It's sort of a viscous cycle - people don't buy good setups because modern music doesn't sound good - which only leads to worse sounding records because "people won't hear the difference anyway.

Modern music can sound real good - especially on vinyl, when mastered from the original high resolution digital files, or even, as some bands still do, cut from the master tape.

You do need a decent - not incredible, just decent - system to hear it. Don't know why a certain type of person will think nothing of spending $400 on an iPod or tickets to see some "famous" band in a barn with terrible acoustics, but will instantly scream "audiophile snakeoil" at someone that suggests spending that same money on speakers or headphones. I just don't get that attitude at all.

For the record, you can put a really nice system together for not that much scratch if you keep your eyes open, especially if you don't mind buying used.

The big fallacy in that is assuming that 44.1k Red Book CDDA _does_ capture all we can hear, when in reality it doesn't come close.

Really? So how does my car offer a folder-based tree of my music then if it's just forwarding button presses?

Not sure, I only fly in consumer sims, not the real thing.

I do know that most FMCs work primarily off of GPS - you might be routing VOR to VOR, but you aren't actually tuning them in and following a radial in.

Some airliners can theoretically perform a full flight takeoff to landing. All the pilots would need to is taxi to the runway.

Never quite that simple in the real world due to ATC, but the tech is there.

On an airliner the full routing will be plugged into the FMC in advance anyway.

Why wouldn't you consider it reliable?

It has no moving parts, redundant power supply, etc?

iPads have been used by tons of general aviation pilots for years now.

Hard drive space is cheap.
My time isn't.

I know which situation has caused me more heartache.

I found the opposite.

CoH was the most grindy game ever - that's all there was to do - just run the same "random" missions over and over again. It didn't even have loot progression.

It is unlikely to dilute less fast - it would be mixed in the same proportions.

Additionally, running thicker oil will reduce engine efficiency, which is why you run a diesel in the first place.

No, it's G *negative* 7. Not a G7 chord. As in a G 11 octaves below middle C.

You know, the version that was actually a good media library and something unique? The one that didn't totally blow chunks?

What's the key stroke depth like? Have you ever typed on a Model M for comparison? I like the feel of a model M (and I have two - an original and a Unicomp) - but the key travel is a bit long for my tastes.

I remember when I obsessed over such things. These days I mostly don't worry about it and spin vinyl. Sounds better anyway.

Going to an SP/DIF connection there shouldn't be any conversion at all - a DAC isn't in the circuit). It's pushing raw PCM data over the wire.

Almost certainly this. I've been been running a digital out from an integrated....something or other...(What ever is built into an X58 board)... via SPDIF to a proper receiver and it's, well, digital. No noise or anything.