I think I just came like an elephant with a fist up its ass...

I think I came in my mouth a little.

Hooray!

128kbps audio squashed down to less than 9db of dynamic range... through a TUBE!

morons.

You encode your music at 128kbps and have the temerity to call me a moron?

P.S. We all know you meant 96dB, and weren't just trying to be a cunt.

^ I certainly don't, but unfortunately, much of what you find out there still is.

Besides, regardless of bitrate the point is valid. Compression artifacts render portable audio just barely listenable, and that only when there is significant ambient noise competing for your attention.

To imagine sitting and listening to my iPod through a 'tube amp' is, to say the least, distasteful, and to imagine spending money for the priviledge is ludicrous.

And don't give me any crap about plugging a CD player into it or something. The DACs in portable CD players are unmittigated crap.

It's like a good friend (also an engineer) once said about CD players in cars - 'Dude, I drive a '78 Pinto. If Led Zeppelin were in the back seat, it would sound like shit.'

OTOH, it _is_ kinda cool... in a useless waste of money kind of way.

^ I certainly don't, but unfortunately, much of what you find out there still is.
Sure if you're a niger and get your shit from 'public' sources.

Besides, regardless of bitrate the point is valid. Compression artifacts render portable audio just barely listenable, and that only when there is significant ambient noise competing for your attention.
Nah, I don't think your point is at all valid. My iPod supports AIFF, and I use it liberally when encoding my own CDs. As for the illicit stuff, white people who know their shit go FLAC. I rip the FLACs to AIFF as well. AIFF will take the Pepsi challenge any day.

To imagine sitting and listening to my iPod through a 'tube amp' is, to say the least, distasteful, and to imagine spending money for the priviledge is ludicrous.
You consume conspicuously in your way, and I'll consume conspicuously in mine. I listen to everything in my house through tubes.


And don't give me any crap about plugging a CD player into it or something. The DACs in portable CD players are unmittigated crap.
Never mentioned portable CD players. I don't own one.

It's like a good friend (also an engineer) once said about CD players in cars - 'Dude, I drive a '78 Pinto. If Led Zeppelin were in the back seat, it would sound like shit.'
A guy that drives a '78 Pinto has larger problems in his life than the reproduction quality of music.

OTOH, it _is_ kinda cool... in a useless waste of money kind of way.
Finally to the meat of the thing you get. I agree, and that was exactly why I Swarmed it. Although I'd still take issue with 'useless'. Anything that brings either real or perceived value to your life isn't exactly 'useless'. :>

^ You see, Clavis, this is exactly why the next time we meet, you drink for free.

Yuo rock in all kindsa ways :D

^ This is exactly why the next time we meet, I drink for free.

Forever.

NASA shirt = smooth sailing in WI.

Laundry: Never forget^{(to put the cap securely on the coffee}

Tell ya what; we'll just take turns buying rounds like last time.

Otherwise we'll kill eachother deciding who gets to buy :>

I tell you what, you can all stuff KAHUNA with drinks, YOU FUCKING NON-PARTY WITH KAHUNA FAG0TS.

I'll make it up to you, bub: next time we hang out, I drink for free.

Til eternity.

I tell you what, you can all stuff KAHUNA with drinks, YOU FUCKING NON-PARTY WITH KAHUNA FAG0TS.

I seem to recall offering to drive to Minnesota to buy you a drink, punk.

:)

^ This is exactly why next time you meet, all y'all can get into the bathhouse for free. FOREVER.