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So, does it make me shallow if I think the best feature of my new MBA is the backlit keyboard? Oh, and hurray for migration assistant.

Scary, but good news Steve. Since you don't drink, I'll have one for you. Today, decided to try something better than our shitty adsl ISP. Set up an appointment to try Mediacom ultra 50. Not too confident, but we will have 90 days to give it a shot.

They must not like you . My drives were packaged about like yours but with a lot more bubble wrap and they were enclosed with paper padding on all sides. So definitely a step down from the previous packaging, but not really bad.

Yep. That is why I posted this later.

Obviously I was overtired when I posted that

Unfortunately, I do not know of any DAC that can cure someone of being an ass. Why not?

Although I'm no Dinny, in my experience the limitation is still the output stage but even the cheapie DACs like the Emotiva sound pretty damn good. Plus you are at a meet/show so there are many more sonic limitations that are more significant than the DAC.

Parasound zDAC, has USB input and SE and balanced outputs and is pretty small and compact.

Happy Birthday Naaman!

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^^ This

Nope, booked the Alan Jackson suite.

Room booked.

It doesn't really matter how much you ride. But it does matter how much you enjoy the time you ride.

^^ Excellent! Ordered 4 more, so now I have 5 + 1 spare.

Godspeed Heidi

Happy Birthday, Dan! Hope you have a spectacular day!

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Thanks Steve but the right speaker needs a 10' cable. Don't worry as Nugget Audio is on the case.

Yep, but this is Head-Case after all. Seriously, I had to change the switch anyway and most of the cables were cat5 so it seemed like a good idea to just go cat6 for a little future proofing.

I bought them when they had a coupon code and they were under $150 each.

Thanks for the feedback guys, it has been helpful. So I finally decided on the 1512+ since it is way more than I need now by itself and when I need to expand in 2 years, I can add a 5 bay expansion unit. I'm definitely going to take my time and make sure I set everything up right. I bought a new gigabit switch that is compliant with the link aggregation capability of the NAS and will switch out all Ethernet cables to and from the switch with Cat6. Also bought a dedicated UPS for the unit. Should be plenty fast enough as my main concern is reliability and constancy of data access. Currently have 2 WD red 3Tb HDDs and have just ordered 4 more. 15 Tb should be a good start. Oh, and the 2 HDDs came from Newegg and each drive was bubble wrapped, put in its own box and then the two boxes were packed in a larger shipping box. Looked good but I have not tested them yet. Anyone have a MAC or Windows counterpart to badblocks? Not going to mess with Linux.

Well I finally went up to Champaign to pick up the Airmotiv 5 speakers from FedEx. I have them hooked up suboptimally through the SE loop outs of the GSX (until I can get long enough XLR cables) and they still sound great. This is a really clear and clean sounding near field system. Really glad I did not get the 6s since they would have been pretty imposing on my desk and the 5s are plenty at this distance. They are hooked up in my office system at work. Mac mini ---optical--> Emotiva xda-1 ---XLR--> HeadAmp GSX ---RCA--> Airmotiv 5

Happy Birthday Al!

Happy Birthday Colin!