Hey, I've searched around but i think my situation is probably quite unique. These phones will be used in a noisy environment by people who want a taste of an album/song before they buy. For this reason they don't need to sound great, just ok. They do however need to be tough as nails, cheap...

Toms hardware do a grafix card round up every month. Worth checking out. Heres July

6 months later...my impressions are mixed: Positives: Overall the whole procedure was very smooth, getting impressions done etc... was a breeze. Don't be put off by this. They are not comfortable, but they are more comfortable then my Senns and Mylars canals. Comfort levels can really...

It's all about being relatively active when storing your digital data. I'm fairly sure no one will being hearing my music collection in 50 years time, unless there is a relatively constant interest in my collection.

Whats Iron Mountain? Are tapes used frequently to back up servers?

It's been a while, but i think this was the paper i was talking about. It's a quick reference guide for storing media. I've posted a website i've created for anyone who is interested with a feedback survey.(See first post)

Quote: Originally Posted by BradJudy NIST (US government research group) did a couple of studies on the longevity of CD-R and DVD-R media. Here's the first one - http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/d...ilityStudy.pdf According to this study Gold+Silver, Phthalocynanine CD-Rs...

Who is Keith O. Johnson? And more importantly i wonder if we will be able to see the full details of his experiment; assumptions, equipment etc... Until we do have this information we know nothing really. You have to ask why it's taken this long for someone to come out with a study.

Looks like it's going to be hard getting hold of one of these. What separates this from a small laptop?

Whats the best file format to store music? FLAC or WAV or other?

Thats very interesting info thanks. I'd never heard of microfiche, i wonder how long it lasts, probably hundreds of years. Wonder how much that Rosetta Disk cost to make:S

Quote: Originally Posted by synaesthetic You must've bought some really poorly stamped CDs. I have several music and software CDs that are almost 15 years old and still work perfectly. I read somewhere that the early CDs were made of a plastic that degraded rapidly under the exposure...

Excellent. I've PM you. Yes i suppose the strategies available are valid in most circumstances. A lot must depend on economics, especially on a large scale. How do you store your digital music?

5 Months later...... I have almost finished an honours project on the subject of Digital Preservation. Most websites on this subject are aimed almost exclusively at Universities, companies and government organisations. It was my wish therefore to produce a website for the general public to...

Cheers! I'm selling two headphones to fund this so i hope i like these bad boys! Just in contact with Andy by email now.