There was an item on this mornings BBC Radio 4 Today programme about the authorities in a Sydney suburb blasting Barry Manilow at high volumes to drive away noisy "rev heads". Listen again Might work better than high pitched tones

There is a wealth of music available with creative commons licensing. magnatune distribute CC licensed music and there is some interesting stuff available as either streamed, vbr MP3, or FLAC. If you feel uncomfortable about using dubious sites, hate DRM, and think the RIAA are it's a good...

Quote: Originally Posted by sidewinder but how is this possible? you are 'deaf' in some kind of way.. but still you hear? You're blocking your ear canal but that doesn't stop sound waves travelling through the rest of your body to your ear drum. Unless you can perfect floating...

Quote: Originally Posted by Blueorb I live in the uk, and the cheapest I can find them is £299 Can you give me a link to the place doing them for £200 please. Cheers. Ditto

I also did this the day I got my soft sleeves. Without it they felt like they were resonating with the music. I'm using the large sleeves loaded with small foamies cut in half. I tried using a whole foamie at first but it was too uncomforable. I guess there's lots of room for experimenting to...

Ordered my Ram Din last week and it arrived in the UK on Monday, only to find a Sik Imp inside the box - ohh the disappointment. Oh well, they are now sending me the correct item.

Thanks MD. Mine arrived in the UK on Saturday. Excellent.

I wonder how many UK Head-Fiers are thinking of purchasing the Ram Din? If there are enough a group-buy might make sense, possibly? Or we could all gang-up on one of the distributors to make them get their act together!

Quote: Originally Posted by marct10 Anyone know of a bricks and mortar shop in the UK that stocks the Sik Din or Ram Din? or anyone in the UK that stocks Sik Products? I've emailled the two UK resellers mentioned on the Sik website, but haven't had a very clear response yet.

Quote: had i known What did you expect? No one in their right mind would buy a bulk load of assorted sleeves in the hope that they might sell them all on. For those of us not based in the States he has saved us quite a bit of money too. I'm getting what I need for $6, it would...

Just Paypal-ed, email sent previously. Thanks

You Canadians are soooooooooo laid-back.

Quote: Originally Posted by Superbaldguy What about insertion of the earpieces with glasses? I've had no problems with my glasses and inserting E2Cs. I guess we're at an advantage with over the ear designs, being used to having something perched on top of our ears. I have once...

@ TheLaZeR I use the large foamies at the moment. I've tried using the large flex sleeves but I only get a seal if I really jam them in and keep holding them there, which hurts and isn't very practical. I really have got big lug holes, but I'll take your advice. @ MD1032 Sorry to be a...

Quote: Originally Posted by MD1032 UK'ers you're in and I'm willing to ship, so don't sweat! could you put me down for two pairs of large to the UK (I've got elephant ears) Cheers

Thanks for all the advice. I bought a selection of battery holders etc at the weekend. I'm going to stick with 8AAs, but I'll keep away from trickle charge circuits for the moment (I'm electronically illiterate). I'm using a PocketDock with line-out already, and I've got a spare firewire...

My Porta Corda arrived in the UK on Saturday. I'm really loving the crossfeed which seems to pull the music inside your head. It's a shame the supplied interconnect is a couple of inches too short to get from the pocketdock line out on the ipod mini to the porta's line in! Seems like I'm...

I'm planning on building a battery pack for my iPod mini based on Ted Cashin's Band-Aid Battery Charger Ted's design uses 8no AA batteries. Are there any benfits or dangers of using 10no AAs?

Quote: Originally Posted by cortez Thin Lizzy : live and dangerous I can't believe it took 20 posts before this came up. Definitely one of my desert island discs.

You might want a pocket dock or sik din to get a line out from the iPod

What about using the "use error correction" when encoding with iTunes. Does this improve sound quality?

EU/1 Paid...and waiting with excitement