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If you decide to buy, most Lambda variaties can be bought used for under $500 (SR-404LE is the only one not in that category yet). The dealers charge a large amount more then the used market and they have proved to be very durable, I doubt you will notice a difference between a lambda used for a week or used for 30 years if intact and the pads are still decent. Try the SR-202 and SR-404 if your dealer has them. Also, I don't know where your at, but check for meet locations on head-fi.org so that you can audition some of those no longer being sold new and all those other phones you've mentioned will hopefully be available there as well.

Yeah, there have been times where I noticed the difference while listening with lower bitrates, but -v0 or higher is not easily noticeable to me unless I'm actively trying to compare. Definitely recommend having the lossless for archiving and reference listening whenever possible though, its just less to worry about.

-v0 or better is not as good as lossless IMO, its easily noticeable, but its not going to probably make or break the experience with those cans. I think they would be fine for comparison testing. I definitely would wait a while on selling them just yet, I think the gamma 2 and minimax sound like a pretty good combo in a grado rig, most hybrid amps I've tried had good synergy with them. Sounds like you have already had some good advice. I think you have a decent choice with the Grado from your description of what you listen to, if you still can't stand them after you get your gear, maybe try the HD600. The HD650 is a bit demanding to give it the control to tighten up the sound and the K701 needs some pretty serious stuff too to bring out the bass more IMO. Though, not surprisingly to people that know me, my honest advice would be to sell everything but the gamma2 and go with Stax. JH13 is a little pricy, but its ok I guess.

You've got to make the album unprivate or give us a password for us to see it.

Oh yeah I get that. I am honestly only hoping it makes a good contender in the best out of any balanced source under $1000 market. I think it may do that.

I bet that combo is not bad though I'm sure its beatable judging by the TPA Buffalo24, its probably worth listening to.

Not to mention software crap changes so fast, any meet impressions focused on it would be invalidated in a month for most apps. Amarra is even said to sound different based on versions, with the newest version not sounding the best. I've heard some version or another and liked it.

I really like that article. But, argh, fuck me to be an old world generation X ultimately doomed computer enthusiast. The very definition of a computer points that any computer can do the work of another given enough time and the instructions. I never thought the future of computers would be to limit it to make it easier or easier to keep stable, but it makes sense that the general user would rather do more general tasks with less even if that means sacrifices overall. I also really like his suggestions on how it could improve.

I wouldn't do it. You won't be covered by any protection at all.

I would take the 4070 and 404LE over the O2 too if I planned on probably selling them later. I think the 404LE would make a great companion to the O2.

I mean I limit the amount I spread my information around as much as possible. Server farms make a more attractive target to me to harvest data then my PC, if I had data I wanted to remain secure I would keep it on external storage and never connect it to a computer that was accessing a network making sure to clean up any temporary storage as much as possible (ramdisk helps). The external storage would be kept protected like I keep all my important documents. I honestly do trust myself to protect my data more then a business. Its a sad world to me when some encryption is made illegal just because its too hard to break IMO. Apple did everything right here from a hardware perspective to me except for IO options, I'm impressed that Microsoft doesn't catch on more. A SSD with an optimized OS and processor and 1GB RAM is a killer machine to fit in a small package. People complain so much about CPU speed of netbooks. 1.6Ghz with a decent chipset and cache is fast enough that unless your doing encoding or really serious decoding, maybe some extreme flash video or gaming, its rarely the bottleneck IMO.

Making other promise to keep your secrets isn't good security policy. Anyone should know by now from history how easy it is for things to leak. Hopefully everyone who takes a gamble here trusting that some things will be kept secret knows that you still don't go spreading all your information around in exchange for a promise if you absolutely require privacy. Some things you don't trust even trust to your best friend. I'm definitely not altogether trusting of others who only look at me as a potential sell and I'm, as you say, not really all that interesting.

I don't have a problem with getting it and using it to access VNC, though that as a device isn't revolutionary or really much of evolutionary it seems. They basically put a big screen on it and and optimized it to run their OS just like they did until they switched to intel for processors and also put an under-featured OS with a nice GUI to help get greater speeds using less power. The only benefit would be easy access to different clouds using optimized software made for the iPad compared to using a different device not made by apple. The iPad did not invent these and I'm not certain that it revolutionized it. You could provide your own computer somewhere else and contact it without Apples help or prices. And yes, I don't want them to have my individual data points even if its only to market it to me better. Most all social network sites and search engines do that already and I'm not certain what advantage of having the best system of developing macro-data statistics built is, but I would rather not let apple or any one entity be completely in charge of a majority of my online portal to data. I don't want to need any service from Apple or them to become a monopoly on computing just like I don't want Microsoft to either, its obvious that their job is getting money from consumers. Weather data isn't as useful at manipulated to control the weather yet. I really do think that both technology and information can be used for good and/or bad and that this is why privacy and some limits must exist.

Quite the shit storm of mobileness really. I think I will call it... the internet.

Ok, ok, maybe not to anyone else, but I do mean important as in I value it and would not want to be forced to share it in order to do anything I may need to do with it. I don't want Apple to have access to me so completely for data mining, most people on the internet seem like they should care about possibly having only one entity with not enough checks and balances in charge over overseeing something important. iPad doesn't seem to represent this concept anyway yet and I suspect the data center has nothing at all to do with supercomputing.

Yeah, that seriously scares the shit out of me. I mean, um... I, for one, welcome our new Apple overlords... I also don't want Apple to be the large remote computer I'm forced to access for my important work if that's what you want me to think of. Honestly, I'm not too concerned with supercomputers. I mean, I've never needed to use one for my personal wants or needs, not that they aren't needed. I wouldn't want it to be necessary to use them and I still hope that our small client computer that we'd have would advance in speed too enough to take care of our own needs and wants into the future, not stay the same just with access to a more powerful computer.

I'm guessing taking that concept home means you have the future Mac and PC as the remote access computer and the future iPad like devices as the small client computers. In that idea, it sounds as though the iPad is used as a remote control using something like VNC. Its doesn't sound like it would still be supercomputing when on a small scale and ideally I wouldn't want to own more then one device for easy access to all my resources. It also sounds like the iPad is related to making computer overall more powerful and not related to making computers less powerful somehow that your hinting at (which it is IMO).

Oh, that's coming.

I just realized that I'm the Luddite if computers end up going this way. Not because I'll be put out of job, but that I worry about the impact of the technology being negative on my life. Not because its intuitive, but because its a step back IMO to my productivity to make it so if I were to be expected to use it instead. Its funny to me how some don't have the inclination to fix things, but consider having to program something new to do what they really want or need over again as being good. I do get that there are people like that and how that can appeal to some as tinkering appeals to me but the average person doesn't seem that way. Maybe the zeitgeist community will share and equal the playing field, but why waste resources on a less ergonomic less efficient device whose only real difference is mostly in the way its GUI acts. Its great for some people just want something reliable for basic tasks, but I sincerely hope it doesn't become standard so that technology will continue to improve on a basic level at the rate it is now.

That makes sense. I saw it differently, likely because my laptop is about the equivalent of a netbook these days in specs, and I'm guessing so are many people who have actually used a netbook. Its not quite as flexible IMO though. It doesn't have the IO options to be. It has about the same flexibility as my unlocked PSP or maybe others unlocked iTouch or iPhone, in some areas more, in some areas less. I will admit that it has a good amount more solely due to having a physically larger display. Definitely not saying it isn't useful or isn't going to sell well. Mostly saying that it is not a serious tool IMO and that most people who would buy it the way they are advertising it already have a decent tool for almost all of its functions.

My dad is the same way, usually he can barely figure out how to use a camera (He also is deathly afraid of technology ruining his life, so this probably won't help sadly). I guess your right though. The geeks wanted a device for them and that is not what they got. To me, it acts more like a cool toy, thats mostly why I disagree associating it with being the preferred device for important work. I can see though that people who perceive as a toy instead of a computer may be able to break away from that image that frightens them and learn to use it. If I were Apple, thats how I would advertise it though, like they did the iTouch and iPhone and not as a netbook replacement (not a great comparison in my opinion). This thing is about as attractive as DRM music to me. Yeah, its good and I could use it, but there seems to be better for cheaper. "Jack of some trades, master of none" is something that bugs me. If I had no faith in being able to use technology I could use to better my life properly, I can see how this could be what I would seek I suppose.

They could very well be be right about the future of computing being catered to those who would wish to remain ignorant of how it works to focus on the important task they need it for. I hope that doesn't backfire when what is supposed to "just work" just doesn't and they are forced to rely on the corporation to fix it as no one else will be allowed and very few will know the trade secrets to be able to like we now must do with dedicated devices with protected software.

I didn't agree. I thought they sounded like complete Luddites. I may be in shock at the lack of choice, but that is nothing new to me with Macs or other devices that have been around. I would recommend a Mac to people who wanted a general everyday get stuff done computer any day, as long as they can afford it. But the idea that the iPad is going to be a more efficient, simple device to do actual work on seems to be a tad far fetched. Its unlikely that it is going to be more simple for most work applications, you still click the icon, drag stuff around and type it seems. It will probably require more time to perform steps. Because you can't see its file hierarchy doesn't automatically make it so IMO, this is not coming off as any more intuitive then an iTouch which most people wouldn't probably want to use as their main device. Its not more efficient to use necessarily running only one app at a time either I would think, unless you just need CPU power and have already programmed the commands. It seems they are happy that there is less to understand because they have less choices and abilities of the device. Why would you celebrate that? This things OS reminds me of those on-boot PC OS that you can instantly boot to to do simple tasks. If you wanted that on your PC only, you could do it, it just seemed idiotic before to most people. Certainly not revolutionary to dramatically limit devices? I wouldn't look at it as an improvement to today's modern computing. I look at it in the same way I look at a kiosk in a library or bookstore that is locked down so that it only runs an internet browser. Sure, their are plenty of apps online, you can watch videos, browse, listen to music, even type and save a document with just a browser and in many intuitive ways (helps if you have flash and tabs IMO). But its not at an advantage. Also the car analogy was pretty piss poor. People think that all cars with an automatic transmission are able to "just work" and require no maintenance knowledge have a expensive road ahead of them.

Damn. I already have concert tickets for another show the night she will be here. Would have liked to attend that.

With a six months installment plan on the HA BHSE, you could be making two payments or more before you receive your amp it seems.