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17 and others...

http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_81409_Sylvania-STT008USB-Purple.html Also PopMarket is getting in the subscription game... http://welcome.popmarket.com/subscription/

Listening to some binaural DoubleDSDs... Strange thing is I just ordered this Monday night. Completing the Pulse survey gave a single color discount option of Out (possibly already staged). I went with 450 $149 version (some thought the 1000 signature a bit U-shaped). Very surprised to see arrive today (without shipping notice or even charging my PayPal). Need more time. Work getting in way. Will say with HD580s pretty damn good for $149. Grahame, I'll bring it along tomorrow if you want to give a listen.

Ssssssh.

Nick Zammuto | Great Equator

http://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/1406/20/news086.html

http://youtu.be/PfP1Fhg3h1g My Soul, Your Beats

Interesting. Following your lead to Starman to Seu to...

... will never become...

American Experience: Silicon Valley http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/player

Supposedly (we'll see) they are trying to tackle that: http://fotogenerellinternational.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/the-essential-differences-between-the-sigma-dp2-quattro-and-the-dp2-merrill/ Also fun shot with older Merrill version.

Shelly, did you consider the Sigma dp2 (or dp1/3) Quattro (out next month)?

What do you guys think of this player breakdown? http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_spot/2014/07/03/world_cup_player_introductions_a_deep_analysis_of_how_soccer_players_fold.html

So over at http://audaud.com/2014/07/audio-news-for-july-4-2014/ ... "PonoPlayer Coming October – Neil Young’s Kickstarter campaign has been the third-highest-funded Kickstarter project ever, with over $6.2 million in pledges. The triangular-shaped PonoPlayer (larger than an iPod Touch) will be $399 when it comes out in October and will accept most any music files up to 192K/24-bit. It will come with 128 BG of memory and accept removable SD cards. Ayre Acoustics will make the player, which will have a high-quality DAC and headphone output as well as an output for a higher-quality separate DAC in your home system. The associated Pono Music store won’t offer any MP3 files—just 44.1K/16 up to 192K/24, at quality-tiered pricing. The main source for the files will be the original analog master tapes of the top recording artists. Yes, it looks like Young has done it right for hi-res; but wait, Apple is also going hi-res about the same time, so let’s see what they come up with." So I thought Neil said you paid once and just redownloaded if higher res becomes available (which would seem to counter the tiered pricing) and did I miss a big Apple announcement?

Moar Yod. Expansion. I really think Wayne needs a photo like this.

Speaking of analog... Impossible Instant Lab for Apple iPhone $75 off - http://dealmac.com/Impossible-Instant-Lab-for-Apple-iPhone-for-125-free-shipping/1092601.html

Father Yod and The Spirit of '76 | All or Nothing at All And now... Father Yod and The Spirit of '76 | Contraction

So Vinyl Me Please and Feedbands don't exactly have the same pricing targets I see. What do you guys think?

Great (and thanks for getting before I was too tempted)!

Apple got "The Sentence" with the Beats purchase. Google just picked up "Concierge" by buying Songza http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/01/google-buys-songza/?ncid=rss_truncated

RIP Paul Mazursky "A gentle satirist of contemporary society, Mazursky at his best chronicled the social trends of the late 1960s and the '70s, including its touchy-feely self-improvement fads, shifting rules for love and sex, drug experimentation and other excesses. In the process, he created characters memorable for their struggles and vanities: the well-heeled couples in his 1969 directorial debut "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" who believe spouse-swapping is the cure for their hang-ups; the divorce lawyer in "Blume in Love" who thinks sexual freedom is great until his wife wants it; and the divorcee in "An Unmarried Woman" who steps gingerly into the singles scene after 15 years of what she thought had been a happy marriage." http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-mazursky-20140701-story.html#page=1