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This whole Connecticut shooting today really has my hackles up. I can't help but think that if the victims, or in this case the teachers, were armed that there would be fewer casualties when a person snaps and goes on a rampage somewhere. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/14/police-respond-to-shooting-at-connecticut-elementary-school/ What in the world would drive someone to shoot and kill 20 innocent elementary school children !?!??!?!

Has anyone explored this option? We have three out of four phones on the original unlimited iPhone plan but they claim this new cheaper plan is equally unlimited and unrestricted but I'm dubious.

Yeah that's right, I'm raffling it off! If you're wondering, here's Jahn's original description: The Raffle: So here's how it will work, each ticket will cost 25 dollars, with a maximum of 5 tickets per person. Every dollar above 700 (which almost covers my total costs of the amp), will be donated to The Darfur Advocacy Fund to help stop the horrible genocide happening in Darfur. Send me a pm with your paypal address, how many tickets you are buying, and the total cost (don't bother with the Paypal fee), and when I reply, send your payment to the.monies AT gmail.com (replace the "AT" with @, duh) with your head-case name, and number of tickets purchased. …

What are some trustworthy sites to use? I'm new to this, would like to pick up some tubes for my dankvoice amp.

I got lucky this year. Along with bathroom towels and a matching rug (gotta love mom), I got: and a big surprise: Anyone else get some good music or toys?

Or the myths which people like to parrot to the point where they've become accepted "fact". 1) Grados don't really need an amp and don't benefit all that much from one. While it's true that Grados will sound pretty decent straight out of a PCDP or iPod, they improve a hell of a lot when driven off a good amp. A 225 is pretty listenable out of my Walkman, but gets a fair bit better out of my Gilmore Lite, and it's better still on Biggie's pimped out tube amp. I'd argue that a Grado will scale as nicely as any other headphone. 2) The "tube sound" myth. Tube amps have rolled off highs & lows, rounded off transients, lacking dynamics, fuzzy imaging, but great midran…

Accompanying sound files AES Workshop Video Files Pay attention to Jim Johnston (one the world's foremost experts on perceptual encoding) between 1:05 and 5:15, and the demonstration by Poppy Crum (a neuroscientist specialising in the auditory system) between 5:30 and 8:00.

Greetings Head-casers, I was just wondering if anyone here had sold or posted any of their gear using Audiogon auctions. I'm in a bit of a situation because I need to sell my preamp as fast as possible in order to fund some textbook purchases for school. I have a standard listing up at Audiogon, but was considering taking it down for an auction to speed up the sale. What do you guys think?

How do they come up with their blue book values? Averaging the costs of what the items go for in the classified section? Is their blue book accurate?

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Hi Guys, Now the following enquiry may come accross as being something silly, but I would greatly appreciate your help! So here goes:palm: When I finally purchase my first headphone amp, how should I connect this to an AV amp that already has a headphone input socket. When plugging in headphones the external speakers, ''as you all know'' cut off and the sound automatically goes through the headphones I currently have a Denon AVC A1SE, of which I intend to keep hold of, so do I place a headphone jack adaptor in the socket, and connect the headphone amp into the analogue inputs, unless the amp has Digital Coax / or fiber optic....will this be correct.…

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Does anybody actually "get" my avatar? Any guesses?

So I'd like to ask a favor from some of the Photoshop gurus. I was wondering if someone could take the image below and make the black part red, and make the image size 70x70 (while maintaining the transparent background)? I've attempted this using some tutorials online with the lasso tool, and the results are fail. For anyone that is curious here is a link describing target CDs. Cheers

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From avsforum.com: This is a pretty major outage and losing a weeks worth of posts has to suck. I wish them well getting things back up.

seems a little strange to me... 1) why in the world was the B52 picked! a person can put together at least 5 just as good whole rigs for that price. 2) um... how can a person raffle off something they dont' own? 3) at it's root, ticket holders are subsidizing the purchase of an amplifier for someone else, with little potential profit going to the charity. 4) Ray is getting to sell a 5K amp at full price, making more profit than any other party in this deal.

I know we have some parents here, some new. I'm researching baby car seats and I think my head is about to explode. There are so many makes/models/features/ratings....etc. I know we're all gear nuts here, so some of you must have an opinion. We're looking at the Graco Snugfit 32. Looks good and safe and it works with a detachable base system, which we need. Any other things I should read, look at, consider? Thanks for your help!

Anyone got a good recommendation on this front? My parents tasked me with doing this for my potential roomates. I'm not looking for something super indepth.. I figure just like criminal record if any and credit check that kind of thing.

My three flavors of Bacon Salt arrived today (original, hickory, and peppered). I bought some fries and put some original on. First off all it doesn't stick very well. But more importantly it doesn't taste very good either... very "mesquitey". Tastes kind of like bacon, but crappy bacon. I'm earth-shatteringly disappointed... :'(

http://www.audioasylum.com/scripts/t.pl?f=whine&m=8557 Analogcorner is Michael Fremer, aka the worst reviewer ever. That thread is hilarious!

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This thread has been reserved to explain why banned members have been banned. We are not like the bad head-fi that won't discuss why members were banned. Today, jpak was banned because he was caught smoking cigarettes in the amplification forum.