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Nice looking cases. Not to pull this off topic too much (oh wait! this is HeadCase ) How do you order with aluminum top and bottom from Modushop? Do you just have to buy the case as is and add the top and bottom, or can you get them to substitute? Seems a waste of material to get 2 tops and bottoms.

Happy Birthday Jim! Hope your students are nice to you today... maybe they'll bring you some good Scotch

You don't really want 10 or 100Gbps shit running around your audio gear...

Happy Birthday!

That's only if the mod in question has any plausibility whatsoever. Like shortening a cable Jizz is nearing ignore list if I wasn't too lazy to actually doing it.

This is even with the heatsink thingies from diyaudio group buy? I figured you could just slip them on and that would be that

Ordered... thanks!

Sorry to hear that, and sorry for your neighbors. Floods suck; try to stay dry and above water!

Happy Birthday!

Iowa beats Arizona. Go Hawks!

Yep. RIP.

I heard back from Chris (anatech) already. He is going to share my PM with the other mods and keep an eye on rhysh. I think he misunderstood my PM, thinking the F5 transaction was on head-fi, not on diyaudio, so I clarified that it was indeed a diyaudio transaction (I hope I got that right!). At any rate, we'll see what happens.

I know a mod there well enough to ask him about it, so I sent him a PM (anatech). Not sure how kindly they will view the feedback that you left for him there Duggeh, but I got a chuckle out of it

Apple Airport Express card for my G5 PM. Getting fucking tired of the unsupported Linksys card in here that I have to use WirelessUtilityCardBus from I don't remember who to connect. Under WPA, takes 4-10+ tries to get connected. Enough. Refurb (from Apple) computer had the antenna, so WTF. Resurrected my Linksys router a week ago (reset and reflashed it) after a couple of power outages during the day left it's line-side port not working. Thought I was going to have to ask for router recommendations and get the usual $180 Airport Extreme recommendations that were more than I wanted to spend at the time Is using 3rd party firmware (WRT54G series 4) worth it if you don't want to fuck with settings much? If so, which one?

Good. So when you decide it sucks, send the two TDA1541A-S2s to me and I'll send you some plain that you can stick in it before you get rid of it

very noice!

Happy Birthday! Good luck on the skank

U2 360 tour opening in Chicago (Sunday night) at Soldier Field. Impressive stage/lighting, etc., but the sound was bad... very loud, but bad. Bono's voice sounded very good (when the flabby bloated bass wasn't wreaking havoc on all), better than in 2001 when I had seen them previously. They didn't dwell on old material but played alot of the new CD... too bad they didn't play one of the last 4 songs that verge on acceptable from this On Saturday 7 of 23 were from the new CD. Even the old stuff they did Sunday couldn't get me going because of the sound, and oh yeah, the sound. setlist: Breathe No Line on the Horizon Get on Your Boots Magnificent Beautiful Day Still Haven't Found Elevation Your Blue Room Unknown Caller Until the End of the World Stay Unforgettable Fire City of Blinding Lights Vertigo I'll Go Crazy If I don't Go Crazy Tonight Remix Sunday Bloody Sunday MLK Walk On One Streets Ultraviolet With or Without You Moment of Surrender We didn't get there early enough to make it to our seats while Snow Patrol was playing. I haven't listened to them at all, other that what I have caught on the radio, but they sounded OK from within the stadium. Wouldn't have minded catching them, but misjudged traffic.

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Happy Birthday Deepak!

Its a physics thing regarding the BNC can do 75 ohms; RCAs can't. Has to do with the spacing of the center pin versus the shield I believe. Much gear isn't terminated correctly (if at all) anyhow, so just changing the connector will likely not have much effect. I've replaced the clock on a CDP and it made a big difference (not as big as the discrete output stage, but still big), so I do think that minimizing jitter is beneficial; I know alot of people consider it near snake-oil so will let it go at that.

Don't know if this will help or not for your project, but I looked at this guy's website before I made mine. Didn't follow his exactly, but I like them. Cotton Silver Interconnect Construction

I assume the passive pre is for your 2 channel rig? How about a pass-thru for the headphone amp to sit off of, taken before the passive's volume control? Or would this muck with impedances, etc.?

FTFY. Not that I, of team dead fucking cheap, would consider 1K or more a bargain for anything, but for this I could see it.

Hmmm. First thought was some weird insulated banana, but then I noticed 2 conductors each. These aren't some strange RCA plug variant are they? I can't tell from your pic, but do these have a sleeve like an RCA inside the insulation of that plug?