CarlSeibert

Thanks Larry. I think I'm going to try to steer this towards IEMs.

Same deal with John. People are funny sometimes.

It turns out my sister is seeking a Christmas gift for my brother-in-law along semi-similar lines. It seems that John works out at 5 AM in a gym that blasts Bad Gym Music at ear-destroying levels. The gym workers claim that the volume is set for when the gym is full and they can't change it. Apparently at 5 AM, the place is anything but full. John has what appear to be low-end semi-IEM-ish earphones that he says don't isolate well. He says he has to play his music way too loud to overcome the Bad Gym Music. He has expressed interest in noise canceling full size phones. Does anybody know if active noise cancellation would work against Bad Gym Music? I would worry that their algorithm would think it's conversation or desired music and not cancel it. I wonder if maybe low end Shures or Etys with black olives or Complys might be a better solution. If noise canceling full size headphones are the way to go does anybody know of an example that would stand up up use in a gym environment? For that matter, what about IEMs? Has anybody had good or bad experience with certain models surviving well or not? I gather that isolation is the first priority, durability the second, and sound quality the third. And the budget should be about $150. I'm not a gym-goer and my only experience with noise canceling headphones was been with the Bose professional jobs in aircraft (which work great, BTW) so I can't offer a very informed opinion. I defer to the group's wisdom.

First off, thanks to Gene and everyone for an awesome meet! A truly special time. And Bonnie had a blast! Now then - group buy for t-shirts. Bonnie will get a quote based on how many we might want. She expects the shirts to be under $10 a unit, probably a couple bucks less if we get a good quantity. Flat rate priority mail appears to be about $4.90 Here's the Sigmund Freud/Gene/Me/depending on who you ask image, with a picture of the two colors that seem popular. (I have two of the red color - one has the starfish for Jerry's newspaper and the other just says "Baltimore" - and for whatever reason, I tend to wear them all the time.) I think that's fractions of Jerry and Mary Kate in the colors snapshot, if that matters to anyone.

Does anybody know the chicken and wafle plan ?

JH-5s? I didn't know he had a 5. I thought the $650-ish one was his lowest price point. For 400 bucks, he'll sell zillions.

There are loads more choices and a few searches on Head-Fi will turn up many opinions. I posted on the Shure SE-425s over there myself, actually. We don't talk about that kind of stuff much here, apart from abusing newbies looking for headphones by telling them to buy very expensive in-ears. But since you are actually asking about in-ears, where's the fun in that?

I thought you were supposed to smoke ice, not snort it. Or maybe I missed a memo........

No time for the old in and our now. Alex, my droogie, you are a very sick man. Sounds like a plan. A big Alligator Alley with a tree. I'm there. We're there, actually, since Bonnie will be with us Friday night.

The Matt outing sounds attractive, but I'm not sure of my arrival. I'm thinking it will be after 8 PM, so we may miss the burning bus.

Oh, and have we mentioned that Blackberry messaging is pretty secure. Enough so that it is banned in some countries many people would be proud to be banned in.

Happy belated Birthday Gene. I too missed this thread. Been paying too much attention to work at work, I guess.

Grieving cod. Postman. Wrestling. Taken alone, this page is deliciously non-setequir. Had to go back a few for it to all make sense. Having done so, I too will now tell Craig his daughter is beautiful. .......spent the better, if not longer, part of the day listening to records.

Hmm. Update: I navigated away and then back again and now I'm logged in. But I'm not seeing the style chooser On mobile or with Safari or Firefox on full size machine) and the pages don't look quite like the mobile themed ones. Could something be amiss?

Splendid! Now I can go back to reading Head-Case on the sly in boring meetings. But it won't let me log in. In both Opera Mobile and Mobile Internet Exploder, I enter my credentials and it returns me to the logon prompt.

Holy smokes! Sounds better than the Roxy burger, if that's possible.

I think the BBerry will do fine for you. They don't call 'em "crackberries" for nothing. My wife has the the "Tour", the international model, and it's the best business-oriented handset I've seen. My sister has had the old school 8500 models, the original touch screen (Blaze? - avoid at all costs) and now a Tour, on CDMA (both Sprint and Verizon). She's been very happy with the keyboard-equipped ones. She basically wore the 85xx to a frazzle and got the Tour as a replacement from her company. I'm happy I got the Tour for Bonnie, based on better battery life and a few other things. But I paid $100 for it. I doubt I would have sprung for three times that. The touch-screen-only model seems to be a very, very weak imitation of an Android or iPhone. In South Florida I wouldn't do an iPhone on ATT if you gave it to me (and heaven knows the plans are anything but given away), but the iPhone does have a real nice browser and lots of good apps. My next phone will probably be something Android on Sprint. (If they stay in business long enough)

Hmmm. Chicken and Waffles Soul Food Sunday. That could work. Or the temple near Matt's old house...... hungry now.... must find lunch.....

The very embodiment of "more hard core".

Like on the beach, as you surmise, AFAIK.

God Vicki, that sucks.

I was hugely bummed at Lala's untimely demise. Now this MOG - Millions of songs on-demand and radio that's just hard to believe ,if it lasts for more than a couple months, could be a worthy or even better replacement. For five bucks a month you get computer access to a library that looks to be comparable with what Lala had. The five bucks is unlimited streaming, all you can eat. For ten bucks, you get mobile device service similar to Slacker, with caching on the device (for Andriod and iPhone only). Streams are MP3 at 320 Kbps, so the quality should be pretty listenable, more or less, give or take. They seem to post new releases promptly, although they don't have the new Leon Russell album, for whatever that's worth. There's a Pandora-like "artist- radio" feature that has a kind of cool slider that narrows or broadens the playlist. Art one end it's limited to just the artist you entered. At the other, you get a variety of artists. There are disadvantages. The search engine blows. "Fred Hirsch" will not return Fred Hersh. God knows how you might search for classical music (or if there's even any to search for). There's no way to browse by genre, and the related or similar artists feature seems to only be based on users' playlists. There are other quibbles. But all in all, it's very promising.

The ray of light, after eMusic's turn toward the dark side and Lala's untimely demise would seem to be Mog, which probably deserves its own thread.

He lurks, reads the welcome PM and asks a reasonable question. these are hopeful signs.

Happy Birthday! if you're free for lunch, I'll buy you a beer at the Soutport.