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At my university, some of our music was like that too, usually the rarer stuff that's worth money or something. We could sign out most of the stuff they had, but I admit that some of our libraries required a rather large amount of paperwork before they let me take stuff out.

I use my local libraries. If you're in a larger college or university, you should be able to get access to more music than you can imagine from their libraries & archives. My university had countless thousands of classical LPs stashed away in various places.

Might as well ask for a bigger penis and a rich supermodel wife while you're at it.

PMS?

It's funny, my local BestBuy has practically every edition of "Dark Side of the Moon" known to man, yet it's missing a third of the Pink Floyd catalogue on a good day.

The one which sounds better to you, whichever pair that happens to be.

Burn his ass then, report all his sales with the links to the relevant ebay/audiogon/whatever auctions. Don't just talk about it, get to work on fucking him over.

So I guess there's going to be an unofficial Head-case Photoshop caption contest for the picture(s)?

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What??!! You mean Grawk wasn't telling me the whole truth? And no, I can't say I've studied the American civil war, as I'm not American, but I do know a little bit about it.

Ah! That's what I thought. Cause when I see cotton it's always in rolls or balls, thus I thought it's just like polyester or nylon where they make it in a factory somewhere. Good to see I'm not mistaken in my beliefs.

You mean cotton grows on plants or something? I learn something new every day...

See, this is what pisses me off, along with a lot of other people here on Head-case. You haven't heard the damn thing and yet you stilll claim to know what it'll sound like. That's just bullshit, especially since this is a CD player where you don't even have the specs & schematics for either one of them to make an educated guess. Do you know what DAC chips they use? Filter algorithms? The analog output circuitry? If you answered "no" to any of the above, and you haven't even heard damn thing, you do not have a basis for making any judgements on its sound beyond "I don't know".

It's like breasts, some people like large breasts while others like smaller breasts.

I've done Larry's mods to my stock pair, in short, it tightens up the bass, takes away some of the fullness and trades it for more treble extension, detail, and soundstaging. In your case, I think that would be going in the wrong direction. I'm assuming you have a completely stock pair and nothing has been tampered with, you or jpack can correct me if I'm wrong. First step, open them up and pull out all the old cotton stuffing, it's probably all packed down and compacted, not the best thing to have. But don't throw it away yet. Then take a few balls of cotton and unroll them into strips, as shown in the picture below. Put a couple layers in each cup, put the headphone back together, and listen. Is it better or worse? As a general rule, more cotton, up to a point, will take the edge off the treble and add fullness to the bass, after that point it starts sucking the life out of the music without really doing much. Adjust the amount of cotton until you feel you have the best sound. That'll give you something to play with for a few days. You may find that the original cotton is best, which is why I said to save it, just in case. Unlikely, but possible. It may not be possible to get a balance that you're 100% happy with, that's fine, as there are other tools available for tweaking the sound.

I think the warmup time is actually the earpads warming up and remolding to your head and face.

The following is my totally uninformed opinion, and may not bear any resemblance to reality. CD is here to stay until they get yanked off the shelves and replaced wholesale with DVD-A or SACD. As long as there's a divided format, hi-res ain't going nowhere. I could still probably count the number of hi-res albums I'd want to buy on my hands, hell, I have an easier time finding the music I want on vinyl, vinyl for fuck's sake, and as long as this is true the only hi-res discs I'm buying are black and 12 inches in diameter. I suspect this is also true of quite a few other people. In conclusion, hi-res already exists, it's called "vinyl" or "records".

Ok! Fine! I admit it, she was a hooker! Now I have to go cry in the corner. :'(

I like licking peanut butter off my GF's breasts. Go to Google and do a search for "Venus 2000".

These are surprisingly good, especially when I add a few custom toppings & extra cheese before baking.

No audio forum is truly complete until it's been properly consecrated by a spirited digital vs. analog debate.

Yup, one the local libraries cleared out a bunch of their records last week for 25 cents a pop. Most of them were in rather sorry shape, but some of them were real gems that don't even have a single pop or click on them.

Dynamic range of vinyl is a lot better than you think...

Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: (pulling down a diagram of Chewie) this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this case? (calmly) Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a bunch of Nazi mods, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.