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I did DIY. Total is about $15 in materials. You cut the extension cable in half. then you strip the ends of the wires with a wire stripper tool (cheap, easily found). Then you make sure the end conductors are tight together and tin them with solder (cover them in a little solder with a soldering gun, a cheap one should work for this job I'd bet). You have to match up the six wires to the right five pins, you can easily find the stock koss and stax pin outs with very easily to follow pictures on faust's headphone wiki. You solder the right wire/s to the correct pins (the bias pin will have two of the wires soldered for pro bias which is what you would want). Add some stiff 3/4" heat shrink over the finished work (I like to make it stiff so that it is good tension relief and gives you something to use when plugging and unplugging the connector. I put the female koss end with a male stax socket and the male koss end to female socket and it allows you to use pro Stax with the E90 (not that its a great driver unit, but it works) and connect the two together to make an extension to the E90 again. You can get the WPI stax female and male connectors from Allied electronics. (WPI - 86-71-6S - Allied Electronics and WPI - 78-S6S - Allied)

I usually buy extra tile just to make sure that if I ever need more then I thought or any needs replacement in the future that I have some that matches the original batch.

I did the adapter because it was cheaper then finding a good stax cable ($90 compared to $12)

Sorry to hear about the bills. That is always a bummer. I'll be down for Friday night entertainment.

You do what every junkie does eventually. You get her addicted too. Sherwood's a good one to ask.

Goth Pat? I have no idea what gender they are. I would like to guess its a dude.

Actually, its that me and stranger have not been so strange to each other it seems. This plus all my childhood videos of stuff like playing baseball.

I got reamed by a ton of unexpected bills and surprises. In other news, I've always suspected, but now know that I am naturally left handed, thanks.

I'm sure the DIY inclined can grab the DC adapters broken off of eBay or otherwise if they really wanted to make an adapter using the proper tip. I seem to remember the DC adapters for the Macbooks failed for many not too unoften.

Your making me want to order a m2tech hiface just to compare.

If you can stand couch and airtran, don't forget the vouchers I posted. It would be great if you would make it out.

At that price, it seems like it could set a new standard for balanced budget DAC.

Happy Birthday!

No browser either. Your either buying books or connecting to the server to lend them it seems. With the B&N app they mention, it seems that you can run 3G to connect to other devices for sharing. I bet its only available by a connection through their network that controls access rights remotely.

The nook doesn't have a mic sadly or text to speech. Its also not letting you create third party software or connect via wireless anywhere but Barnes and Noble or access anything but the ebook store. I'm going to hop on a netbook eventually, because honestly, if I can stare at my laptop screen for head-case this long and read ebooks off of my PSP, I think I know where to go for functionality and not giving up control of my device to some remote third party. Its not like a PC can't do everything this eBook reader can. Someone would be a down to earth genius to make a make a fairly stylish small ebook reader that doesn't have any internet service or special features other then replaceable battery and an eInk screen including only a dictionary, basic audio and browsing functions, and text to speech that could be easily be connected onto and arranged as a dual screen drag and drop for the PC through USB cheaper then $250. All you need is a static refresh for ebook pages.

I was thinking something like the microsoft courier booklet tablet with one side being the color touch screen and the other side being eInk (maybe color eInk) and have built-in 3G capability added in. I really want internet on these things since they have the hardware to connect and the little color touchscreen can double for a mouse and keyboard. I would lay down a grand for that if it ran programs for the PC or was at least open source. There is this one really ugly hideous looking $500 booklet ereader with one side color and the other eInk. There on the right track at least, especially this: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6822723.eceI don't think the nook is going to be the end all be all. If I had something like that screen in eInk for the W700, I would want it to detach for real portable use.

Congrats! Been there, done that (true story)

As long as there is no required subscription service, I'm set then, this just may be the perfect ebook reader. Now that I'm home I realize I must have had noscript enabled when viewing the page.

I don't know enough about Android, could someone possibly make an app with android to allow pdf or doc files to be read?

Ugh. Sorry to hear about you and Fitz. If this is a curse, its nasty. Now I'm worried about myself meeting fate while attempting to avoid it.

Many people I see at coffee shops other then Starbucks tend to be all three. At least I personally don't think I look gender confused, on the other hand I don't frequent coffee shops much. That looks cool. Looks like they are going to make it proprietary format as well since you will need their special software to read books on other devices. I like the lend feature.

I think I might see a hint of a back windshield. Lotus is still one of the coolest looking cars I've seen, used to have a electric RC one in college that they would race.

Whoa, what he said. That sounds like a good scare, but glad to hear you'll be sticking around without any permanent scars.

I concur. The signature prices seem to be getting close to equaling to the pro everywhere these days though, I'd catch a signature over the pro any day.

We should talk beefy if the ESP950 is what you decide your going for.