Dusty Chalk

DBT! DBT! DBT! Fucker.

I love SACD's, have become totally addicted to the format, and listen primarily on headphones. It is worth it to me. I am sure that not everyone can hear the difference, and would be surprised if one could tell the difference in a DBT (especially against the sort of DACs that Dinny has heard/is used to), but that's because the single greatest advantage I find to listening to SACD is that I find it less fatiguing, which doesn't DBT well. The only way you can find out if it's for you is to try it. But I'll echo Aardvark Samich's comments -- make sure there's enough out there for it to be worthwhile to you. Some of the back catalog is rather hard to get ahold of. Are you into classical? Then you should have no problems, depending on whether or not you're into the mainstream stuff or the esoterica. (And even if you're into esoteric stuff, just check, it's rather easy -- e.g. search for 'arvo', search for 'dashow'.) Jazz is better represented than pop/rock, but there's some pop/rock out there...as long as you're into Depeche Mode, Genesis, Deep Purple and the Allman Brothers, and less into Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Black Sabbath and Jethro Tull. And one doesn't rip SACD to one's hard drive entirely in the digital realm, that I know of. Grawk's is the only solution of which I am aware.

But that describes more than 50% of us. It's just that he's not "one of us" yet.

Hope you feel better, Dinny!

Ah, hadn't heard that one before, should've been able to figure it out through context.

Oh, Mr. Monkey already got one privately.

I can't take credit for them, they're all coming from the same place, and I basically fell in love with all of them.

The good news is, you'll have a posse. The bad news is, you'll have trouble telling them apart.

Well that's a relief.

Make it stop! Make him stop!

Not entirely -- I mean, yeah, they are completely replacing the kernel, but it's still just files on a hard drive. It should be extremely tricky to try to continue to run in the transition state, but once you're in the new operating system, if it's working, then it should be working. Try exercising various external devices (I.E. as many different drivers) as you can -- if everything is still honky dory, then everything is probably honky dory.

'lunch' is fancy high-end turntable speak?

This makes sense.

I'm weird, because I came in on Dreamtime and Aural Sculpture, so those two are my favorites (with Dreamtime taking the slight lead). "Too Precious" is easily my favorite track by them. I love that ensemble break. Oh, and yay on ELO and Talk Talk.

Not me, man, I don't see what all the hoopla is about, myself, and have said so before. Albeit, specifically about Parasound, not in general.

Just on general principle, I wouldn't fix what ain't broke. I'd send them a stop work email/phonecall/whatever ASAP. Especially since you're doubtful that you're getting the originals back.

It was inevitable -- if they didn't do it, someone else would've. Besides, Auto-Tune The News freakin' rocks.

It's a crime by omission.

They might just check you in if you did that! Their loss, though.

Based on the reasoning I espoused earlier, it makes sense -- louder --> larger excursions for each driver, or same excursions with more drivers. So theoretically, it should sound better at "normal" listening volumes. Even smaller excursions == even moar linearer. The only problem that I can foresee (thinking out loud here -- which is always dangerous, it's kind of like chewing with your mouth open) is that you get to the point of -- if you listen quietly -- not having enough energy to get the drivers moving at all (isn't there some minimum?). I have no idea if the maths corroborate this -- someone with experience with line drive arrays should tell me if there's no problem listening as quietly as possible. Boy am I glad I didn't get the JH13 yet -- now I can go straight to (not) wanting the JH16. Basterds, all o' youse.

I didn't know his eyeballs came out! I'm going to have nightmares about that, now.

Mostly harmless.

Yeah, let's just skip 7.

Wait, what? 8 drivers? How many does the JH13 have, again? Is it custom also?

It depends on what your definition of "version" is.