Dusty Chalk

I disagree with this sentiment entirely. There is fast, and there is slow. On a completely different scale, there is good and there is crap. Sometimes they're both good and fast (Steve Howe comes to mind; Jimi); sometimes they're fast and crap (Malmsteen comes to mind -- he's good, but I would want to write out his solos for him). Satch is a whole nuther level -- he is far and away the most lyrical of the current crop of shredders. Listen to Surfing with the Alien -- simply sublime. Al Di Meola -- he started out as jazz/fusion, but then started getting faster for faster's sake (even he admits this, though I never minded it coming from him), then went through a period of deliberately avoiding speed and pursuing beauty (mid 80's), and lately has been melding the best of both worlds (World Sinfonia to the present). I think he's another one who has successfully maxed himself out on both scales (pardon the pun). One of my personal favourite guitarists -- Buckethead -- isn't exactly famous for being emotive, but if you listen to Population Override, you know he can be. What I like about him is that he's versatile -- he can do anything from dark ambiences (the Death Cube K albums), to total shred (Bucketheadland 2) to just plain jam band goodness (Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains). And sometimes they can be slow and good -- I don't like him, but I know a lot of people like The Edge from U2. And people can be slow and crap -- listen to most every garage band ever. So, to reiterate: five of my favourites are: Fripp (I know, I haven't mentioned him yet, but he is one of my favourites), Howe, Buckethead, Al Di, and Satch. Vai is good, too, but I don't rank him up there with Satch.

Artist: Jenifer Smith (also records as Code Mesa) Album: Code Mesa (most easily obtainable album; recorded as Jenifer Smith [note: only one 'n' in Jenifer]...yes, it's confusing -- link is to half.com, whereat one can obtain the album for 0.75 + shipping -- it's worth it) File Under: alternative, pop Recommended For Fans Of: "Where Hides Sleep" by Alison Moyet; Remain In Light-era Talking Heads without the percussion and David Byrne; Philip Glass as performed by vocalists Artist Website: http://www.codemesa.com/ Sample Listen: Plague Dogs, others (directly from the source, so legal) Music Best For: listening Reviews: My Thoughts: Completely under-rated -- you can only get her one album easily -- I was lucky enough to get CD Select 1 & 2 directly from her (my "reward" for "finding" her, she says -- really nice and humble), so effectively only have two albums by her, but need to get everything else she's ever recorded. If you're in the Rhode Island area, she collaborates a lot, and is an active member of the local music scene there.

I will definitely be contributing to this thread (I agree, the music forum needs help), but just wanted to pipe in for now and say I really dig that Jem album -- so much so that I went and saw her live. Pretty snappy live. Will probably post some of these: Beth Gibbons...Halou...Feist...Sigur Ros (J/K)...

I can confirm that the mods are not able to read PM's. Neil and jude, however, I think can. But I think it's only those two. I will continue to be a member at Head-Fi, and intend to go back, but my issues there are the same as they always have been -- too much traffic. Once I log in, I'm obliged to read all the threads, and that sometimes takes me hours, and I just don't have that sort of time. It's purely a self-discipline thing, and nothing against head-fi.

Inviting Canman.

No, it would more probably occur when one is losing an argument. There can still be good info in an argument if both sides are rational and honest. I vote neigh.

Wait, that was after editing? Just giving you crap. Are you the one with the triangle shaped room? Is that a permanent situation that you can do stuff to, or must you be temporary. You might want to do a search on Ethan Winer for room treatments -- he seems to give pretty good advice, and has a whole forum dedicated to the subject. Doesn't know much about soundproofing, though.

Did you not read this thread? That's the closest you're getting to an explanation, is at the end of page one.

Ugh. I bet it's not even sinusoidal.

It's not so much the free t'n'a, as the rootkits and viruses and whatnot that go along with them. Mozilla or Opera -- and that's also why I keep javascript pretty much turned off all the time.

Thanks, now I have that song stuck in my head. (dooon do-do-dute, do-dute, do-dute)

There's a lot of talk of this at www.audiocircle.com -- perhaps you can find your second person there.

redshifter is already a member here, but he hasn't posted in like...a while. (Like not since I've been here.) Network, people! Everyone has someone's email, just start emailing people you know. Haven't you done business with anyone on head-fi and taken it to email? Email those people.

Well, that's my problem right there. I don't speak, read, nor understand Japanese. About the only Japanese I (subject of verb) is "to turn".

(rolls eyes)

You suck worse for not explaining it sufficiently for us to figure it out.

Works fine for me (worked fine for me before, too). How could you?

Well, since you overpaid, you loaned them a lot more longer than a month.

Definitely an area of diminishing returns. That said, the peace of mind would still make me recommend power conditioning at every level. Equipment life, what have you.

Actually, if you read Manga, they use nosebleeds a lot. Sort of the equivalent of blowing one's mind. Usually used when a hot girl comes on to a younger male character, or something very sexy is observed. Kind of like Kyle throwing up when he thinks about Wendy.

Dynaudio Audience 52's? Driven by dual monoblocks of...what? Just curious. Looks like a nice system. I have Dynaudio's myself.

Yeah, but look at your list -- half of them are based on revenge. This is supposed to be a list of your favourite things. I'm not criticizing you doing those things when provoked (although you didn't specify 'provoked' in all of them), I'm just saying it seems like you enjoy it a bit too much.

One of these days, maybe I'll get to hear them, but I've never heard them. I'd be curious how it could increase resolution, though (not entirely skeptical -- I could see how having a more solid foundation could improve the sound -- just curious as to the 'how').

No. But the better the cable, the better the results. It's not a threshold thing, it's a the-better-the-better thing.

Yeah, I upgraded my headphone cables, too.