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I thought that the debates were over.

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I agree with the others about Shun. They are much better than the German knives of a couple of years ago. I have the original Shun Ken Onion Chef knife and a Shun Elite Deba. Love them both. Al, I agree with you about the Globals. They just don't seem to fit my hand well and I hate their aesthetics.

How would you tell? Ditto!

For the price, I think I'll stick with my Shuns. Sometime I might have to "invest" in a fancy Damascus steel Japanese knife. Yeah, maybe. Just as soon as the stock market reaches Feb 2000 levels again.

Please reread Voltron's post above. Sherwood has already apologized and said he won't repeat his mistake. So please, no more

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I noticed this evening that the OP has created the exact same thread on HF. Needless to say, the thread there took a much different direction that it did here.

I don't know any of those.

It never seems to be equal. I'd say not posting racial jokes is a smarter strategy.

No shit?

I read about it on the USB DACs web site. This is part of Wavelength Audio. Of course, coming soon has the same precise meaning as ASAP.

If you are going to open it up to other brands, maybe you should ask John Tucker to ship you an XP-2 demo unit so you can compare it too.

Oops, forgot about the requirement for USB input. I already knew that any Assemblage DAC would have to be bought used. I wonder how hard it would be to add a USB input to one and whether it would be worth it. Time to use your product to find USB dacs. Ok, here's a quick (and definitely not exhaustive) list of USB DACS to get started: 1. Wavelength Brick - retails for $1750. You might find one used for $1000 or less. 2. Wavelength Proton - coming soon. Will retail for $900. 3. Stello DA100 - $695 4. Apogee Mini-DAC - $895 Note that I've not heard any of these DACs and, to the best of my knowledge) all are single-ended.

I agree. How does he have time to make all those movies too?

I've never heard them, but have heard good things about the old Assemblage DACs (kits) from Sonic Frontiers. They have the reputation of being very good up front and also being very tweakable.

Me neither. Of course, I lot of people I know can't imagine spending so much time and money on the headphone hobby. Since I've been not working, shaving has been cut in half.

The only person that seems to be offended is you. Head-case is self moderating. People have no hesitation to speak their minds, especially in response to posts. That's why the motto here is "Welcome and sorry about your thin skin". People with thin skin usually don't last here. Do you have a thin skin? Getting defensive about responses to your posts implies that you do, but it's still early.

You should definitely bring him along. After he starts saying how good they are, you can start saying DEW EET to him. Then you could buy them from him in 6 months when he sells them. To really improve your chances of getting them cheap, you should fly Mike in for the listen too. If John won't buy them Mike probably will. Then you have the same scenario. Either way, you'd save a lot of money.

And the pico isn't balanced. If you are going to spend the money for a balanced system, don't stint on the source. Get a good balanced source too.

Considering the Alaskan method of reducing remodel costs, I would think that they'd be very affordable.

Al wishes that was the case. Actually it's much more embarrassing, money out the wazoo!

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I like classic rock n' roll. Most of this new music doesn't do it for me.