Dusty Chalk

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.

Wouldn't it be alright to stick a buffer and a bandwidth-appropriate amplifier in there?

6 pounds of disks came in

No, there's also genetics. But I guess most of those us have died.

QFT -- in fact, one can even get used to low salt diets, once you drain your body of excess salt. It's like quitting smoking. You just have to get used to it. You know how people who listen to classical music think all pop/rock music sounds the same? And people who listen to pop/rock music think that all classical music sounds the same? It's the same thing with salinity and spiciness. People who eat spicy food think all non-spicy food tastes the same, and people who eat low-salt foods think all salty foods taste the same. But you can get used to anything, and start to taste the variety within a range with anything.

I actually really like chicken. And brown rice. Yum.

I have found that I am happier when I'm not completely out of shape. And in my case, heart disease runs in the family (dad died at the age of 57), so 20 years off the end of my life could mean I'm dead tomorrow -- yesterday, even -- and that prospect is, indeed, a big turn-off. There's fit, and there's "not completely out of shape". The CFS I went through several years ago (going on a decade, now) could largely be attributed to being significantly out of shape.