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Checking out until Monday night at least. From now on I have to use my work laptop to read and post here for a while. That is not something I would normally do so my presence here may be limited until I have found a residence. It will take 5 to 6 to weeks before the container with my stuff will...

France or Costa Rica, you're right, it is a tough choice. Both good though. :) As for Scandinavia, I hope you enjoy skying by night! I lived in Norway for a while. The country is gorgeous when the weather is good in summer. I could not stand the long dark winters. The movers are here. They are...

Thanks, mate. I do hope to be returning to the US in a few years, though. My italian experience may change that plan, of course. Who can foretell the future after all?

Jonathan, thanks for the good wishes. I'll fly out of here Saturday morning, arriving Sunday morning. So I'll have most of Sunday for exploration. It will be nice and in some ways awkward to be back in Europe. Nice because I'm going back and will be much closer to family and old friends...

Overall I think so, too. My family and friends certainly think so. It looks like I'll have guests frequently as well as frequent guests; need to rent a big place.

Members of this board discovered the hard way that the technology predicted in the article is already at work. Watching the videos in the "Random Picture and Video Thread" wiped out all responses they posted to this thread. Is it a coincidence that the same guy asking here started the other...

What George said. That is amazing.

Thanks, this will be handy when Google Maps don't work. Both G Maps and your page require the same number of keys; comma on G Maps, Tab key on your page. Nice choice of URL, mapquest it dot com is easy to memorize. How did you do it?

Spoilsport, you ;) Never mind, I prefer coffee anyway. :D

Neil, thanks, so it is indeed capacitance. It increases with cable length so there is another good reason for keeping cables short. For my education, what is the capacitance of your cables? Mine are (not finely) stranded and have 26pF/ft (@1kHz).

> Something wrong with this pic? No, the picture is fine. The caps look like they got too much heat though. ;)

George, I'm in software development. The only thing that my job has in common with the military is that my employer transfers me every few years. My assignment in Houston lasted for almost six years which is unusually long. I had a great time though and would gladly come back in a few years. On...

Tim, > Wow, for a minute there I thought you had gone to the dark side Ralf! Let me tell you that it was 100% intentional :D. I contacted Radu soon after my manager @ work asked me "so, when are you moving to Milan". (That was weeks ago. Personnel departments don't always work fast.) We had a...

Oh I know that, I told Dusty to configure mine for 240V because I'll be moving to Italy soon. I am from Europe, surely you can read my German accent? (Sigh, I'll never lose it, not in two life times.) I still don't get what's funny about "damn the europeans". Thick?

Neil, what is it that makes stranded speaker cables inferior in your opinion? In other words, which physical properties make stranded speaker cables less suitable for ESLs than solid cores? Higher capacitance?

Olivier, you and I are in the same boat since we both move to Europe with the intent to return to The States some day. I can only repeat what "Jim" (Powers?) told me on the phone i.e. that US Logans like my own Vantages and Depth-i need conversion in order to work in Europe. It looks like ML...

A DMC-1/LPA-1 combo replaced my Yamaha 1600 for HT. I did not expect any significant audible improvements because I'm using a Polk SurroundBar. The PSB uses psycho-acoustic time delays to generate the illusion of a 180 degree sound field. The effect never really worked with the Yammy. It does...

The RSP-1 pre-amp is nice but I prefer my passive line stage. Since I do not have any experience with decent active pre-amps the RSP might actually be quite good for all I know - perhaps I just like passives better. The combo price for the RSP-1/RPA-1 is $1300 including shipping. In terms of...

This could be interesting for anyone looking for cheap high quality components e.g. to start a (second?) system or to replace an HT receiver. A sale is on at Emotiva. Recently I bought four of their components, and have been very satisfied with one and deeply impressed by three. For instance...

Olivier, ML will not perform voltage conversion on any speakers unless you have owned them for at least 6 months. Step down converters would provide 120V but it would still be 50Hz. US units need 60Hz. A power regenerator such as the older PS Audios would do the trick. A P300 is too weak for...