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Apples & oranges... :rotfl:

Oh please... If they decode correctly they'll all sound the same.

In most cases, yes.

WASAPI should bypass the Windows volume controls completely. It also locks the audio device exclusively so nothing else can use it. You should have the volume in Foobar up all the way and use the volume knob on your headphone amp.

I expected nothing less from you than insults since you can't engage me on the facts. It doesn't matter if you think global warm is real or not. It doesn't matter if you believe that the earth is warming and it's caused by humans or not caused by humans. When you've got a group of people...

Oh sure, that's what they say now. However, less than 10 years ago there were stories bemoaning the fact that kids in the future wouldn't know what snow was, etc, etc... Now after it turns out they were wrong they've changed their tune and claim any extreme or severe weather is proof of global...

Because you can fit a lot more music onto a portable player in ~128kbit/sec AAC vs. FLAC. :p

So did Valerie Plame. ;-)

I'm pretty sure he's complaining that they're still dinging him on the minutes even though he's not using their network.

So as it turns out AAC is a vastly superior codec to MP3. Using the Quicktime encoder in TVBR mode via qtaacenc with command line options of --tvbr 60 --highest generates files with an average bitrate of ~128kbit/sec that are completely transparent to my ears (so far?) vs the original FLAC...

People still buy Netbooks? Haven't most makers abandoned them?

Not a DSLR, but I couldn't resist the $229 w/ free 1 day shipping Canon S95 deal Amazon had yesterday morning. And, yes I already have a S90.

I use SyncBack Pro. It can do what you're after (assuming the systems have mapped drives or UNC path access to each other).

Listen to the native French speaker. He has good advice. FWIW, I don't put stock in break in. I also have no idea why you can't break them in (if it really changes anything) by playing them off your head. The likely truth is that "break in" is really listener adaptation. Listen to even a...

I didn't say mechanical drives weren't relevant today. I think the warranty isn't particularly relevant. My experience with modern drives is that they will either last nearly forever or die quickly. So, you buy a few spare for your RAID setup and don't worry about the warranty not being 5...

Who really cares? WD and Seagate are going to be the modern equivalent of the last two buggy whip makers.

He could always take a page from the Kim Jong-il playbook and be the Dear Leader. :owneddnce:

Alright you Hairy Aussie you! :p

Would you prefer to be called "The Founder" instead? Happy Birthday, btw.

The A5 is a dual core ARM Cortex-A9 SOC just like the rest of the contemporary phone SOC's. If you were comparing it to a Tegra 2 it would have a leg up since Nvidia for some reason decided to omit the NEON SIMD engine from the Tegra 2.

I went through this before in a thread somewhere here. You take the unaligned drive and use gparted to move the start and end of the partition slightly by like 1MB. It aligns to 1MiB boundaries by default now. Clonezilla maintains partition alignment so the target SSD will have the same...

I think you will need to resize the partition with gparted first, then clone. If I recall correctly Clonezilla will not let you shrink a partition during restoration / cloning.

I have one episode left to watch. I don't exactly get the plot arc this half season beyond simply surviving the challenges of living in a post apocalyptic world full of zombies.

I would never use IEM's while out riding a bike.

Upgrading her Photoshop to a newer version isn't likely to improve her perceived speed of Photoshop.

Did anyone watch Season 2 of The Walking Dead on AMC?

I haven't. I will probably hold off on rewiring until the holidays.

Wall-E wasn't stellar either. Better than Cars though.

Original or extra crispy?

I didn't know you could see one powered up in person at Microcenter. I'll have to stop by the local store and check it out.

Really?!?!?

I listen just about everything except for country music and opera. Trance, Techno, Electronic, Classical, Movie Scores, Pop, Rock, some rap, etc... I don't have a single go-to track I use to evaluate stuff. I have a variety of tracks I use depend on exactly what I'm trying to test for. I...

It definitely is cheaper. You haven't found a pair that's comfortable to wear long term or what?

My XLR connectors came in today, but I'm a little gun shy about cutting into the stock cable having only used them for a few days. :???:

So the insurance company still hasn't made up their mind about the car. Apparently their analysts are still working on it and will make a decision by Thursday. I had the body shop fax me the estimate they sent the insurance company. It says there's $7k in damage to the car and their estimate...

Because it not just an amp. It has a fully balanced dual DAC configuration. It also has a fully balanced amplifier using only discrete components (no op amps) and uses a non feedback current domain amplifier with R-2R volume control. In the land of headphone amplifiers / DAC's it's not "so...

HeadRoom has a good visual explanation of Balanced headphones here.

It means driving them with + and - voltage not with + and a common ground. Normal headphone wiring only has 3 pins which means the left and right side share a common signal (ground). That means you have only one wire per channel that changes voltage relative to ground. When you rewire to...

I guess I should qualify my answer slightly. You can get sound out of them with just about anything. However, you can't get close to unlocking their potential. With most devices you will have the volume pushed almost all the way up to get a comfortable listening volume. That doesn't leave...

You can always go to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and attend the CanJam. Painful in what way? The Chinglish? The amp actually looks very nice in person. It's elegant in an understated way. It feels and looks very robust. And the sound... :bow: About 0 hours. I knew him from before from...

Poorly. They're too inefficient. You wouldn't be able to drive them to an adequate volume. Only you and your ears can answer that. There is always a point of diminishing returns. That point isn't the same for everyone. For $350 you should be doing better than HD595's. Amazon has run the...

Why not? It's pretty simple soldering. You cut off about 1' off the end and leave the 1/8" stereo plug on it. On the headphone side you put one of these 4 pin XLR connectors on the cut end. Then you put this XLR female connector on the cut end with the 1/8" plug. This way you can get back...

Basically all the body panels on my Maxima are damaged except for the 4 doors. The headlights, front bumper, grill, hood, rear bumper, trunk, etc. I'd wager the "frame" is tweaked too.

By the way, was your Element almost 10 years old with 150k miles on it at the time?

Not even a courtesy "You're out of your mind" reply... :cry:

Well the body shop tells me it's totaled since the cost to repair exceeds the value of the vehicle. My insurance company hasn't told me anything yet.

A few pictures of my car in better light. :(

As I alluded to in several other threads I decided to get an even better headphone setup for home listening. Last week I received the base pieces to make this happen. Source (DAC / Headphone Amp): Audio-gd NFB-10SE Headphones: HiFiMAN HE-500 The result so far is making me very happy. I keep...

I was just thinking maybe you should try an old version just to make sure it's not a regression of some sort. It's probably unlikely though.

There's 8 batteries in a package, 8 sets... Nevermind...