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Thanks for the really good article Doug. The unit seems interesting but it is the speakers that interest me the most.

Happy Birthday, Naaman!

Does anybody know anything more about this system? http://ifi-audio.com/portfolio-view/retro-stereo-50/ Color me intrigued.

I did not realize that when Stax does shit, it is a state secret

Happy Birthday, Dan!

The only time I relly have trouble with beachballs is when spotlight is indexing.

^^^ That is a really good observation.

Or as good as some are claiming.

Sorry, but you just lost all credibility with that one. FTMFL!

Happy Birthday, Al!

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Happy Birthday, Steve!

Belated Happy Birthday, Stephen!

Happy Birthday, Ed!

Actually the failure rate of Seagate is higher than WD for 3TB drives at BackBlaze and both are higher than the (albeit more pricy) Hitachi drives. If you read their reliability report they actually like the WD Reds pretty well. Anyway, I am happy with one drive failure in 1.25 years, a great RMA experience and no data loss. Edit: I thought that the disk reliability statistics from BackBlaze may be useful to others (more can be read HERE and HERE)

So a little update on my NAS. The 1512+ has worked great for the last year or so, with very little issue. One thing I would recommend to anyone with a Synology NAS is to not have it do automatic updates. I am not one to update my computers to the latest OS and I treat the NAS the same way. This is especially true of the last DSM releases, both 5.0 and 5.1 have had major issues upon first release, but have been pretty stable after 3 or 4 updates. The new software from DSM 5.0 forward also makes it super simple to set up the NAS for almost anything I wanted the NAS to do, including setting up an FTP server. About three weeks ago, one of the hard drives in the NAS failed. I pretty much knew that would happen as about a month before that I decided to use my spare drive for another purpose so that guaranteed a NAS drive failure. The NAS did exactly what it was supposed to do and informed me via email of the failure. The nice part was that I could still download any file I wanted off of the NAS. So I ordered a new WD red 3tb NAS and installed it. Took about an hour total to repair the volume and everything Was back to normal. I am also very happy with WD. The RMA of my drive was extremely stress free. Everything is done from their website. Just make sure to register your drives (SN and Date of Purchase). I was even able to buy a cheap 2-day UPS label from them. Took about a week total to get the RMA drive back so I am back in business and have a spare drive in hand. Overall, very happy with this purchase and well worth the money IMO.

Happy Birthday, Jeff!

Agreed.

Good to know since I did like the movie.

Hmmm .... Then I guess a post implying such is what? Just fucking stupid?

Widely read is not equal to relevant

Oppo HA-1 and Mac Mini

Also agree that the Sonys are shreiking Harpies. And no I didn't hear them on a GS-1, I heard them on a GS-X.

That still sucks but glad to hear that there may be some insurance relief.

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