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You could add a switch connected with a resistor to add an extra range of gain, though I can see how that might be confusing on a commercial product.

"These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns."

I get it being external, but it is going to be a switching supply with fairly high ripple the way its spec'd it would seem. I just don't find it very impressive. He seems focused on doing more with less but fails in every way except small and silent, he still doesn't seem to attempt to work on the typical problems of using a PC for high-end audio that actually may affect audio quality. Kind of like he built a really nice desktop equivalent of a netbook with a desktop audio card inside. If he was attempting only at digital pass through, he could have used some tips from the link in the OP's post and probably taken this to another level for very little extra (perhaps only the cost of a TPA LCDPS and transformer).

That thing costs more then the $1500 goal price (notice he doesn't include the price of Windows 7, at least another $120 for just the OEM) which isn't fairly inexpensive to me for a transport/source. It doesn't seem to be all too great either, I thought the power supply choice of a switch brick to be fairly horrid. I wouldn't have gone with a USB CD-Rom either. Good choices on keeping it silent and support all those bit rates, but I can't imagine it sounds much better then most other HTPCs if you were to add in the sound card alone. Actually, I wouldn't use a computer as a source like this. With that kind of loot, I'd probably reach a little further and try to buy a used Cary 306 SACD with digital input and m2tech hiface with my computer and feel more secure.

From the way those kids are being stuffed, sounds like the week ends with Hansel and Gretal day.

I spent the weekend visiting the family, cheated on my diet to go out to eat with them. It was a special occasion exemption in my mind.

Happy Birthday Stephen!

Ouch. If making computers more simple for users leads to having even more bumbling persons like those (who also seem to desperately wish to share their personal information at least on facebook) have access to the internet, I can only think that phishing is going to keep increasing. Maybe this is what we get for always telling newbs to just fucking Google it. Another thought, I'm pretty happy they don't enable java and flash at least by default for the iPad with all of the security holes they introduce, not to mention pron doesn't have the most trusted of domains. Imma buzz dis.

I didn't like the name dropping and abusing of the freedom word. If you disagree with that, maybe you disagree with freedom.

You just have to order it terminated to USB-A female; waiting for the someone that will do this and actually end up only lowering their bandwidth and getting farther from spec.

Drew is literally right down the road if he actually has a pair yet, I could check on an appointment. I'm kind of curious to hear what Beyer has done differently.

No, you iz nice kitteh.

Yeah, I agree. I've never seen a cable entry like that, but the Livewire IEMS I believe connected in a similar location. EDIT: Al found 'em.

Thats nice. Thanks for your valuable input, we care, really we do. I want all my components to have internal power sources, is there anything wrong with that?

Script kiddie FTL.

I print a lot of rebates and concert tickets.

Good luck in the upcoming apocalypse all, sounds like snow shoes are in order.

Have you heard Sade's new album yet? Curious of impressions.

Oh noes, guess we are back to the scanner/camera loophole. At least its green friendly.

You don't know that.

If I could get these in high resolution, posters would be made

As there is no print service, I don't know how you could do it without multitasking a different app even with a networked printer.

There are a couple of books of the headphone girl pictorials, they used to be sold on amazon. See here: http://www.jbox.com/PRODUCT/PAB614 Their is another on that site too, search headphone.

Yeah, it makes some sense and will probably make a difference. I don't think its going to knock out all $1500 transports. I've seen other guides that were similar that I didn't think much of. I think it might be a little over the top in some places for sure. Its a little expensive as a HTPC as it is, I'd probably just mod something like this first: Denon Model DVD-1930 CI Universal CD/DVD/SACD Player - eBay (item 270524200106 end time Feb-07-10 12:51:21 PST) . Plenty of computer digital adapters already buffer and reclock the data, so I bet you may be able to get better results for much much cheaper. You could modify a USB port to use a separate regulated power supply fairly easily and with some memory management, probably get a similar result using a nice external digital adapter. I compare this to the M2Tech HiFace i2s to Buffalo mod which is something I would probably want over the Juliet at the same price. I do want a fanless HTPC one day, so some of those tips are useful.

Heh, not serious about building at all yet. Maybe someday, but I just barely purchased the minimum parts so far for my new computer and have a bit farther to go on it before its how I want it.