Hey all,   My best friend at college is completing his senior thesis which involves a lot of listening to, transcribing, and analyzing top 40 pop tunes. Every time I walk past his bedroom he's sitting at his desk with headphones on listening to stuff like Ke$ha and scribbling furiously on...

Hey everyone. Freshman in college here, been here 2 weeks, and my PFE's just cut out on me. I'm getting no sound in the right ear. I was using them to help me get to sleep. NPR doesn't come through in my dorm room so I would listen to podcasts as I drift off to sleep, which worked great until...

Hey all. I dont know where else to ask this, but I've been doing some googling and figured I needed some real live other people to talk to in order to help figure this out .... I'm heading to college in the fall, and Im getting a macbook as a grad present. If I get microsoft office with the...

Hi everyone, I haven't been here in a long time, but then again I haven't been in the market for a while either. I'm going on a trip in the next couple weeks and my trusty rusty e2cs have finally met their maker. I struggled through with them for a few months, fiddling, twisting, and bending the...

Hey all -- My grandfather passed away this wednesday, and my grandmother was going through some of his old things and giving them away. Along with his WWII mess kit and his stopwatch, my grandma gave me my grandpa's watch -- a beautiful Omega automatic that she bought him right after they got...

I'm looking for some help trying to set up a wireless network in my house. Here is what I know: -I have a modem plugged into my wall, which is plugged into a netgear MR814 router that is a few years old. -The router is plugged right into the back of my dell dimension desktop computer. my...

a few weeks ago a friend of mine gave me the username and password to his steam account, and I happily played a little counterstrike to ease the stress of a long day. nothing serious, just casual. i'd pop in for a little bit every day or so and leave as soon as i got bored. my friend revoked...

It's currently 7:30 AM. I've been up since 3 with some intestinal distress that has since diminished to a comfortable level but I have to work from 9 to 4. Not going isn't really an option because it's orientation. So what do you all recommend for functioning for 7 hours after sleeping for 3?

Hey all. I'm running windows XP on the laptop (downstairs, not my main computer) and I'm having trouble with the taskbar. Open windows don't show up on it and neither do minimized windows. To open a minimized window I have to ALT-TAB until I find it and then open it up. The "quick launch"...

Man, this recent generosity in head-fiers is really great. Where else on the internet will you find people giving away multi-hundred dollar electronics for free? I have to say I hope this trend continues, and not just because of the chance for free stuff. It really is great to see people being...

I just installed Microsoft Office 2003 on my computer (running Windows XP). The cool ghing about Office 03 is that it changes its color scheme depending on what scheme you have running in windows. Now. I'm running the windows classic theme (it speeds up the computer, which I desperately need...

I have a samsung sch-a650. I was wondering if anybody here knew a way for me to get that awesome phone ring from "24" (the one in CTU... "boop-boop...BEEEboop...") onto my phone. As far as I know, I need a lot of stuff that I don't have in order for that to work, but if anyone has any...

I am never visiting another message board again. I just spent maybe 20 minutes at the IMDb message boards...imagine a discussion on Star Wars III turning into a disgusting political debate where nobody knows what they're talking about... But at least I always know that Head-Fi is just a...

I got my spankin' new Westone UM1 on monday. I've used them for about an hour a day every day since then, which isn't very heavy usage, but already the complies are filthy. They're not really losing their sponginess, I don't think. When I put them in about half an hour ago, they were very hard...

I read through the pens thread a little the other day (I had to stop myself before I start spending any more money) and I realized that I need a nice mechanical pencil. Regular wood pencils have given me nothing but trouble since school started, with literally NO good pencil sharpeners...

Sorry to ask another comparison with the $100-IEM theme, but my E2cs broke and through use of the search function I've narrowed my new possibilities down to two: super.fi 3 studio or westone UM1s. Things to consider are: Price (the UEs are a little cheaper but nothing that will really sway...

Hey, my current setup is 2nd gen ipod --> e2c. I'm 90% sure I should get something else to put between the two, and I can't decide whether to get the xinfeed (or a similar crossfeed), the PA2V2, or both. Money is not the issue (meaning I can afford both, not that I can afford more than that)...

Hi, I heard a song on the radio today that sounded really familiar, but I can't place it and I was wondering if you could help... It's somewhat recent, I think The lead vocalist has a british accent It is like acoustic rock, with an acoustic guitar, bass, drums And the lyrics start like...

It seems like any time I hear a review of Muse, the one subject that always comes up is how much they sound like Radiohead. Granted, I heard Muse before Radiohead, but even so I cannot for the life of me find a similarity. I'll give you that Matt Bellamy and Thom Yorke sound so-o-o-omewhat...

So I had a 2nd gen, 10gb ipod but my computer recently died. Our techie-for-hire managed to save most of the music, but there are serious issues (like half the music not going onto the ipod for seemingly random reasons). My ipod had some headphone jack issues in the first place and I was...

Hello, I was looking around on ebay and google, etc for a standalone equalizer for my headphones, but all I found were stereo equalizers that didn't have a headphone output. The closest thing I could find was the small 3-band portable EQ from Koss, but apparently that's pretty bad. Does anyone...

I've got a 2nd gen 10gb iPod and Shure E2cs. I also have a pair of Sennheiser HD-212s for when I'm not in the mood for the Shures. My question is, do you think an amp would benefit my setup at all? I'm not sure how much either headphone would benefit from either my iPod or my computer with an...

I ordered ER-20s from Todd a week ago with three-day shipping but he never shipped them. I canceled my order because I'm going to a concert tomorrow night and need earplugs for it, and if the ER-20s didn't come today then they won't come tomorrow. I can't get the ER-20s in a store anywhere...

Hi, I ordered some ER-20s from Todd a week ago, and spent extra for three-day shipping, but they haven't arrived. I need these by tomorrow for a concert, so does anyone know where I can pick up a pair or two? I'm about 45min from Boston, does anyone know where I can pick up a pair? Thanks

Just got them in the mail today...and I don't think I'll ever be able to take out my E2cs ever again. It's the comfort that does it for me. I never found any of the tips comfortable, but these just slip right in, I can do it with one hand (which I couldn't dream of before), and they feel like...