Dusty Chalk

Bryston == good. Some of the best speaker sound I've ever heard (my boss' office rig) includes a Bryston power amp.

Score!

It wasn't necessarily in direct response just to your last post -- more the arguments that (mainly) grawk (and others) have been pushing that it's only about dynamic range. Dynamic range/SNR is usually measured by a full output signal vs. the noise floor, but it can also affect the resolution of the signal being generated, making, for example, a sine wave look more like a sine wave. Admittedly, when you're comparing against 24 bits, I would be hard pressed to argue that one could actually hear the difference, but I don't see any reason not to apply Moore's Law to audio. I mean, when you're listening to a 24/96 recording vs. a 16/44.1 recording, I don't care if everything else is exactly the same (including the SNR of the analog section), it still comes out as a better recording, even at full volume. And if the technology is there to do better, why not?

Try listening to more exciting music?

It's not just about dynamic range, it's also about resolution -- the bits between the bits...detail, and not necessarily below the noise floor. I'm with Beefy -- if it results in a more accurate signal in the first place, it's a good thing.

I think he meant 'official', as in, "it's official, there now will be a West Michigan meet..." At least, that's how I read it.

Saucesome. We need this as a smiley (or something similar).

Overall design is probably more important than the one junction. I know someone who has a ... M^3, is it? ...portable entirely outfitted with black gates, which probably sounds better than an entry level desktop. I would say the 1/8" vs. dual RCA debate is overshadowed by the interior guts of the thing in that case. That said, everything else the same (including the cables leading up to it, gold plating on both, etc.), I'd say dual RCA's, if only for the increased separation (I mean, you wouldn't tie the grounds from your preamp to your power amp together, would you?). But I doubt I'd be able to hear the difference, it's probably mostly psychological at that point. Everyone needs to start drifting over to 5 pin DIN or Lemo connectors (L/R +/- [==4] & ground). That'd be optimal. Then you could have "stereobalanced". Welcome to head-case, sorry about your thin-skinned back of the head.

Unless you have a sister, in which case negotiations could possibly be re-opened.

Dreadhead and Voltron and aardvark baguette and ...jpnums? I forget...

I did, LOL, boom chicka WOW-wow.

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I would like to openly and publicly thank Team Taking One for the Team for being early adopters and buying these phones.

The last two things on Amazon's Gold Box: Amazon.com: Brome 1015 Squirrel Buster Classic: Patio, Lawn & Garden Amazon.com: Find It Games Kids Version - Red Ends: Toys & Games Is it just me, or do those two items have a visual resemblance? What're you trying to say, Amazon?

I laughed out loud at the Knutballz. So I think we found us a contradiction.

Oh, well then, by all means, get another amp. MOAR AMPS!!!1!

Installed the memory, graphics card, and hard drive in my computer, and now everything is working great, am working on downloading and installing CUDA, now. Colin, my favorite Chinese restaurant is in Howard County near a police outpost ( and no, by that I do not mean a donut shop -- I forget what it really is, but the Chinese restaurant is Mandarin House off All Saints ). I've been going there since '88, srsly. Chris -- I think Suitland takes up a lot of those statistics, if you take Suitland out of the equation, then PG gets a lot better. Suitland, where the key words are "two days" -- two days a body shot by the cops went undetected because they lost count of how many perps there were; two days a girl was held hostage in the center of town because no-one heard her because everyone drives around with their windows up; etc.

Hott. And I agree with you, Elephas -- I've heard an ES-1, and yes, it, too, is some of the best sound I've ever heard.

I love Japan, they can make a fetish out of anything. So there's this rule that you can't show genitals on videos, so they mosaic everything...so now there's a mosaic fetish.

Stimulate the economy!

Because now it's just like any other computer source, and you can plug it into any DAC you want -- dCS, EMM Labs, Wadia, Accuphase. You don't see the appeal of that? Now you're not stuck with the iPod's internal DAC.

I'm not talking from the amps, I'm talking to the amps. And not all amps have Faraday cages built into/around them -- not all are grounded, not all are steel, etc. Yeah, well, good luck with that. I wasn't the first person to say it, and I won't be the last.

Be reminded that the 22L's are 4 ohm speakers. I seem to vaguely remember seeing the impedance graph as really looking like 5. Is the Quad even rated into 4 ohms? The Cambridge Audio says it is. The Quad looks beefy, so I suspect it's not a problem. So yeah, properly driving them would be a good idea. Ramping up a notch on my Dynaudios made a world of difference -- they went from "audible" to "singing". In my case, it was actually the tweeters, but that's specific to the Dynaudio Esotar 2 (and others, I'm sure, but not tweeters in general). The bass certainly tightened up as well. I went from an Jolida integrated to a massive, bone-crushing Musical Fidelity A300^CR. Having hundreds of watts on call is definitely going to improve, but I still think that room treatments is what you really need. That's probably going to overshadow any improvements that greater amplification is going to have.

I don't know, tell us after you've drunk them.