the sale block?

Officially things will wrap up about 3:00 PMish on Sunday so that vendors and members have time to dismantle everything by 5:00 PM. No problem. I have it on good authority that that particular member knows where Ray lives and could certainly make a friendly visit.

Since the Dac-Magic is essentially the same Dac as in the 740C I cannot see any reason to buy and use it over your CDP. I do not know if the output stage is different but I would be surprised if the Dac Magic had a better output stage than the 740c.

Ill be there from Wednesday on if not earlier. I'm always up for eating, drinking and carousing.

I was actually thinking of someone else, but Ray would work.

Or you could just ship it ahead of time to a supremely trustworthy member.

^^^Heh, I like that. The difference between being proactive versus reactive, between being a leader or a sheep. Nice

It is not listed as such under specifications but is listed like that on other units such as the Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, etc. So I doubt it is a dual headphone/optical out.

Every so often when I use standby (about 1:20) my netbook will not come out of standby and requires a hard boot. I have never had a windows based machine that did not have that problem. My touch has always been there when I want it. I do not use a MacBook so that may be part of my problem.

You digital bastard! Nice choice. It keeps floating back up to the top of my short list for this year also.

OK. After really looking at the specs and the reasons for the "limitations" and engineering decisions there really is some serious pixie dust in this thing. Some of which will obviously not be available until they announce iphone/itouch/ipad OS 4.0. This is what I need my netbook to be. I'm glad that it is a big Touch. The immediate startup is huge if you are going to use it as an off-and-on companion device on a day-to-day basis. I would be using my netbook more often if I didn't have to constantly wait for it to boot up (Sorry but "sleep" mode too often becomes dead-to the-world mode to be useful). Definitely going to get a 3G model, either 32 or 64gb and the VNC app. This will be the most useful computing device for me in a while especially when MS gets around to developing MS office ipad edition