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Did it hurt? I'm sorry. I was joking too!

Little does she realise noncomformist rebellious outcastness is just as stupid as sheep mentality! Work for the self and the self works for you. You are your own mind. Follow what you want to achieve greatness, or burn up in the process of doing so.

Kenwood Q55 ~ US$200 Sony SA1000 ~US$200 Some CD player ~US$40 Walden D610 dreadnought ~US$300 Yanagisawa T50 Tenor sax ~US$1400 Yanagisawa 8 metal mouthpiece ~US$260 50 Crappy Jpop CDs @ 3059 yen ~US$1500 Grand Total is something like US$3900 The Kenwood is actually not worth anything. I tried to sell it and I don't think I could get US$50 for it, so now it sits in a box somewhere. To tell you the truth, buying new MD gear is a complete waste of money. Buy something used, you'll still lose money in resale but at least it's not in the triple figures. No one knows about the SA1000 so no doubt they'd lowball me, lets say they're worth about US$75. Used CDs are probably worth about US$7 each, so I would get about US$350 for those. So the market value of this stuff is probably closer to about US$2500.

Stuff work, take a holiday

Try get yourself a trip to the North. Some dude I was staying in the same dorm as in Japan managed to get himself a trip to North Korea. It was insane in a "DIE AMERICA" propagandery not allowed out of the hotel by yourself kind of way, but he seemed impressed. Holiday for me = shijo kyoto or oita kyushu. Else NY but then I gotta fly AKL to LAX then JFK = long time, 22 air hours. Boring. Makes Japan seem a short hop to the South Island. Besides, it costs like NZ$3k to get there. Mtorheferukc!

LOL. An instruction manual..

network walkman got 'em. Hard drive walkman got 'em. CD walkman and MD walkman? Why not? Stupid. But actually, I don't think there are any MDs with a backlight.

goodbye ipod. I don't got nothing to replace it except this Kenwood MD and I haven't used it since I got it a week ago. I wanna sell it but no one's interested. I wanna get an mp3 CD player or something..

looks like something my girlfriend would wear. She isn't too keen on the G string though. Edit: it says V string. What the hell is a V string? But she's always buying expensive underwear. I always wonder why girls like such expensive stuff. But I'm not complaining if I get to see my girlfriend wearing stuff like that without a slap !

have fun in the knowledge that as soon as you leave the forum will break. ha!! Hahahaha!!

I got a Kenwood Q55 for sale. Lid doesn't close exactly but it plays well. It is a little bit scratched. It doesn't come with a charger but it does come with: LCD Remote Clip on headphones Gumstick battery Like I said, it plays well, just the physical condition isn't perfect. Second thing, I have an LCD remote and carry pouch for an MR220 if anyone wants them. I'll sell the kenwood for US$50 + shipping. I'll sell the panasonic accessories for US$20 + shipping.

They looked like good prices to me. Until you realise that GST is 12.5%, which puts that SN45G at around 420, plus a whole bunch of extras for the bits. It might be wishful thinking to put together a system. I could go to plan B which is a guitar, a stick of RAM and a fan for the current computer. Well, the guitar's for me of course. But the shuttle is entertaining and could be useful..

My dialup was fine on my end, turns out the server had a fit. Things gradually came online throughout the day. I got NZ$360 (US$252) for the iPod. Pretty good considering it's a 15GB 3G. Can you take a look at this and tell me what you think? If you're board then take a look at the other stuff - memory etc. It's probably where I'll get all my stuff from. Thanks:D

Looks like I'm going to have around NZ$350-400 for my old 15GB pod. I think that's enough to get an SN45. It's going to be about as powerful as the first steam engine (before they had double action, I've forgotten what it's called). You konw, about a hundred tonnes and has 1 horse power. But, I do intend to upgrade. Nothing insane, I want it to be able to use many firefox windows, itunes or foobar, and probably a few other proggies at the same time on Windows XP. The shuttles all seem to have optical out, which is something. I don't know if it's bit perfect, but I doubt my CD player is either. Either way I can hook a DAC up to that and I have my META42 to serve me until I build something better. By the way, "wait until uni" means about another two months

It's pretty irrelevant because I can't get US prices, and I'm planning to upgrade as funds permit. An 80GB hard drive is something like NZ$125. To get US dollars multiply by 0.7. I think RAM could be around NZ$180, optical drive $90. Proc around $100. The first thing I'll be getting is just a processor, as I have RAM and other goodies from my main PC. Say I spend $420 on the Shuttle to start, it should be around another $400 on top of that to get a pretty smart system running. So I guess something like US$550 or so. If you've got a better idea instead of a shuttle for something in mini-ITX form, let me know.

So I should suck it up and get that SN95G ? Then put a 256MB stick of PC2100 and an 8GB hard drive in, powered by the Duron 1.2GHz. ...

PIMETA sucks. I swear my SA1000s feel underpowered by my META42 (AD823, single EL2001s, nothing too fancy in the case/wire department). That USB DAC don't run off USB power, no thanks. So toothpick girl can solder SOP? They sure are tiny, your toothpick mightn't be very helpful. I was going to build a thingy for high impedance cans using a tube or three, with some form of DAC built in. I don't know where to find those optical converters and the Shuttle don't got coax out (and i'd rather not get an optical to coax converter, annoying). This mid tower I got at the moment is so loud that it can be heard while listening with EX71s. Forget the SA1000. Anyway I put the iPod up on sale, so I'll hopefully have a bunch of cash to play with. I'll sit on it and see what to do later.

There's not. NZ sucks. No Connect(ion) for NZ or Aus. Could ya get someone to burn it for you?

The cheaper one has not got nForce 2 audio. I think it's VIA, which would make it pretty much the same as my current PC but smaller. 100 NZD is 70USD. Maybe it's the same as iPod 40GB vs. iPod 20GB, if they were the same size. Actually, I think i'll get the more expensive one. Sounds like it's more future proof. (If a computer can be future proof). The 6 channel audio sounds nice, I've only got two speakers though. The more expensive one got 4 pin (laptop style) firewire, however I won't have an iPod then so it's irrelevant. I think I'll wait until uni starts and see if I really use this iPod a lot. Sure don't use it at home these days. Thanks for the link and help.

It's currently 2:15AM although I've just come back from Osaka a week or so ago and it feels like my computer's time of 10:16PM. 2:16AM inspired random thoughts and review sites and www.xpcomputers.co.nz have made my soggy mind dead set to get an XPC. I'm looking at the SN45G. It's got everything I'll ever need, I assume I can do the old switcheroo gag with my Duron, (or was that the SN41G?) hard drive and GeForce MX400 . If I buy this computer, I get a computer that doesn't keep me awake at night and many features. One of these is an SVHS out. My TV has SVHS in. This means lots of fun for parties when it can become a DVD player and jukebox. Another of these is an optical S/PDIF I/O. Something useful to have in case I decide to build a DAC. (Since the MDR-SA1000 unamped from my current sound card doesn't sound very healthy). It's got enough power to keep me happy. (I don't play computer games, they bore me). Enough introduction. (My introductions are long winded and generally longer than the question I have to ask, maybe they're just musings, to get you in the mood). First question. I don't want to get another DAP if I sell my iPod. I only have AACs from my CDs that I've bought, so they can just be played on the computer. Anything I have infringed the copyright of is in MP3 format and can be transferred to a CD with the CD burner I haven't bought yet. Speaking of CD burners, I figure any LiteOn drive is good. Let me know if this isn't the case. Therefore, the only problem I'll have is the scratching of CDs and the annoyance of carrying a CD player. That and the lack of the iPod status. I will only be going out when I'm off to University. That's a half-hour bus ride. I don't need an iPod on the bus. I'll have a bag filled with stuff for university as well. There are plently of iRiver CD players about which play MP3 CDs. But it's not necessary, really. Music's for home. Maybe I'll get one of those flash players, just like MD except there aren't any discs. At this point of the post, you're meant to say "Buy the XPC and sell the iPod" or "You're stupid, keep your PC". Or "Buy the XPC, an MD recorder, and sell the iPod" considering it's an MD board afterall. Next bit of the post. Assuming I pass the last section, which Shuttle is good? My current system dates from '03 or '04, but kinda older parts. GeForce 2. 384MB PC2100. Duron 1.2GHz. You get the idea. I'm satisfied with the speed of this computer, so would the SN45G for approximately 100 NZ dollars (70 US Dollars) more than the SN41G be worth it? At the moment, I think it is worth it, however anything to save money is a good idea, considering I don't really want to spend much more than the value of my iPod in buying the bare bones system. I've forgotten what else to say. So if you think of any issues (any at all) please tell me. I won't bark at you, honest. I've been debarked by various Tboard idiots. It's just not worth the effort... Please post about the XPC and not the Tboard, I'm not interested in Tboard politics. sankyu-

Doom-ed. SA1000s need more power. MORE POWER. Head-Fi will not let you go. Best to let this one go, there's no hope left for her.

That's strange. But strangeness is something I accepted as a feature of the MD format. Sure happened a lot with the MDs I bought. It could be something like the laser block (lens thing) getting stuck somewhere. I guesss you should just hope it doesn't happen again.

I guess the best way to do this is to upload the track to your computer, edit it, the download the edited copy back to the MD. The only problem with this is that it might take a while considering the maximum speed is something like 500KB/s.

X Japan "DAHLIA" sticks out at the moment.

I thought it was an option in the menu somewhere? There's an option on every Sony unit after the E900, anyway.