it was a little slippery going down my driveway, then no trouble getting into work. There's only 1 other person here tho, because the base is on a 2 hr delay.
the Bloom is a fantastic budget cart, but you'd need to get a different phonostage, I think. The sumiko black pearl I have I got for $50, but it looks like they've gone up considerably.
It was snowing as I drove through DC today, but nothing was sticking. No snow here yet, I'm hoping it's less than an inch or 2 at 6am, so I can get down my hill. I didn't feel like walking up it.
it's an excuse for mastering engineers to do a good job, instead of squashing the master for radio/earbuds, just like dsd, sacd, hdcd, etc. 44/16 is plenty good for playback, but since people don't have to work for it, they don't value it.
I think it's reasonable to modify a $75 pair of headphones to make them world beaters. If $1500 headphones aren't world beaters out of the box, they should be returned with prejudice.