deepak

Needs more whispering and dim lighting

Finally bought a BlacX Thermaltake BlacX USB Docking Station - dealmac.com $26 shipped after rebate at RatShack. Or $20 after rebate if you have it sent for store pickup.

Horace Silver Quintet - The Tokyo Blues Sweet going to check this out. Though Neurosis and Isis clones usually bore me.

Hehe HifiMan is a much better company name than Head-Direct

Bob Dylan - Together Through Life

I hear ya. The majority of the titles he's remastering are duds IMO. Tull Live in Montreux, Pet Sounds and the upcoming Doors albums are the only ones that interest me.

Are you an AF subscriber?

You know it's going to be asked- hour by hour updates please!

I suppose I'd have to try it, but a lot of my listening would be low to low-medium volumes.

Pet Sounds AF Gold Comparing it to the DCC, I'm impressed that this clearly beats it

My SR-404 sounded like it had +10 dB (exaggeration ) from 3-6k KHz, so I understand if the O2 sounds off in comparison

I don't detect any upper mid suck out on the O2.

Mastodon - Crack the Skye

You are right I haven't done the math yet since I don't even know what power amp I'll end up, but from what I'm reading a 2 vrms source (mine is 2.1) should be good with a lot of amps. The other thing I have to work out is impedance matching. Another gripe with most of the TVCs I see is they are very limited with the number of attenuation steps, and to get something done custom by a company like S&B (doubtful they even sell loose transformers any more) would be big $$$

Also bad imo ^ what Cosmo Kramer will look like in another 30 years. AG Pennypacker as The Meistro.

In a nutshell: 1600 is a balanced 1100 1500 is a balanced 1000 Basically the 1600 and 1100 have a PMD100. And the 1600 has K grade PCM63. The 1500 and 1000 have a different digital filter- SM5813AP

k340 = torture. Plus the risk of snapping off his wee neck

Good stuff, I didn't see the AES links before. Bizarre on the sex change though

Actually the Parasound is clearly better. But the performance gap is pretty close. The mids on the Parasound are more natural, but I can see some people here thinking the North Star is better or more acurate with its dry sound. I haven't had a chance to try the Parasound in my friend's speaker system yet. The North Star sounded good in his system, but his vinyl rig (at 10x the price) utterly destroyed it.

I would have included the Oakley sunglasses that had a built in mp3 player and earbuds.

Happy birthday KG!!

A proven track record of what? It's an old design? It's durable? It's cheap to make? Plenty of designs have been around for many decades, it doesn't make them any better or worse than what is currently available. That "track record" means nothing.

Thanks for the info! No doubt it will be pretty difficult to get a DHT pre built. If the power amp I end up with has enough gain I'm tempted to just go with a TVC. The Raven, looks like another good one.

mmm PMD100