Dusty Chalk

Yeah, I like the fluorescent lemon-lime on black look, but I've never heard of Helix -- quality?

Haaappppppyyyyyy Bbbbbbbiiiiiiirrrrrrththththththddddddaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!11!

(a) works just fine. ( It's not worth being embarrassed about.

Well, no, not really. The "oh dear" was more towards that you've never heard anything better than a VC5200. If you love the vc5200, then you're going to LOVE higher end gear when you get to hear it. Damnit, I want a fancier font.

You don't have to take it apart, just take the cover off, take some pictures, post them, and we'll help you figure out which ones the DAC chips are (unless it's as Looser101 says, which, considering it's an entry level player, is likely). So the Pico DAC is the fist upgrade DAC you'll have ever heard? Oh, dear... PS Welcome to Head-Case, sorry about your thin skin &c.

I'll second the Bryston as a good recommendation. Prat and detail, a combination I haven't heard too much together, on top of my classic foundation of overall tonal correctness (more or less).

Do you still have it? Pop it open and take a look. Post pics plz &c.

You should try listening to better music.

This I gotta hear (please) -- Fischer? Marantz (Marantz would make a great cat name -- they can almost pronounce it themselves)?

I wasn't getting that before (now I am).

You could put that head on a dollar bill, it looks so regal. I like that shot, too.

I didn't read it that way at all -- I just read it as them trying to advertise the player's features -- so what?

"...twain..."

I am myopic on the topic.

Jacob didn't believe in gred until it was proven that gred existed? Which is funny, because gred believes in Jacob.

Why doesn't he just gouge this one in the eye (and steer it to shore)? Yeah yeah, I know, where's the fun in that?

Is that going to receive the bonsai tree treatment? ("Cut away anything that doesn't look like a bonsai tree.")

You see what you want to see, you crazy cat lover, you.

Someone (Icarium?) was talking about a Gorilla tripod. Saw this, looks similar. Not sure if you must have the Gorilla, so I posted it here.

I'm going to get mine flesh-colored, and the graphics are going to be grey random curly lines. Camo FTW!

Well, no, that's what innoculations do -- they strengthen your immune systems, by forcing it to develop antibodies to that particular strain -- the innoculation isn't what protects you, your immune system is. But yeah, anti-bacterial soap is a joke.

Fucking imps. I don't think it was a mismatch, but rather that you had imps in your signal path at all.

Gred?

They don't look the same.