n_maher

Happy Birthday to the both of you!

Got to use the chainsaw, always fun. Did some other misc. yard work. More work on the cabinets I'm building for the wife in our laundry room. Mowed for a few hours. Now sitting, pondering what to pour for a cocktail to top it all off.

Must save good will for CanJam trip.

Dude, SWEET! She's one that I've always wanted to see live.

Congrats Stephen! Mike, sorry to hear about your friend.

It may also point to the pending expiration of their exclusive deal with Apple and wanting to make it particularly painful to leave.

If the iPhone ever does go to another carrier they are going to be rather sad at the level of unhappiness that they have cultivated during their exclusive period. One would think that they'd be doing everything in their power to keep customers satisfied and happy, but I suppose that makes too much sense to be true. I'd guess my next phone won't be an iPhone and I only bought an iPhone when I found a way to do so without having a contract.

As far as I understand it there are a few options that some carriers are offering: 1. USB tethering, you connect your phone to another device (laptop) via a usb cable and the phone serves as the 3G modem for that device. 2. Wireless tethering, same as above, only wireless, still serves only one device. 3. Wireless mobile hotspot. Basically wireless tethering for multiple devices where the phone acts as a 3G modem and router. The only one that I can see paying for is #3 since it allows you to overuse your data plan, i.e. share it with others not already paying for the service. But if I'm already paying AT&T for data why should it cost more to use it in a different way?

AT&T is high if they think they're going to get me to pay another $30 a month to use a data plan that I already pay for, just for the privilege of using that data on another device. For wifi hotspot use maybe, but obviously you aren't using the phone if it's tethered to something else so you're not double dipping their data plan.

Even if all the devices on the heat sinks are on one side only I'd still do a symmetric chassis with heat sinks on both sides.

I couldn't care less about flash but if some of the other reported features are true and actually supported by carriers (usb tether, wifi hotspot, wireless sync) then Apple will have some serious catching up to do.

So I was speaking with a well known audio dealer today and in passing he mentioned that Stax recently dropped 90% of their US dealers, including himself. This strikes me as a very bad sign, especially when you couple it with the news out of the Kuboten camp that Stax parts even in the home country have been hard to come by (specifically some pads). Stax doesn't offer any "budget" headphones and all of them require a stax-specific amp so I wonder if they have been hit harder than most during the recent economic downturn.

Bummer aimless, but there will be other meets and we all understand that family comes first.

My issue was with the shear size of them.

I'll be curious to try these since I found the originals to be pretty uncomfortable, if nothing else.

98 yrs, that's a heck of a run. Rest in peace.

Ryan, If you're still hunting for an apple case this guy is local. iPad accessories - Head-Fi.org Community

Modern Family

Yes.

Mike, are you serious, 2Hz? I thought that all (or at least most?) phono pre's had some sort of high pass filter to eliminate the otherwise inaudible low end to specifically avoid cooking woofers?

You can, but most reports are that upscaled/doubled apps look pretty shitty and most developers are coming out with new, pay for it again, versions for the ipad despite what Steve led people to believe at the product announcement. If you don't think you need much space on the pad Ryan I'd really think long and hard about the 3G/16GB version. I don't have wifi at work, there are no local hotspots for me, and without web service the capabilities of the iPad are pretty much castrated. Yes the $130 pill is a sucky one to swallow but it'd be worse to end up with a borderline useless $500 device.

Sorry to hear that Curra, we'll raise a glass or 20 in your and the other absentee members' honor.

Ryan, Not that I know jack but I would find it very hard to believe that they're going to introduce a new version this summer before they can even really fill demand for the first version. That said if I were buying one now it'd be the 32GB, 3G version. There are enough places around me that simply don't have wifi that it would be maddening to own a wifi-only version and tethering doesn't seem to be something that's going to be readily available to me for a while either.

When did you get a macbook pro? Glad to hear the problem was resolved, the case on my macbook is cracked and I need to make an appointment to get it fixed but the closest apple store is 45min. away and I don't go anywhere near it on a regular basis.

I figured I'd toss in another option, Drew from Moon Audio now offers a cable-mount-specific Stax plug (pro only). I ordered one to fix an adapter that a friend sent me, it should be here in a few days and I'll try to remember to post my impression of working with it. It should provide a much easier and better looking alternative to the Allied plug. At $15 it strikes me as exceptionally reasonably priced.