Hopstretch

So what happened with the P-1? Todd says they're all gone and Luxman has decided there won't be any more, tough titty.

Ja! Nein!

I am among the seventeen people in the world who are extremely excited about this!

The Smiths -- "Strangeways, Here We Come"

$6,550 at Vintage King.

It was only a matter of time

'Til Tuesday -- Voices Carry Woo, 80s hair!

'Cause you square, square.

Kraftwerk -- Trans-Europe Express

Yeah, the Minerva is a DAC2 with a machined face plate and fancy feet. I saw an online chat with Daniel Weiss a while back where he admitted as much. The Computer Audiophile guy rated it the best USB or FW DAC he'd ever heard but in the end preferred the Lynx/Alpha DAC combo.

How about one of the Weiss FW units? Weiss is nice though the price is scheisse.

Asia -- Asia

Ultravox -- The Voice: Best Of Screw you it's awesome.

It's interesting, though the original recording was obviously pretty rough. A Fine Frenzy -- One Cell In The Sea

Save me from my libido!

The thread is about the death of fidelity. A little each day man.

Speaking of drugs and cloudy thinking...

Only because their big, swinging dicks would shatter them.

You're a fat-fingered fuck, Fergus.

The file compression issue will probably go away eventually. When both bandwidth and storage are trivially cheap, there's really no reason to worry about file sizes. Crappy recordings are another story if the majority of the next generation of music consumers come to believe that's just the way it's meant to sound.

That's what she said.

Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures

New version of iTunes released to support the new shuffle. One bit of the release notes that may interest folks here: "You will enjoy noticeable improvements when working with large libraries."