Quote: Originally Posted by Audio Jester At times like these I watch "Rocky Balboa". It is one of my favorite movies, and I find that the simple message of "keep moving forward" is inspirational. ) YouTube - Be Great, Powerful Beyond Measure (Best Inspirational Video Ever)[The...

Well, I never had more than one headphone. Started with a HD650, heard a Stax, then saved money, sold my HD650 and made a good deal

One Stax to rule them all, One Stax to find them, One Stax to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Quote: Originally Posted by Cool_Torpedo LOL nope, I "play" a Dr in some hospital How do you like your SOTA Turntable?

Quote: Originally Posted by IceClass How much shipping? It's a bit hard to track, since it were a few auctions.. It was between 10-15€ for 100-200 LPs... sometimes I got the 100 Lps for 1€, sometimes for 10€ depended on the auction I think total costs with shipping where...

Just moved my Stax Amp over the room. From the PC now to my Turntable. Also moved the Ikea chair so it's comfortable And with flash so you can see at least something: Did I mention that I bought ~300 classical LPs at Ebay from some auctions and paid some 20€?

mierenneuker: Erm is that a sniper scope?

Quote: Originally Posted by tenzip It does, but there's no easy key to hit for that on my keyboard. Programmers, I believe, started using !=. I've also seen people use =/=, but that's quite clunky, to me. Yeah, != and /= refer to the same, it's just another syntax

Quote: Originally Posted by DocHamm Hugh Laurie has been seen wearing Bose. Bose Headphones + his Sota Turntable are bad Karma :/

Quote: Originally Posted by Lazarus Short So post-Stax = unhappiness? Can't tell, I'm In-Stax, not Post-Stax yet

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Erik Happiness is freedom from want. Meaning head-fi (pre-Stax) != happiness ?

Quote: Originally Posted by spritzer I'm not an EE either... Perhaps not in terms of a degree

Quote: Originally Posted by spritzer I just wanted to let you guys know that Afrikane's ES-1 has arrived safe and sound. I've opened it up and there is a lot of work ahead of me to say the least. I'm reluctant to fire it up due to the abundance of downright scary issues I have with the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Victor Chew I guess it is preference. About 2 months ago, I sold my O2mk1 and my SRM717 and thought that I would be as happy with my balanced B22 driving my HD600. Boy, I was wrong! I missed it so much that a couple of weeks ago I bought back another O2mk1...

Quote: Originally Posted by SilverShadow Will be back with new pics next week if I find myself in the mood to take any. Nobody probably cares anyway. Wrong, nice pictures make everybody happy

Started about 10 Years ago, it was Suse, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo (like 4 weeks), Debian testing. Laptop/Router run OpenBSD (Desktop very rarely, too)

Quote: Originally Posted by thebathingape Sorry but this is rubbish. I am responsible for stationary machines in a computerstore, and we have probably sold a thousand+ of spinpoint F1 in the last year. Of all the drives the ones we get the most with faults these days are Seagate 1tb tbh...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich Don't jinx my drives. I'm using two of the 1TB Samsung drives. One is my media drive and one is a backup drive (for the media drive and system drive). They do run cooler than the Seagate 500GB drive they replaced. About 10 C cooler (they're in...

Quote: Originally Posted by 03029174 Here's mine after the DAC upgrade The Amp is definitely more an eye-catcher than the DAC.

Quote: Originally Posted by dfkt From all I know there were some flaws with the 750GB variant a year or so ago - don't really know if that applies to the newer 1TB variants as well. I really weighed my pros and cons, Spinpoint vs. WD Caviar. Both are fast, quiet, cool running - the...

Quote: Originally Posted by dfkt Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB data disk, suspended in a rubber case (the quietest 3.5" HDD I heard so far, cool and fast) Don't see this as a flame: be sure to have a backup of your data. Samsung F1 HDD's die like one-day flies.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. B Don't worry, I'm shopping for new speakers. Description + Zoom This setup benefits so much from the fancy light...

Quote: Originally Posted by insyte Do I need to put this into .asoundrc? Yes, but this forces your software mixer to 44.1khz, so you get the mixing problem... Actually I'm not using it anymore - I couldn't hear a difference and this reconfiguration for every app which doesn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks I'm not sure this is correct. as I understand it, the sound arch queries the card for its 'abilities'. it can return things such as 'I speak 44.1 and 48 and 32'. then the sound system knows if a SRC is needed or not. its only needed if a...

Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks linux has no notion of 'non bit perfect' drivers. no evil influence forcing an artifical 48k anything on anyone, here if a sound card, at the hw level, reports it can natively support 44.1 and some material is at 44.1, only an EVIL empire would...