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Blast those sodding interstellar space pirates, throwing their goddamn space debris at us.

Smooth jazz + porn == reverse boner, which ruins the point.

TWSS. Cancer would be bad. Mind elaborating, both on comfort and sound?

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I recommended a pair of upgraded HD580 (HD600 grilles, 650 cable) and a LD MK3 to a friend awhile back, and the system actually sounded pretty decent. That LD was the one that burnt a hole in my T40 pads (not the fault of the amp but the idiot who put my T40 on the tubes). Glad you like the 0404 USB. It was a no-brainer for me for the price since I use the recording features as well as the DAC section and technically has balanced functionality. Might want to upgrade soon, though, since I think it's now the weak link in my system.

Colin, you're officially more of a basshead than a basshead. Can't wait for Sunday (it's still on, right?).

Happy birthday! Have a good one.

I was wondering the same thing. But I guess it's cool. I need to hear some good ATs sometime in my life; they seem to be quite polarizing headphones.

x86 It's always better to be safe/healthy than sorry/dead. Glad things didn't turn out any worse than they did, though.

You're sure you didn't put anything weird in there? Is Colin going to find a half-rotten squirrel corpse buried in the box? Praying nothing gets damaged in transit... should be fine as long as you used some bubble wrap. I wouldn't mind having some squirrel meat as long as it isn't rancid.

If you're on a very tight budget and can't find an ESP950, any of the Lambdas will work. Some of the more preferred ones include the Nova Signature and the normal bias Lambda, but even the apparently much despised Lambda Pro sounds good to my ears.

You brought 3 amps without power cords? So they kind of just sat there the whole time? Good job not getting ticketed or stabbed, and glad the Raven is up and running. Marc FTW.

Might as well go with a real server. The Xeon 5500 series can do 72GB per blade.

Hm, that's a tough one. She's certainly more of a looker.

I don't know what I'd do without speakers in my car, no matter how terrible. Probably purposely floor it straight into a tree at 100mph. Here's to hoping the Audioengines are listenable for you.

If I end up liking hi-rez much better than redbook, I'm blaming you, Dusty. And I generally don't like the way the famous women violinists play (don't think it's a function of their gender, it just happens that I don't like them), but Akiko Suwanai is amazing.

It's a beautiful piece, I like. Should work decently without continuo... maybe we can conjure up a full-blown quartet. Probably just wishful thinking on my part. Looking forward to impressions.

Time to be hardcore and get some ECC RAM.

Maybe he loads his music straight in main memory so he doesn't have to read from any slow, noisy I/O devices. Time to upgrade the data cables to 99.999% pure palladium plated silver and wrap in ERS paper. Edit: Yeah that sounds more reasonable.

That's what she said.

Happy birthday And ditto to that. ^

Sure, I'll definitely play if I make it to the next meet. I won't bring anything fancy (hint: starts with a V and ends with aume) but hopefully it'll sound decent anyway. Marc, wanna play a duet? Bach Double? Navarra? Bartok duos? Something else? Energetic is one way to put it. I don't get to see him too often since he's so far away, but he kind of makes me wish my dad were more into audio. Agreed, cigar boxes are classy as hell. Nice amp, too.

Okay, screw bringing any amplification. You're our SACD/hi-rez man. Nice collection, dude. Including the Goldfrapp. I didn't even know Hilary Hahn recorded the first Shostakovich concerto. It doesn't seem to get particularly good reviews, though, and I think there are better violinists overall.

A very good contrast indeed, as the mids should also be quite good and different from the β22. Glad you guys met. If I'd known he was coming, I'd have let you guys know beforehand. Maybe even attempted to fly down there and crash at his place. Yeah okay, I guess it was a good idea I didn't know.