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You are right, though I didn't want to start listing all the incorrect parts of the cable. It's rather funny that a couple hundred dollar cable may or may not just barely meet usb 1.0 standards in terms of cable build...

Looks like you got a nice PR-worthy reply Nate! I can see needing to send the cable to a lab to be tested for it's electrical properties, but last I checked you don't need a lab to tell folks if the physical part of the cable follows the usb standard. Anyone else take a look at the USB spec? I didn't realize that pretty much every aftermarket "audiophile" USB cable is completely out of spec until I read it.

It doesn't. Just took a look at the spec and whatever the spec requires....they went the other way. I think the most noticeable error was the complete lack of a shield + drain wire. Perhaps the USB cable has more detail from the extra noise brought in?

I gave it a bit more thought on the drive home. If your computer is running that hot, some part of the heat management most likely has failed. i.e., fan has died, heatsink has somehow come loose. The probable reason that you cannot run your programs is that the processor has detected the excessive heat and is slowing itself down to prevent self-destruction. If the high temperature continues, shut it down immediately and take it for service (assuming it's under warranty).

Looking among the thermal specs provided by Intel for their Core 2 Duo processors, the thermal specification for most of them are around 75C/165F. For some of the higher performance processors, they have a higher spec of ~105C/221F. Either way, your processor is running excessively hot. example: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLAVN

My (very limited) experience has been that sonotubes tend to be designed more for HT, with going low and loud more of a priority than quickness (which is what I think of as a "musical" sub)

Very cool! Looking forward to when it's out. I was planning on going with the Full++, but I'll happily wait for the Gamma2 to be done first

Happy Birthday!

Intel X25-M for the laptop showed up today, just got Windows 7 installed on it and it's amazing how fast everything runs now.

Intel themselves stated that they would drop their pricing on the current drives when their newer capacities came out. But I recently purchase my M1330 Dell, and the X25-M seems like a good fit for it aside from the slightly painful storage space. The tech will definitely only get better, although I wish they could simply make the SLC tech cheaper and easier to produce. That's just a dream though

A six pack of solid-state drives compared - The Tech Report - Page 1 Although it's mostly a MLC review, they also include the X25-E results for comparison. The X25-E 32gb is tempting in a raw-speed sort of way, but I don't think I could handle the size limitation as my current OS partition is using up 25.8gigs, so that X25-M looks tempting.

The X25-E most likely

That's very tempting, but the California tax is killer! Guess I might just ship it to my apo address and stick out for the wait. Thanks for posting that

Those are simply beautiful!

Passed my second microsoft cert test in four days. Two down, two to go.

That definitely doesn't sound right, esp. for something right out of the box.

Next up....a DAC that requires a $1200 usb cable to work.

Ah, that's good. Although I hear if you use ERS paper it gets even blacker.

Wait, all those requirements and you don't need it to be have that oh-so-necessary blacker background?

Everything is better with some alchy.

Clearly, it needs moar tubes.

Actually it's better to have tin ears, it's easier on the wallet.

okok, bits are sometimes.... bytes.

Still boggled at Colin, winning 5 prizes with 8 tickets. Impressive luck there

And three bags vs two for free also