Quote: What are you finding lacking with the current ones, I have the same pair of cans and like it stock so far, but I may be missing out.

Can't speak specific to the compass but I went from a Cute Beyond and a Fubar II and I feel that the essence is at least equal to me, and it is SO much more convenient because I can have my speaker and headphones plugged in at the same time.

Quote: Because you've heard it right?

Quote: It all depends how you are using them, if you are turning them on and off frequently, they will die more prematurely as opposed to turning them on for 15 mins and then turning them off, the on and off again must be rough on something in the bulb.  ...

A company can claim whatever they want:   For example, this is BP's value statement   In all our activities we seek to display some unchanging, fundamental qualities – integrity, honest dealing, treating everyone with respect and dignity, striving for mutual advantage and contributing to...

Pair of those red bx5a deluxe's that were on sale at musicians friend, and a ps3 from the amazon sale along with some books.

Quote: While I agree on the SSD part, that drive is highly overpriced, you can get a comparable drive for much less, but that drive does go on sale frequently. I would go for a Samsung or an Adata, but thats just what I've had experience with. Hell if you have a microcenter near, you...

Quote: Agreed, but if you move your case around a lot like I do, a sturdy case is invaluable, like my 900, whereas I have broken cheaper cases. My brothers case though that I just found him, was about 35, from a non name brand, but you could murder at least 6 or 7 prostitutes with it...

Unless you are doing some seriously intense photo work or rendering, 8gb of ram is indeed overkill. I am running dual monitors, with foobar converting from flac right now and a bunch of other crap, and I am only at 38% usage in windows 7 for my memory, my processor is capped out, but the memory...

Quote: Great advice for smaller boxes, but I think this wheel probably won't fit in there, but for future purchases, I love flat rate for the simplicity.

Quote:   Corsair, I know they are known for memory, but their PSU's has been rock solid for me. Also I don't know if I mentioned this before. Don't be afraid to spend money on a case now,  it is an investment, even if you decide to upgrade five years from now, chances are you will be...

Quote: What I did is just have like a couple bigger drives a 750 and a 500 as "storage" drives and my 64gb ssd runs my OS and a couple games like HON and a few others. I put my music on the other drives and I think my steam client is on there. 64gb may not seem like a lot, but if you...

Hmm, I have used Asus and Gigabyte boards now with no problem, MSI also tends to be good, but I am an Asus and Gigabyte fan, to each their own though. In terms of recommending another board, it just depends what you want it to do. To be more future proof, look for a board that has USB 3.0 and...

Sounds like a solid setup, if you can I'd go for a little higher end card, but it doesn't seem terrible. Your processor is fine, if anything, I would spend a little bit of money and grab an SSD. I just got one and while they are very expensive still, the load times are almost zero for most...

Quote: Read that a few weeks ago, makes me really sad about higher education here, really makes me doubt the value of my degree.  

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I personally love CDs, my suggestion would be to go to a local used record/cd store or a local pawn shop and see what you can find.

Quote: I have the 600ohm 990's and I think the essence drives them quite well

x2 for Foobar, I say this because as you add new cds to your collection, there is an option in foobar where you can tell it to skip already existing files, so you can select all your cds and just hit convert and it only does the new ones, if you don't convert right away like me, this is a...

Quote: You are also paying a premium price for newegg, I can buy the opamp upgrade from newegg and the card at a different place and have it come out cheaper. Nothing against newegg, I love the egg, but it is not competitively priced there right now.  

Last time I had to have my ears cleaned out they shot water in it at a decent velocity and then scraped the inside, it is on my top 5 list of least favorite things in my life, but it happens more than I'd like as my ears seem to build up a lot of earwax when they get infected, which used to...

I just don't think there is that much scary stuff out on the internet that you need THAT much protection, hell I ran AV free for a year because I don't torrent and I only really go to a few websites, one AV program is generally more than enough.

Quote: Weird I have zero problems with Microsoft Security Essentials, I mean dropbox, firefox, foobar, all take up more memory for me, maybe I'm just lucky.

Just another thing to consider, they've done some studies, and apparently blue leds are not good for sleep, can't find the study right now but yea, red and green don't do anything but blue does something disruptive or bad over time. You can always just tape over them though, don't let the led...

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