HeadphoneAddict

The best "almost made it" dunk ever. God I wish it had gone in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJ5N6pFl_o

Here is an interesting app - First Look: Avatron Air Display for iPad extends your Mac screen I have iDisplay which sucked and I removed it, but this one looks like it's working better.

Fun music vid:

Here is another nice optical illusion:

It's too bad the iPad is shaped like a bar of soap (according to Adam Corolla), or is this just a tactic so Gizmodo can get back at Apple? Adam Carolla Complains About Apple - Adam carolla tech - Gizmodo I kinda think the guy has a point. Now, make him bring back the Man Show podcast.

Looks like Tom Cruise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ry2aG9QES0

Well, I appreciated the effort. Thanks!

Via 3G cellular I am at 34 Mb sent and 294 Mb received in the 2 weeks of ownership. And I use Wifi anywhere it is available. I use the iPad a lot and have not yet gotten the battery below 30% with heavy (but not constant) use from morning to late night.

Another iPhone 3GS, to replace the one my daughter smashed in the high school parking lot by accident.

I bought my first 3G in Nov 2008 and am eligible to upgrade now. But the 3GS that we bought May 2009 still has to wait until 10/10 for an upgrade. I added 3 more lines to the account in Feb. So, we spend a lot of money with AT&T but we didn't get any dates pushed up from the original upgrade dates.

Wow, that was very generous.

I ended up with a Seagate 500 GB 7200 rpm drive. It's running great but I have been reading a lot about the advanced power management on many aftermarket drives (APM) causing problems with Mac OSX, including the WD scorpio and Seagate Momentus that I have. They say it's because apple uses it's own firmware for drives that ship with Macs, but these aftermarket drives don't have that firmware available. I thought it might help others if I posted what I learned and how to fix it. There is a message by Eugene Khoo on the Apple forums from 2/10/10 that contains the fix: Apple - Support - Discussions - Hard drive click + beep ... The problem isn't seen by everyone, but is basically represented by having the drive park itself prematurely and then having to restart too often, which could increase the load_cycle_count and cause the drive to fail more quickly. (I read something about 600,000 cycles allowed and some people would hit that in only 2 years or less). Basically, if your new hard drive is often clicking and beeping as it parks the heads and starts up again, or if you often get the spinning beach-ball as you wait for your new hard drive to spin up again, then you likely have the APM problem. In my research I found there is a utility called HDAPM which you can install that will prevent the drive from doing this. This only works for internal drives, and not the external drives that are often going to sleep to quickly and then slowing everything down as it spins up again. I installed it anyway, just in case, because so many people were complaining about the issue. Now I just need to find an easy to install utility that I can monitor the load_cycle_count (there is one I found that requires Xcode and installing via terminal). I hope this helps anyone who upgrades their Mac's hard disk and runs into this issue. It seems pretty common from looking at the reviews at online stores for several hard drives.

We have multiple iPhones all on one iTunes account and syncing with one computer with no problem, but we did give each of the phones their own name.

I thought the Bridge was to be discounted for the early PWD owners, and can go in the rear expansion slot, so I need to go back to the PS Audio forms and read up on it again. I never got a PWT because the Bridge does what I want from a transport.

Tethering might disappear the first time you try to use it if you used the official apple update. It often still shows as being a selectable option after the upgrade, but it disappears when you connect.

I can't comment about the Bel Canto, but the PWD does work well for me through all of it's output volume range, low or high.

Gasp, I hate to mention anything other than Pico DAC/amp, and I know I'll likely be roasted for this, but for a bit less money you could get an iBasso D4 dac/amp which sounds quite similar if you can live with the crappy 8-10 hour battery life from a 9v rechargeable. But the Pico with 30 hour battery and smaller form factor is a definite plus, and you might find a used one shipped for only $100 more than the D4. The resistance to GSM buzz in the Pico is also better than the iBasso, so with a 3G iPad the iBasso might not be a good choice after all. Nevermind.

The PWD has raised my whole rig to a whole new level of realism and refinement. Finally, for the first time my rig sounds like the ones I would hear at CanJam and wondered what I was missing that their rig had. I'm excited by the fact that there are even more improvements to be made if I wanted or could afford it, but I wouldn't even know what the next noticeable step up would be in a DAC. I've been listening to the loaner Luxman P-1u amp since the weekend, and I can more easily hear the differences in comparing amps when the PWD is my source than when I substitute a lesser DAC in it's place. The "source first" guys may be on to something after all. I still would love to own a P-1u though, as the treble is just a little sweeter than with my ZDT/Sylvania gold pin 5751. Time to tube roll again... Maybe someone will have a PWD at CanJam, and you could get a listen to one there?

Interesting - that looks very similar to the Rotel sticky roller that I used to have for my records (pre-1991).

I have to lay on my side in bed with the iPad propped up, or with it on a pillow on my stomach because of the weight makes it harder to read for an hour in bed, but it doesn't make me want to switch to the lighter iPhone. I use Safari instead of tapatalk for the forums, but I use apps for twitter and facebook (even with the 2x for facebook). I had to try entering my billing address three different ways before I could find a way that AT&T liked and agreed was a real address, having a combination of (1) a compass direction with (2) a suite letter plus (3) a private mailbox number. It's a UPS Store mailbox so I don't have to sit at home waiting to sign for packages. They offered a similar street address but without the suite letter or box number, which I wouldn't agree to, but I finally hit a working combo on my own. I've been through similar trials before and was never able to order from overstock.com because my address wont fit in the space they give, and even paying with paypal they would demand an address when you order.

I did just tell the guy who bought a portable amp from me that my TWag LOD sounds as good as those costing 2x more, and it's not worth paying more than the TWag. But, that doesn't qualify because I told him the TWag was more detailed and transparent than the Oyaide LOD that I threw in with the amp to seal the deal. But I do appreciate the positive feedback and I'll keep trying. EDIT - See, I didn't even post what amp I sold or all the LOD that I compared with each other...

Like they said, it's worth more at re-sale if you don't upgrade the OS (at least not to 3.1.3 with the unlockable baseband rev 5.12) But, you can go to iClarified.com and get the instructions to use PWNageTool 3.15 to jailbreak an OS 3.1.2 package, with links to download both files, and then install that onto the iPhone 3G. This will leave your baseband at 4.26 which can be unlocked to use with other networks (with UltraSn0w as I have read), or let you use tethering (or buy MyWi from Rock your iPhone and make it act like a wifi hotspot); all the while being able to run most apps that refuse to run on less than 3.1 now. I expect that it would be more valuable for resale than letting iTunes take to the the latest OS. You will not be able to take it back to 3.0.x though.

I borrowed a pair of Sigma Pro from Plaidplatypus for a few weeks last year, and I thought the Sigma Pro sounded too soft and very rolled off in the treble. I liked the soundstage and the mids, but that was the only thing about them that I liked. The soundstage of the stock Pros even beat my K1000 for cohesiveness and placement, but the amount of missing detail was significant. I tried them with the GES and SRD-7 Mk2 Pro with a 12 watt speaker amp, and they worked better off the SRD-7 Mk2 Pro. Then I heard them last July after being upgraded to a Sigma 404, and the Sigma 404 sounded much more detailed and extended than the original (even on the GES), but still nothing like the Lambda, O2 or K1000.