Grahame

Hope your four came with the tops on!

DAC direct to power Amp This is a perennial topic on the slim devices forum. Many people are interested in driving their power amp / speakers / active speakers directly, without a preamp. The issue is one of gain staging - so that the maximum output of the DAC yields the maximum desired volume from the speakers, with the best S/NR for the signal path. This often entails some passive attenuation to the output of the DAC, to obtain the desired results. Good starting points (in addition to the search function) are This Wiki entry Connect To PowerAmp - SqueezeboxWiki esp. the reference links at the end. The latest thread on the matter Direct to power amp? - Squeezebox : Community : Forums One poster drives his ATC's directly from a transporter (with inline attenuation), now there's a thought

More Thanks from another English Immigrant (seems like they'll let just about anybody in!) Be careful with that Heavy Machinery today! Tryptophan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia HowStuffWorks "Is there something in turkey that makes you sleepy?"

Very Nice John, Enjoy! All you'll need to do now is get another pair or two so you can stack them> The Quad ESL - Stacked Quads The Quad ESL - Triple Quads

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Yet, if you click on the Title Bar, (The part at the top, that highlights, underlined, in yellow, and pops up a tool-tip on mouseover), It takes you to the YouTube page, where the video is, indeed, still available. Curious. Indeed.

Looks like you're late to the concept of search engines too! Just Fucking Google It Just Fucking Google It Just Fucking Google It But why is bittorrent useful to me? Because downloading in parallel from a cloud of peers may be faster that downloading from a single source? And is it easy to us There are bittorrent clients that reduce it to point and click. You do know how to click, don't you? http://torrentfreak.com/mac-bt-clients/ P.S. Happy Thanksgiving!

Even in a posh British accent? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV7cimRWah0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgycwCeUwp8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9NcHDETmJw

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But you can feel the pull of a balanced β22 and σ22, can't you? >>

So, are you saying I could have had her, but I'm married, so I didn't? or is it more "Look at that!", "But You're married!", "Yes, but I'm not dead!" When the evolutionary programming takes over, and my wife finds me observing fertile Californian youth, she knowingly remarks. "Grahame, they are half your age. Good luck with that. The sad part is, they are some fraction of my age. At least they don't like me for the wrong reasons. Why women really do love self-obsessed psychopaths - Science, News - The Independent Could you tell by just looking? "a study showing that the majority of men and women were able to accurately judge whether a person would be a good bet for a committed relationship or were more interested in a fling, just by looking at a photograph of their face." The dizzying diversity of human sexual strategies - life - 26 November 2008 - New Scientist

Have you tried discussing this with your wife? What is her take on the matter? Maybe she can remind you why you chose her against all the competition

Al, Yet another sweet looking (and sounding) setup. Now I guess I know the answer to the question "What does it take to get Al away from his Harbeth's at the office" The things you do to JP on his birthday week. First, he gets to miss Tampa, and them you need him for some "help" with a little unfinished business. I wonder how the pitch for that went. ... JP, I have a task for you. It involves the relocation of some merchandise, about the size and weight of a pair of dead bodies. As your counsel I advise you not to refuse this offer. Now all you'll need is the matching ATC SCA 2 with SPH 2 option, if the White Unicorn doesn't do it for you. So when is the listening party?

And on that bombshell!

Have you Checked out Top Gear, Series 12 Episode 02? The guys head to America and drive a Corvette ZR-1, a Dodge Challenger SRT-8, and a Cadillac CTS-V from San Fransisco to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah You might find in it interesting.

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement," he said.

Self-referential irony alert!

Audio recording | Hear the difference | The Economist But in the hands of experts, the best analogue and digital systems are virtually indistinguishable. Warmth can be dialed into digital circuitry. Clarity, spaciousness and purity of tone can be produced by top-end analogue amplifiers. Stuck with equipment that’s less than ideal, it’s no surprise that the vast majority of purists on either side of the tube-versus-transistor divide have their prejudices confirmed. And so the religious audio wars rage on. Heresy? Check out the comments. I liked this one. I have never listened to a valve amplifier. It's a peculiarly American high end hangup in my opinion.

Happy Birthday Billy. "BA CHAM! waWawA!"

Looks like they didn't get the memo on [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state]separation of Church and State[/ame], either.

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How long before iMame appears?

Just a little fun. As you rightly point out the human race has done much in its past to be less than proud of. I'm always a little suspicious when people use the phrase "tradition", when harking back to a mythical golden age. I chose the above examples to illustrate previous societal norms, which are now, hopefully / thankfully, no longer the case. People tend to quote selectively with regard to tradition, and for good reason. I also find the idea of tradition, for such a historically young country, amusing in and of itself. Patriotism is often invoked as a divisive measure, to separate the "us" from the "them". A pissing match then ensues as to who is the "more" patriotic, and who is the "Real" American. I though the only "Real Americans" were on reservations. Was there a question? More an observation. As an outsider, its interesting to see how political rhetoric breaks down under analysis, when assumptions aren't shared, and some givens aren't. Implied values often mean "My" values and not "Your" values. America is a glorious political experiment, that started as a break with tradition. The founding fathers having suffered injustice at the hands of the British, wanted to ensure that those injustices would not be repeated, and understood the frailties of human nature and the corrupting effect of power. I am impressed by the design. The implementation, at times, could be improved.

And which values would those be? Slavery? Denying women the vote? Genocide of the indigenous population? A pledge of allegiance without the recent insertion of the word "God" to allow differentiation from the "Godless communists"? To misquote Bill Hicks on patriotism. Last Time I checked the world was round. Whats so special about where your parents fucked anyway?