[quote user="TripEnglish"] Visually balanced means that the visible elements, when viewed from the front, are similar in proportion when an iPad is docked on top. The transom is thick enough, vertically, to look as though it can support the iPad (though the device is really very light), and the speakers are similar in dimension so as not to

No, I haven't joined the Fountain Pen Network (yet), but perhaps I should reconsider, even if I think most there is every bit as geeky about fountain pens as I am when it comes to audio (production and reproduction). It can quickly become very, very nerdy. I will see if I can get ahold of some Pilot Iroshizuki ink just for fun, because you're

[quote user="Doctor"] [quote user="Electrified"] Actually, I have some very nice fountain pens and nice paper to write on, [/quote] A man after my own heart! I collect fountain pens (take up less space than my old B&O collection, now dispersed!) and indeed received a wonderful Conway Stewart 288 from a very good friend this Christmas

[quote user="TripEnglish"] I suppose I don't understand the criticism of the various iPod/iPad form factors on top. Of course they look difference, but the essence of this product is a dock. It is designed to have something sitting up there. When an iPod sits on top, the speakers look very large and muscular (which they are, for an iPod

To me, the BL9s were perfectly in keeping with good design whilst still following function. Yeah, okay, the top seems a little narrow from the first look, but that is probably because one was used to not having speakers narrow that much at the top. As it stands (literally), it seems well balanced yet still look as if it can produce a firm bottom. The

Actually, I have some very nice fountain pens and nice paper to write on, and I think my Thinkpads are made in Taiwan. My wifi router from Apple would fry, my gas stove and fridge would work, and most of my furniture is Danish or Swedish design (and manufacture). I don't own clothes from China, so I guess I could count my blessings in that imaginary

[quote user="Russ"]Here in the American South that term would imply lazy, lackadaisical, or perhaps in our context here, uninspired.[/quote] That covers it very well. A designer not finishing his job, would also fit perfectly with that Had to look "lackadaisical" up, though, lol.

[quote user="Russ"]What's that line? "Two people, separated by a common language"? Here in the States we refer to work as you describe as half-a$%d, not half-done. [/quote] LOL, well I think the difference being that a half-done design job is when we can see the "vision" of the designer, but also see that it didn't

[quote user="Russ"] [quote user="Electrified"] If people were bitching about something missing, or something more was needed, yes, you might have had a point. Apparently Trip-E succeeded in his little rhetorical maneuvre. [/quote] Fair Enough, but there was a remark back a ways by Ojibway that the designers didn't finish the

[quote user="TripEnglish"] Have you ever tried eating a hamburger while driving a German car!? Impossible! You can barely take a road nap in those things! [/quote] He he, no - When I want a hamburger while driving I have someone else driving the car. It paves the way for an exceptional long nap before I have to hit the restroom with the car