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Indeed. 8.3" x 13.4" x 7.9"

Garbage, "Only Happy When It Rains" Lush, "Ladykillers" Breeders, "Cannonball" The The, "Infected" Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Relax" M+M (Martha and the Muffins), "Black Stations/White Stations" Yello, "Rhythm Divine" and "Domingo" and "Angel No" Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Rammstein, "Angel"

You can call it sound space, I'm not sure there's a word for it. And congratulations, good sound is fun.

Blur, "Song #2" and "Boys & Girls" Stranglers, "Golden Brown" A-Ha, "Take On Me" Jon Astley, "Jane's Gettin' Serious" Edwyn Collins, "A Girl Like You" Tears for Fears, "Shout" Catherine Wheel, "Black Metallic" Kraftwerk, "The Model" Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze" Moody Blues, "Nights in White Satin"/"Late Lament" Depeche Mode, "World In My Eyes" Curve, "Coast Is Clear" (did I do this one already?) Barkmarket, "Dumbjaw" Gary Numan, "Cars" New Order, "True Faith", "Shell Shock", "Blue Monday" The Cars, "Moving In Stereo", "Dangerous Type" Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight" Air, "Playground Love" Stabbing Westward, "Waking Up Beside You"

No, I meant if you were, say, starting from a 32-bit master or something. So theoretically, if one was starting from a 24-bit master and listening in 20-bit, one wouldn't need dithering either? You could just truncate?

So you shouldn't need to dither 24-bit audio, then, right?

Mine don't. Don't know if they've added it since then, but not that I know of.

So why do you need dither if you can't hear the bottom-most bit?

(a) But that's a dynamic range thing. ( And in the real world, they'd be different. If they were both based on the same 24-bit master, the 16-bit redbook recording would have been dithered down to obscure the quantization error, whereas the 16-bit DAC with 24-bit input would probably just truncate it. You know, I have a 16-bit DAC, that's something I can try on my own.

I think he means he loves when that happens...to other people, and he can watch either from a safe distance or behind some sort of safety barrier.

Okay, that was great, you definitely have a gift for putting things in a way that I can understand. (I'm still not sure I understand Dan's compatability comment, but I'm not going to ask him now, since he's probably drunk off his rocker. And I haven't gone off and tried to figure it out on my own yet.) Now do me...er...you know what I mean, translate what I was trying to say for Dan & co.. But...although I agree that when the "top" 16 bits are 0x0000 or 0x0001 (sticking with positive values), that the lower 8 bits would make no difference, it's when the values are 0x7FFF and so on that they would have a cumulative effect on the sound.

Babelfish say, "Flippig". Any real Germans want to confirm/deny?

Congratulations!

Please let us know how it changes your listening experience once you've settled in to the new sound.

I love when that happens.

Newcleus! :thumbsup:

Wow. I wonder if the Minipods are significantly bigger than the Micropods. I had gotten the impression that they were full-size speakers, now I'm not so sure.

Well, I just medicated Bobby for the first time yesterday, and it was as easy as getting the pill past his tongue, getting bitten in the process (but not enough to break skin), and then watching him struggle with swallowing it (!).

No. Headphone fest.

C? RMHP&ESF?

Since when has MFSL had its own cartridge? PS Try this.

The DS1's might still work, though, neh? By tilting the speaker, you're moving the center of gravity over to a more stable area. I guess it depends on the speaker.

The 12LA's aren't that big, are they? I've not heard the Scandyna's, but the reviews of the Minipod Passives were pretty positive across the board when they came out as the Blueroom Minipods (as designed by former members of B&W). They're still on my wish list, but you should probably check out the dimensions of both the Scandyna and the Quad, I suspect they're closer than you think.