gallimaufry

As a denizen of Wisconsin myself, I'm just mystified how someone could burn through that much money so quickly in-state. Manhattan, Los Angeles, easy, but Meqoun, WI??

My setup (also an Asus eeepc) often runs entirely on battery power. The MyPassport external drive is usb-driven only. The battery drains more quickly, of course, but I haven't noticed any problems with playback quality or responsiveness.

I've been using a Pico amp/dac and a Western Digital 500GB My Passport external USB drive on my Asus netbook for several months now, with no problems (also listening to FLAC). I like the WD MyPassports, since they're big (in storage), cheap, and physically small (about the size of an iTouch).

and duct-tape two iPods together for the balanced inputs. Synchronization could be tricky, though.

I imagine their phone is very busy right now. I simply included a note in the order I just submitted: "Please adjust the price and order to reflect the Black Wednesday Special: $150 off JH13+bonus cable+free domestic ground shipping (order submitted at 9:27AM EST, on Nov. 25, 2009)".

x2. That's one big reason why the ER-4S still hold their charm for me... I haven't yet found an IEM which isolates as well as Etymotics do. I mainly listen to IEMs on the plane, and it takes a lot of isolation to muffle engine noise. Plus, it takes 64 drivers for true digital goodness for the discerning audiophile. Still, I'm tempted by the JH13s. But I'm forcing myself to wait, see how they settle in for others. I haven't had very good experience getting customs that fit well.

Thanks, tkam, for the facts.

Nope, no tests. Truthfully, I don't think the extra memory makes much difference, at least for my use (web browsing, mostly, and listening to music). I occasionally run "top" just to see how the machine is doing, and it always seems to be humming along smoothly, getting nowhere near system limits in terms of memory usage or CPU load. YMMV, especially if you want to use it for gaming. I'm using KDE 4.1 for my desktop environment.

I bought an ASUS EEE 901 a few weeks ago, the 20GB Linux version (16GB + 4GB, really). The default Linux installation, Xandros, is buggy and very tinker-toy; the first thing I did was install ArchLinux on it. I also bumped up the memory to 2GB, and bought an 8GB SDHC card for it. The battery life is impressive, I'm getting around 5 to 6 hours out of it, with normal use. You can underclock the CPU pretty easily to boost battery a bit (not much) more, and turning off WiFi buys you even more time. I've been able to watch movies, listen to music, browse the web, without any noticeable lags or speed problems. The keyboard is tiny, and takes some getting used to. The mousepad buttons are also very stiff, to the point of being almost unusable (but you can tap on the mousepad). The default Ralink wireless driver for Linux is moderately broken; one of the first tasks most Linux users do is get the patched version of the driver. There's source code available to compile the driver yourself, or a compiled version available for most Linux distros (Ubuntu, ArchLinux, Debian, Gentoo, etc.) The Pico I ordered should arrive any day now, I think it will be a good match for it.

Yeah, that was the first thing I tried to get back the deleted response page. If it's in Google's cache, I can't find it.

I think I can retrieve their now-deleted response page from my cache on my computer at home... I'll try it tonight. I have copies of everything else, including the mushrooming thread.

I got it at 1:56 PM:

I also wondered how long it would be before edits started taking place, threads were closed or redacted, etc. So early this morning I made a copy of Alex's original photo-essay (no offense, Alex) and Jena's self-testimonial page on my hard drive. I also started saving the posts on the growing thread on head-fi. Anyone can, and probably would be, open to the charge of ex post facto editing. As a disinterested (as opposed to uninterested) bystander, never having been a customer of A Pure Sound or Jena Labs, and not being personally acquainted with any of the people involved, I'd hope that I would be immune to the charge of bias. But I suspect those who want to believe that it's all a grand conspiracy to smear Jena Labs will believe that, no matter what proof is offered; a rationalization can always be thought up. I'm not saving the docs for the naysayers, but for the benefit of future headfiers, who, like me, first entered this hobby with no guide, no compass to sort the good from the bad, and who could use all the help they can get before dropping a hefty chunk of change on a boutique product.

Oh yes indeed. It is. Mine's only the silver edition, though. Sound comes out more tinkly. saint.panda has one too, correct? I saw his post about hooking the pico up to it, which piqued my interest.