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Apogee Duet 2

While listening to Seven Nation Army, I found an Amazon deal on a gently used Apogee Duet 2 for $475 (+$6 shipping) instead of $595. Deal! I bought it with about eight seconds of consideration. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve been obsessing over a DAC lately, going between some cheapie $24 FiiO D5 and a $250 tube job Maverick D2 and some things in between.

If this sounds great, I’ll sell my Maverick A1 amp on Head-fi.org. I really want something that helps my Beyerdynamic DT880 headphones be the best they can be. 

31 August 2012 Update: I sold my Apogee Duet on Amazon just now, for $480 + $5.99 shipping. To be sure, it is a thing of beauty. But I don’t use it enough. I’ll just get a standalone DAC and use that with my tube amp.

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Giving OmniFocus a try again

Listening to Merlin Mann talk about OmniFocus location-based contexts in the After Dark podcast yesterday, then listening to the related Mac Power User podcast on Workflows with him as a guest today, I’m going to give OmniFocus a try again to see how I like its location-based contexts. I expect it to take a lot of setup, but I don’t mind that at all.

Years ago, I stopped using OmniFocus (I’d never really used it religiously). I once had the idea I’d use OmniFocus for work and Things for personal activities. But I really stopped using OmniFocus and didn’t even have it installed on my iPhone 4S, which I’ve had since November 2011.

I don’t use Things anymore either. I use Simplenote on my iPhone 4S and my iPad 2 32GB 3G, NVAlt on my MacBook Air and ResophNotes on my Windows 7 workstation at my day job.

I recently bought Listary for iOS and have used it a bit on my iPhone 4S. I like it so far. I found out about it from a profile on The Setup of a man who works in a restaurant.