Quote: A little obsessive perhaps, but I wouldn't say abnormal. Definitely more normal than collecting, say, lunch boxes or toasters. i actually had a boss once who collected TOASTERS. I asked her about it once, and she launched into a misty-eyed speech about the favorites in her...

    Quote:   Quote: Steve Guttenberg is an old-school audiophile, but I think he tries, in his blog, to avoid preaching to the converted. He often compares the experience of listening to a typical home theatre rig to the pleasure of listening to old-fashioned 2.0...

Quote: I knew it!! Tube freaks have been promoting this technology because it gets them high! I KNEW IT. Hee Hee. Seriously, I'm with you. What could be better than the liquid sound of beautifully produced music as heard through tube electronics? (OK, I run a T-amp, but I'm sure you get...

Quote: No weirder than bird watching or trainspotting. We are obsessed around here, and proud of it. The phrase "some portable player" suggests that you don't share that obsession, which is fine, but you are likely to make few friends on this forum by ridiculing the central topic of...

Quote:   WHAT???!!!! Are you suggesting that our fine political leaders would seize on nonsense as a way of getting publicity or whipping up their constituents? I am shocked, SHOCKED at this allegation. No politician has EVER exploited nonsense to get ahead. NEVER.   Quote...

Quote: When I first heard Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! I thought it must have come here from another planet. An amazing distillation of Kubrick's disturbing idea that humankind is being usurped by our own technology. Yikes. And yet, it rocks...Wow.   As for Iggy? If I had...

Quote: Absolutely! Especially Paul Desmond's title track, which is surely a classic of jazz and music in general. But then again, I always thought the group should have been called "The Paul Desmond Quartet, featuring Dave Brubeck." Hee hee, just my opinion. Brubeck fans get so bent out...

Quote: This is a great choice, but I think you have to point out that Gould recorded the Goldbergs twice, and the 1955 recording (his debut recording) is the place to start. It's the rare classical recording that is both immediately accessible and stunningly innovative. Gould's...

Quote: I can't think of a better reason.   Sadly, I just read today of the death of another funk/rock great. Gary Shider, guitarist for the legendary P-Funk, died recently of cancer. Like Marvin Isley, he was only in his fifties. As I stare at my own upcoming fiftieth birthday, I'm...

Quote: Cool! Do you mean for commercial release?

So Marvin Isley died a couple of days ago. And NO ONE on this formerly great site has mentioned this? Curious to see what kind if response, if any, I get to that sentence.   RIP Marvin. I know that you will continue to fight the power.   Much respect, JKM

Well, in an uncharacteristically resolute move, I went to B&H earlier this week and bought an SRF-59. I bought three of them actually. At $11.89 each, they seemed like a surreal bargain. So now I have one that will hopefully last a couple of years or more, and two others chilling in my closet...

I can only add my voice to the chorus of thanks. Sleep well, Dennis!

I've owned both, and I currently own my umpteenth pair of PortaPros. I completely agree with previous posts in this thread. Neither offers any significant isolation, and they both can tempt the listener to turn up the volume to unsafe levels when used in noisy environments. And I agree with the...

It's sad to hear of the loss of such a pioneer in his field. I remember hearing my cousin's Senns sometime around '71 or '72. He had a pair of the very early open cans, with the wide pads. It was, to say the least, an ear-opening experience for an eleven-or-twelve-year-old kid.   Mr...