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Back for moar. Now with 6H30PI toobage, no fans and allegedly optimised for 300 to 600 ohm cans. $799.

People love those. And it was a deal. I twitched a bit myself.

The Jesus And Mary Chain -- Darklands

How does the DL-S1 compare to the Zyx, JP?

China Crisis -- Flaunt The Imperfection

Such as greed?

The kids woke up at sparrow fart this morning so I teed them up with the last of the friggin' cartoon Christmas specials left on the DVR and had a good session on the headphones. Auto rate switching = win. Hi-res vinyl rips + Amarra = significant additional marginal wintility.

It's called "leveraging the power of the Internet." Where have you been?

I'd say that's a given. A quick Google shows their net profit margin is in the 5% range. Assuming for simplicity sake that their revenues have been relatively close to the cited $10 million a quarter during the last few years, she would have spent every single dollar they made over the entire period plus all of the company cash reserves. Could be a terminal event.

Damn you.

toe -- The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety Found an Amazon seller just down the road. Will rip it when I get it on Monday.

Dude, you're getting a dCS stack?

Pretty much echos my own very limited experience to date. Seems to me, listening now and flicking off and on, that the individual instrumental elements just stand out a little more obviously? Took your advice Al and called SS and they got me going. Nice guys.

Got 1.1 installed. Still have the random cut outs because SS have to manually register my iLok key at their end, which is kind of a pain and I guess will take a while. But even running in demo mode the general effect is certainly audible and enjoyable. Uses a fairly consistent 480MB of RAM and around 4% of CPU cycles, both of which I can happily spare.

Some of those guys are seriously fucked in the head. USB cable rollers of the world, unite!

^^^ And then? Time for me to hop on the bandwagon and get Amarra Mini. Will wait for the vinyl ripping plug-in to be released before deciding about the full version. EDIT: And hooray, it's on sale right now for $295 on the SS Web site.

There's definitely a lot less initial mucking about with a Mac + iTunes. Can't comment on Amarra 'cause I haven't bought it yet. Memo to self go get an iLok from Office Depot today.

Brian Eno -- Here Come The Warm Jets

Win. Andrew McDonald Blog Archive: A Pictorial Guide to Avoiding Camera Loss

Fixed.

toe -- New Sentimentality

Bearry Christmas.

Jeez, how many potential messiahs do we have around here? Happy Birthday Guillaume!

Well, didn't buy. Was given, by my loved ones. A bone-handled Laguiole waiters corkscrew and one of those giant Honeywell air purifiers. So I guess I drink a fair bit of wine and ... fart a lot? Bought my wife an iPod touch. She spent a half hour playing with it and delivered this review: "God I hate my Blackberry now." And so the groundwork was laid for the advent of the iSlate.