Over the weekend I lost most of my hearing in one ear due to earwax buildup. For reference, I am 25. Today I went to the ear doctor to have him vacuum out both my ears with a tiny straw and a microscope. It was Awesome   Now, not only is my hearing back to where it was before, it's improved...

hey all, i tried plugging in my silverstone eb01 into osx today and it diddn't pop up and automatically work like i was expecting. on a pc it's just autodetected as usb speakers, shouldn;t that mean that it's mac compatable? is there anything i have to do to get the eb01 working on a mac, or...

Today in class i was an idiot and caught my Porta Pro cable against a chair as i was rushing to turn in a quiz late. it broke past the y junction, so only one of the earpeices is disconnected. i stripped down the severed cable midsection, but the 2 wires, (gold and red) won't reconnect. i'm not...

For awhile now, I’ve been coming by head-fi less and less. My headphone setup has more or less stabilized and I’ve had less motivation to sit down and actually discuss audio. As such, I’ve been spending more and more time in the member’s lounge just chit chatting. However, the limitations of the...

I just set up a wiki on my personal webhost. there has been some talk about creating a head-fi wiki, and i think that this would be a good test to see if people would use it. if this gets popular i pledge to turn all the database files over to the admins. also if anyone want an admin account...

hey all, i made the digg front page today, arn't you all proud of me? http://digg.com/design/Photoshop_Tut...m-Room_Poster.

I just found my school’s wide format glossy color printer in the fine arts building. It can print 16”x21” in 2800 dpi. Since I have bare walls in my apartment I thought I’d print a few posters to spruce things up. I’ve already printed this… (turned out awesome) I’m having trouble finding very...

hey sports fans! i just bought a silverstone eb-01 the other day off amazon real cheap. i've been hearing alot of buzz regarding stand along sources for computers, dac's, external soundcards and the like, so i figured that i'd give it a try with what i see as the budget external computer...

I just found this refurbished Silverstone eb01 on newegg, for $70 shipped. thought i'd share the good deal with everyone. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16812162002R Edit: woops nevermind... looks like it's the quick and the dead around here. i hope some other head-fiers were able to...

Today i saw a kid walk by wearing Sr-60's on campus, so it got me thinking.. are there any other Penn State University (Main campus) Head-fiers here?

A few weeks back I signed up for a last.fm account and started scrobbeling my ipod. What can I say, the service is totally sweet. I just like having a record of the sort of music I listen to and the recommendations and neighbors are cool, though I haven’t used them much. What I really like the...

So recently, movie ticket sales have been sucking. Hollywood has been putting out one stinker after another and people would rather watch their bad movies at home than spend ten fitty at the theater that feels more like a cattle processing center than a movie house. The movie industry just wants...

my friend from school has been programing this game singlehandedly for the last year or so, and has finally made a complete version. in order to move around you change the direction of gravity, feels a bit like that battle school thing from ender's game It's sort of modled after galaxian, but 3D...

I’m a student at Penn state university, and I’m thinking it would be cool to set up a message board devoted to discussion pertaining to the school. Sports, classes, partying, news, ect. Does anyone know of any other schools with message boards for that particular school? Can anyone tell me some...

i wrote a little poem about headfi, i hope you all like it! www.head-fi.org There is this silly site on the web About speakers that go upon your head From around the world people come to discuss The ins and outs of headphone lust First you need a headphone; slang is “can” You won’t...

Hey all, I've just reciently gone through an upgrade fury, and the results have been stunning. I went from a chaintech>radioshack mini-mini>superdual>sr-80 or er-4p to: A chaintech>big heavy rca cable>headsave classic w/ opa 627's> hf-1 or hd580 w/ hd650 cord. The upgrade had been...

i've been trying to figure out this staticics problem that i dreamed up once while getting graded tests handed back to me n class. i've asked friend who've taken stat classes and even e-mailed a stat professor, but havn't been able to get an answer on it. here's the problem as i commonly pose...

Hi all, since I luuuve used equipment, I currently have in my possession the xin superdual and headsave classic, two interesting amps with two interesting histories. The headsave classic originally came out in June 2004 it was the 3’rd tier version of norms then new vibe design. It was...

So they can read your e-mail monitor your files, read your conversations and keep track of what you are blogging. They have eyes in the sky, never forget what you’re looking for and speak every language on the planet. It’s rumored that they are going to kill Microsoft, take over books ...

i've had a superdual for a few months and have been very pleased with it. however, now that i'm using my hf-1's as my primary phone now, instead of my er-4p's, i'm interested in finding an amp that's maybe better suited to the hf-1. i'd still like somthing portable, and i'm not looking to spend...

Slashdot had this story posted on their main page. http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12061 It seems that the encryption for dvd-a has been circumvented letting you rip the audio stream to disk. With the format war going on between sacd and dvd-a, does this sound the death knell for the format?

I'm at the point where I consider my pc based audio setup nearly complete. the Chaintech card that you guys all helped reccomend to me works like a charm, and the Superdual i just got is just wahat i was looking for. However i have one nagging problem that keeps me from experienceing auditory...

Ever since I got a superdual to complement my ety er-4's I’ve hit upon a rather unexpected problem. The sound seems to be a little too good Now laugh if you will, but my music is now so realistic that it's starting to distract me, even startle me. When I close my eyes, I find myself getting a...

i just bought a superdual from a fellow headfier and had a few questions about the best way to keep it powered. for the most part this little thing will sit on my desk and i wanted to keep it powered by ac rather than worry about keeping the battery charged. i found that i can remove the...

I’ve been holding off a lot longer than I should of, but I’ve finally decided that I can’t live any longer without a cell phone. I have no idea what brand phones/services are supposed to be the best/cheapest. If any of you have any advice or tips on buying one and getting a plan, I’d be much...