n_maher

Regina Spektor - Far

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Congrats! Even though it isn't everything that you were looking for hopefully you can make it so it feels like home.

What I don't understand is why you own a BHSE (that you currently let out on loan for the summer) and are looking at an older stax setup?

What, no XR-10B?

You f'ing kill me Stretch. The album name for that image is classic. I'm rather tempted to post that in Lawton's thread but I'm in "play nice" mode... for now.

No, but some of us have the whole series anyway...

You are unwise to bring up things like "visual equivalent" with this crowd.

Good call on the B&K, especially the 747. I'd start scouring the countryside for someone to calibrate it for you though. After looking into calibrating my own tester I started to realize that while simple enough at first glance, in order to do it and have it actually make a difference you really do need some specialized equipment. Too bad you're halfway around the globe, the guy I ended up tracking down is pretty reasonable if you can convince him to work on your gear.

I sure hope it provides more than 22db of attenuation and a greater range than that. Otherwise I don't quite get offering balanced inputs and only SE outputs. Otherwise I could do with, uh, 5 fewer front panel switches.

I've heard bad things about Dell's mini towers and their propensity for baking things. Thoughts?

I have a friend who works for m$ and own [2] OEM Vista Ultimate's as well as [2] unassigned OEM copies of Home Basic. The OS end of things should be covered just fine. Thanks for the rest of the advice Tom, I'm leaning towards tkam's config although probably tweaked just a bit to trim things down. I'm also leaning towards just tossing the old box entirely and not planning to use any of it.

Let me know when you get a hankering for a TD160.

Damn Todd, that's pretty sweet. Think it could be done substantially cheaper ($100 or so) with just a Core2Duo?

I've built my own computers before but usually after some pretty exhaustive research and that's the part I have no time/desire to do now. The physical assembly part is no big deal as you guys have said. The real problem is that it's been long enough since I did something like this that I don't even really know what I'm looking at anymore.

I'm pretty sure it can, yes. Ehhh, not really but it could do in a pinch. Mwave will assemble and test your config for free right now, I don't think I've seen anything like that on NewEgg.

I'd be happy to be into it for ~$500, less is of course better.

I'd like it to have enough oomph to run AutoCAD and a few other graphics programs that I use but they really aren't all that resource dependent. But that said I have a pretty strong aversion to buying a prebuilt box for better or worse. I also own a copy of Vista32 Home Basic as well as Office '07 so I should be able to trim most of the software expense out of this purchase.

So my home computer is dying. Well, it's more dead than dying but you get the picture. It's had a good life, some 8 years now, and just can't cope with even the most basic tasks anymore. After installing a fresh OS this weekend and having it struggle for an entire day just trying to auto-update it's become painfully clear that it's time to move on. Basically what I'm thinking about doing is picking up a pre-assembled motherboard/processor/ram bundle from someone like mwave and installing it in a chassis myself. But I don't have the time or patience required to research this stuff much these days so I figured I'd throw it out there and see if anyone has any great ideas. The budget for this is extremely limited unfortunately but thankfully it doesn't need that much in the way of processing power, can be semi-noisy, and I've got the monitor and peripherals taken care of already. And before someone suggests a MAC Mini I've looked into it and I'm not sure it's worth it to me to pay for that much size compression when it really doesn't matter to me. I'm pretty sure I can get a lot more power/$$ through other avenues.

The comparison to SP is a bit out of line but I understand the frustration of waiting. I think Justin is stuck in a tough spot with the BHSE. It'll likely be his least profitable product but requires the most care and attention and huge chunks of time. All I can say is hang in there, I believe the wait is almost over for the folks in the first batch.

Unfortunately I'd wager all too many of them are more willing to spend it on cables than an amp.

Totally cool Mike, I agree with the cleansing.

I LOL'd. I'm going to report one of his for a lack of understanding sarcasm.