Some guy made little speakers using old headphonesm, altoids tins, and playing cards. Not a huge technical achievement or anything, but I thought it was pretty amusing. http://www.readymademag.com/feature_12_macgyver.php

This looks (sounds?) pretty cool: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/n....lasso?id=7058 Looks like the guy in the picture is using Senn 580's. Here's the project's website: http://interface.cipic.ucdavis.edu/CIL_html/CIL_MTB.htm

http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,62411,00.html Kind of too short, not much mention of alternatives (I'd say the ER-4 is really the direct competion). And I probably wouldn't wear them riding a bike.... edit : whups, hadn't gotten to the headphone forum yet.

This was sort of amusing: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues...l/1/index.html

If you're on the Straight Dope mailing list you'll have gotten this link. The article's from the archives, originally published in '78 (when LPs still ruled the world). Pretty cool stuff. Straight Dope Classics That's crazy that they'd get a band to make the same recording over and over...

Hope this isn't too much of a plug www.mosaicrecords.com Great jazz reissue label, a good opportunity for jazz fans and newbies alike. Buy one of their sets, and for each disc in the set you get $5 off a CD from their more extensive jazz catalog at TrueBlue. I just placed my order...

Here's a long-winded account of my brief experience with the Grado SR-300. For the short version, skip to the last paragraph. I've never written at length about any audio equipment, so it's hard for me to be concise, and stylistically I'm forced to borrow heavily from what I've read around here...

Are there any? Would be really nice for my current setup at work. (I suppose I could try to pick up a cheap deck too - what's the chepaest these days?)

Just wondering, any of you use this p2p service? I've used it on and off for about half a year, and I highly recommend it. Pros: 100% legal, free music usually using lossless compression (SHN), generous users good about keeping stuff available. Standardized files (with recording info and...

Newbie alert! I'm trying to figure out a way to add good sounding headphones to my setup at home. I have a modest system, Cambridge Audio C500 preamp to a P500 amp. I figure if I pull this off, I'll find myself doing at least 1/4 of my listening on headphones. My first question is, at what...