Hopstretch

You will be cleansed in the holy fire.

Got really sick really suddenly. Fever, dizziness, muscle pains, migraine. I feel like a pig shat in my head. Hoping against hope I haven't already given whatever it is to the kids, 'cause that will be a horror show. Also, thank you God for TV and its emergency childminding abilities. Poor poor pitiful me etc.

Relevant to the original direction of the thread, if not the current course. Agon -- Green Mountain Europas Nice price. Good seller.

Get behind me Satan. I'm already struggling to not buy that 3-channel Stratos for the HT room.

Thanks, but I do like to be able to move my arms, should the mood take me.

Mountain Hardwear Downtown Down Coat. 650-fill. Sick of freezing my skinny Southern-hemisphere ass off up here in winter wonderland.

Is that how you do all your victims, Reks? Bludgeoned to death with the proffered olive branch?

Good news! We got home tonight to find no ice on the roof or water in the basement either, which is always nice. The 55 degree temperature swing was a bit of an adjustment. Brr.

Peter Gabriel -- 3/Melt

Damn holiday grind.

iStat menus, a Mac app by iSlayer

No problem either with my mid-2007 iMac, which is basically a comparable MacBook Pro in AIO form factor, right? Fans loaf along at 1200rpm pretty consistently whether the Duet is doing its thing or not.

Textbook Head-Case resolution of original dilemma. I salute you, you magnificent bastard!

Good time to be in Florida! If the power's off at our house in MA there's not a damn thing I can do about it right now, so I guess I'll just have another Rum Runner to calm my nerves. Sorry about your trip Nate.

For those what care, Oppo have confirmed that their new BD/SACD player will do DSD over HDMI and analog without PCM conversion. It's in final beta right now and does not do DVD-A at this point. Innit?

And he ... jizzed in his pants.

Went to Head-Fi to read about power, As I recall it was Singlepower. Westone 3 was in every thread, Sucked me in and I started to read. And I ... jizzed in my pants.

How about one of those orphan Maxes? My sister is very attractive and quite, ah, accomplished I'm told.

And yet even these allegedly-crappy planar designs were universally and consistently preferred over just about every "conventional" dynamic speaker in the test. I'd say that makes the result more, rather than less, striking.

They're some sort of omni, aren't they? I was thinking of the Def Techs as the only conventional dome + cone design. I also thought the planar mafia was down on the latest generation of Martin Logans as generally crappy?

Yeah, only one "liked" speaker in any category with a dome tweeter. Oof.

Hey Pete, I got an email from Outlaw today saying they're doing 20% off and free shipping. That would get you to $560 for a new pair of their 2200 monoblocks, which are pretty sweet and seem to be a favorite over on the Hoffman forums.

Aragon 4004 would do the job nicely at the price.

We've beaten this "new modules" bush about on a couple of threads and I think it's pretty well established that there aren't going to be any, unless Justin has changed his mind very recently. I can't help you with comparisons Dan, as I don't have the experience, but can say that I find the GS-1 very pleasing as both an amp and a pre-amp. As far as lead times go, I was quoted eight weeks and got it in twelve -- which isn't exactly instant gratification but also isn't even close to a Singlepower-style runaround.

Aerial 5B? You'll have to be quick on Audiogon, though, as they don't last.