There are a ton of "big" box sets released in the past few years and still being released today that are exceptional bargains. They allow you to get master performances of some great music for as low as $2 per CD, some less than $1. These are great buys for those looking to grow their classical...

The Audio-Technica M50s are of much, much better build quality (real leather); the beats are cheap, flimsy plastic. The Audio-Technica M50s don't have silly electronic chips in the signal path, requiring you to replace batteries in your headphones, this is ridiculous (I have never had to turn...

+1 for Audio-Technica M50S   An amp (short for amplifer) amplifies, or increases the power of an electric signal. Before your songs are produced as sound waves by your headphones, they go through some converting, processing, and amplification in your laptop or ipod. Here is a brief laid-back...

+1 for Audio-Technica ATH-M50S (splendid build quality), $120 New on Amazon here.

Quote:   Art by the great German surrealist Max Ernst! Would Modern/20th-Century art happen to be your period of choice?

J. M. W. Turner - The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838 Oil painting on canvas, 1839 Location: National Gallery, London Size: 91 cm × 122 cm (36 in × 48 in)  

Eugène Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple) Oil painting on canvas, 1830 Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris. Size: 260 cm × 325 cm (102.4 in × 128.0 in)  

Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer) Oil painting on canvas, 1818 Location: Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany Size: 98.4 × 74.8cm (37.3 × 29.4in)  

Eugène Delacroix - Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) Oil painting on canvas, 1827 Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris. Size: 392 x 496 cm (12′ 1" x 16′ 3")  

Raphael - Scuola di Atene (The School of Athens)   Full-Size available HERE

I find the Koss KSC75 to be a great sounding headphone and an exceptional performance for price buy, they are clip-on headphones and are an exceptional value and quite a steal as they sell for only $14.76 on Amazon, MRSP is $19.99. I dont have a lot of experience in this price-range of...

I don't know how much sound quality is left in them, though. They've been in a cluttered garage for the past 40 years, and in a barn for the 20 years before that. Now I have them (>300 shellac records, man they're heavy) in my basement and only a little over 20 are in sleeves. :( It's too bad...

My very first albums   The Beatles - 1962-1966 (The Red Album)   The Beatles - 1967-1970 (The Blue Album)  

Quote: Seems like a good program, i'll have to give the trial a go. I haven't seen much in the way of a well-implemented DSP-type crossfeed (I tried Dolby Headphone but it never quite worked for me). Anyways, thanks for the tip.

I have heard good things about J River, i don't know if it's up to par with EAC as far as ripping though. EAC has amazing Error Correction and some nice features like AccurateRip and checking databases to ensure it ripped perfectly. Configuration of CD drive is thorough, offset values and all...

To get accurate, high-quality audio I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) when I rip CDs. With it you will have the highest chances of getting bit-perfect copies of your CDs on your computer. I usually rip to a lossless compression format like WAV/FLAC/ALAC, and after importing, I have the option of...

Very nice work bigshot! I would love to listen to/convert some of my old 78s. I have a 1904 record of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade that I would love to listen to on a high-quality turntable system. I used to listen to them with my aunt's victrola about 15 years ago but now I don't have...

Brahms & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos - Jascha Heifetz; Fritz Reiner: Chicago Symphony Orchestra  

He is on the Evening Program Monday thru Friday, from 7pm to 12am PACIFIC STANDARD TIME on KUSC. thats 10pm to 3am EST.

I've been working on a giant list like this for the past year and a half on paper. It includes the specific recordings and I even have separate recordings for HIP and non-HIP performances of baroque and classical. Maybe I should post it some day...

So hard to decide, but here's my top 20 (in no particular order) (and not including opera composers like Puccini, Wagner, Verdi)   - Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms - Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Bartok, Mendelssohn, Dvorak - Handel, Haydn, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel - Stravinsky...

White COWON J3 8GB on Amazon HERE. $179.99 New from Amazon Black COWON J3 32GB on Amazon HERE. $284.99 New Directly from JetAudio, Inc.   if you only need 32GB, you would save a lot of money buying a microSD online which the Cowon can use for storage. If you need more than 32GB, then you...

If battery life is important to you, the Cowon J3 would also be great. It's ranked #1 portable music player here on Head-Fi. It plays almost any lossy or lossless audio format you throw at it, like FLAC. It sports a 64-hour maximum battery life when playing music, and 11 hours when playing...