I'm at college at Dartmouth in New Hampshire and thus have very limited transportation, but I was wondering if maybe anyone wanted to have a meet within Vermont Transit range or even at the college itself.

Using kernel 2.6.3-mm1, I'm trying to get spdif output from my i8x0 device in my inspiron 8600 that is docked on a port replicator. hw:0,4 is the address of the spdif out (IEC958 out), and hw:0,0 is the analog out. I ripped a wav from a CD. $ aplay -D hw:0,4 track_01.wav Playing WAVE...

I'm trying to use my laptop as a transport for a DAC and the i8x0 seems to upsample everything to 48k... poorly. Thus, I need a device to give me high quality 44.1khz SPDIF out from my laptop. Thanks for any help!

OK I've had my Melos for quite some time and I really do like it. However, I've found that it's inconvenient to have a giant amp and a giant CDP at college so i'm looking to use my laptop as a transport and get a messenger bag sized DAC and amp. The DAC's probably going to be a modded DIO...

has anyone successfully accessed their karma through their ethernet port? (more helpfully, on a *nix machine?) I unplug my network cable, bring down eth0, plug in the karma, try to bring eth0 back up and then it never does...

I got some refurbed Ety 4Ps from iDealSound off of ebay. The ety's rock my world, etc. iDealSound is an excellent place to work with. Same day shipment, free overnight (though I would be willing to give that up for even better prices). And best of all, the cheapest prices on the web. All I...

I bought a nomad jukebox 3 a while ago and it's quite a nice player. however, i have two big problems with it: 1) no firewire support under linux and usb 1.1 is much too slow 2) it's too big. so, i'm looking for a small joggable player with linux support and a good line-in. why is it...

All of us younguns have heard where we're going to college by now so... spill it! brag! and if you're in college now, tell us anyway.

I need a watch. My aesthetic tastes generally lean towards an analog watch, but I have no idea what to get. Here's one watch I like: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/57e7/ but I'd also consider more elegant ones. My dress style tends to be fairly preppy (abercrombie and...

Check out bestbuy.com... $11.99 & free shipping! Nothing else to say, really....

OK, carlos made a post that got me interested in re-biasing my melos: "You can also change how a Melos sounds by adjusting tube bias. If you look at the board from the side closest to the tubes you'll see two trim pots to the top right. They'll either be blue, yellow, or white in color, they...

I looked at my music collection and realized that, aside from Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Journeys, I have absolutely no traditional/ethnic/indiginous Chinese or Japanese music. So, any recommendations?

My good old' Teslas are getting a bit old and I'm still resisiting NOS, so I was wondering if anyone has anything to report on the new Electro Harmonix 6922 tubes.

I just got a HP Photosmart 320 (yeah, not that great of a camera but a good 'beginner camera' at $50), and I've enjoyed it but about 90% of the pictures that I take are corrupted. Like this one: (images about 750 kb each) Helen.jpg helen2.jpg Anyone have an idea as to what the...

OK, I finally am getting into the Rolling Stones... and I am not sure which versions of albums to purchase, since the differences in US vs. UK are both mixing and tracks... Any suggestion as to which version of Aftermath is better? If I get the UK version of Aftermath, is there any way to...

I found an outstanding deal on the Shine On box set that makes it about the same price as buying the albums individually. The indecision comes in that the box set is 1992 remasters and there are new 2000 remasters of most of the CDs. Should I buy the CDs individually or get the Shine On box...

I love the music but there is something strange about it. The songs are fairly minimal and ambient, but the CDs tend to lull me into submission, then play a track that makes me think horrifying thoughts, then play soothing music. The CDs have similar effects on my friends. Does anyone else have...

OK, I recently found a copy of MoFi's Ultradisc 2 VU WL/WH and I have two questions: 1) It is previously opened, but near-mint in quality. What is its monetary value? 2) Would it harm the resale value if I used auric illimuminator on it?

I emailed Cardas regarding the loose connector problem we all seem to have with our Cardas cables for our Sennheiser headphones, and got this response: "Typically this problem is with the spring inside the headphone. Our plug is not the same size as the stock cable and therefore allows a bit...

I started listening to noisecore (not sure how I can stand it; it's the antithesis of classical). Anyway, I like A*** C***, but I really dislike Napalm Death and similar artists. Which bands are like AxCx (no structure, lots of yelling and noise)?

As a fan of temporary anesthetics since the old icebox.com days, the first thing I downloaded with my new DSL connection was Rejected, Don Hertzfeldt's newest movie. Let me tell you, this is one of the funniest things I have seen in my life. Simple animation with absolutely twisted situations...

After signing up for Earthlink DSL, my dialup service completely died and it took one month for the DSL activation. Then the DSL connection worked poorly. Now it's mostly fixed, but there are lots of servers that I can't access (mame.net, zophar.net, ford.com, geocities.com, etc.). On the...

is probably the best grunge album ever. As a 17 year old, elementary school years were spent listening to the seattle grunge era... then pop and nu-metal came a ruined the radio, and I have since moved on to classical, turning my back on rock radio. I think SFTD was made for people like me...

I recently got into electronica (IDM mainly. Aphex twin, Clint Mansell, orbital, Autechre, Square Pusher, Boards of Canada), and am inspired to try to make some myself. I found some good programs, but now I am in need of tutorials. For example, how do you configure synths to make good noises (ie...

I just got the Monster HTS1100 ($129 at celltronics.com) as I have very dirty power. At first wary due to my disappointment in my neighbor's HTS1000, my fears were quickly quelled: Monster is not lying when they say that Clean Power 2.0 is completely different from Clean Power 1.0... the...