back in the old days when the AMP WARS were a-raging on head-fi, this amp was supposed to be "DA BOMB". some time later it came to light that these were so shoddily built they might actually BLOW UP. and when the HEAT was on the entrepreneur for not really delivering "THE GOODS" he made for...

Quote:   Quote: rehabitat, good recommendations for the thread's title. but if you look at the actual first post and at what the op had in mind, listening to that final recommendation is prone to give the poor guy a heart attack   heyyoudvd, i i second the score for 'the...

even more great albums! i agree, lots of competition for number two.   Quote: i wonder - are we poking fun at the thread starter, or at the unfortunates who don't agree, or at ourselves? and - is there a difference?   i mean, hallo spaceboy, there's a guy here called head...

i've been preaching about the excellence of 1. outside for years. bowie meets lynch and gibson with his best tunes in a decade. kees has already seconded the motion, so i'll make a third. and a fourth. so yes, everybody agrees (at least here in this thread.) you naysayers just aren't...

Quote: Originally Posted by haloxt Wow I just skimmed through that dumb article saying binaural beats isn't real. It's been an accepted fact for over a hundred years and researched countless times. Nietzsche said God is dead, likewise, I say science is dead. you seem to have...

a truly worthy head-fi list - once again showing the high regard many headphiles here have for refined metal. shame on pitchfork for ignoring the likes of tool, opeth, agalloch etc. thanks to limpidglitch for keeping the thread in shape, much appreciated.

Quote: Originally Posted by userlander Loveless might. It influenced a lot of artists, including Radiohead as probably the most obvious, but also Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, even U2, not to mention basically the entire shoegazer genre. no. loveless is a (fine, but still) rehash of...

Quote: Originally Posted by haloxt It is possible that audio equipment with huge power draw may be more susceptible to rfi/emi in the power line than an mp3 player which is the least power demanding. Also an mp3 player just may not be resolving enough that power problems are possible to...

Quote: Originally Posted by haloxt Just because there are physiological factors does not exclude the possibility of power purity factors. well yes - but the point is, once again: Quote: Originally Posted by Loque If you want an easy bit of proof, plug in your portable...

Quote: Originally Posted by catachresis Well, I have to agree with you that most pop-punk is just pop and utterly forgettable at that. But I gotta protest with an existential question that I still grapple with--Can I get a witness?--that we know that X's Los Angeles and Wild Gift, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by nick_charles SH Forums - View Single Post - DOORS "Morrison Hotel" AF Gold CD replacement copy NEWS.. Sound like nonsense to me, i.e the kind of "this is a superior system so I will subconsciously ignore any flaws in the playback" stuff that some vinyl...

Quote: Originally Posted by Loque I definitely notice it. I don't subscribe to the power theory by any means. If you want an easy bit of proof, plug in your portable player and you'll hear the same thing. yes! how come this is routinely, and conveniently, ignored? it IS...

winner: opeth - blackwater park runner-up: porcupine tree - in absentia the 00s have been an amazing decade for music, and i'm really looking forward to all the lists and new discoveries they will bring.

'bleach' is gritty, raw, energetic, full of anger. overlooked and underrated, very much so. when i saw nirvana live in a tiny local venue just before they exploded into worldwide stardom they were already on the transition to 'nevermind', playing some songs from that album with the raw furor...

once again, the words made me smile even while my eyes got tangled. PLEASE let this not be a postscrypt: you're surly missed around here. sourly. now where is that dictionary...

Quote: Originally Posted by xnor I was talking to the OP, sorry if that wasn't clear enough. .. I'm not that funny oh. should have been clear enough, the way you quoted. the joke is on me, then

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Erik ... People who are familiar with acoustic music are few and it feels like an uphill battle to convince people that "bass light" headphones and speakers actually sound like the real thin as opposed to that fuzzy basszilla sound where you can hardly...

Quote: Originally Posted by krmathis If the audio data have been compared and verified to be the same, then there can not possibly be any audible difference between them. They are 100% identical. No need to perform an AB test when a simple checksum is enough Quote...

Quote: Originally Posted by VicAjax all good points, although i'd say there was undoubtedly an American post-punk genre, distinct from British post-punk, which became the roots of indie rock: Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, The Replacements, R.E.M., Mission of Burma, etc. strange that i...

bong finally brought up the missing link: post punk. not as rock'n'rolly as punk, but with just as dark an outlook, and, while bringing in synths, still relying heavily on voice & guitar. can you lump up joy division with heaven 17 in one genre called 'new wave'? the fall with depeche mode...

Quote: Originally Posted by smoth If you change the settings of course it will be perceived differently, similarly if you cut off all frequencies below 100hz the audio will sound different. What I look for is closeness to a calibrated standard. 685nm source should be displayed as 685nm...

Quote: Originally Posted by smoth ... From this persepective, my ears and perception have no bearing whatsoever on sound quality and as a result, I believe that one could conclude that sound quality is objective. smoth, neither the human ear nor the human brain is somehow...

look at my join date and at the number of posts: i'm a regular, with regular breaks regrets? wish i had found this forum sooner...

ah, here it goes again: mussorgsky: night on bald mountain - a pagan companion to stravinsky's rites of spring.

Quote: Originally Posted by priest And I'm going to add the Afghan Whigs Black Love as opposed to Gentlemen. yes! how could i forget that old favorite of mine... AND seventeen seconds (hi, bong *) i know that there are other threads for classical "lost gems", but why not...