Hello fellow head-fiers, It's been quite a while since I posted; been lurking a while on hiatus.  Anyway, I need some help and/or advice. My brother was recently helping clear out the estate of an older gentleman and came across a stack of Panasonic gear from (apparently, based on the CD input...

  Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel

Katadyn Hiker Water Filter   This is significant in that it represents the most important addition to my hiking/survival kit to date.  Before I got it, I had no way to purify water other than boiling and a small container of bleach.  Thus, I can now take trips of longer duration or survive in a...

  A Challenge of Honour - Ode to Solitude

Very inventive.  The embodiment of recycling.  

Still burning in my SR-80i.  To be completely honest, I'm not sure I've put in enough listening time on the K701 to completely burn it in since I got it three years ago.  Curse you, 9 to 5!  

Quote: Thanks very much!  I'm thinking of carving some runes to spell out "music" on the trunk of the tree, in keeping with the norse theme and implying that music is a vital part of the tree of life.  Corny, maybe, but I'm a corny sort of guy.

Kataklysm

My Wall - Sunn o)))

Three coats of polyurethane later, and the headphones are back where they belong, rather than on the dust cover of my turntable.

Just put the first coat of polyurethane on it, so headphones have to wait a little bit, lol.  I'll post with them on it after the second and third coats are finished drying.  Thanks for the interest in it!  

My first, and so far only attempt at a stand.  Extra pine planks in the garage, so I thought why not?  Its meant to look like Yggdrasil, the tree of life in Norse mythology.  Best I could do with a jigsaw, a pocket knife and a drill.  It could use a few coats of poly, though.  

Vicar Street - Tord Gustavsen Trio

"Lord of the Unholy Forest" Fjell - Lord of the Unholy Forest (1994)

  Wildernessking - Rubicon

Lo-fi is sort of the point of the original black metal scene (i.e. Gorgoroth recording through a pair of headphones into an 8-track recorder), so I appreciate the aesthetics behind a lot of it. Same goes for "In an Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel. It wouldn't be the same album if...

I hate to intrude on the "raw" and "hard" of your jazz, but I have to recommend Tord Gustavsen Trio.  Its soft, but passionate and expressive throughout all of their albums.   Cheers.  

Death in June  

+1 Local library.  Also check with school libraries (high school is hit or miss, but college has an awesome selection if they have a decent library).   Otherwise, check into local record stores who take in used CD's.  Even FYE in the mall has a (somewhat) decent selection of used disks at...

Way late into this thread, since I've been on since '06, but I just got my first pair of Grado's (SR-80) and I'm in love.  I've only had them for a few weeks, but even with the limited burn in time, I'm enamored with the crispness of these cans.  Grado fan in progress.   Cheers.  

As my reference cans are currently the original K701, I think I'm all set without the slight upgrades.  Having said that, this edition does look sweet, just not THAT sweet. -Cheers  

"One" - Coheed and Cambria  

  When Skeletons Live - Coheed and Cambria  

I worked at Circuit City before it closed.  We had a surprisingly decent selection of headphones (including Shure and Senneheiser).  I worked with a guy who was very much impressed with Bose QC 3's and was always recommending them to customers.  I took him aside one day and commenced with my...