HeadphoneAddict

Thanks, I'll investigate that one too. I've stayed away from Olympus in the past because I didn't want to deal with XD memory cards. I want to be able to fit it inside a front pants pocket if needed, so I'm not sure about the NEX5. I'd really like one that does well with indoors light without needing a flash all the time. My S6's indoor photos without flash are almost always blurred or grainy, and washed out with the flash.

Still planning to raid the kid's college fund after the Bay Area meet, eh? Spritzer posted here a mod for the SRM-727 to add negative feedback and says it sounds much better. If you can DIY it might still be an option.

That's a pretty hefty price. (and not very pocketable either) This is the one, right? Sony NEX5 Review

I've done a lot of looking lately myself, and I'm leaning towards the S95 myself. I was going by these reviews that I found a while back (among a few others): Canon S95 Review Panasonic LX-5 It seems either of these should noticeably outperform my old Nikon S6 and Canon A460 or newer budget Sony DSC-S2100. So, I'd also love to hear some feedback about these two cameras too. Thanks!

Elusive Disc sells Stax too. That's where my Mk2 and my 404LE came from.

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I also like my A5 more than my A2, and bought the A5 demo pair at RMAF. But I find that with the A2 on the desktop wedge-stands don't sound too bad out of a nice source. The difference is fairly noticeable, but the A2 on a set of stands don't suck at all to me. So, I still use the A2 on my small computer desk, while the A5 are connected to an airport express in the pool table room. I'd bet someone willing to fix the A2 will be happy with them.

It means my opinion doesn't seem to hold much weight here, being in the minority a lot of the time. When I saw the guy make his first post on the day he joined I knew he was done for, but I feel that all I can do is sit back and watch the fireworks. Sometimes it's entertaining to see it unfold and sometimes it makes me sad, but I can't stop reading out of morbid curiosity. He did seem to know what he was talking about and stuck to his guns. I guess I'm too sympathetic, and if it were up to me there would be too much riff-raff staying on board. That might not be a good thing, but maybe jumping the gun on the ban-stick could be detrimental too. I do wish that the "welcome PM" was back, to save the new guys a world of hurt. And no, I don't have a full vote anywhere - even my kids walk all over me (teenagers).

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I recently bought a LaCie Network Space MAX with two 1Tb drives in it. It can act as a 1Tb NAS with mirror, or a 2Tb drive; but I left it as a 2Tb since it only contains backups of music and video, and not my primary copy. I keep it plugged into my Airport Extreme most of the time, only connecting directly to the computer if I need to load a few hundred Gb of data at one time because my whole network is wireless. It serves the music to iTunes as a shared library, and to my PS Audio Perfectwave DAC Bridge as a uPNP/DLNA server. My main complaint is that it sometimes reports the wrong play duration or bit rate on most of my lossless music or some VBR music, until I load the song and listen and then it gets updated properly in the list. LaCie is aware of this and they did an update that fixed it for some, but not for me. I planned to pick up a pair of 2Tb drives to install, so I can mirror them and lower my MTBF. But my second complaint is that even connected to my ethernet port it takes forever to re-load it with the music and video that I have stored on an external USB drive. My Seagate FreeAgent 2Tb USB drive seems limited to about 55-60Gb per hour, even with both drives connected to the same iMac. So, putting 1400Gb of data back on it after the upgrade will take forever.

I didn't think the guy did anything deserving a ban, but I don't get a full vote here anyway. So, carry on.

This is one of the things I love about my Polk SDA CRS speakers (Stereo Dimensional Array) which has the extra set of drivers to eliminate crosstalk by canceling out the left speaker signal reaching the right ear, and visa versa. It works beautifully. I also once owned a Carver unit with a "Sonic Hologram" circuit that tried to do the same thing electronically with conventional speakers, and it also worked quite well.

Hope you feel better soon, but it seems like a chiropractor might be a better choice for this kind of thing. As a side note, doesn't "Voltaren" sound a bit like that fortune telling machine from the movie "Big"?

I wanted to say that you owe me a keyboard after making me spit soda all over mine, ...but in reality you made milk come out of my nose!

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That does suck. Sorry it happened.

Hmmm, I'd not ever heard of JamCan before either.

I also can't compare, but I've been using TwonkyServer on my iMac for several months and think it works well serving all my ripped DVDs, podcasts, and music/photos.

Geohot has posted a video about Sony suing him over the PS3 jailbreak:

Corona with lime, so yesterday. Oh wait, I drank that yesterday too...

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Well, if a built-in CD and DVD wasn't important to me then I'd have an Macbook Air instead of a Macbook Pro.

I would not want one without a DVD compatible drive inside. I do want one with Blu-Ray that is backwards compatible with DVD. I just think leaving out the optical drive is a bad idea.

I agree, the HM-602 sounds great but the UI is not very good. My main gripe is that it doesn't seem to play my music in the proper order unless I add track numbers to the front of the file names. If I recall it also doesn't support gapless playback. The tone of the amp reminds me a little of my Pico Slim (and HM-801) but with a little less extension, and it's not aggressive sounding like some amps. I also think the 801 has a little better micro-detail and ambience, and maybe a little better extension than the 602. It sounds best to me with music stored on the internal memory or SD card, while the USB DAC is not as good. The 801 as a coax DAC is about as good as music on the SD card, beating the USB DAC on the 602 or 801. Both units can play 16/48 files from USB or 24/96 files from flash memory, but the 602 down-samples the hi-res files to 24/48 first. The 602 being smaller is much more portable than the 801, and it can run off of a universal cigarette lighter adapter when set for the proper voltage. The 801 needs a special PSU, and is too big for carrying around.