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kinda doubt it for $69

So shortly after my previous post Seagate released a new version of the firmware. It apparently works on the 1TB drives but bricks the 500gig drives. Seagate has since pulled the firmware: "Note: This file has been temporarily taken offline as of Jan 19, 2008 8PM CST for validation." Validation my ass it's more like "oops we forgot to test this on more than one drive" I will never buy another Seagate SATA drive again.

Actually I'd give the output transformers more credit than the tubes.

The Ear Acute is essentially a highly modded Arcam player. I forget which one but I believe the transport and digital section are pretty much the stock Arcam parts. Maybe some mods to that but the output stage is all Ear.

Awesome the ISO your supposed to use to boot from and update the firmware. Yeah it doesn't work, crashes at the point when you tell it load the firmware to your drive. Fucking Seagate.

Well I did also upgrade the little stats module shown at the bottom of the main forum page .

I upgraded the forums to vBulletin 3.8 today please let me know if you find any problems.

One thing to remember about the KGSS is with it being Class A even at idle it's using roughly 80W of power. So it will add to your monthly electric bill if you leave it on 24/7.

Return them to the retailer if you can, WD has 2TB drives coming out in the next week or two. Should be $199 msrp.

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Yeah in addition to these 7 also have a handful of them in various servers @ work. It's annoying they don't just post up a link to the firmware instead of forcing you to open up a support ticket.

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I've had 7 of the 1tb seagate drives running in a raid 5 setup for over a year now. Haven't had a single dead drive yet.

Wow talk about a clusterfuck....def. a good call on getting Blackie involved, hopefully he doesn't charge you too much but he seriously knows his shit. As to the R10 to boilingfrog what a fucking disaster that is. I can't believe he/they re-cabled your phones. Hopefully you can find where he lives and find a head-caser in the area to go pick them up. I hope everyone still waiting on amps does get them eventually even it takes awhile as it's better to have something then nothing. By the way the suggestion before about suing and/or filing a class action actually isn't a horrible idea. Especially if you can find someone to do it pro-bono. Collecting would not be a problem, just seize his the 2000sq warehouse that's filled with tubes and sell them all on ebay/audiogon.

I agree with Nate it's not like a $1400 pair of headphones has any mass market appeal so for Senn it probably makes sense to limit it "authorized" distributors. They're just doing what most companies in the world of "high-end" audio have been doing for decades.

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I wouldn't bother solely due to their build quality and rather lacking reliability. Definitely demo the Modwright 9.0SE if you can, I absolutely love mine. It also pairs very well w/ ice power amps if you decide to go that route.

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Bought some pc parts to upgrade my "old" file server. It was a dual opteron 275 box now it's a dual xeon e5420 box.

Fixed

Just an update, I'll be taking donations through the end of the month and then I'll be buying the new server shortly after that.

That's exactly the part I have that doesn't work at all. Or I suppose I could have just got a bad one.

I'd try disconnecting the cable box and see if that helps at all.

What else do you have connected to the receiver?

Ok it's final my hum issue is solved!!!!!! Turned out to be a combination of the cable and the ps3. With the cable box disconnected from the tv and the ps3 using a cheater plug it's now dead quiet. Until I figure out a way to solve the cable issue I'll just have to remember to disconnect it from the TV anytime I want to watch a movie or game. Not a big deal.