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I'm definitely not your average consumer, but give me a store full of 16/44 and I'd be a happy camper. I know a lot of labels already offer this directly, and stores like bleep have a pretty decent selection. But give me a store the size of itunes/amazon, and just give me the redbook, and I'd give them my business. oh, and make the albums like $10 as well. for me it still needs to be at least comparable pricewise to buying the CD on amazon.

I guess I am interested in the size of the pono music store, especially now that I know its just plain ole flac, so no pono player required. My concern, as always with hi rez, is will it just be a bunch of upsampled red book files?

256kbps LAME mp3.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu why did it take me so long to buy this

I concur.

I love neil, but I could not be less interested. the vagueness about the technical details of what exactly pono is doesn't help. my understanding is they are selling the pono player on kickstarter.

That is a gigantic kitty. The stairs are for Neko, the small brown Chinese crested mix pictured. She hurt her back a few months ago, we think from trying to jump on the bed and failing. We think she is about 8 years old now. She is still pretty spry, but can't jump quite as high as she used to. The steps really help her. Oh, and the volume control actually goes past the sixth dot, so that is like, extra volume. Its like moar louder than other amps. Speaking of Christopher Guest just watched Best In Show because my wife had never seen it. Such a great movie.

whats up dude? long time no talk on the internet. on the whole a little juicier sounding in the bass then the beta. electric guitar tone (always important to me) a little richer, makes me play air guitar and pump my fist, etc. in terms of absolute speed the beta still wins i think. the speed on certain tracks, hate to keep bringing up phish but whatever i know the music well so i use it to test equipment, but the Reba from the MSG 95 was ungodly with the beta. For those that don't know (meaning everyone but grawk) Reba is a rapid fire song, lots of super quick vocals. the hd800 + beta combo was blinding in its accurate reproduction of every detail, just flying at my ears. the supra falls a little short of that level of speed, but the tradeoff of overall richness of sound is worth it. leonardo, yeah thats a buffalo dac i bought from todd/skullguise. beautiful piece, sounds awesome if you are into the sabre dac thing. haven't done a lot of comparison between the apollo vs buffalo dac through the supra. probably the differences are pretty much like you think they would be.

Yeah its much sturdier and heavier than it looks. I could technically fit the amp on the rack if I slid it in sideways, but I like having it out in the open.

Like you need me to tell you, but the HD800 sounds stupendous on the KG Safetified Supra Killer Version. What I love about the HD800 is you don't need to crank it up to ear splitting volume to get maximum resolution. But you are also free to crank it up and rock out, if the source material allows it. This is the opposite of my experience with the HD650, which always needed to be at "reference" volume level to let all the goodness come through. one of my favorite things to test any hi fi component is listen to a soundboard recording of a show I was at. listening to a phish show from alpharetta this summer, and I can feel the venue. so awesome. the HD800 is the "rightest" sounding transducer I've heard this side of ESL-63s. the dogs want me to quit paying attention to this new thing and pay more attention to them. it is laughingly enormous though:

Schiit must be doing something right. They appear to decent people making decent products at decent prices. I've really been enjoying the Schiit story over on headcase. Cool to read about how a company like that gets started.

This was from 2006, but I found it pretty amazing: http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/creditcard/application.shtml TLDR: Guy gets one of those credit card apps mailed to his house, he tears it up, tapes it back together, fills it out with a change of address (used his parents house), sends it in. Sure enough he gets a new credit card, mailed to his parents house. huge bummer regarding the identity theft. the advice given above regarding fraud alerts is solid.

in terms of amps, there are so many options in the $500-$1000 price point I wouldn't even know where to begin. I'd probably try the schiit stuff, or maybe a used benchmark.

Few different albums today while working: Pusha T- My Name Is My Name flawless hip-hop. Tim Hecker - Virgins Dark, ambient, kind of almost music. With tracks like "Amps, Drugs, Harmonium" and "Incense at Abu Ghraib", there is no way this one doesn't shoot straight to the top of the pop charts. Pretty Lights - A Color Map of the Sun For those not familiar with Pretty Lights, he is a DJ that usually takes his samples from vinyl. For this record, he brought it live musicians to record tracks, then pressed those tracks to vinyl, then sampled that vinyl. Completely and utterly unnecessary. I love this record.

a turkey po boy and a bag of day old cookies!

How'd this work out for you? I loved Malazan while I was reading it, preferred it to ASoIaF. Admittedly around book 8 of malazan I had to admit I had no idea what was going on. Someday I'll start over and read them all straight through.

seriously. northern VA might as well be Wisconsin.

hell yeah who needs that old shit anyway

normal bias lambdas are definitely one of the least fatiguing headphones i've owned. i can see how a newer production lambda could be seen as fatiguing (i think it was the sr-202 i owned), but even the newer production models are way less fatiguing then 98% of the headphones out there. i'd put grados, beyers, definitely ultrasone, and a myriad other headphones as more fatiguing than the pro bias lambdas.

the key is controlling the amount of saturation. wet cardboard? no way. damp cardboard on the other hand is a different story, that's the ticket right there. the whole cardboard + liquid experience is about texture. if the stuff is dripping wet you might as well be eating wet toilet paper. but if its just damp enough to get the juices in your mouth going, then you can chew on it for a good long while and really savor the flavor.

happy birthday nate! hope your monday rocks.

Update: ending up buying the Sanus AFA Rack for $148: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004U8A0/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Super easy to put together, really heavy and solid build. There is a screw at the bottom that lets you level it, nothing too fancy, but functional and easy. Had it leveled in just a few minutes. There is a "cable management system", but really its just some holes in the back of the shelves that aren't quite wide enough to fit wide ass audio cables through anyway. Behind the rack is a terrifying mess of power, RCA, and digital cables. Does not rock or sway at all. The tubes are hollow, but are substantial. I'm really pleased, hell of a bargain IMO. Currently the little Furutech DAC/phono is gone, and replaced with the naamanf buffalo DAC. Its a tight squeeze next to the Brio-R but it works. Whenever I get a new headphone amp it will hopefully be less lengthy then the Beta22, and I'll just keep it on my desk. Its inconvenient having the Beta down on the bottom shelf, makes adjusting volume a pain.

Hell yeah buy two just in case you fuck it up twice.

House of Cards is well-acted and entertaining, but some of the writing choices are ludicrous. And there really isn't any character worth rooting for, its just monsters and victims (maybe that's the point). I've really enjoyed it so far. Just a few episodes into season two.

oh yeah, definitely. I definitely disagree with the article in the OP. All I mean is if you start with a bad pair of headphones, or a bad speaker, or a room inappropriate for a speaker, no digital source is going to fix that. Is there a difference between motherboard audio and a rega apollo? Hell yeah. But the increase in performance you get going from motherboard audio > apollo is nowhere near the level you get going from say a KSC75 to an HD800. Thats all I'm saying. But once you get to that level of high quality transducers, then a better digital source will certainly make a difference.