tyrion

No, but I'm not sure I'm giving it back.

Pico DAC:

I'm in.

Jim, Happy Birthday!

Michael, Happy Birthday!

Stax SRD-7 mkii

Beer has arrived.

We're up to $230.

I hope you have an ok birthday!

Congrats! Now buy a raffle ticket. One of these:

Here is a link: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/hurricane-ike-humane-society-relief-raffle-365145/

It went great. I was faster than usual since it was only 10 (I can say "only" when I'm regularly doing 12 to 18 the last couple of months), fast being a very relative term.

My fridge is going to look like that next week when my order of Stone IPA, Arrogant Bastard, Bear Republic Racer 5 and Hot Rod Rye and last but not least Pliny the Elder.

I know, one of these days I will fill them up appropriately.

This is a great integrated that happens to also have an excellent headphone amp. The integrated is very versatile in terms of the number of inputs and outputs. You can set the gain for each source used. It also can act as a preamp and has a separate power supply for that purpose. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the cdp transport in the cdp they sold here which resulted in Berendsen to losing it's US distributor. The cdp is excellent but for the transport issue. Berendsen was the manufacturer of the well regarded Gamut CD-1 as well as other gear for Gamut. I have a Berendsen preamp and it's as good as any I've heard.

Hopstretch, I have Mojo working. Instead of say ok to closing the program when the error message comes up, I ignored it and started to play songs from your library. I'm in the process of downloading some music to see the type of file I end up with. I choose from your lossless files. The player seems okay, there are some buffering issues. If they continue than using it for playback would not work for me.

YGPM

Do you know whether the downloads from someone another computer are in the same form as the original. In other words, if the original on your comp is lossless and I download it, am I getting the same lossless file? I assume that is the case but in my quick look at the website, I didn't see an answer.

I'm afraid on these matters Nate is the counselor.

Nate keeps telling me I can't afford them.

Beta 22 monoblocks, I like that.

It is a cleaner look with the amp to the right. Only if they offer a burn in service. You can do it for a lot less, I did. Although, I'm not a fancy attorney in SF overlooking the Bay. I have a view of hell (IRS building across the street). x2

Moved the amp to the right, which eliminated most of the wires in back:

Turned out it doesn't look so bad. Just another reason why Al is the DOTU.

Thanks, that is important. By the way, I had the beta at home this weekend since one of my monos died. I had it connected through my preamp. I put the beta volume at about 4:00 and used the pre to control volume. Plenty of volume and excellent sq. I never got it high enough where it clipped and I had it pretty loud to test it.