Dusty Chalk

First of all, I'm not entirely sure that's true -- we breathe about 2% through the pores in our skin. Secondly, he could be just saying that the air around his ears get stagnant and they get sweaty as a result. Which is how I thought it was meant.

I don't have this problem!

That's too bad. I heard this morning talk of suicide, but looks like that might not be the case. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Musical Fidelity X-Can V8P is $500.

I'd be contingently interested, depending on the timing (I.E. if it happens right away, then I'm out, if it doesn't happen until, say, October, then I'm in).

In answer to the original question: Philips SHP8500/27, obviously. + $10 mp3 player (yes, they exist; no, they're not iPods). And that leaves $15 in change. That's what it looks like to me. (Or possibly a lizard about to eat a watermelon, I think is what the original image was.)

Considering who you are, I don't think the warning applies in your case. Even I know who you are, and I hardly frequent Head-Fi anymore at all. Welcome to head-case, sorry about your thin skin, the back of your head, and your liver.

Probably just got caught in mid eye-turn, but yeah, he looks like he's about to set the glass on its side so that no-one can refill it. Nice glassware, guys!

Yeah, I know, I was being sarcastic. Schoeps is top echelon.

Holy shit, Cicadas!

Schoeps...Pfff.

Goth and metal, the best of both worlds.

You need to get into metal. And goth. Me: moar Genesis

And if it gets stuck with red tape, we would call it...TOU JAM!

Pfff...if you're going to blow your wad, might as well go all the way...12.2 FTW!

I laughed (3:34), I cried (5:04), I held my breath (multiple points). Total Fucking Awesome. I now want to buy a Subaru Impreza WRX STI.

Ah, of course, the old point-of-reference problem.

But how do the bits know their order if they haven't been transmitted yet? Time travel is just not intuitive to me yet.

Please let us know what you find out. If the DSD1796 is only being used for the headphone output, then what is being used for the analog outputs? That sounds like an HDMI spec, but that's just a guess (converting DSD to PCM etc.). If you find anything out about that, I'd be curious about that, too.

Cars-play?

Wouldn't that be negative time-smearing?

Thanks! Thanks! Yeah, we're about due for a mini-meet...

Well, if you're concerned, then you're concerned, I don't really have any advice on that. Other than: Get an LCD. LCD's aren't bad, per se, I just personally prefer plasmas. Also, you need to be able to darken your room pretty dark if you're going to get a plasma. Which I would be able to do. But if you can't, that's another vote towards LCD (don't know if LED's handle that yet -- I should check). At 8 hours/week, I wouldn't worry too much about it. That's relatively light use. I will give you a little more context as to where I'm coming from, so that you understand my comment: I deliberately said I... I... I... because I was saying what I was doing as a data point (amongst many), not as "what you should do"/trying to influence you to do things the way I'm doing them, because I don't feel I am sufficiently knowledgeable about your situation to give you that strong advice. It might be a little high, but I would look at the LN46b6xx -- the 650, 630 or 610. Their retails are a little high, but the streets are typically lower. I prefer 120Hz to 60Hz (in LCD...plasmas don't provide that option). If you want to go even cheaper, look at the LN46B5xx -- 530, 540, 550. PS Sony would be my third choice. But what you really should do is go to a half decent store and go to them and actually look at some TV screens (from the distance from which you plan look at them at home). If they all look the same to you, then don't worry about it, and get the LG. If one of them stands out, then get that one. Try zooming in here. Don't go to Best Buy. I don't know why they're so fucked up, but I think it's the long cable runs, all their televisions look the same. I went to Belmont TV, myself.

I don't have a problem with too much bass -- only out of control or diffuse bass.

Well, I thought about it, and wonder ... there's got to be a video recorder (probably professional) that has a DVI input...I wonder if something like that can be hacked to record any signal off the stream...