Do they have to be "pretty"? If you are hot for detail and accuracy, I'd check out the Ascend CBM-170SE's. I'm currently using them as rear surrounds in my living room with there bigger brothers as my mains, they are probably some of the most neutral sounding speakers I've heard (but hey, I'm no...

Quote: Originally Posted by aufeuer The fit of the 595 was extremely comfortable, however I was a bit surprised at the sound of what is deemed as the most forward sounding Senn. It sounded a bit dark for my tastes, and I had to adjust the treble up a bit to compensate. Wow, that...

Quote: Originally Posted by apnk They have been thrown at class mates, stepped on, and used in self defence for 4 years and they are still alive! now I am using them (well the pencil) for college . Haha...same here! I've also noticed that these pens/pencils have a strange...

I'm partial to the Zebra 301's. Nothing too flashy, simple stainless steel barrel, textured grip, and the M-301 pencils have matching F-301 ballpoint pens in 3 colors. I liked the relatively small barrel, it seemed much easier to write with and more comfortable. And FWIW, I too am a lefty ...

Quote: Originally Posted by gpalmer Why am I getting a clear impression you aren't married yet. Mine was like that before we were married... Boy, do you have a surprise in store waiting for you!!!! Lol, not quite but might as well be. And please don't scare me...I hate surprises...

Quote: Originally Posted by blip I've managed to turn my SO into quite a little speaker audiophile... Wow, you too? Mine was giggling like a little school girl when I set up my new Paradigm's and reciever yesterday! All she wanted to do was sit and listen to music all...

Quote: Originally Posted by daycart1 Here's a good trick: When YOU need an upgrade, you can tell a story about giving the old ones to the wife as a gift! I got away with that once Yea, I thought I was going to get away with that when I was looking for a pair of IEM's...but after...

Quote: Originally Posted by discord Oh well, atleast its not like DT880i and all white and ready for ipod use. Haha, MOST definitely. Even better, did you play around with the configurator? I messed around with the German version a month or so back...all I can say is who in their...

Quote: Originally Posted by fewtch Too much "curvaceous" electronics nowadays IMO, and it cheapens the look. I think the original DT880 are "serious" looking, like they should be in a recording studio or something... these are not. Well, I guess I can agree with that. And you are...

Do they really look that bad? I don't particularly like the wierdish color on the new 880's (that may just be me), but I don't think they look totally ugly. I actually kind of like the rounded edges, maybe a tad too big in the hips, but the curves are quite nice.

Quote: Originally Posted by strohmie I mainly focused on audio design applications, which basically means electronics, signal processing, and acoustics work. Basically, Head-Fi as a career. Yea that sounds like a really fun route! I've considered going into the DSP side in hopes...

Strohmie, First of all, a big congrats on your masters. That's a really huge accomplishment and I hope to make it there someday as well. I don't know if you had said this before hand but in your grad work, what was your area of emphasis? I was just curious. Anyways, I'm probably in no...

My current avatar is a picture of my first car...well what was left of it. It was a silver 1989 Pontiac Bonneville LE. A 17 year old girl in an Expedition ran a red light doing 65...while on the phone no less... I was turning, so she took off my front end; I'm really glad I stopped when I did...

Quote: Originally Posted by elrod-tom It's good eating...but please be sure you know what you're doing before you eat one. Most definately. I grew up with a friend of mine who's dad grew up down in the Ozarks in Missouri. We would always come across huge mushrooms while we were...

I feel ya dude. I paid something like $375 for my books this semester, except I got a break because our calculus book from last year is good for 3 semesters worth of courses. Economics is rough though, they wanted to make us pay something like $120 for a paperback version of some text that...

Yea, that was my first thought too. He's going to try and check through all the settings again to make sure. Any other ideas?

Hi all, I'm not for sure if this thread should go here or in the DIY section so mods feel free to move. I overheard a friend of mine today in the lab talking to someone about his small home theater setup. After listening in, I came to find out that his receiver/DVD player is broken. First of...

Quote: Originally Posted by XxATOLxX Also, I heard of TDK making a 2x Blu-Ray with a 100gb capacity Yea, I also read somewhere that Panasonic was making a quad-layered 100gb disc...THAT'S SINGLE SIDED! Man, that is a lot of storage for a CD sized disc, if they can pull that off...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hase Anyone have any opinions about polarized lenses? I am looking for new sunglasses and have been considering some polarized Oakleys (as a cop I can get them pretty cheap). I have A/B'ed some but in the store I can't tell a difference in the polarized versus...

There's a place north of the river in Kansas City called Kelso's. It's been around since my mom went to school there and it's pretty darned good stuff. Plus they have really good artichoke hearts and my mom simply adores their ranch dressing. If you'd let her she'd probably drink it from the cup!

Ah, not a problem at all guys. I had a great time, and I got to hear the 3 big phones I most wanted to audition AND I got to hear the Dac1! Bill, I spent an hour or two today looking for some DT880's and I took some time to read Ryan's 6moons review of them! Your job here is done! Be...

Quote: Originally Posted by apnk Virtual? Dont you mean Visual? Well anyway I have Visual C++ 6.0 and it ran fine with the commas. I'll try the << though. Are you serious? That actually compiled with the commas? Wow, I'm going to go and slam that into my compiler and see what...

Actually the school has a projector that we could prolly use without a problem. It's not HD by any means but hey! Thanks for getting the sources in guys, I was really starting to worry! Here I'm thinking we'll have all this music and nice cans, but nothing to feed them! Thanks soo much! I...

Sources, sources, who's got sources?!?!?! Bill was going to bring a couple of players but now that he's not going to be there, I've got nothing to play music off of! I can bring one CD player, but it is of questionable quality as I've sold all my other gear and I'm currently in the market...

Quote: Originally Posted by ilikemonkeys OK, Please don't hate me......but I'm going to Winfield this weekend. I cant miss the 37th annual International flatpicking championchip! You guys better have a ton of fun without me. I absolutely insist. Wish me luck down in Winfield. Music...