Dusty Chalk

anti-vibration technology.

Hey, they make synthesizers, too.

Alpha/omega?

x2 and Huzzah.

Yeah, it's not like curly maple is cheap. Well...at least it grows on trees.

Except it would be even more anglo-saxon to remove the contraction as well. T minus one day!

He's not interested. Jesus, don't you guys understand short-cut booleans?

Jesus: JetBlue -- All You Can Jet for 30 days, $599

The guys behind the desk are usually either mouthbreathers or gritting their teeth. I can only say that because I'm a mouthbreather.

What? Why? They seem pretty close.

A little less than 2 days to go before I get "Bobby"!

No, I thought we went through this already -- even USB 1.1 can handle 24/96 (my M-Audio Sonica USB can handle 24/96). It's the hardware receiver that's limiting the Apogee.

Intro page appears to still say 24/48. Where are you getting 96?

Shouldn't be called a "thumb" drive, unless you're Sissy Hankshaw. Oh, and I thought these were interesting. I was just reading about the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440, which doesn't really make sense to me -- the drives are hot-swappable, and you can make multiple partitions, each with a different RAID level. I mean, I understand that under certain configurations, you're going to have to disconnect all of those partitions in order to swap out one of the drives, but what happens when you put another in, after the restriping process, to those partitions that you had at one of those lower RAID levels, if you had part of them on the swapped out drive? Do they shrink? It also does encryption, print-serving, ftp and https serving, and iTunes serving (?). Now if it only did mail-serving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_DOcsH4gU

So I just did an "Engrish" in French? But "Cha-cha" is easier to say...

Actually, if you're talking completely passive, it depends on the two components being switched, and the adapters you use. If they both result in using the "hot" and "inverted" signals (I.E. not ground/shield), then it's just like having two switches, and floating the ground. (And if they ground-ground [i.E. if they connect "ground" to ground], then you're not even floating the ground [well, you are, but who cares?]). Similarly, if they both use "hot" and ground (I.E. only one side of the balanced), then again, it's just like having two switches in the signal path, and you lose the balanced-ness of it. I wouldn't mix the two, is all.

Well, look at it this way, the lack of back EMF on the loose-fitting one will make it burn-in at a lesser rate than on the tight-fitting one. So they'll eventually sound different.

Anyone up for a discrete version?

Someone should send you a pair to do a comparison. These are not the droids you are looking for.

I'm in. (SACD fanboy.)

Sorry to those who have already ordered, but (some of?) these are cutouts. At that price, I don't care, it's still a great price; but if you do...sorry.

Cha-cha would make a great cat's name.

Quintuple == 5 x [/pedant] So, what, two families and a mistress?

Either they're squeezing very hard, or you have a thyroid problem. No, seriously, sounds similar to the W5000 issue.