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Apart from the reasons Smeggy pointed, also because they've become the reference for psychoacoustic and clinical research studies, then are considered "medical" gear which is always expensive. It's very likely that those are expensive to produce for the quality control. I've never seen measurements of them, but they're supposed to give as a flat response as it's possible, with very low distortion.

Also Lavry DA-11 has USB, Toslink, AES/EBU and SPDIF coaxial inputs, with regulated balanced output, but it's not a preamp itself. No analogue inputs. It sounds quite well. I got mine a week ago and it's better than I expected.

Hey, happy Birthday mate

Happy B-day Doc!

Annie Lennox - Medusa [1995] Before that one, was listening to Holly Cole Trio - Don't smoke in bed [1993] I'm watching a football (soccer for you americans) match of the Spanish Premier League. Amazing match btw

I see... I assumed that taking the drive off the sinks could make it fit into a laptop. A 10000rpm HDD would improve a lot any laptop performance.

That thing fits into a laptop?

Same here. On the PSU isn't that bad, but the screen on the output unit... I suppose you can order it without that.

No Macs here I wanted to be able to play the HR files from the laptop on the main rig, and I thought the DA-11 is a better solution to play them without loss, than getting a USB soundcard to feed the Bidat, which the highest that can do IIRC is just 20/48. The laptop has no digital out We'll see, it's possible the Bidat sounds still better than the Lavry if fed with downsampled files from the HR ones.

Mate, if you can't get it from anywhere else or they don't ship to USA, just say, I can order the items myself and send them to you

Lavry DA-11. It's true, it can do 24/88 over USB and needs no drivers.

Not myself. Maybe Picaudio has, I'll tell him to come by

Various Artists - Krautrock sampler

BSO Chamber players - Mozart Chamber music for winds and strings Got it as aiff 24/88.2 download. Quite good, and that coming from someone who doesn't like very much Mozart...

Anne Sophie Mutter, Daniel M

Again? OMG What do you do to the PSU's? Do you put them on a geyser and then drop them on the snow? Cryoing doesn't work that way

Glad of being helpful. Here's another suggestion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4G-8M_jutk Equally down tempo, easily danceable... the tune is a Prince's composition. Another tune that comes to mind, which is a nice one and should be easy to dance to is Lately by Stevie Wonder. However the lyrics are a bit sad: To end this bunch of suggestions, one tune titled "Alma de blues" (Blues soul) by a Spanish group named "Presuntos implicados", one of my favorite Spanish bands. Maybe a bit long. It has the advantage that few people will understand the words , but for sure will be quite unheard there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxf6Xd75yUo Don't know how it will come out, just in case: Bangles - Eternal flame. Quite low tempo, nice tune... Could fit

I'm very glad for your dad and you. It's nice making people happy

Looks like you're going through an interesting path. Good luck finding an acceptable compromise.

Daniel M

Not for me. Despite I haven't ever tried that Sony TT, I wouldn't pay such money for any of their ones. IMO they never did one much better than a Technics or Denon. For 1800 you can get many well constructed things.

Looks like everyone here is using a different service. I thought there was some consensus to make sharing easier and faster, I hate those limitations when you're not a paying subscriber. I agree with Nate, other communities seem to be using Rapidshare as their common service. Thanks for the replies mates. Cheers.

I'm considering to get one of those services to upload myself some files, and eventually sharing them. Some of you are Megaupload users, others use Rapidshare, Sendspace... At this moment Megaupload is offering a lifetime service with no restrictions for under $200 which I think is a fantastic deal, but if no one else is using that service, it can become quite pointless for some of the purposes. I'd like to read your opinions and recommendations

A one year subscription to the BSO Downloads shop. I can get all the available items. It's a pity many of them are just 320Kbps mp3, but the few high resolution ones, and I hope the next to come, are well worth the 50 bucks. Now time to think about getting a DA11 to play those files in high resolution on the main rig...