Quote: I completely agree.  It is a very smart choice.  Very durable, no nonsense, and does not cost a fortune. In fact, my speakers are using the 12awg version of this cable.  I have absolutely no plans of changing cables, but then again, I am a Bluejeans Cable kind of guy, so take...

Sabbath, no contest.

Quote: Definitely go for Verisäkeet.  Honestly, it is the best pagan/folk/viking metal album ever.  The last track is crap, but the first four are divine.

Great review, Skylab.  Makes me glad that I am on the pre-order list.  I am especially looking forward to going through my binaural collection with these.  I do not exactly have any phones catered toward binaural recordings, so these should be really something.

Classic Ozzy.  He never will grow up, and that's the way it should be

Quote: I will have to check out Turisas when I have the chance.  I agree with plonter, Slania is a good album (lead male vocals are a bit annoying at times, but I digress).  The title track is very catchy.

I have been following this thread for a while.    I am so taken with the looks if the LCD-2, happy about the pragmatic cable choice and use of mini XLR plugs, and appreciative of the obvious high quality construction that I went ahead and was placed on the pre-order list a few weeks ago.  I...

Quote:     Moonsorrow is truly astounding.  Kivenkantaja and especially Verisäkeet are required in any metal fan's collection.  In my opinion, those two albums are up there in Opeth territory.  You owe it to yourself to give them a good digesting.  

I wish him a painful and miserable recovery.  At least he has that option.  No such luck for the bull, but at least he gave this loser something to remember him by before being brought down.   It's too bad the bull did not lower his head just a bit more. Then it would have been true justice...

Wow, this is shocking.  Based on the scant details throughout the months, I really thought he had this thing beat.  Very sad.  Now I have to try to comfort one of my students tomorrow who was a HUGE fan. :(   RIP, Ronnie.

I am not one to shy away from wanting people to understand the horrible things that were done in the past, but I think that this topic might be a bit too heavy for 6 and 8 year old children. Cover the basics now by making them aware of the fact that all law abiding people should be treated...

Quote: Originally Posted by gilency I believe anything backed by research not anecdotal work. I don't believe in homeopathy for the same reason I don't believe in cables. Nuff said. 100% agree. Ever notice the people who are huge proponents of homeopathic remedies are the...

Quote: Originally Posted by virometal Heh yeah, if there is one rule to life, it's that people will talk about and draw attention to their kids to the point of everyone's complete boredom and apathy. As a father, I totally agree. I do not bring up my kids every other sentence...

You think this thing is bad? If anyone knows the restaurant Macaroni Grill in the LA area, look at the nutritional facts on some of the entrées. Your head will implode. Quote: Originally Posted by InFn-0 Blame the consumers not the producers, as long as there is demand there will be...

Quote: Originally Posted by dongringo And I do have perspective. For instance, the ipod smashing. SW himself has explained this. It's not that he is anti mp3 or ipod. It's a metaphor. It's the fact that the ipod generation has little or no appreciation for the whole album anymore, the...

Quote: Originally Posted by IPodPJ They already came out with the DVD-A for The Incident. I made a thread on it. The SQ is just as crappy as the redbook. That's really unfortunate. PT albums were pretty much the only bright light in HD recordings for the music I like...

Quote: Originally Posted by IPodPJ I think this is the only video package that will be available. There has been no mention of a cheaper, Blu-Ray only disc. I doubt it. There is no point in going through all the pains and financial risk of filming and authoring a concert in HD...

Quote: Originally Posted by roadcykler The colour of the covers. The more I'm getting to know Steven Wilson's marketing strategy the less I like him. Seems to be terribly money driven. And the sad thing is, both versions will sell out VERY quickly. PT fans are as rabid as it...

Quote: Originally Posted by scytheavatar I do have a question: is there actually a point in spending so much time and money on trying to get the best sound from what is Porcupine Tree's weakest album since On the Sunday of Life? Why don't you spend your money on better albums...

Can't wait, although I will be cautious. Their new material on their website was not all that great, and they have a high bar set for them by Judgement which they have not reached since. I hope it is great though.

Quote: Originally Posted by Wmcmanus 11,101 in 2 seconds flat. Ok, maybe 3 seconds. I see it as 2 + 8 = 10 plus 3 digits to the right, or 10,000, then 3 + 7 = 1000 more since it's 10 in the hundreds digit, so 11,000, then 45 +56 = 101. I can't explain why, but when I see numbers like...

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Erik There should be a word to describe something that is intended to be humor but isn't. SaturdayNightLive... all eras... ...there, I said it. TheMarchingMule, you were not kidding. That was a big pile of suck.

Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks back in the 80's, I used cd's in the car a lot. front slot, changers, whatever. and yes, I got holes in my cd's to the point where you could see daylight thru them in spots. horrible ;( I continue to hate the opto disc formats for this very...

Quote: Originally Posted by Double F I was looking at both but choose Woo. Jack at Woo does not preach all the snake oil crap that Mapletree does. I am sure that Woo is great, but Mapletree is about as honest as it gets when it comes to describing his product. He never once tried...

Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks well, again, cd redbook has NO (zero, zilch, nada, nyet) checksums and so you can never know if you got a corrupted bit or not. cd-data uses a filesystem and filesystems MUST be reliable; so those are. dvd never had a 'streaming' format on disc...