Hopstretch

+1. Give us data or die.

Denon DA-500. Finally going to make the AirTunes thing happen.

Waiting with bated breath for your impressions of the DAC2 Chris! Of course, I've heard nothing back from the dealer about the Ayre DAC. "Matter of days" my ays.

Doves -- Kingdom Of Rust Another good album but TOO DAMN LOUD.

Nice writeup of the single-ended Ultra Desktop at Secrets this week (whatever you think about the choice of headphones). With the Max DAC and the pre-amp functionality, that looks like a pretty darn good deal for a desktop system.

Gomez -- A New Tide Just starting into this. If it's half as good as How We Operate I'll be chuffed, as that was one of my favorite albums of the last few years.

Egg, ricotta and spinach panini with an arugula and pickled onion salad. Om nom nom.

Depeche Mode -- Sounds Of The Universe

I bought a six pack of Palo Santo Marron from the local beer barn this afternoon. Will see if it makes me go woop woop this evening. They had several cases in the back.

Bistromathics is tastier and cryomathics sounds better. Duh.

This one's about played out.

Happy Mothday!

"There are not nearly as many dumb questions as there are truly stupid people, which is a bit of an irony."

Goldfrapp -- Supernature

Beware. The guy's a total tool. Plenty more bad vibes sprinkled around the Internet, most revolving around a similar approach to customer "service".

The Bends makes up for it. Pulp -- We Love Life

She sports a superb aptonym!

Hook one up to each testicle and tell me that!

Happy Birthday! Do 'em all!

Before I get stomped flat, I now realize the physicist thing was in one of the very reviews I linked, which I read a while ago and didn't skim again before posting here. D'oh.

Happy Birthday! Go blow a hole in a road!

Aerials are carefully and very (small c) conservatively designed speakers. Mike Kelly, the designer, has strong ideas about how things should sound and takes a very analytical approach to making it happen. (I believe he was a plasma physicist before going into audio but can't remember where I read that.) And most of those involve lots of juice -- how many people specify 350W - 700W at 8 ohms for a center channel? In my inexpert opinion, their older models are among the best deals available on the used market today. Everything is massively overbuilt to the point where hardly anyone wants to ship, so if you can find them in your area you are golden. I got my Model 8s (120lbs each) from a guy in NH for all of $1200. Cabinets hand built by Hornslet in Denmark, titanium dome tweeter, 28Hz - 22KHz

Too psycho, didn't read.