Dusty Chalk

Do they not do online much? I don't see that. Do I have to ask my sister to get some (she lives in SF bay area) and send it to me? The only Dragonwell I found was a Dragonwell Chamomile.

And wine and art...yeah, the list does go on.

Yes there is -- finding a more expensive hobby (like drugs or pens). But even that may not work. It's not so much a "cure" as "trading up" fixations.

More or less agreed -- although I interpret that to mean, "having the encoded music correctly decoded".

Well, now that he's got his question answered, he should get off the computer.

I wish.

Yeah, but the problem is, the more you use that machine, the more likely that the trashed files are going to get overwritten by your browser cache or something.

A couple of magazines, a book, and a couple of manga...whatever category they fall into.

You're sale-a2uum-1077822164, aren't you?

Oh, of course You had to put something in front of it anyway to (a) run it through hdcd, and then ( run it through whatever lossless or lossy compression program (except .wmv) anyway.

They are.

Doesn't do curve traces.

DSD is not just PCM @ 2.8224 MHz/1 bit (or however you like to think of it). Think about what it would take to convert DXD to DSD (DXD was supposed to be a higher-grade format that downconverted easily to both DSD and PCM). EDIT: And if you doubt, answer this question: why can't one convert an optimal square wave in PCM (I.E. 0-0-0-...-0-2^16-2^16-2^16-...-2^16-0-0-0-...) losslessly to DSD and back to PCM? (And substitute in for "2^16" whatever the equivalent equivalent amplitude is that DSD can handle [i.E. if DSD is "equivalent" to 10 bits PCM, then 2^10].) You are correct in terms of delta-sigma DACs, though.

Curious how you added the check part -- I've been thinking about doing this (mental exercise), but couldn't think of how to not run all files through hdcd.exe.

Yeah, some of them were stumpers, and I had to put it away to get some work done. I did get all of the ones that I got, eventually, don't remember if I finished it or not. I think I was up to like #34 or something...? I did start dreaming it, and LOL'd when Google made their logo like it for the day.

You just described the perfect speaker -- are they really that good? (makes a mental note to hear Aerials some day)

You know, I get deals on mice in my Amazon Gold Box* all the time. I hate mice. I'm a trackball person, myself. I need to get about 5 of the Logitech Trackman for cheap (4 for extant computers, one...just extra). *Sounds like porn.

NewEgg's Daily "Shell Shocker" is an ABS Aplus ABS-CS-EL Diablo in Black with a 250mm front-side fan

Hmmm...

I might have to go up there this weekend.

Stop it, you're making it sound real appealing. And I don't usually like fruit in beers.

Thought about this some more: the article won't be so helpful, because it assumes you have access to the bitstream at a very specific point, so if the two chips are too close together (the one that converts DSD to PCM, and the DAC), or perhaps aren't separate at all, this could be more than difficult. But if one were to capture the bitstream post PCM/pre analog, then it could work.

Team Arcy Sparky wants you to post pics if you do. Yes, even your trademark huge-ass pics.

I missed something -- what do you need balanced anything for? It's a receiver! And: whut?!? Why? DSD rawks! And: I was over at sa-cd.net looking up Epica SACD information, and one of the last threads I contributed to popped up, and someone had posted the following, which I thought might be of interest to (some of) you: I don't see why any universal player that converts DSD to PCM couldn't be hacked to give the PCM output. It was an article in the magazine that was the precursor to the current audioXpress (no, not Glass Audio or Speaker Builder, the other one...uh...Audio Amateur, I think). I'm thinking this might interest anyone who is going entirely computer-based -- it gives them the option of digitally ripping SACD's to their computer. Which, now that I think about it, includes me*. So...anyone have any thoughts on this? * -- I'd of course, keep the SACD's, as I would still want to be able to listen to them in their natural state

Bootleg from last year, looks like it's going to be officially released. EDIT: Argh! And while I was over there looking up the image, I find out that Consign to Oblivion was released on SACD! NEED! WANT! MUST HAVE NAO!