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He will have a great day despite your post.

David, Happy Birthday!

Vicki, congrats on the job, I know you have been working hard towards it for a while now. I'm limited to speakers in my office. I have too many people bothering me during the day. It would be nice to be able to crank up the volume a bit which I could do with headphones. It's always nice to have an excuse to look for a new rig.

I did a comparision although it was a quick one. As good as the Pico is, and it is good, I preferred the Duet. It was a while ago so I don't recall the specifics but I do remember that the Duet won out.

x3 on the mac mini > duet > 1 tb drive.

Sweet amp Jack! The Penguin does nice work.

I corrected the first sentence of your post for you. I'm sure you didn't intend to mislead these fine people.

That sucks. I've had migraines since I can remember. I've been lucky that immitrex works for me just about every time. I hope you feel better. Good luck with the new job. I've sat around, listened to music, saw The Hulk and now back to listening to music. Next is the onslaught of family for a Father's Day bbq.

Nate, she is beautiful! Who would have thought that Vince Vaughn would be so cute as a chick. Sorry I missed all the excitement. Hopefully you got my phone message from Key West. Once we left there I didn't have any internet or phone service. I'm not sure there was a happier days in my life than when my children were born. Pay close attention because before you know it, you will be driving her to college (June 25 for me). Oh yeah, you will have incoming this week.

Dan, very sorry to hear that.

Built the rack on the left with my son for his geckos:

No rush, whenever you can get around to it. Thanks for doing it, that is seriously good whiskey. They are the first iem's that actually fit me right which I guess should be expected. I only had them on for about 20 minutes. So far so good. I'll give them a work out tomorrow. Right now it's lee-way 45 vinyl.

Sounds like a good time. Sorry that errand for me cost you. Let me know what I owe you. These arrived today:

I won't get to check it out until I return from vacation a week from Saturday.

I didn't say forever. The important stuff I hold onto, source and speakers.

Just picked this up on Audiogon: Now I can concentrate on buying just a headphone amp.

Happy Birthday!

I don't even think Al and Gene can say that.

Here are my favorites and most worn at the moment:

I love my Naots:

Nice rig tkam. Enjoy!

I'm just kidding around. I was blaming stevieo and someone posted it was Vincent so I just went with it. However, if I am out there, I will stil take you up on the offer.

Keep them Jack. Rumor has it that The Monkey was the guy that drank all my Pappy, when I was blaming stevieo. Granted, I would have blamed stevieo even if I know it was The Monkey.

Some quick thoughts. They look pretty cool in person. The built quality is good. The black piano gloss finish looks great. The heatsinks are warm to the touch but not even close to being a room warmer. I've been using the volume controls on the amps themselves which are not stepped but seem pretty well matched. I had to adjust the gain down on my phono stage so I could get the volume past 8:00. So far, they sound very good. I have no complaints. I have about 2 hours on them as of this post. Nice soundstage, depth as good as the room setup will permit. I was listening to R. Brown and L. Almeida and the bass is deep and controlled. The recording has gobs of detail and these amp reproduce it all. Based upon my recollection of this recording on the Cary, the TAD-125's are right there with it in this category and this recording. You hear all the finger and hand movements on the bass. Jack, the rack is a basic Salamander Archetype 3.0 that Jp gave me when he moved. Nothing fancy but they do the trick.

A couple of Hibachi grills.