For a late birthday present, I thought you might be interested in getting yourself a USB hamster wheel: http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/t...hamster-wheel/

It took me over an hour to rip CDs when I used an ancient Imation CD drive. I switched to an NEC (3550 or something like that) and it improved a fair amount, but the drive had problems with scratched CDs and, in secure mode, still took about 20 mins per CD. Since I've owned Plextor's 760 and...

ERP4s, ER20s, and the EtyCom. Beautiful stuff.

I love the picture; in a few weeks, I'll be able to try the FUBAR, but it won't be that much fun!

If I were poor, I'd use my soundcard; it's $24 and sounds pretty good for it's price.

I, too, am a night owl. Although I love sleeping, I can't bring myself to lay in bed before 2am, and usually I think about sleeping around 3:30 (not quite as late as Ed). It's so quiet, so peaceful, and I enjoy music and movies a lot more when it gets later. Amazingly, I'm 22, and I still...

I can think of only one instance where a copied CD could sound better. If you have a heavily scratched CD that causes your CD player to skip, and you rip it in secure mode (using EAC, for instance), then burn it onto good media, there's a definite improvement: no skipping!

Lots of good points here.... I use EAC in secure mode, testing and copying with AccurateRip. Lots of my CDs are scratched, and I'm planning on putting them in a box and just having them on my hard drive (well, drives, because I'm backing all the data up). The key to this time-consuming task, for...

Interested, Toledo, OH. (PM me if you're down for a mini-meet)

It was fun while it lasted.

Usually chronic lying takes the form of, "Yeah, and after I drank a full bottle of whisky and beat up those three linebackers, then I took two girls home. It was rough though cus I was drunk and I had to outrun the police, and good think I didn't get caught because I keep a machine gun in my...

Oh no, I definitely didn't send the last snippet. That was an aside. This, like sneaking out behind the house to set micro machines on fire when your parents aren't home (when you're a little kid, not now is too good a game to stop or show your hand.

These headphones might be vaporware, but there's no better way to get your dream cans than through this Randall guy. Imagine: so, hey, uh, Randall, you know those 1-oz. 3D cans that are flat from 1hz-100khz, the ones that are like 30 ohms impedance and never distort? Could you mod the Grado...

Well, it turns out these incredible cans are still for sale. I emailed this d-bag a few hours ago. Enjoy the conversation: On 7/24/06, <darkest374@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi there, I heard you're sellng a special pair of Grados. I tried to find them on Ebay but they weren't there anymore...

I just had a bit of fun writing an email to him. We'll see where this one goes.