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Interesting. I always have the opposite problem with those Morse taper thingies. I'd have to use a nuclear weapon to get mine off. Glad to hear you got it going.

You're on. Saturday, the 31st?

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Here's to hard core. Very cool!

x2 In one of my brief flirtations with a non-slovenly approach to wires I discovered that it takes miles of cable-wrap stuff to tidy up the birds nest under my desk. I was cheered to find that, for places that don't show, they sell it by the reel at the garden store. It's the stuff that lightweight cable wraps are made of. It's ugly green. Gardeners use it to tie up plants. Otherwise, I use the things that knuckledragger shows, except I like the ones that have somebody's name printed on them 'cause they're free. Ordinary tie-wraps are a pain because you always have to cut them apart a month after you get everything tidy. They're good at the office, though. We tie-wrap steal-able cables to heavy objects.

Sure. Hand to hand delivery? Pineapple Grill?

No prob. Thanks for looking!

I'll PayPal them $20 and we'll see what happens. I'll let you know.

I like my RE-1s when I'm in the mood for them. ) They're kind of fun. Wouldn't call them neutral by any stretch. They're great in the office because they don't isolate worth a damn. Utterly useless on an airliner, though. Usually, I'm much fonder of my Shures.

This looks interesting. And for twenty bucks, you can't go far wrong. Have you heard them? Al - a listen to the Uncle Wilsons would be great. Thank you! I have a pair of RE-1s she can try on my portable rig. Unless the RE-2s are a different beast, I can't imagine the little Shuffle driving them well, though. Sans amp, my G5.5 Classic doesn't do that well with them. The Yuins would be probably be good, everybody seems to like them. But an experiment with a pair of Sennheiser buds I have seems to indicate that buds in general, not just the Apple ones, leap out of her ears. Cool. Now we have some options to try. Crossing fingers. Hopefully, that will prove to be fun.

Hmmm. I have a similar pair she could try. Probably too big, though. We're probably talking about little in-ears here. The DMP is beyond tiny - the size of a wad of chewing gum. We have the Etymotic sound level reducing earplug thingies that have christmas trees on them. She likes those. She says she's not fond of squishy things, which rules out Comply tips, which are my favorites. At every CanJam, there are multiple vendors with sub-$100 in-ears that are little and probably gym-friendly. But I've never paid any attention to them. (I bicycle on south Florida roads, so I don't listen to music when I exercise. It interferes with praying not to be run over.) Vicki - didn't Uncle Wilson give you something like this to review last year? What was the verdict on those?

Bonnie has taken an interest in the iPod Shuffle that I bought a few months back when they were discontinuing the nice one that had a built-in volume control. I left it on her desk and she has started using it. This is the first glimmer of interest she's ever shown in anything headphone. She's fascinated by speaker rigs (especially those that we can't afford) but thus far she's been bored by headphones if she notices them at all. So... I want this Shuffle thing to go well. Early reports are the the Apple earbuds sound like shit (expected) and fall out of her ears at the gym. Recommendations anyone? We would be looking for something small, inexpensive and decent-sounding that doesn't fly out of one's ears. Less than great isolation would probably be a good thing.

Update: I've got VortexBox running on a virtual machine to check it out. This thing is cooler than the other side of the pillow. It's the bee's knees. It is in fact a Fedora-based Linux distro that creates a headless server that contains servers for Squeezebox, Sonos, iTunes and more or less anything else you want (as long as it can run on Fedora). It appears to have been put together by musically aware people who made all the right decisions. It's what you would build if you had the time and inclination to actually build such a thing for yourself, but slicker. Whatever you don't like, you can change any way you want. Secure shell into it and it's a real, full-tilt operation system. You can use it for a file server, too. Actually, you can use it for anything, up to the limit of the hardware you put it on. You can even install a GUI if you feel you must. Functionally, you put it in a box with a CD drive or buy an appliance, stick a CD in the drawer and it automatically rips the CD, saves a FLAC AND an MP3 for your iPod, or an Alac, or all three, and the servers serve the music. There are web interfaces for editing metadata and the like (and the Squeezebox Server interface), but you don't have to do anything. Stick in the CD and wait for Squeezebox Server to run its next index and that's that. I'll be looking for some parts-box hardware to run it on. If anybody else has one or is interested, I think this thing deserves its own thread.

Holy crap! This thing looks like a dream come true. Have you used it? Is it as cool as it looks? If I'm reading the blurb on their website correctly, it's Fedora-based, so it should work with the RPM releases of Squeezebox Server, I should be able to put together a spare-parts system with a suitable on-board controller for a RAID-1, toss in a couple of drives and I'll have a little box that I could run a Samba share on, too. Apart from the fan noise in our home office, that would be perfect with a capital P. (The ISO is downloading as we speak.)

Grahame, are you using a computer or a NAS device for your server? I'm thinking of doing a NAS-as-server, (Mandriva and SqueezeboxServer are not a match made in heaven) but I'm worried that the low processor resources on the NAS might not be enough to get the job done.

Nice. Elegant approach. Very little build up of mass. Very impressive. I'm like Steve. I get a little thrill out of solving something like that and bringing something of value back to life, or seeing it done as the case may be. So I guess I should fix my old beard trimmer again instead of buying a new one.

You were able to use unshielded cable from the TT to the SUT? Wow. How did you get the environment quiet enough?

Happy Birthday!

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Went to the Blues fest in Delray - which amounted to bands in a bar, since it was raining like all get out. So you have Elvin Bishop playing in a sweaty little bar, which you don't see everyday. It was cool. Ran into Mike and JP at the event. Had a good time.

I've got that Eva Cassidy album. I can put it on a hard drive and bring it along to spin if we get together with Miguel. I'm so bummed that Lala is hit down. It made checking out new music so easy.

Bering sea? Isn't that where they do that TV show that's like a perpetual Perfect Storm?

B&H sells a ton of audio stuff, too, so it's sort of omnibus trade. I guess we have an in there, now.

We were thinking of shamefully extending our lunch hours, but on the weekend would be OK by me, too. (My weekend being Friday and Saturday) And I could bring an album or two on some kind of appropriate media, too. I'd forgotten about the Lounge Lizards. I could have sworn I had one of their CDs. But I can't find them on my music server. A search is in order.