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I say wait for the $10,000 Ayre rebuild.

Wyred4Sound or DAC-1 or both? Always makes me think of these guys.

Diebenkorn posted this earlier in the For Sale Elsewhere thread. Though it might merit one of its own. They're definitely trying to tick all the boxes on the wish list, and then some. Will be interesting to see what the implementation is like. If the USB input was asynch, they would probably say so I guess.

How'd that get into your head? Built To Spill -- You In Reverse

I don't have either yet Jack, but they're on the list. I'm slowly building up the toolbox. Biggest futz factor with a suspended table is getting the bounce just right. You could drive yourself mad there and, judging by the forums on vinylengine and AA, more than a few already have. Now playing Remain In Light, which is my other personal punchy bass barometer. The Gyro isn't a bass monster, but it's very tight and clean. In messing with the stylus force and VTA last night, I started to feel I'd lightened it up too much. Now I don't. Tweak table, tweak head, repeat to fade.

Well, I was just sitting here ... Funny thing is the last time we fired this up you gave me shit for having no lossless music at all in my iTunes library. Now there's -- what -- 1,600 albums? That's what HC does to you. Back on topic: Weather Channel ToDos OpenTable Bloomberg Redfin Convert Golfshot GPS Such an old fart.

I gave up on Simplify a while back because it was so buggy on my Mac. Will have to try the latest version.

Bass inappropriately unphat.

Well, I didn't futz with the deck any more last night. Decided to sleep on it and see how I felt in the morning. And, spinning Aja right now, my ears are a lot happier. Bass seems appropriately phat again. Stupid brain.

Nooo Dinny, principled holdouts 'r us.

One problem with those is they used proprietary carts, which is a pain. You can still get support through Sound Smith, but my inexpert opinion is you'd do better by starting with a more conventional setup that you can mess around with more freely.

Peter Gabriel -- So

So when I first got my turntable, I just set it up all haphazard-like and got down to enjoying the music. Since then I've gradually acquired a small collection of tools of the trade -- proper level, decent stylus force gauge, appropriate cartridge protractor etc. -- and today I spent a couple of hours getting everything dialed in pretty close to theoretically perfect. Guess what, it sounds worse.

But you can run a garden hose into it! Yes, that's a USB cable.

Another IEM hater bites the dust. JH Audio JH-13 review

How Everything Goes to Hell During a Zombie Apocalypse - The Oatmeal -

Well, hell. (Looks at his "Standard Edition" BDP-83 and feels somewhat melancholy.)

Psst, Dinny. Wanna buy a turntable?

Tears For Fears -- Songs From The Big Chair Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark -- The Pacific Age

Aural Designs Algahorn. Uses Feastrex 5" drivers.

It also rather depends on what kind of music you're going to be looking for on SACD, Dinny. Rock isn't that well represented in the total catalog so far and they really aren't going to be making many more, barring some miraculous resurrection of the format. With some difficulty.

Agree. Always reluctant to whack people with some technical knowledge and DIY DNA. Let's hope for personal growth.

You obviously have some technical chops to contribute, but you're coming off here as a bit of a wanker. Tone matters, in conversation as in the digital reproduction of music. Scratch that, a complete wanker.

Twitteriffic, WriteRoom and couple of other decent Mac apps bundled for free. Can't really quibble with that.