Bose is very well respected on this forum. Almost as much as goat crap is respected as a dish in an italian restaraunt.

Quote: Originally Posted by BernardXue Great headphone...if its possible can you compare it with CD3000? I had stock cd3000 for about 2 years, and sa5000 about as long afterwards. They are both very detailed, but sa5000 more so. SA5000 sounds more neutral, analytical, with...

What is the deal with that guy? What exactly did he do/is doing? How is the thread about open and closed headphones related at all?

003 what nick did you use in ut2004? I didn't know there are Headphoneus Supremuses playing that game.

Well look at this list here: Official Craigsub rankings thread - AVS Forum note the ED sub at the top and another ED sub that goes for $600 shipped that's above $2600 JL audio sub..those two are ported..if you don't need a lot of SPL but want a tight clean bass that extends down low..like...

Elemental Designs From everything I've read, elemental designs give you the best subs by far for the money. Check out this subwoofer chart, done by a group of independant professionals using technical measurement + subjective listening impressions Official Craigsub rankings thread - AVS Forum

Quote: Originally Posted by Lonfident Link? I'd love to see it. I dunno if I could find it but it would take me too much time and effort

And about that fan-looking sub, it's not the only one of its kind, there is a bunch of them and the biggest one is a size of a room and definetely costs more than 12k

Elemental Designs I'm pretty sure thats the best possible sub for the money among the new ones. If you can spare some more on a sub the a5-350 is a fantastic sub, there's pretty much no competition at anything near the price..SVS subs are good too but they cost a lot more for the same level of...

kamal you have 1,337 posts!

if thats you vexed,didnt I buy them for you used (on this site)? So their real age is more than 2 years.

I found my old DVD audio demo disk that came with my audigy2 that I had years ago..Turns out PowerDVD can happily play it through my x-fi - > digital -> dac , even though the original Creative software used to turn the digital out off DVD-a. Anyway,the sound quality on that demo disk is...

Keep in mind a500 have pleather pads that will peal and look like 5h17 while d1000 have real leather that will stay where it is,etc...

http://www.google.com/products?q=den...ucts&scoring=p a little over $100 but im sure it beats any similar priced competition

LCDs are nice and all,but for competetive fps like ut2004,they're just too slow (even the 2 ms response time ones) .. and color-accuracy wise,most of them are still far from a good CRT.. I had an LCD (until it broke and got lost due to wrong RMA #) , and I used it as secondary screen next to my...

For games/movies, 5.1 system like this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/Klipsch-ProMedia...QQcmdZViewItem would be great

Does Vista have a better digital volume control handling?

Quote: Originally Posted by mojo Having an external analogue volume control will degrade the sound a lot less than using the digital volume control on the PC. You have to consider what you want from a HTPC. If it's mainly for movies, get an integrated receiver. Not only will you be...

Quote: Originally Posted by mojo Yes, that's right. Changing the volume on the computer uses digital volume control, which degrades quality. If you take a 16 bit sound sample and drop the volume to 50%, it becomes a 15 bit sound sample. At 25% volume it becomes 14 bit and so on. For...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sir Nobax I've never heard a difference, but keep away from the low volumes, it kills the left-right balance on some cards. Dont worry,I've always kept away from low volumes,they kill my sound immersion as well.

Wait,so I should keep the software volume on max the whole time? When not using ASIO (watching a dvd with powerdvd),does it matter if i change volume in software or not?

I use winamp with a nice skin,foobar sure is great but come on,the way that thing looks kills my "musical mood"..and wheres the volume slider?

it should be,I mean there was so much raving about it recently,people sold their akg k701 and hd650 for it,and its not even better than hd555? That would be weird.

I dunno whats the most expensive combo nowdays but I remember it used to be he90+Blue Hawaii..then some other custom electrostatic amp came out dont even remember what it was called..

yeah sorry wolfenstein i made a typo in there with sa5000 (it still links to sa1000 if u click it) but denons have very positive reviews here,and my advice to you,dont ever bother reading reviews outside of head-fi,they're mostly by audio-novices with very limited expirience with very limited...