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I recently acquired a used Olive Musica, but am having second thoughts about keeping it.

Here's why: if the internal drive goes up, I'm entirely dependent on Olive to format and send me a new one. I traded emails with tech support, who told me 1.) no, I can't do the specific formatting myself and 2.) I should back-up what I rip.

2, of course, is a no-brainer for anyone, and I'm sure the folks at Olive are good, forthright, thoughtful and perfectly able to do 1.) as promised.

Live from Daryl's House is a pretty cool web series with some great contributors.

I really dig it!

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/03/massive-methane-melt-siberia

Methinks the earth is giving you a big raspberry, dudes.

oh god. just what we need.. more pink floyd in the world.

http://www.gbp-studio-acoustics.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUB4j0n2UDU

Stumbled over this old post over at the Slim Devices (now Logitech) forum. It was a response by Sean Adams, Slim Devices' founder and former technical lead, to a post with the subject "SB3 interference due to titanium dental implant?".

It became known as his 'response-O-matic'. I think it speaks for itself.

Quote:

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You claim that an

( ) audible
( ) measurable
(X) hypothetical

OK, I think we all do it - discerning and nuanced listeners buying stuff without ever having heard it.

Have we all done it?

I confess.

I consider alot of digital purchases to be a little bit of a toss off, so I've bought a couple 25 dollar Sonys and two 40 dollar Phillips players recently without an audition. Same with a Pioneer universal player (249.00,) and a Marantz SACD five disc universal player and one of their single disc Hi Fi SACD models when they hit the sale list at Music Direct.

The PraT Project is a continuing nerd undertaking that is trying to explore the realm of subjective terminology and looking for ways of talking about them experientially.

So.

That term,