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Thanks guys and gals for the congrats. On a related note it looks like true to form my company puts additional (rather complex) responsibility on people without explaining one damn thing.....

Nice on the 70-200. I have the Nikon one and l flat out love that lens.

coke zero

I was just announced as officially becoming the manager of my group. Yay for having to do time sheet approval and performance reviews. Good to have it formalized though.

Good luck to you sir!

We bought one for around Hoover $200 from home depot that was great. We don't use it much any more since we got a cleaning service.

It is now an all out war: Signeo reveals 'Soul by Ludacris' headphone series at CES -- Engadget

x2 on the ouch.

Scaled correctly that could make an awesome wine bottle cozy

Probably my post. I should have clarified and said that if both were bit perfect then by definition the music was at the same level. That said it's not always the case with DVD transports and or computer transports and it happens that sometimes some DSP to be done in transports/software that ruins the bit perfect nature and/changes levels.

I never said that it didn't matter what input was being used. It's common enough that some inputs are treated differently on DACs as far as clocking so it may well be audible. Also I have had problems with coax and galvanic noise in my setup so I avoid it but that's not a good reason for anyone else to avoid it. I am not saying any method is inferior/superior. In pro audio they seem to use them interchangeably (while specifying 75 ohm cable for coax to fight jitter) except that clock signals are almost always done with BNC's for some reason which makes me think optical is bad for clocking. I don't know.

But you can use DBT to disprove the converse (for you and your setup). Also if you do include one DAC that does not DBT within the test set then you can check for this too because if you don't find a difference between any of them then your test (or test subject) is flawed anyway. For some reason it appears that some around here believe that I am dogmatic about "all DACs are the same" but I never ever said this. I presented a test I did that proved to me and to my ears that 3 DACs that I thought sounded different did not at regular listening volumes. I assure you I did not think they sounded the same at the start of the test, I was dying to keep the Weiss.

You are absolutely right that it doesn't mean that it's not possible that there aren't differences or that I don't have lead ears. My point is that you should prove it to yourself using a scientific approach before stating definitively that there are differences when the measurement apparatus is so susceptible to perception and placebo like (with regards to Hirsch) effects. The same test was done and I could hear the difference between the DACs and the Benchmark DAC1. I am not nor have I ever argued that all DACs sound the same. At loud volumes even my two DACs now sound different because the noise floor is better on one than the other. I hope that removed any wall that you think you were beating your head on.

Thanks for that link. Very very interesting though not truly double blind but single blind. What they should have done to really make it good was to have someone switch up the cables again and make sure that they could identify which was which....

How did they not sound the same? Was it a blind test with the two transports set up identically (both using optical)? Also I'm not familiar with the Assemblage but does it reclock? If not it could be jitter. Expectation is a large part of what we hear, that is a fact. In the end if you think the Lynx sounds better it probably does.

To be honest I'm not sure but I know that each of my DVD players in their stock settings did DSP on the digital outputs from a CD. I don't know about DVD stuff.

Good luck with Carnegie Mellon Crappy. Good luck chasing the big bucks on Wall Street. Not my cup o' tea.

Was it at least single blind, volume matched, and are you sure that they were truly bit perfect or just claimed to be bit perfect? It's a pretty common trick to pump up the volume 2/3dB which will sound "better" but will not be that noticeably different. I don't trust my ears anymore on volume matching and use a voltmeter across the headphone out along with a test tone. I was absolutely 100% convinced I could hear the differences between my two DACs at regular listening volumes until I did a couple single blind tests and couldn't tell shit with any accuracy.

my 2cents: If the transport is bit perfect then the only thing left is jitter and the easy way to check to see if the transport is bit perfect is to have a DAC with a HDCD light and an HDCD in the transport. There are other ways using recording software and any bit perfect recorder with software but they are a PITA. With high levels of jitter (be it poorly clocked, or a poor transport) with older non-independently clocked DACs then it's probably audible but the question was with modern DACs and there I believe that in general bitses are bitses. That said if it the transport is not bit perfect (a lot of DVD players for example) then there can be huge differences in volume control, filtering etc. I can never quite figure out why some USB transport manufacturers decide not to do bit perfect but they do and include all sorts of upsampling, downsampling, brick wall filtering, minimum phase filtering etc. Also with older CDs that were less than perfectly mastered bit perfect will actually sound worse than something with a minimum phase filter because of the effects on the transients. That's what Ayre's "listen" filter does.

Statements like this really peak my interest. Does the GS-X have enough grunt?

x2 on the good luck

CO2 cartridges to replace the 2 I lost to a CF of a bike ride this morning that ended with me walking 2+miles in cycling shoes in the pouring rain.....

The size limit is enforced everywhere as best as I can tell. I have confirmation that at least in the UK it is in effect with multiple carriers.

Finally went to home depot and bought some 1/4" plywood to turn my single shelves of CD's into double stacked shelves and hence have solved my CD space issues. more room for pop music