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UPSes are worth it even if just for cleaning your mains.
I've never had troubles with APC, but I haven't tried any of their cheaper surge-protector-sized stuff.

Considering how horrible digital pianos are to any kind of music that strives for authenticity, I'm really disappointed. I'm a huge fan of electric pianos, too, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking authenticity comes from a piece of gear. A moving piece performed beautifully coming out a moti...

Why is everyone from country to hiphop to Khmer pop (don't ask) using that horrific hard auto-tuning effect? Artifex is right, it sounds "fresh" so people will wring out that rag until it's dry. It's no different than "E. Piano 1"/"Fulltines", then "LA Piano" for pop/ballads. Most of the time I don'...

fast P4's over slow dual cores A broad rule of thumb is to double (~1.5-2, depending) the clock speed of a P-M/Core1/Core2 series to get the P4 equivalent. Even a two generations old Core1 will destroy the P4s. The P4 line was a bad road that Intel stayed on far too long. A P4-HT 3GHz is no match f...

Roland JX-8P or the Akai AXes can be had for around there, DCOs, sure but they're classics. You can always try your hand at building a MIDIbox SID or find a HardSID card used. I keep an ISA equipped machine laying around for mine. They've got a USB model out now, as well, but it's kind of pricey, IM...

Couple good weeks at work + (Craigslist * Irrational Exuberance)=
Multivox Full Rotor, MPC1000, XO-1
The Fullrotor is just ridiculous, it's needs a recap and cleaning pretty bad but I love it as-is.

WES51 is what I use at work and at home, great station.

If you're going to bother with a RAID, don't use on-board, and don't pretend it's a replacement for regular (and multi-format) backups. This month alone, I've had to pick up the pieces of four RAIDs (one fastrack on-board, three intel on-board) and I can tell you it's no fun for me or the wallets of...

superaction80 wrote:Oops. Looks like I called the Thin White Duke a girl.

Wouldn't be the first time. ;P

Yamaha is sitting on so much synth/effects IP it's insane. Where's my AN2x/FS2r/VL-2/RM2x yamaha?

I've seen them in PATA, SATA, PCIe and mini pcie. Netbooks' explosive popularity is driving the prices of mini pcie ones down pretty quickly but all (save PATA) will keep falling quickly, imo. I'm very excited about the ones in "standard" drive form factors. The 2.5 laptop and 3.5 desktop ones. They...

Not sure about the lacie, but I can tell you that a solid ~2/3rds of the Mybooks (and seagate freeagents) I get in that are "dead" have dead controllers. Pull the drive out of the enclosure and and it's fine-to-recoverable, usually fine.

I blame small/nonexistent fans and the death of leaded solder.

I'm really curious about the performance/reliability of SSDs as well. Reliability- It's basically a non-issue at this point. All SSDs have wear-leveling at the device level. When cells start failing it's not like a traditional HDD in that the drive is now heading quickly to dead. Cells fail all the...

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Oh wow, the singer.