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I still maintain that the Exstata sounds considerably better with my SR-Lambda than the SRD7-SB fed from either my M3 or a t-amp. Would the transformer box improve with a better speaker amp behind it? Absolutely. Would it make up the difference in sound quality? I'm pretty skeptical; the difference it quite large to my ears.

More appropriately, you don't need to defrag an SSD. The whole point of defragging is so that individual files and related files are kept at the same physical location on a HDD, so that physical seek time of the read head is minimised. With the SSD you no longer have a physical seek time. File access times should be consistently low regardless of how far apart the bits are.

Auto electrician buddy always warned me to be REALLY careful when you remove a battery. If a spanner or screwdriver makes good contact across the terminals it will give quite a good show.

It appears he took his life sized sex doll on holiday with him......

The eyebleach does nothing.

Sounds awesome. Still keen to pick up a production version of this amp if the price is right

Everyone around me is wondering why I'm giggling like a schoolgirl. Classic

I liked Cafe Beignet when I was there. The beignet wasn't quite as good as Cafe Du Monde, but I was drinking beer and watching jazz in the courtyard, so I didn't care. Also, if you want to get saucy without getting seedy, check out the Friday night Burlesque show at Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse. The missus and I really enjoyed it.

Perhaps different damping on the suspension as well?

Ok, so I bought a TKD 2CP2511 50k pot for my Crack build, and I need a sanity check. Resistance across input (pin 1) to gnd (pin C) is a constant 43kohm regardless of pot rotation, which makes perfect sense. But the resistances across the input and gnd to the output (pin 2) while turning the pot are baking my noodle. When moving from minimum volume up, pin 1 to pin 2 increases in resistance from 43kohm to a maximum of 59kohm at about 1/3 of the pot travel, then drops steadily to 10ohm. Pin 2 to pin C jumps very fast from 10ohm at minimum volume to about 3kohm in the first few degrees of rotation, then moves steadily up to 43kohm for the remainder of the rotation. Clearly, these TKD's don't behave like normal pots, and there is a PDF on their website explaining that their rotary faders are 'ladder' circuits. Is this the full explanation for what I am seeing, or am I just going nuts? Useful references: datasheet and an explanation of their ladder curve.

Nice first post! How were the Edition 10's?

I went that way because the 50k pot with 50k series resistor gives me ~6dB of pre-attenuation, increasing the usable range of the pot. Also, if I ever gut the amp a 50k pot will probably be more useful to me.

The Squeezebox Touch kicks arse. That is all.

Fucking brilliant, Stretch. I envy you!

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

Well, I just ordered a Touch from Solutions A/V and it should be here mid next week. As a bonus, the missus agreed to pay for it as a birthday gift, so it doesn't even eat into my own play money!

I would personally use a full-size drive (3.5") with its own power supply. If only because it will have considerably faster read and seek times than a 2.5" bus-powered model.

The other alternative for deeper pockets is to run Squeezecentre on a ReadyNAS device. Easier to transfer files to the NAS than moving a USB device from your Touch to your computer and back.

It really depends on how you define and pick your entry level phones. The Koss KSC-75, for example, are what I would consider an excellent entry level phone...... if there was ever a headphone apocalypse, I could probably be happy with a set of these. The Sennheiser HD515, on the other hand, is a lot more expensive but sounds like a steaming piece of crap - and I'm sure that there are a lot crappier entry level phones than even these. I believe that there are two ways to get friends/family to understand HiFi. Either with something really energetic that pokes them directly in the brain (fatigue be damned!), or something with an insane soundstage. If they still don't hear it, then ignorance is bliss.

Unfortunately not. The Touch is supposed to be a logitech.com exclusive shipping only to the US. This store has only just in the last month managed to wrangle some stock.

Huh. I've tried explaining the concept to several Canadians, and they are all horrified at the thought. Mind you, this is a country/province that enjoys canned moose meat, so I really shouldn't trust their opinions on food......

There's a place in Toronto that sells the Touch for CA$329 plus tax. Seems like as good a deal as I will get anywhere. Unless anybody else has additional suggestions?

Better than Australia's pie floater!

Repeat offender troll, I suspect. I'd be IP banning by now.

I had originally discounted the Touch because I don't have a smartphone, iTouch/iPhone/iPad, or netbook, and the included remote seemed inadequate. But seeing all the upgrades from the Duet...... hi-res support, reading from USB drivers etc. certainly makes the Touch a bit more compelling. At the very least, queuing up a playlist on the device before parking my arse isn't exactly a huge inconvenience.