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So I just got done reading a blog calling out Head-Fi and this forum was mentioned. I decided to join since I have noticed the same trends on Head-Fi. as the blogger. I was looking for a no bullshit forum where I could discuss audio equipment in detail and hear opinions from others on certain equipment (namely expensive cables, headphones etc). When I joined, I immediately read the welcome message and thought "this sounds like the place for me"... However, after searching for the threads linked on the blog I mentioned, I was surprised to find them all gone. What gives? I also noticed in the welcome message that it stated "this wasn't a place to sell your shit" but i'm…

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Happy Birthday Hugo and Carl!

Have a great Easter everyone! Personally I haven't found anything left by the Easter Bunny yet, but I'm sure I'm just not looking hard enough.

The 220v - 110v step down transformers your tax dollars bought me have an audible 50Hz hum coming from the transformer and it’s driving me crazy. I’d like to source an alternative low-wattage (under 200) unit that will be dead silent for my listening room, but I’d like to know for sure it’s silent before I ship it all the way to Moldova and plug it in. Any d-_-b recommendations?

Ricardo Montalban passed away at 88 years of age. Here is the info on msnbc. I'm sure that somewhere he's sitting on a sofa made from rich, Corinthian leather.

As usual, the New York Times has an excellent obit... Andrew Wyeth, Famed and Infamous Artist, Dies

Amoeba Music > Win An Audiophile Pro-Ject Debut Turntable i've entered.

Hi everybody, I'm a "newbie" and just thought I'd say hello. My name is Floyd, Pink Floyd, but my friends call me Pinkie. I've been lurking here for quite some time and learning quite a lot about headphones and headphone amps from you guys I think it's now time to come out of the dark and into the light and I hope I'm welcome here. All the best. Pinkie

I have been out of the loop for a week or so. I got to work today and was greeted with this: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/multimedia/os-remembering-chris-hondros-20110421,0,4525593.story (Chris Hondros remembered) Chris Hondros took Joe Raedle's place in Libya. His work, along with Joe's and Carolyn Cole's has always stood out and made me look at the wires, even when I'm working on local copy. Thursday before last, just before I started my time off, one of Hondros' pictures stopped me cold. It was a beautiful (if such a thing is possible), iconic image of a rebel fighter. I switched it to full screen and showed it to the photographer sitting next to me and made a c…

www.phonetrace.org got me

I have a slight Tinnitus in my right ear, that is the result of having my eardrum ruptured. BTW: having an ear drum torn sucks. Music was distorted for me for about two years, and I still dont have perfect bass response in that ear, I believe from the presence of scar tissue. The ring I have I only get when its silent around me. For example, right now I am in my cube at work (where it is quiet to begin with) and I have my er6i in , with nothign playing. I can hear the ringing in my right ear now, and only slightly if I take the etys out. My left ear has a normal amount of background noise. Is there anyhting I can do for this? It's really not that bad, but sometimes…

is absolutely THE most ridiculous thing I've ever...EVER seen!

In my other post, I thought I'd seen something that would define the ridiculous but now I'm not so sure it can stand up to this: So tell me...just how did a kid who CAN'T READ score a 22 on READING COMPREHENSION? :blink: I don't know what's more ridiculous....the thought of a kid who can't read trying to make it in college or that his family thinks they could possibly win a case in court. On what grounds? How could a judge allow that? How could that decision be defended legally and morally? I know it's all about $$ but what happened to the integrity of a college degree? If I'm an Ole Miss grad, I'm raising he!! over this one. Just plain crazy IMO.

1 Million XBox users banned. Snow Leopard update bricks Hackintosh netbooks (I almost did the hackintosh on my Dell Mini 9, went w/ W7 instead). Apple going after Jailbroken iPhones. & Worm targets Jailbreak iPhones. In other news Demonoid still down........ sigh.

This is kind of sad. She did a lot of good with that site. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57599288-38/surveillance-concerns-bring-an-end-to-crusading-site-groklaw/ The story sort of implies, indirectly, that she must think that corporations can break GPGP. That would be news to me. I thought it wasn't really established that the government could do that on any meaningful scale.

Audio recording | Hear the difference | The Economist But in the hands of experts, the best analogue and digital systems are virtually indistinguishable. Warmth can be dialed into digital circuitry. Clarity, spaciousness and purity of tone can be produced by top-end analogue amplifiers. Stuck with equipment that’s less than ideal, it’s no surprise that the vast majority of purists on either side of the tube-versus-transistor divide have their prejudices confirmed. And so the religious audio wars rage on. Heresy? Check out the comments. I liked this one. I have never listened to a valve amplifier. It's a peculiarly American high end hangup in my opinion.

Я делаю любые рисунки в разных программах (Compass-3D, AutoCAD, P-CAD, SolidWorks, Altium Designer). - 3D моделирование - высокая сложность; - Инженерная графика, проектирование и инженерная графика; - перевод рисунков из бумаги в электронную форму или из других источников: из рисунка, снимка экрана, из журнала, из книги (оцифровка); - разъемные и неразъемные соединения (винт, болт, шпилька, шпилька, сварка и т. Д.); - Изометрические, аксонометрические, типы, простые и сложные разрезы, разрезы; - трассировка печатных плат, списков элементов и электрических схем; - детализация, сборка агрегатов, технические характеристики; , Работы выполняются в соответствии с: ГОС…

Glad I'm still in the beer stage...

seems pretty common with certain prestige products and hi-fi audio products too beguiled perception

Two days ago when my wife took our daughter to school this abandoned kitten approached them. An elderly gentleman told her the kitten had been there for a few days and the kitten was dirty and hungry .... which immediately set of Lisa's motherly instincts. The kitten also turned out to be extremely personable so I soon got a call pleading to keep the cat. I normally would not hesitate as I like animals equally well, but we already have three dogs and three cats. In the end I relented .... and now we have Jet. She definitely is a cutie and she is also much smaller than she appears to be in the pictures. As the first picture suggests .... she is already my head-fi buddy…

...is a metalhead and vinyl lover. http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/12-12-2007/102708-Dmitry_Medvedev-0

So, I admit I'm far from technologically savvy, but I can often read fairly well. I went to post a reply in the Neked Women Avatar thread and I see no reply button, no quote button...nothing. Do y'all not want my profound and erudite female perspective? Okay, even if not, why no buttons?

Angry Surgeon Chops Off Manhood I don't think I need to comment on this, the article speaks for itself.