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Quote: Originally Posted by Wovel That presumes you know what Apple's long term plans are for the cash. But you have yet to suggest any alternative. Implicitly, you assert that Apple should just allow it to continue to accumulate. If you are p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by syracuse Apple's "Board of Directors" decide on a dividend, not management. Apple's Annual Shareholders meeting is less then a month away, that is probably when "the Board" would announce the size/timing of a divide…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wovel Apple is not an income stock and I knew that when I want it. It is also not free money. It would devalue the stock. Since I bought it as a growth stock I would prefer that not happen. Eventually I hope to get…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wovel You apparently have never owned a stock. It seems to me that you must be the one who has never owned a stock. There is practically unanimous agreement among informed shareholders, for reasons that are apparent…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wovel The dividend is worse than that. It would drop the present value, reduce future growth, and create a tax liability for investors. Additionally, repatriating the cash to pay the dividend would incur a significan…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wovel What on earth makes you think analysts reflect the views of the stockholders? Nothing could be further from the truth. The directors are selected by the stockholders and they in fact represent them. Most analy…
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As is often the case, many of the comments I read here are so stupid as to boggle my mind. Apple is a publicly traded company. The only appropriate action to take, with respect to that pile of case, is to use it in the way that stockholders want …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChristophB CDs started the compression era. Apple Lossless encode of a CD is a lossless encode of a lossy source. SACD is almost dead in the US but struggles on. I import. www.sa-cd.net Yeah, right. (wink, win…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ch2co The worst thing about "punching up the volume" is that it causes the signal to go into clipping, introducing horrendous sonic artifacts that are even heard in, MP3's, Clipping is the scourge of many re-releases…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sidewaysdesign (Full disclosure: I'm also Canadian, but never measured my IQ.) Like Mr. Young, CD or MP3-quality audio makes me edgy and physically uncomfortable. Do I have the neurological, biological and technolog…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MandoKat Actually it's easy to hear the difference between mp3s and higher quality audio files with modest equipment if you listen carefully. Some folks care about "sound" quality of the music and not just music itsel…
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Quote: Originally Posted by afrodri Many people listen to music as background noise while doing other things. Often, it is in noisy environments where the extra quality would be drowned out anyhow. But, when watching a movie or TV show, peopl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pondosinatra SACD is only dead if we stop buying them! I for one still do. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours sounds amazing on SACD. Maybe so. I haven't heard if. But if I did, my first question would be whether the reason is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grub That and $1000 Monster Cables, $200 wooden knobs for your receiver and a crystal pyramid hat to wear. Oh, don't make me laugh so hard that it hurts. And nowadays Monster Cables are considered the practical alte…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrstep I know I tried to reverse-bias a listening test between a Denon receiver driving its own internal amp vs. driving an Aragon, telling my wife that the Denon was much newer & fancier, and she listened for a mi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ElectroTech Most Canadians have triple digit IQ's but not this man. I am embarrassed to be Canadian after hearing his ignorant ramblings. He obviously doesn't understand the relationship between frequency response, sam…
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Quote: Originally Posted by richardk32 On my iPhone, my music is all 128k AAC. I can sometimes hear the difference, but I'm usually out in an urban setting, with the music turned down enough so I can hear the M23 before it takes me out. At home, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui No I haven't. I conducted controlled tests which satisfied me that there was no audible difference between the output from my ipod and that from my CD player. Given the vastly greater convenience inherent in …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Eriamjh HD audio already exists in the form of SACD and DVD-A. But it barely exists, marketwise. Consumers don't care so much about quality as quantity and ease of use or "good enough". The iPod made music easy to l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pondosinatra Then you wasted your money. He/she may have wasted money spending that much on a stereo system, but if so, it would be entirely the same if they had spent that money and then used some other source. …