Do you buy second hand items online? bodies? lenes? and where do you buy, except eBay? I am mainly talking about film cameras, not digitals.

I would like to drop by to NY on my way to DC around July. Would any New Yorkers here recommend me a place to stay? I don't want to spend too much on accomodation, so hotel in Manhattan is out of the question. My friend recommned me to stay in NJ. Youth hostels? Universities? What's must see...

Have it happened to you when you're in the theatre, and the one sitting behind you just keep kicking at the back of your seat? I was watching hell boy tonight, and a guy, on and off resting his leg on the back of the seat next to me, shuffling his feet as if there's a vibrator inside. His gf, I...

Now that I have a region free dvd player, I would like to know where you guys/gals buy your DVD from abroad? I just bought the R2 Zatoichi from Amazon Japan for US$38, probably not the best price. Care to tell me where you buy from?

For a while, I have been listening to my two channel system and totally forgot about headphones. Today, I switched on my dusty OTL32 before I went brewing some coffee. Tube just looks good, charming when lit up. Having place the Anthony Wilson "The Gangs" in the CD tray, I sat down, with the...

One of my friend is a jewelery dealer. She wants me to help her to update the old catalogue to a digital one. What she need is to have the picture represent the actual size of the item. I think I can do it by trial and error, but is there a better, more logical way in doing it? Thanks in advance!

I was browsing in Audiocircle and read this article. The reviewer Danny, owner of GR Research, thinks this amp is way beyond the Melos. He was auditioning the amp with Grado. No picture whatsoever, but price ain't bad.

Here are some pictures I took today at the Hong Kong High End AV Show. This is the first AV show I ever attend. I have come to realize any serious audition of any equipment is impossible, cell phone ringing, people talking, walking around etc ... Though I was quite impress with the Quad II-forty...

fyi, here's the 6moons review of Stax SRS-3030 Classic System II vs. SRS-4040 Signature System II vs. AKG-1000

So, anyone bought this new album of Diana Krall? No this ablum is not by Verve hence the lack of high profile advertising campaign. This album, release by TCB Records, recorded some of her old, unrelease work back in 1990 with Vince Benedetti. The first album I bought from Diana Krall is...

Around September last year, I noticed I had a lump in my right neck area. Having a few visit to clinic and several common diagnosis, my family physician refers me to a otolaryngologist. He had me go through ultra-sound, CAT-scan and a couple of biopsy. All reports suggest a swollen lymph but the...

So is active crossover always placed downstream of pre-amp? What if it's placed before the pre, right after the source? I heard passive crossover is always lossy which would degrade sound. But active crossover has gain stage which also introduce a different sonic property on the signal. True...

Brian Cheery of diyhifisupply, who offer various Opera pre/amplifier in kit format under the name of Consonance, is thinking of bringing the Opera Cyber 30 (SE 2A3) into kit form. I am no expert when it comes to tubes but people interested/knowledgable in tubes should participate in the...

What do you do when you spot something you like at a good price, not ridiculous price, but good and the seller has ... 0 feedback?

A friend of my mom is ready to replace his vintage Sansui 881 receiver with a new 5.1 home theatre system. I volunteer to take good care of it, and here it goes: What about some Sansui headphone... They do look somewhat like gold-plated Grado Some specs...

Now that the Michaura M55 are on their way, I need some help in deciding what to drive them. I'm quite determined to take this as my first step in tube audio (persuade if you can ), so if you have ~$500 at your disposal, what would you get?? Currently on my list: Integrated 1) nOrh SE 9...

After sitting on the table for several months, I've finally finished my not-quite maxed out META42. Plug them into the loop out of my Rega Ear, compared a few tracks that I know fairly well. It's quite apparent that the META blows away the Rega. You don't need to have golden ear to tell the...

Can someone tell me how many ramen equivalence is it to build the KG dynamic amp??

Hi Joe, Heard the other Joe (Bloggs) mentioned about the new ASL MG Head OTL32 in another thread. Can you enlighten us as to what will be different with the current OTL version?? ETA (estimated time of arrival)?? I want to know more about it cos MG Head will likely be my next acquisition.

http://www.shure.com/earphones/eseries_e5c.asp Just saw this on headwize and thought fellow head-fier might be interested. Anyway, they look very similar to the etys. Even the instruction diagram on how the phones should be inserted looks the same as the etys. But they priced it $499!!

Got off school today, I dragged my tired body back home. There, I saw a package sitting on my desk. Just can't wait to another second, I told myself. Fiercely rip open the box, I saw the nicely packed Ety ER4-S in there. While I'm putting the little white silicon tips on the etys, I turned...

Finally the wait is over, the local (i.e. Vancouver) film festival has just started yesterday. Watched one yesterday, one today, and 5 more next week. I always thought the timing for our film fest is plain bad for univ students - last week of september to second week of october, just about when...

A friend of mine is going to get me the Shanling version of Music Hall CD25 in China for a very low price. However, I'm not sure if they make 110V version in China since the export version has been licensed by Music Hall. Should I settle for a 220V -> 110V step down transformer? Would that...

For $199, is this a good deal?? Anyone heard of this?? http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...94EFDEDDA34067

Can anybody explain to me all those vocab used in opamp world?? I'm thinking of rolling the op-amp in my Rega Ear amp, it uses a single NE5532A by TI. When I look at the specs, I got confused by all those terminolgy. What is slew-rate?? unity gain stable?? IQ per channel?? IIB? CMRR....etc. What...