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Very, very cool, Chris.

It's just a sign from the Forum that it wants more posts from you, Indra.

I checked with BJC Grahame and found the same thing. I do wonder if you emailed them if they'd agree to make something shorter without the huge strain relief boots on them? [edit] The schitt cables look good to me. At $20 it'd be worth taking a flier on a pair to see if they'd work. I'd be hard pressed to order 4 half-decent RCAs for that (including shipping).

I'd want to see a picture of everything stacked up to believe it. It just seems impossible even with pint sized components.

Last night...7pm discovered that one of the air relief valves on our boiler was leaking profusely. About a gallon had already leaked onto the floor and spread over a pretty large area. Minor casualties all things considered, mostly just storage boxes since everything else is on racks (thank god). Spent an hour and a half wet-vac'ing the area and cleaning up which was exactly what I had planned for the evening. Finished things off by finally getting a listen to the HD600s that I bought a few weeks ago. Came away from that thoroughly underwhelmed. Could be the amp I'm using (Torpedo) but they were treading awfully close to overly polite. Since I have no plans to replace that amp anytime soon they may simply not fit with the current plan. I guess ultimately what I'm looking for is a more comfortable Grado. Which may = Stax... Today, currently at work. I'll vote on the way home then I'll be hitting the town with a few old friends to celebrate democracy anything other than work/politics.

You sure that a 6" rca is going to be able to reach from each source (tuner/dac/cd) to the pre? I'm assuming the third pair is to go from the pre to each amp, which again, makes me think that 6" is really short.

Any real aesthetic concerns with these or are they going to be 100% hidden? Any reason they need to be shielded?

Whoa. It'd be great if it started a trend.

Not cheap, but not hugely expensive. Looking forward to hearing what Tyll has to say about them. Website seems to be from 2011 so are they really new to the game or did they just catch on?

Steve, Don't you already own a K1K to speaker connection adapter? At least I think you bought one from me... also, not sure that you really want a panel mounted connector used in a cable, there are certainly female cable-mount XLRs that should work, unless you think it adds too much bulk somehow. But with 2' of cable length I can't see that as the justification. You want a more flexible version of this w/ RA connectors, right? I can probably help with some of this stuff as long as you don't need it tomorrow save for the digital IC. But I might have a friend who can help with that. I'll shoot him a message.

Sniff, sniff, I miss my old ride reports... Anyway, got the MTB out again this weekend and did another pretty long loop at Fort Rock. Managed to get the bike shifting a bit better but still not great. Can't wait to close the door on this chapter and get a new ride for next year which appears like it should be going forward soon. Portions of the trail were downright unridable with dense leafpack where the lower layer was wet leaves and provided zero traction. Still a ton of fun and it makes me doubly sad that both riding seasons are going to be over soon but I'm pretty excited to ski and next year I'll be getting out on the MTB a lot more than I did this year. Yesterday's data.

:drool:

Made bacon in the cast iron skillet this morning. Saved some of the grease and used it to cook the veggies and beef for chili which is now simmering in the crock pot for dinner. Great bacon day so far.

This!

High quality (local farm, no hormone, etc) bacon procured for breakfast this weekend. It's cast iron skillet time, wuhoo! yeah, yeah, I know, one of these days I'll bake my bacon all proper-like.

Good news, CJ, glad to hear it.

Agreed, Ed, a bit of a downer to have only Hamster presenting but also at this point I'll take what I can get. I admit that I have been cheating lately and watching the reboot of 5th gear on Velocity. It's different, but decently good.

Buy.com has a deal on 11" Macbook Air's today for $779 (MSRP $999) and it doens't appear to be a refurb. No idea if it's current gen, but 20% off an Apple product isn't something I've seen a lot of if it is current.

Good news CJ, glad to hear it.

X3. Had a chance to buy one cheap at a meet once and thankfully I listened before buying.

Glad to hear from you Ari, I'd be hoping you'd show up soon. Enjoy the normalcy, Dinny.

There's a limit to how complicated I want it to be to make a cup of coffee. The french press is about as far as I'm willing to go.

The Nexus 10 and 7 both look pretty interesting. I'll be looking for some real-world usage reports to see how the 10 does in the wild.

Done. It gave me some weird "From Address" failed message and it doesn't appear to have sent me a confirmation email but I'm not worried about the tax implications. Good luck Vicki, I'm sure you'll do great and it's a great thing that you're doing.

For a good 4 months up here that's not an option. Being hot is tolerable, freezing... not so much.