Hello, I recently purchased a new telecaster and a used fender hot rod deluxe amp. I'm really in love with it. It's great sound motivates me so much to get better and better at playing the guitar. Anyway, I'm in the market for a foot pedal to throw in the mix. I'm not overly concerned about...

Watched the life aquatic last night for the fifth or so time and every time it gets to the scene where they find the jaguar shark I always wonder what the song is that's playing during that moment. Finally remembered to look it up and it's sigur ros-staralflur. I've never listened to sigur ros...

Last night I did something I hadn't done in awhile. I brought out my .fi 5 pros hooked them up to my rockboxed X5 and listening to my fav bedtime album. My favorite bedtime album is Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens. Really, it's one of my favorite albums of all time but it sounds soooo good in bed...

Need some advice on the best way to go about this. I have a hard drive that stores all of my FLAC files and I feel it's time I back them up to DVD. I need about 60 or so DVDs to back up to which is not a problem to get. I need a good free file backup utility to make this much more effecient...

I occassionally pick up the guitar and play by myself sometimes around people but in all I really don't play the guitar alot. Right now I own a brownsville electric that's really easy to play (especially with medium gauge fender bullet strings...so nice on the fingers) and an ibanez v70...

Hello, I just recently started a great new job at an advertising agency as a developer. It's a small environment with no more than 10 people working there. Very relaxed and liberal environment. I think I have a great future there. Anyway, in about three months I'll know for sure if I am...

I've been meaning to get myself a hard drive enclosure for my 300GB maxtor drive but I honestly don't know what a good enclosure there is available. I basically want a USB 2.0 connection and a firewire connection (my laptop uses firewire). Beyond that I really don't know what else to look for...

I swear guys, I have the worst luck with channel imbalances in almost every piece of audio equipment I touch. Of course, with this STR I recently purchased for 15 bux is no different. AHHHHH!! So here's the problem, listening to the amp from a cold turn on I get terrible scratchy or sometimes...

I noticed alot of people here are into photography. I'm getting a job pretty soon (a real high paying job) and I wanted to spend some money to get started in photography. I remember in high school I had a great time in photo class so I want to get back into it. I'm looking to get a nice digital...

Well my friend is getting married soon (march 4th, 06) and he asked me to be the best man for the wedding. Of course I accepted (although I have no idea what I'm getting myself into), but he also asked me to provide the music for the reception. I won't be the DJ but I asked a friend to do it but...

This'll be fun for all you ipod users. It seems there's an installable and working firmware of rockbox available for ipod color/photo, the Nano and the Video. I don't even own an ipod yet I'm still excited about this lol. Hopefully the next rockbox release will be for the X5...

I've been member of this great online bit torrent community that allows it's members to download/share bootlegs of concerts. It's all pretty much legal since most (if not all the torrents) are band approved recordings. Anyway, this place is so addictive. I would say 30% of my music is now...

Finished my first amp project A47 and I must say am very pleased with the results. First thing I noticed (while using my MS1's) is impact in the low end is increased significantly. My gilmore lite can't even get my MS1's with this kind of impact. I guess the best way to describe it is it's much...

So my friend is getting married march 4th and he asked me to be the best man. Never been one and I have no idea what to do except throw a great bachelors party...which im already working on. Anyway, I have a feeling he's going to need a DJ and I used to do it in high school so I still have the...

Ok this is the first romance type of movie that I actually enjoy watching. I don't know if it's the chemistry of bill murry and scarlett johansson(or maybe just scarlett...I think she's very attractive ) but I can't get enough of this film. It could also be that it's set in tokyo japan which is...

I've been aching for an external DAC (purely out of curiosity) lately and I'm pretty sure I'll be purchasing a headroom micro dac. I just wanted hear opinions of what it'll be like with the following setup. eum0404 -> micro DAC -> gilmore lite -> HF1 MS1 etc. I'm still diggin' the eum0404 but...

After about 8 days I got my brand-new athena S2 speakers today from UPS. As soon as music came out of my sansui receiver I was impressed with them. At first I was surprised and a little annoyed the cabinet was a little deeper than I though it would be but I soon forgot this annoyance. These...

So I was browsing this particular forum for advice on what to get for new bookself speakers and I came across a thread about athena S2 speakers. I also found a link that goes to a site that sells the S2 pair for 120USD on clearence. After some research, turns out the S2 has very positive reviews...

I'm on lunch now at work and felt like posting bout my new GL. First, I love it. The major thing I noticed about the GL is it's so much cleaner than my sansui receiver. The GL makes my HF1's sound amazing. I was actually more surprised what it did with my MS1's than with my HF1. On the MS1, the...

I'm about to purchase the GL in a couple days but I've got some concerns. I'm already pretty sure that it's going to sound amazing with my grados (prolly my DT250 as well) but I'm actually concerned on it's transportability. I don't need an amp to listen to on the go but I would like it to be...

Today at work I brought in all of my CDs (bought 250ish) because I forgot to charge my X5 the night before. During work, three people noticed the large collection and browsed it a little bit. This gave me an idea to make a free CD rental at work. Basically I let people borrow music from me for...

Winter is coming soon and I wanted to find a good cheap phone to wear/bring around with me outside and to work. At first I really wanted to find the AKG 26P but I couldn't find it anywhere close to me . I do already own a pair of porta pros but I always disliked the bass it puts out (too...

Where can I find the AKG 26P in the north west burbs of illinois? I've already tried the guitar center and Sam ash on roosevelt road in lombard. Thanx

I just found this band about a day ago and I'm likin' it. The guitar in this particular band sounds really good on grados (HF1 especially). It's not really great music but it's definitely something most people can rock out too. It reminds me of bloodhound gang's singer with the synths of reggie...

Well it's getting to be about that time of the year folks and I'm already thinking about what gifts to get for my family. First, I'm getting everyone in my family koss KSC-75's . I think the bro, sis, and I are going to get my mom a creative zen micro (she's been really wanting a little MP3...