Dusty Chalk

What Nate said, except I usually leave "amazon" out, as it's the first link 90% of the time. Then if amazon isn't hosting an image, I can alt-left and try another reasonable link (usually the artist's or label's website is a good choice -- another merchant is another good choice).

Sorry. But it's not like you weren't warned. But really, sincerely sorry.

I wouldn't trust 'em, they're all on crack. JH13 crack.

Happy Belated Birthday!

That's a beautiful garage you have, Nate.

That is pretty friggin' cheap, thanks for posting that. I conservatively put together a system I wanted, and it was a little more than a thousand dollars (which is a great price). Too bad I have neither a thousand dollars to spare, nor a friend with an amex card to use.

S/PDIF-ilus (pronounced sbi-DIH-fuh-lus).

Not yet, but I will definitely be joining y'all on that particular bandwagon. I <3 The Kinks.

Symphonie Fantastique, RCA Living Stereo SACD -- with the "pink panther" font

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, RCA Living Stereo SACD

On the contrary, Amarro "Mini" is focused on pure playback, and is specifically targeted at audio nuts. link And the reasoning goes, "this program is doing something, therefore it is DSP". That middle part is in your mind. Do you know what DSP is? Digital Signal Processing. Digital -- meaning in the computer, not on a turntable -- Signal -- works with audio signals -- Processing -- "doing something". I think you're attributing connotations to DSP that aren't part of its proper denotation (definition). DSP does not necessarily mean that it does FFT's or dithers or anything else, it just means that it does something to the signal. The end. Attenuation? DSP. Pretty much has to be. I mean, it's quite possible it does nothing, but if it doesn't do anything, why not just listen to iTunes? That's the part I'm having a hard time with. I wouldn't want to pay $400 for something that does nothing. (That's what I was trying to say earlier with my shakti stones comment.) What am I misunderstanding?

Is that really a diphthong? I mean, it's just like saying "oh-no!", except it's oh-po instead of oh-no. Would you like me to send you an audio recording of it so that you can practice, or would you just like to stick to your lemonade on the porch?

Happy Birthday!

Why is it a problem? DSP just means that they're doing something with the signal -- which I don't think they deny. I mean, they kind of have to, otherwise it's the software equivalent of a shakti stone. Does that make sense?

Yes, pretty much. There are topics that do nothing but spin out of control -- you will find no admin under the sun who will tolerate "juice vs. squeeze" issues. If it's easier to ban you than deal with moderating every single discussion that you participate in, then you will be banned. That was true over at head-fi, too, when I was there.

The problem is that sound sources that go to the sound card are multiple. That's the reason kmixer was even born, and every operating system has their own approach to that particular resource contention problem, frought with its own compromises. Linux has two, I think: Jack and Alsa? Not sure, I only just started researching it myself. PS I am neither a linux guy, nor a mac guy, nor a windows guy. But I've made all the mistakes -- over-generalizations though they all are -- mentioned above. Dude, cut the trash-talk, you're gonna get banned.

Dusty like!

So there was a little bit of talk about Bell & Ross watches which none of us can afford, I thought I'd mention that some of Invicta's Russian Diver series seriously look good in that style: In some of the other cases, the colors are inverted (black on light), and they also have round versions.

There's a magazine? It's only a bad idea, because my memory of Jude's ability to actually finish (and post) reviews...well, sucked, not to mince words. Has he gotten better about them?

We already agreed to send this guy (Warning: some things cannot be unseen) through first. No, it's not the mermen one.

Using just a compass and a straight-edge? The man knows his Stax.

Bee line. And by "bee line", I mean the kind of line a bee makes, with lots of curlicues and loops and digressions and ... it ends up looking like a Family Circus cartoon, one of the ones where there's a dotted line, and it starts in one place and ends in another, but takes up all the available space in which a day's worth of adventures can be traced back.

You don't read slow forum, do you?

Fuses? You mean, as in, instead of breakers?

Just wanted to confirm this -- they left me a voice mail (when I gave them my PO Box to ship to), and introduced themselves as "OH-poe digital". So there...definitive answer.