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There are alot of people who wouldn't even consider spending $1000 for their entire system... And I thought CD sales were going in the crapper (due to MP3s)? I don't hang out at Best Buy much at all, but do buy a CD occasionally there. Their CD section seems to have shrunk alot.

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Happy Birthday Reks! Try to stay out of the basement today...

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Posting the car without saying what was in it is pretty misleading. The '67 Camaro could have been a 6-banger, or V8... possibly a 327 (or was it still 283 in '67???) or even a big block (396 for sure, 427 was also probably available). The Cuda could also have been a 6-banger, a 318, a 340, 440 (think so in 72) and maybe even a 426 hemi. My first car was a '70 Chevelle SS396 4spd. Sometimes I wish I still had it For my son's sake, I'm glad that I don't.

John Westlake (formerly of Cambridge and Pink Triangle IIRC, though I am not sure of all of his history) posted a link to a DAC that he designed recently using the ESS Sabre DAC as the basis: Signal Path International - Era Speakers & Peachtree Audio - Introducing Nova Reference thread on diyaudio: diyAudio Forums - Da-capo issue (John W?) - Page 16 Might be a good option for those interested in the Sabre but not up to building your own. EDIT: John Westlake seems to know his shit from all I have seen from him on a couple of forums so I would think anything he is involved in would be worth a listen. I have not heard this DAC (and wouldn't be the one to judge it anyhow since I don't use external DACs), so take it in that light.

That was my initial thought. The CD is Enya Watermark (Reprise label). It is in good condition, and this is on a dual G5 powermac, so no parallels installed.

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I was going to burn a copy of a commercial audio CD and could not get it to load. No messages, etc. It just makes some noise, then the drive ejects it. I tried some other audio CDs and they loaded fine... any ideas?

Happy Birthday! I hope you don't get to spend it shopping!

I'd take 30 degrees... its 2 here right now (Chi). Yesterday's high was -3

Was this the local shop with the please take these weird ass transistors off my hands...

You bastard...

Or lack thereof... I've never listened to Satriani (other than the thing he is suing Coldplay over). As for shredders (is that the term?), do bands such as Dragonforce (IIRC) fit more or less under this category?

Anyone know of a utility that can reset a USB port? Occasionally I will plug something into one of the keyboard ports that draws too much power and it will be disabled. I've also had the front USB port (PowerMac dual G5) be disabled (not sure what one of the kids did to this ), but a restart cleared it.

That might be the first time I've laughed all day! Damn, that sucks, but great story!

Whatever happened with Barry and his Capitole? I've seen him around here occasionally, but never heard...

I was guessing more like this.

Manuel, I don't recall whether Marc said who he got these from, but I seem to recall Germany... if so, I would start with a diyaudio user named Promethius.

Is that $43 per device, or $43 for a stereo differential front end? Cuz if you could even find the 109/389, you would be paying at least that much for 2 pairs of them...

The ST-70 has a pretty good reputation, and IIRC was designed by David Hafler. I've never owned one, but did have some Hafler amps before and they were good. As for price, the $300 seems kinda steep for a Dynaco, but I have not looked at pricing on these in a long time. Is it stock, or has it been modified/upgraded? I seem to recall there being some modification kits and parts floating around; I'd take a look on audioasylum to see what you might find out.