Hopstretch

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."

We're going through that with my daughter right now. "Doo doo, or doo doo not. There is no try!"

Warren Zevon -- Warren Zevon And if California slides into the ocean Like the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this motel will be standing Until I pay my bill.

Why drink and drive when you can smoke and fly? LiveLeak.com - Pilot And Stewardess Smoke Hashish During Flight.

I'm old and almost certainly late to this whole "mixing YouTube" thing, but ... fuck me!

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -- Let Love In