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You must read some pretty factually accurate comics, Dan. It's not always right, but it's not always wrong either. You just like to rail against it.

I can't believe Ray is building yet another portable amp. Otherwise, looks like it was a great meet and there was plenty of fun to be had.

Wife needs new gym phones, thanks!

In my experience the midlevel upgrade from apple isn't that bad a deal. Pushing the upgrades to the extreme did seem like a bad deal.

Ahhhh, you're probably right.

Maybe there was more than one?

You could end up like the reviewer who threw it away with the Sunday Times.

I'll be watching Chuck later, but finally watched Fringe last night. I'm really liking that show.

I'm lusting after a Macbook Pro. Right now I wish I could sell both my laptops and just get a single MBP but I'd take a beating on both so it's going to have to be 5 years or so before I get to realize that dream. I don't get the Air really, sure it's light but the battery life isn't great and the lack of an optical drive is a real turnoff. Maybe if they improve it in the next generation I'll like it more but for now I'd pass.

Pics or ban DOTU! Seriously though, how did the shortened tails work out?

You have just taken the first step towards joining the NAG audio collective, congratulations.

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No worries, you're point about the $10k/mo threshold was news to me. Nugget Audio is safely not tax fraud.

No, what I'm saying is that he's way better off selling them as a private individual as compared to offering them through the business. That way he doesn't have to declare the sale as either income or profit for the business.

How bad would it look to use counter-sunk fasteners through the front panel and avoid the whole headache? Me, I like fasteners so I don't mind it when they're exposed sometimes if they serve a clear purpose. Granted, I think I was the one that suggested using blind taps in a thread somewhere around here. Bottom line, maybe it's worth a call to FPE to see what they think about the hole depth vs. fastener size? They're the experts.

I'm not a lawyer, I just play one on the internet! I always found it just a bit shady that you had to buy a special dock (regardless of who made it) in order to use the later-gen Imods. It just struck me as a) slightly dangerous since from the outside there's no real way to tell if you're looking at an Imod or not and the added cost was not insignificant.

Why only 2.5mm? Is it to accommodate other panel mounted accessories? If so, I'd be nervous about having less than 2mm of thread depth. That might be enough to get two or three threads on a 4-40 screw but I wonder how many turns you'd get with a blind tap? That'd be one of those things I'd want to test before ordering an entire (expensive) panel. It might be easier to provide recessed areas for panel mounted components that can't handle a thicker panel.

So far everyone is ignoring the obvious point - private sales through ebay are easily not reported as taxable income for either the business or individual or requiring sales tax to be paid. That makes them even more valuable.

But would it be so bad for the on-board regs not to work if you were already feeding it a well regulated, presumably low noise supply?

I know people who swear by it. I think the Blue Jeans LC-1 is essentially coaxial video cable, although I'm not 100% sure about that.

FYI - Welborne Labs is having a 2-day, 20% off sale. I recently ordered some stuff from them to see if they'd gotten their act back together. Service was decent, I even got an email response when I asked about shipping status. So maybe they've righted the ship, maybe I got lucky, I'm hopeful.

I think it isn't violative because you technically could use an appropriate dock made by someone else. S2 Audio was making them for a while I think.

And you've read great ones about the AT?

happy birthday guys!

Jacob, Does all this mean that I should stop building the $500/ft. power cable you requested?