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  1. The Maggies are in my basement workshop waiting for a restoration, I have new socks for them, I am going to repair some delamination on one of the panels, and refinish the wood trim. The whale tail was an early turbo one that I bought for my '75 911s. We were living in a small-ish apartment at the time, and the only place it really fit was in our kitchen - where it sat for several months - the Mrs. was very tolerant, especially considering we spent a good amount our wedding money on that 911!
  2. I recently made some vast changes to my 2-channel system, and a lot of these changes were informed by reviews and information here - I am really happy sonically with the result, and thought I would share a little photo blog I put together on my new setup. I definitely have learned a ton from this forum over the past few years, and in my new configuration, I feel I am finally closer than ever to my sound quality goals: essentially, taking a combination of vinyl and computer sources, and attempting to achieve a combination of smooth treble - no brightness (been chasing brightness for years) - with plenty of detail, space and imaging - with an underlying musicality. My goals for my stereo system has changed a lot over the years, from trying to get absolute accuracy (which frustrated me at showing the flaws in lots of my source material) to what I am beginning to touch now, which is an underlying smoothness and musicality that continually draws me into the performance, while still allowing me to hear each individual instrument and detail clearly. I don't mind at all that my current system actually makes some of my favorite performances that are blighted by bad recording or engineering - sound better! Link: Doing it all wrong - Imgur
  3. Melvin, this is something I would like to do as well - the majority of my files in iTunes are ALAC, which I just synch (a subset of, due to space constraints) to my iDevices. How do you logistically manage the multiple copies and get the 320's off to the iDevices?
  4. I am waiting for a thread of "Why Buy Speakers?" Cuz y'know, you can just read the 1's and 0's right on the screen! You don't need to HEAR them!!
  5. I gotta tell ya - my whole opinion of her changed after that live performance I posted above. Truly amazing.
  6. Some of my current favorites: And now for something completely different: Lady Gaga solo piano on the Howard Stern Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD4ICwgZiBs The NPR Tiny Desk Series concerts are amazing - here are a couple: Iron and Wine: Wilco: Thao Nguyen
  7. When I re-ripped, I used Max as the ripping tool. I set it up to automatically rip any CD as soon as it was put in the drive - no user intervention required - rip to my chosen format (ALAC), add it automatically to iTunes and then eject the disc when completed - all easily done in Max. I kept a stack of CDs to be ripped next to the computer and whenever I saw a CD sticking out of the drive - I would pull it out and put the next one in. Wash, rinse, repeat. Pretty low-impact way to get it done. Good luck!
  8. I never said flash memory was limited. I said: "density of Flash memory and form factor design criteria "problem". " Your thumb drive is no iPhone, which has a large screen, a very large battery, a full telecommunications capability, wifi, two cameras, a gyroscope, a GPS device, processors for the OS and other subsystems. All attempted to be integrated into a device that has a customer friendly form factor (ie "design criteria") so people can use it as a phone, carry it easily etc etc. There has to be a reason why no smartphones currently out there have more than 64gb of internal flash in them. And it probably isn't some secret Apple cabal infecting all of these highly competitive phone makers.
  9. The millions of people who buy them from a myriad of sources?
  10. I carry an iPhone too - it just doesnt have enough capacity to carry the amount of music I like to carry around with me. I am not aware of a non-hard disk phone/player that doesnt have this limitation. How is this a uniquely Apple issue? Is there another phone/player/all in one type device that has more capacity than 64gb at this point? I dont think this is an Apple problem - this is a density of Flash memory and form factor design criteria "problem". There is nothing dated about my iPod - it does what very few other portable MP3 players can do, even for it being a "dated" model - it gives me lossless or uncompressed playback with 160gb of storage. i have had it and used it heavily since I bought it in 2007 and it (along with the three previous, lower capacity iPods I owned) has given me perfectly reliable service. I really dont understand the ire against Apple in this thread. Who are you comparing them against in this device space? For the record, I dont consider myself your typical fanboy - I only got into Macs when they went to a BSD Unix core for their operating system...
  11. A 160gb iPod is far from skimping, and loaded with ALAC, AIFF, and WAV files - sounds pretty good.
  12. Nice tour, and beautiful gear - love all the Mac stuff and those gorgeous Utopias! Thanks for sharing
  13. maxray

    Power!!

    Very helpful, thanks. Will talk to my electrician about adding a filter and dimmer replacement options. The dimmer is a Leviton electronic one (LED indicator lighting on switch and dimmer switch) - it may very well be junk, I have not kept up on dimmer innovations!
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