Just curious, any headfier here works in audio or speech industry? I happen to be lucky and have been working with sound technologies for the last 15 years. I am an engineer at http://www.maxsonics.com/ Cheers, W

interesting news on iPod, video iPod with Bluetooth headphone? ... http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/21/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

About a year ago at the listening station in Tower Records I was fortunate to come across Lila Downs' CD "La Linea". One listen to 'Mi Corazon Me Recuerda" and I bought the album. She is becoming better known these days and her "La Sandunga" was recently re-issued with some bonus tracks. I...

On a very recent business trip to China I heard an excellent recording of Chinese folking songs by Song ZuYing playing at XinHua BookShop. I was stunned by the sonics and the performance, they had a reasonable good stereo setup at the audio-video section of the bookshop. I purchased the DVD...

A friend of mine brought me the XRCD issued EMI work by DuPre https://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo...item=3&mitem=5 I started playing it at noon and still have yet to put down my headphone. I am intimately familiar with duPre's work, but have not heard a better sounding version on these...

Marina Bosi 's "Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards" is an excellent reference text, I just got mine from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...147238-9579114 I have seen postings ask about technical aspects of audio compression, if you want to get into the...

This place has Philips DVD-763SA on sale for $89, the lowest cost SACD player I have seen, the other places I have seen it on sale is $150. Anyone has any experience with this player? W

I just ordered an Echo Indigo sound card from Warhog, the WINDVD is included at no cost, and no shipping charge, plus no state tax because I am in California. Its a good deal. http://www.warhogprod.com/index.html...tml&lang=en-us Enjoy, W

I saw the price of this headphone dropping, they support built-in Dolby Digital, http://www.millionbuy.com/snymdrds5100.html Just wonder if anyone has any opinion on this, obviously a substantial price drop. Thanks, W

Perhaps you all know about this already, but someone at work just pointed out this web site to me, apparently there are people out there who like headphones http://headphet.hopto.org/index.shtml Enjoy, W