Dusty Chalk

Obviously you love driving them, you keep going back, despite problems. Congrats, Dan. I actually had my eye on a Jetta Wagon TDI until diesel prices stayed high last year.

Sometimes, in my sleep, I bite the inside of my cheek. However, that's about the extent of my contributions toward a support group.

Thanks for posting this. Indeed, my first question was, "WTF?" So thanks for answering that right off the bat.

You dismiss science on a daily basis. Is not the difference between green and red sufficiently striking that a double-blind test is unnecessary? Do you double-blind every single decision you make? Have you ever double-blind tested the difference between your favorite flavor of ice cream with your second favorite flavor of ice cream to truly ensure that your favorite is, indeed, your favorite? That's what you're suggesting. And I will readily admit that my statement is not true in the general sense -- I was actually thinking about one instance of two pairs of cables. The difference between them was sufficiently audible for my purposes that I didn't feel a double-blind test was necessary. I'm sure that, to this day, I could pick one out in a double-blind test 100% of the time. (And yes, I'll bring them when we meet, if I end up coming. And you can dismiss science all weekend long by eschewing listening to music and drinking instead.) So yeah, maybe I should have made my statement in the past completive. But that's all you're getting out of me, Mr. Decaf.

Yes. Awesome.

I'm all for experiments. Just (a) too lazy to do them myself, and ( think the differences are sufficiently striking that double blind tests are unnecessary.

Mahler, Zander, SACD, Telarc No clicks yet (I'll be listening to my Telarc SACD's first).

Thanks. I've got the image of Spongebob Squarepants boxers and reading that statement at the same time.

The statements that assume it is undisputed that cables do not make a difference are just as bothering.

Oh, okay, yeah, pretty much all current DAC chips can do 24/96 (isn't that what you said?), I see what you're saying now.

Looks like at 6 p.m. PDT/9 p.m. EDT on gold box, there's going to be something Charlie Parker -related. I'm thinking it's going to be the boxset.

Yeah, that album sounds great. Let me know if the new one sounds as good -- their last couple haven't.

Or you could hire someone to put it together for you. Okay, now I'm laughing with you.

In Jimmy's defense, I am a believer in cable materials, and I find the term "stupid" insulting. And even before I heard differences for myself, there is a lot of literature catering to those of us who want to believe, I don't think it's necessarily stupidity which causes us to fall for it. From the skeptics' perspective, "gullibility" might be more appropriate term. The veiled threat was uncalled for, though, Jimmy, I ain't defending that.

Actually, I've seen a couple come out that don't -- surprisingly. (HRT MusicStreamer being the one example I can think of -- I think the other was on here [head-case] somewhere.) So the ONE can't? Fail. I'll pass. Too bad it's black.

Excuse me for laughing at you, then, but sounds like you need to buy a pre-built system.

Forgot to mention (and now we're halfway through), but NewEgg is having a 48 hour sale with free shipping on many "entry level" (read: <US$100) cases. Use promotion code "EMCCASEFS" (without the quotes); link. (Let me know if the link doesn't work, I took my email address off of it.)

You know, "beer" is "organic chemistry". You are what you read; you are what you drink.

Well, no, it's still digital, in that it's binary data. The point of I2S is to separate out the word clock, and there's still the concept of clocking with DSD, so I2S could easily be modified to carry DSD data, but it'd otherwise be the same, and have the same limitations. However, luvdunhill's other issues of not wanting to complicate matters with a buffer and/or amp are, of course, more limiting. And I doubt I'd get around to it first.

I never even heard of that movie.

It's still a form of digital. Yeah, that's why I wrote "...bandwidth-appropriate...".

Jesus, still?!?!? That sucks. They owe you.

Never heard of them before? Really?

The title track with Mike Oldfield is one of my all-time favorites. Just hearing the word "downwind" gets that ...what is it, a xylophone? vibraphone? ...anyway, it gets that vibraphone riff stuck in my head.