I believe you are citing the part where it says collectively "ReplayTV" as the basis for your comment. That part simply means that the phrase "ReplayTV" will be used to refer to SONICblue, Inc and its subsidiary ReplayTV, Inc. Whether or not D&M will honor the lifetime agreements is completely dependent on the structure of the agreement between them and ReplayTV, and has nothing to do with this service agreement.
It is certainly all about what makes you happy. I don't own a Linn Sondek nor would I buy even I had the means. But it is my opinion (as you said) that there are few people out there, that if they sat down and listened wouldn't be able to notice a definite difference between a cheap cd player and a quality $1000 cd player. It's not so much the price (obviously) as the attention to detail in the components, the power supply, the DAC, etc.
I have sat down and compared many of these players in the same environment in a listening room in a store, as well as having brought some of them home and plugged them into my current setup. I got my current setup (which includes a cd player in the 1k, not 21k range) because I was extremely unhappy with the way the first surround system i bought from best buy sounded. I took it back and traded it in for a quality stereo system with an amp and a cd player and have never looked back.
If you read many of the audiophile magazines such as Stereophile, etc., you'll see reviews of equipment such as external DACs for CD players as well as many high-end CD players. Among those there is the legendary Linn Sondek, a CD player which retails for around 21k.
Why would you need a 21k CD player, you ask? If a CD player is playing back an exact digital file, than shouldn't all CD player's sound the same? The answer is simple: let your ears be the judge.
I was initially skeptical when I was first shopping for stereo equipment, but there is a world of difference between a consumer CD player obtained at the chains like Best Buy, Fry's, etc. and an audiophile CD player. The difference is primarily in the level of clarity or resolution that you can hear from a quality CD player. The difference is subtle yet dramatic, you can hear instruments and detail that you simply could not make out before.
To make a long story short, the quality of mp3s is typically even below that of a CD played on a cheap consumer CD player. No "audiophile" will listen to them as a primary audio source. That said, I have an mp3 player that I use when running and I have mp3's on my computer. Everything has its place, but the place of mp3's or ogg is not in audiophile stereo systems but in the world of music sharing where file size is a critical issue.
$ perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(1 15),10);' Number found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "1 15" (Missing operator before 15?)
I believe there's a syntax error in your sig.;-) (Extra whitespace.)
The way the term DOS is used in this article is misleading. By executing this attack, the attacker causes the user of the router to be denied service. But unlike DOS as in the usual sense, there is no way for that connection to then be harnessed in a traditional denial of service attack on remote servers such as yahoo, ebay, etc. This should hardly be considered a DOS attack, since the effect is so localized, whereas a DOS attack generally is large-scale in its effects.
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I believe you are citing the part where it says collectively "ReplayTV" as the basis for your comment. That part simply means that the phrase "ReplayTV" will be used to refer to SONICblue, Inc and its subsidiary ReplayTV, Inc. Whether or not D&M will honor the lifetime agreements is completely dependent on the structure of the agreement between them and ReplayTV, and has nothing to do with this service agreement.
It is certainly all about what makes you happy. I don't own a Linn Sondek nor would I buy even I had the means. But it is my opinion (as you said) that there are few people out there, that if they sat down and listened wouldn't be able to notice a definite difference between a cheap cd player and a quality $1000 cd player. It's not so much the price (obviously) as the attention to detail in the components, the power supply, the DAC, etc.
I have sat down and compared many of these players in the same environment in a listening room in a store, as well as having brought some of them home and plugged them into my current setup. I got my current setup (which includes a cd player in the 1k, not 21k range) because I was extremely unhappy with the way the first surround system i bought from best buy sounded. I took it back and traded it in for a quality stereo system with an amp and a cd player and have never looked back.
If you read many of the audiophile magazines such as Stereophile, etc., you'll see reviews of equipment such as external DACs for CD players as well as many high-end CD players. Among those there is the legendary Linn Sondek, a CD player which retails for around 21k.
Why would you need a 21k CD player, you ask? If a CD player is playing back an exact digital file, than shouldn't all CD player's sound the same? The answer is simple: let your ears be the judge.
I was initially skeptical when I was first shopping for stereo equipment, but there is a world of difference between a consumer CD player obtained at the chains like Best Buy, Fry's, etc. and an audiophile CD player. The difference is primarily in the level of clarity or resolution that you can hear from a quality CD player. The difference is subtle yet dramatic, you can hear instruments and detail that you simply could not make out before.
To make a long story short, the quality of mp3s is typically even below that of a CD played on a cheap consumer CD player. No "audiophile" will listen to them as a primary audio source. That said, I have an mp3 player that I use when running and I have mp3's on my computer. Everything has its place, but the place of mp3's or ogg is not in audiophile stereo systems but in the world of music sharing where file size is a critical issue.
$ perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(1 15),10);'
;-) (Extra whitespace.)
Number found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "1 15"
(Missing operator before 15?)
I believe there's a syntax error in your sig.
The way the term DOS is used in this article is misleading. By executing this attack, the attacker causes the user of the router to be denied service. But unlike DOS as in the usual sense, there is no way for that connection to then be harnessed in a traditional denial of service attack on remote servers such as yahoo, ebay, etc. This should hardly be considered a DOS attack, since the effect is so localized, whereas a DOS attack generally is large-scale in its effects.