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I believe UPS will actually request that you not do anything with them -- like pack them up and reship them.

Ken: Your girlfriend's very pretty. Jimmy: She's ain't my girlfriend. She's a prostitute I just picked up. Ken: I was not aware that there were any prostitutes in Bruges. Jimmy: You just have to look in the right places... brothels are good. Ken: Well, you've picked up a very pretty prostitute.

He was asking for sources...suggestions for alternatives -- although intended to be helpful -- and opinions of same -- not so helpful -- were still thread-crapping. Give him a break.

For starters, one of you needs to file a claim with UPS. I thought it was the shipper, but a recent thread here told me it's the recipient. I still think it's the seller's, since he's the one who paid for the insurance, but you need to coordinate with UPS to show them the evidence, so whoever starts it, the effort is going to need to be coordinated. I also think the evidence is on your side -- unless they took and kept pictures, they have no proof that the crate was inadequate, and the re-boxing makes it look like a cover-up to me. That's what they did when they sent me sand instead of tubes once, and they ended up refunding the sender the entire amount of purchase. I sure hope he sent them insured.

I hope these are more robust. They certainly don't look much different, but we'll have to wait and see. I liked the D5000's enough that I am highly curious about these, especially since they're closed. So if no-one in my area gets a pair, I'll get a pair, but it'll wait until at least December-ish, probably more like next year some time. Thanks for posting the info on them.

And grapefruit, for some reason. I think it's kidney function -- eating raw fish makes your kidney work overtime, and it's already working overtime or something like that. Maybe liver -- I always get those two mixed up.

Robot: Oh, great, tear gas instead of a penis. God, why hast thou forsaken me?!?!? I'm going postal.

Nice!

Incorrect.

Hey, the next time you're in Arlington on a work day, let me know -- there's a place across the street from where I work that has excellent, cheap sushi. I 'loaded up', and it came out to about $11. Of course, that was before prices went up due to gas prices, but I bet they're still pretty reasonable. There's also a place in Thurmont that's pretty reasonable and excellent quality, I can ask after the info if you want. I, unfortunately, have to eschew sushi (being on Lipitor, you know). I still have it once in a while, but for the most part, I just avoid.

Well, I did say the other choice was that some components could be too close together for the voltage, but then it wouldn't test 'good', would it?

I don't know about 'exactly', but yeah, there's always been a Hellboy/Tom Waits connection (author Mike Mignola is a big Tom Waits fan, as is Ron Perlman, for that matter).

This is the cheapest I've seen the 2TB, I think.

Start with page 4 Hmmm... (strokes stubbly chin)

Too late for now, anyway (And before you ask why I have a 4chan link there, I was googling for facepalms -- specifically, the Woody from Toy Story facepalm.)

I would prefer to think of it as the language...uh...whatever the opposite of barrier is.

Oh, come ON!

Are there any ribbon based headphones? I found this -- anyone know if anything came of this (yes, I have already emailed them, they haven't had a chance to respond yet)? I also found this thread on DIY Audio, but...well, you read it...

I know. But that's not what you said, you said it doesn't add anything, my point was that of course it does add something, and I think you knew that already when you said it, I was just getting pedantic about your phrasing. I think your point was that it can't replace what was lost at the point of digitization, with which I agree, but I think you missed my point. ...amongst other things, one of which I consider more important when discussing DACs, and that is the quality of the interpolation/upsampling algorithm. (The DACs don't affect the sampling precision if you're stuck with CD's.) Stressed for accuracy -- that is, like, your opinion, man. As has already been pointed out, we aren't as concerned with '...pretty numbers for the spec sheet...', either, but the pleasure derived from the resultant listening experience. I, personally, believe that electronics design is a game of trading compromises in one area for compromises in another -- frequency response for phase accuracy, for example -- and that no area should be ignored in terms of possible improvements. What's wrong with playing with the signal in the digital realm if you can? Sure if it's at the expense of the analogue stage, then...bad, but it doesn't necessarily have to be, so why not? I mean, you have to be careful that you don't fuck it up worse, but you always have to do that at every stage anyways, it's not a guarantee that you're going to fuck things up just because you do something to the signal. It's called experimentation, the very essence of engineering.

Actually, that's not true -- that's exactly what it does -- it adds information. Now, this isn't necessarily the same information that was there before it was digitized, but all the same, that's what it's doing. So it's like adding made-up details to stories when retelling them. Here's the thing -- sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's good. The trick is to pick the good ones most of the time. It's not entirely fictional bits that it's adding -- they're interpolating, not extrapolating -- so my hyperbole is a bit overstated...but you get the idea. As to making a good 16/44.1 DAC -- I agree, that is more important. But that's a different kind of engineering. Someone like me with a background in DSP would feel more at home trying to do a good job of upsampling in the digital realm, and then making it easier on the analog realm, whereas a good I/V -oriented engineer is going to concentrate on the analog stage. The best DACs are going to have a bit of both.

Re: XLR connections -- they're facing the right way if you're bending over the thing trying to plug them in.