If it's common sense that you don't put rubber feet on furniture, why does vibrapod have to warn people? And those pictures looked more like heat damage than grease from rubber.
My suggestion is in Reston, VA, in my apartment, where I'll soon have a kegerator, but others can suggest times and places too. So option 1: Nov 18, Reston, VA.
Opinions differ about the various qualities of coax and toslink.
Toslink is a better option on inexpensive gear, because you have fewer problems with jitter induced by impedance mismatch.
Except that you're not pushing anything into the noise floor when you use a digital volume control. Bits is dynamics, sample rate is resolution. Once the recording is mastered, the noise floor is set.
I've got a 629, a combat commander 1911, a sig 239 9mm, a kahr mk9, a keltec p32, a couple of ww2 lugers, an hk tactical 45, and a dwm .25. Being somewhat intoxicated, I might be missing one or two...