I needed to buy a decent closed headphone for music, movie and fps gaming. I bought these two to compare, but decided to keep the AKG K271 and return the Beyer DT770. Here are some of my impressions of the two. My sources: ripped FLAC or purchased MP3 320kbs -> E-MU Tracker Pre (same as...

This one is for the people paranoid about privacy. Just found out about this browser made by a German company. As the title said, its based on the Chromium source code, but without dialing back to Google server. Check the software link provided for more information and comparison between Iron...

I guess most of the advance computer users already know how. Someone brought it up so I thought of trying to try it out. Not much advantage since as far as I know Mac is already bitperfect with the sound output. And running foobar2000 under Wine will lose some performance. Still if you want to...

Wired Science . Video: Audio Files | PBS This video has listen test with some musicians vs engineers to see if they can tell the difference. Pretty interesting.

It's a lossless mp3 format: All4MP3 About mp3HD The format is backward compatible which means you can play the lossless file on current mp3 player, but it will only play the lossy part. Does that mean there is a lossless and a lossy stream stuffed into one file? That would results in a...

warning: contents included liberal biasm and anti-videogamer enthuism. also mindless ranting. Lately I've been trying to lower the energy consumption of my house. One of the prospect was to replace my desktop with a portable computer. I don't know why I didn't do this until now, but I...

Warning: Long and boring. I used to have some quality phones like Etymotic ER4, AKG K501 & K340, and by now I've heard about 50headphones that I considered to be quality sounding. Then I sold off all my headphones stuff. I don't even have an mp3 player right now. I use mainly my Magnepan...

Well first I must say moving to ubuntu is a very good experience, beside that it gave me hell with Raid. I don't think I need to go back to Windows beside gaming and I do very little of that now. I know I could take out more time to find out myself, but it's a good idea to ask here anyway. I...

I just found out I can't give buyers negative feedback anymore. Why are they doing this? (Sorry for asking here, I'm lazy.)

Kind of pointless thread, but I did it to clear this point out. I bought a used minipsx and a psx with RCA lineout from a thrift store to test out it's sound quality with RMAA and some listening. The results are pretty disappointing, but expected. Using 16bit/44.1khz rmaa sound...

This is not a religious thread. But today I was a bit amused when someone think getting hit by a broom on the foot is bad luck and they had to spat back at the broom. My parents are devout catholics, but I find it very contradicting when they tell me things like: -Don't take photos with only 3...

Half is another part of ebay that you can buy and sell the media stuffs. I've been using it lightly over the years and I love it. The great thing is it's not an auction, you just list what you have, using the ISBN code, and wait for a buyer. I've sold my college textbooks there with success...

yay. i have to shovel all that .

I've always order at newegg, but sometimes there's a model that goes out of stock or no longer available. Do anyone have a recommendation of another site with a lot of hardwares selection?

Independent musicians can send their CDs to places, such as amazon that takes commision and sell for the CDs for them. I wonder if there are any service that does it, but with digital format? I do think this can be really complicated as well.

I wonder if anyone have experience with this. I am using the Samsung 226BW, it don't have a 1:1 mapping feature setting, but possible anyway if enable via the video card driver, which works when I use Vista. But with XP, it doesn't work at all. Maybe it is just this monitor's specifically.

I was browsing for a new 1080 dvd player and found this company, Helios and one of the model, X5000. It support a lot of formats, AAC, FLAC, OGG. Also usage of OPA2132 opamp and Wolfson 24/192 DAC. Wifi with encryption. The only thing is I looked at the manaul and couldn't find another specific...

I got my Swans M10 finally, a 2.1 active computer speaker system. First, thanks to the guys who recommended them to me, and I promised I would do a small review. I've only heard it for a few hours, so they are still fresh and unburned. I am very impressed with these Swans. Appearance: I...

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not sure this will be a succesful thread, but,last.fm is good but i never bothered to search out the bands, until i started using the radio feature which directly deliver the music. i know i'm behind on this but i don't have a habit of radio listening. this is great though. tmx's radio

sold some guy a video card for ~$500 on ebay, the tracking number said delivered, at his house, and he gave me a positive feedback. he had perfect feedback. now he file a suit saying i never gave him the tracking number and where is the items. basicly the guy is lying. and i guess he does...

last I heard it only support 640x480. did they change the firmware to support full dvd resolution? thanks

you run these software in the background for them to perform auto projects which results are use for medical research. World Community Grid folding@home

I never ripped my music to AAC before and wants to give it a try, now that I have a portable player that support the format. There are more than a few names so I'm not sure which one is the best. I tried NERO ACC in foobar, it did has a two pass encoding setting. I like this a lot, it yield...