There's a section in a competing audio publication this month dealing with USB DACs - the conclusion of the lead author is USB is simply not ready for prime time.

In particular, he argues the sound of USB pales in comparison to s/pdif.

I'm curious; what's been your experience?

Scott A.

note to mods: I assume mentioning a competing publication in this context is ok. If not, please let me know.

tks

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Jul 3, 1:58 AM (ET)

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.

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I'm beginning to think the Democrats are just plain fucking stupid. I mean, politicians are stupid in general but this new shit is just priceless.

http://www.gloriousnoise.com/links/2009/tom_waits_is_satan.php

It has come to my attention that BIS Records, an SACD label, has been recording in high-bit PCM, not DSD, since 2005. They were simply transcoding to SACD for the consumer disc release. This means that any rave review of a BIS recording since '05 was in effect, a rave for high-bit PCM. Was Kal one of those ravers ?

BIS now joins Sony, Naxos, DG and Telarc in dumping SACD.

Harry Teague voted along the party line on the recent CAP/Tax bill that passed The House.

We just elected Rep. Harry Teague (D) into office to protect our oil assets in the Permian Basin. Harry is a well known oilman that has made a tidy fortune in the oil well servicing end of the business. He is also very aggressive having run out all his Texas competitors from The Basin so he has a virtual monopoly in his line of work. Anyway, he had a town hall meeting yesterday. I should have went. Here is an eyewitness account I received via email last night.

Well, I'm sure plenty of people have met audiophiles (in person) but I mostly haven't, really (other than dealer staff). Met someone who reportedly has Maggies but I haven't heard them; and I once met someone with Thiels and I did hear about 10 min of music there. That was years ago and I've never run into anyone else. Plenty of computer geeks, tv big screen consumers, car freaks, wine snobs, etc out there but I don't hear doodly about music reproduction, from my little social circles.