Chaconne from Bach's second violin partita.

Quote: Originally Posted by Exit Pupil Reality check - if you are american, and really that concerned about death and suffering, with 500,000 tragic AVOIDABLE deaths per year from nicotine and another 500,000 from OBESITY (thats 2700 deaths per day and climbing - CDC) ...spare a thought...

From what I know about violins, the disadvantage to buying a new wooden instrument is that you don't know exactly *how* the wood will change over time.

If you're that worried about it, it *is* possible to download their entire database. http://www.freedb.org/en/download__database.10.html

Here's a good site: http://www.classical.net/music/composer/opus.html

This is one of my favorites.

A very clean violinist. Love his Sibelius and Four Seasons, and his chamber endeavors are also quite enjoyable (like his Schubert for Two album). A fair number of people seem to think he's not an interesting violinist, for some reason.

Devo - Jocko Homo Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow - Too weird for MTV

Their reviews are a bit uneven (straight fives for Led Zeppelin). They're also not very brave. It can be very useful, though.

You're quite welcome

For future reference, hydrogenaudio.org has an excellent foobar community. What I suspect is wrong is that you have oggenc2 or something. Whatever the case, you can go to file>preferences>tools>converter and edit the ogg vorbis converter profile. Under the encoder selection you're going to just...

I push all of my hair outside of the headphone cups, because otherwise some of it'll touch the driver and buzz. >.> Around then I usually get a haircut.

I don't know the Shure E4C, but there are a couple of obvious considerations you must make. The 271S is a fairly big set, and it has a "floating" headband that can create noise if you're moving your head a lot. It also isn't always stationary when moving around. They're also easier to spot, so...

The good people of Violinist.com might be able to suggest a good violin shop, luthier, or the like in your vicinity where you might get some appraisal of its quality/worth. I'd expect that it would be pretty difficult to make a positive identification.

K501, K271S =D

Beefheart!

Gotta kinda concur with gratefulshrink. Trout Mask may well be their least accessible album, because of its length and experimental nature. Listening to it *many* more times may open it up for you, but if you're looking for a gentler, more accessible introduction to Beefheart, I'd suggest...

If the Neuros III ever comes out, it will probably wind up with FLAC and possibly gapless...and that will have some pretty nice hardware to boot. I'm not sure it'll ever work out very well, though. Hope so...

De gustibus non est disputandum :-/

Fratres by Arvo Pärt for Violin and Piano-Gidon Kremer/Keith Jarrett

Are you intending to use these as portable phones? Because if so, you should be aware that the A500's are enormous.

I saw a commercial with that William Hung guy where he was recording with what looked like K240's awhile ago.

You can craft them yourself, use wall racks, and Larry from Headphile even makes and sells a line of wooden stands which you can see and order here.

Leno's become a little too vicious for my tastes; Conan O'Brien is my definite favorite.

I've used a cellphone on a roller coaster before...It's really not that big of a deal, but I don't think that any park would be happy with you listening to music. If I were to do that, I'd be completely preoccupied with keeping my source and headphones from falling off and I really wouldn't have...