Exactly. Always pay for insurance, it might be worth it, and it makes you less nervous.
I had an expensive preamplifier shipped from one country to another (within the EU). I payed 0.2% of it's value (8000 DEM) to get full insurance, so it's really not worth it so save the money.
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Arh crap, this should have been a comment to the Zalman heat-piped-case story, sorry.
It has heatsinks all over both sides. This has to cost a small fortune and be quite heavy!
Exactly. Always pay for insurance, it might be worth it, and it makes you less nervous.
I had an expensive preamplifier shipped from one country to another (within the EU). I payed 0.2% of it's value (8000 DEM) to get full insurance, so it's really not worth it so save the money.
I tried encoding some pieces of music, and it sounded even worse than normal 128kbps mp3. /me puts on a real CD instead...
The new thing that will hopefully be accepted as the "standard" format as Sony/Philips SACD (Super Audio CD): 1bit/2.8MHz.
Besides that it's still pretty amazing what difference there is between a moderately priced CD player and a high-end ditto for...
Bose is as close as you get to fraud without being sued :-)
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