granola-hippies don't listen to Enya douch bag.

What would be cool is if it derived power from regenerative braking or from wheels spining. Also if it had a small subwoofer you could attach to your rack. Also, everything needs to be detachable for when you park your ride.

Ah hell, I'll just build my own ;)

I stream FLAC files over Wifi a good bit, and access pics as well, though I don't know if that really qualifies as "media streaming" I need a way to send content from my OTA HDTV antenna from the HTPC with my tuner/capture card to a second TV..Hum I think this will work. Plus I have been wanting to try out some of the existing HD formats that can be burned to DVD. The X3000 would help.

My super special Dell Latitude D610.

No one beats Bose? You are Clueless.

Thanks for setting Mike Straight Evo. If your professor doesn't know V=IR, I am not sure what kind of "professor" of electronics he is. Voltage and current maintain a fixed ratio with a given Resitance (R=V/I). Power can be calculated from voltage or current (P=V*I, P=V^2/R, P=I^2/R). You can't send more amps into a load without increasing the power.

To Evo's point above, the disadvantage of current is that is generates heat while voltage doesn't. It is true that the motion of the voice coil is driven by current through a loop of wire, but a speaker has a fixed impedance, which if you push current into a loudspeaker of fixed impedance, you generate a voltage and power.

Electrical watts are only partially related to SPL (Sound Pressure Level) goes. What matters is how effecient the driver with it's accoustical loads is at turning electrical power into Sound Pressure Level, or efficiency. Generally though it's easier to build a less effecient speaker and just drive more power into the load.

Hook it up to my cutsom HTPC. It's a slow 900Mhz machine in a psudeo-quiet Antec case with about 500GB of RAID storage and another 300GB dedicated video drive for Home DVD rips and recorded OTA HD content. I have a MyHD 130 tuner/PVR card (which BTW runs seamlessly on this outdated machine). I am going analog component out locked to 720p (because of issues with my display at other resolutions). All I need is the new HD dongle from slingbox.

No CableCard for me, but I would be wary of Comcast. I can regale you with the stories of the many, many simple items they have botched such as installing coax outlets and putting holes through my wall (ok it was a contractor, but their contractor), not charging me for high speed internet for a year, not installing the filter to limit my limited basic cable (i.e. I was getting basic cable while paying for limited) for three years. That doesn't count all the phone conversations with nincompoops. There is only one word to describe Comcast; incompetent. So good luck getting them to do anything right.

>This kind of SPL at such low frequencies at the standard distance of 1m from the speaker requires a much larger speaker (say 10"), lots of power and an elaborate case design.

That just isn't true. You can get some pretty insane SPLs out of samll driver if they are effecient and you tune your port and box correctly. There are some THX certified design that use a single 6.5" woofer and achieve 103dB SPL 1 meter. All SPL are 1 meter measurements. You actually have more surface area with two 4" than you do with a 6",

And the iPod does not allow access to Digital Data. The dock output port is analog only. The HiFi has a digital input, but it isn't for iPods. The only way to get a digital out on the iPod would be to access though the USB fucntionality, read the compressed file, and decompress to analog with hardware. (i.e. use the iPod as a USB hard drive). However, then you lose access to the iPod interface.

Wow! That Apple Hammer is hot. Can't wait to smack me some electronics with the Apple Hammer ;)

Three words: Vote by Mail.

Why do I want to go to a polling place with at best questionable polling practives to vote.

Oregon has vote by mail and it is the best voting system every. Touch screen voting is stupid. Waste of money, voters time, and as notes above, it does nothing to ensure the integrity of democracy.

And while Al Gore may have lost Flordia, HE WON THE POPULAR VOTE. More people voted for Gore than any other candidate. If thats democracy, then I've got a toll road you can buy for super cheap. Our so called leaders don't care about democracy anyway, they care about power, as in their power to do as they please.