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So nice I posted it twice December Snow 2009 - a set on Flickr

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Went out and cleared off both cars, dug one car out and then did the sidewalk in front of the house (apparently that's the law around here). Now I'm thinking about shoveling back to the hot tub

No I didn't but by my count at my house I'm north of 25" since around 9pm last night.

Just did the route from front door to sidewalk for the 3rd time today. Fuck this is a lot of snow. It's more than I've ever seen in Michigan, and I don't remember much about Kingston Ontario's snow other than there was a lot of it. Apparently people are doing XC up and down the local downtown's main drag. Too bad I don't have any XC skis. I really want to go mountain biking but I am going to wuss out. Maybe tomorrow.

Well it's absolutely pissing from the sky around here. I'm thinking of doing shoveling round #3.

8-12" around here. Went for a nice walk. Shoveled 2x so far and will likely have to do it a couple more times. Supposed to go to a friend's holiday party but I don't think that's going to happen.

Gift for the better half for Christmas

Happy Birthday!

Is the user interface different on Mac? It decidedly sucks on PC in my opinion.

Belkin Conserve Surge protector. Finally a way to easily turn a power bar on/off with a remote, and the remote slick to boot.

Sorry Colin that sucks. Good luck with the search.

Naim DAC? Impressions please.

Turned on my home rig for the first time in about a month. Crap this system still sounds amazing, now I remember why I stopped buying stereo stuff.

x2

I wonder how big the stock was? Cheap connectors but not that cheap.

x2!

Want...

I was thinking this too but I looked around and couldn't find a portable source for the DAC.

The whole idea of balanced drive for IEMs is "meh" to me. Balanced drive should (I think) give 2x the noise floor of the amp which is bad news considering the issues most IEMs have with noise floors. Also doubles the output impedance which is likely again an issue with a lot of low impedance IEMs. I guess you do still gain the distortion cancellation (if the source is balanced) and the slew rate gains (not sure what's to be gained in the case of IEMs).

I would highly recommend that if you're going the Weiss route you go with their commercial units since the internals are identical (according to the manufacturer and all internal photos I've seen). They don't look as nice though. I tried out a DAC2 and it was very nice.

Stereophile A+ so probably. Too bad it doesn't have any other inputs than USB because then I would likely want one.

Correction: If the distance is greater and the time instance the same. The speed will be greater.