Knuckledragger

North Korean propaganda posters. Some of them are pretty fucked up. Especially the one where they throw the Jew baby down the well. I am hoping this will pass H-C's "stupid political shit" filter.

Kompakt is Wolfgang Voit's label. He co-founded it with Michael Mayer, forming out of the ashes of the hardcore techno label Delirium. For many years (say, 1998-2003, possibly a bit after that) it was the jewel of the electronic music scene in Cologne, and in much of Germany. For the last five or so years they've focused too much on minimal-dub-tech-micro-house-whatever, and cashed-in heartily. To be fair, that stuff bores me to tears, but most of the techno cognoscenti that I talk to (who are much more tolerant of minimal whathaveyou than I am) agree that Kompakt is not what it once was. Of course, none of this will help anyone navigate their website. Curiously, I have a very easy time getting Kompakt releases -- on Martha's Vineyard. There is an excellent record store in Edgartown that has a much better selection than the stores in the supposedly hip college community I live in. Go fig.

DGMS on the P-Word. I used to use their burning drives exclusively, going back to my first 4x SCSI CD recorder. I had two of their IDE DVD burners, both of which died just a few months past warranty (which is 1 year) and I swore them off completely. I still have a 12x IDE CD recorder of theirs that worked the last time I used it. As a bonus, it gave the most consistent results ripping CDs with EAC that I've ever seen, but I digress... I suppose you are right, the market now dictates that optical drives be disposable $20 pieces of shit. I should order two and have a spare ready when the first one inevitably kicks the bucket. Consumer culture is fucking sick.

My Lite-On DVD/CD recording drive is on its lasts legs. It still reads and writes okay, but the drawer only opens one time in 20. I suppose I should not complain much, as it was about $30, 3 years ago. Recommend to me a new DVD recorder. It must be internal, IDE, and preferably in stock at newegg. I have been perusing different models here [i am not sure this link will work for other users], and I notice with some distress that most such units cost $20 or so, which leads me to doubt their reliability. I see a couple Pioneer units that are around $40. It used to be that Pioneer made excellent DVD drives, but that was years ago, and I understand they are crap now. The last Pioneer I had died far too early (just out of warranty, what a shock). Are there any optical drives that aren't disposable pieces of crap? I hope the $300+ Blu-Ray ones aren't, but I'm also not interested in those right now. What I want is a drive that will burn data DVDs and audio CDs reliably, and last more than a year. A friend recommended Samsung to me. I like Samsung TVs, but I don't know anything about their computer hardware. What do you know, O Head-Casers?

Arthur Pewtey makes headphones now? Does that mean Eric Idle steals the drivers?

I really hope so...

3 cord firewood, and holy effing cripes was it expensive. This is after my regular source completely flaked out on me.

In that case, definitely not. I have found Spaghetti-Os to be foul tasting and vile smelling, ever since I first caught whiff of them, some three decades ago.

Somehow I missed this reply until now. PJ as in Postjack? The auction closes this evening, making any impressions a bit 11th hour. From what I've read, it sounds like the 22L2s are very sensitive to room positioning, especially how far back they are from the walls. This might not be the best for me, especially as the position of my gear is in a state of flux. Still, I've be interested in hearing any head-caser's experience with the 22Ls, especially with regard to placement and amp choice.

Wolfgang Voigt is a gifted producer, and I've been a fan of his Gas project for years. I don't have Nah Und Fern, but I have a copy of Pop and I did own his eponymous first release when I was in college. Sadly, it didn't make it home from the dorms one year. I lent it to an international student from Argentina named Klaus and he managed to duck me at the end of the semester. He always was an asshat. I think his family descended from escaped Nazis, but I digress... What this means is I should probably track down a copy of that boxed set. As an side, Boomkat's reviews are some of the worse purple prose in the entire music business. I nearly lost my lunch when I read their review of Ricardo Villalobos' Fizheuer Zieheuer.

I don't know what that means, so I tend to doubt it. It is highly probable this has been posted before.

Artist: Megadeth Album: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? Song: My Last Words Lyric:

I second the Kimber suggesting, but I do suggest paying someone else to terminate them for you. The front three speakers on my HT system are connected with Kimber 8TC, and I did the termination myself. That's 2 ends per wire, 8 wires per leg, 2 legs per cable, times three = 96 wire ends and some very sore finger tips when I was through.

So, uh, has any head-caser heard Quad 22L2s? Yes, they are non-powered, non-shielded floor-standing speakers. They also want to be 350mm away from the wall. Clearly a bad choice for computer speakers. That said, there's a pair newly listed on the 'Bay.

I've seen several of those Cleese Compaq ads before, but not that one. Talk about My Chemical Romance.