Just wondering what people do with cracked Plasmas? We acquired a 50" Pioneer that has a cracked screen, but we are using a 42" Pioneer in the living room. Is it worth to keep for parts? I am guessing it is not worth fixing the cracked screen. Or should we just throw it away, or maybe there...

Just got some GS1000s, here is a pic of them (got my friend at work to listen to them)... Anyways, I got my Raptor back last week w/upgrades and the new PS. It did raise the performance of the Raptor. With my HF1s I was using before the GS1000s, I thought it was a fun sound, but the top end...

Ok so three weeks ago was an orchestra concert. Now it is a ballet. Well here are some pictures of the new venue here in the Orange Count Performing Arts Center which opened maybe about three months ago. This time I had a friend who had bought an extra ticket so I got to go. It was to see the...

Just got home from going the the new Orange County Performing Arts Center. Was able to score some (orchestra level) tickets to tonights concert featuring the Kirov Orchestra and Pacific Symphony playing Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements and Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, Op. 60...

I am telling this story because this is probably the creepiest guy I have ever encountered. Now I have met a lot of sleezy guys, but this one pretty much takes the cake and pushes into the creepy territory. This is something that happened at a co-workers house warming party yesterday where it...

Alright, to counter the flow of I am a geek blah blah or I have problem with girls threads which are just depressing me, I am going to tell you about last night essentially at a work related event and the intersting things that go on. This thread will probably serve no real purpose for most...

Ok this is probably going to be one of these worthless without picture kind of deals, but still should be interesting. Well, we had a backup model come in to model our clothes for our e-commerce site due to a scheduling conflict with our regular person. This backup model was featured on the...

So I was at the mall today and saw this high schooled aged girl with a full blown Naruto headband. I mean this thing was a big hunk of metal with the leaf village symbol as a hologram. I was suprised. Is this a new teenage thing? Is Naruto that popular that that would even be cool? Sorry...

Just got my Platipus Vol 10 CD's today and made it into the thank yous for buying from them directly (I am one of the two Andy C's). Don't remember buying all that much from them directly, but I do have most of their CD releases and a lot of their CD singles collected over the last 8 years...

Need help trying to get a single chip to repair a Monarchy upsampler. I have not been able to find it sold anywhere as singles, and trying to get samples from Cirrus has not been very productive. I am trying to find a place just to buy one. If anyone knows where to obtain one please let me...

Well today ended being a pretty crappy day all around, but on top of it I was informed about further repairs needed for my OmegaIIs, which might be interesting information on the cost of repair and such for future or current Omega owners. Initially they were having an intermittent left side...

Here is something I found at Urban Outfitters, that I thought would be interesting for headphone aficionados. Don’t know if it has been mentioned before (no search), but I might even have seen somebody wear it in a meet pic or something. Anyways, they were $20, would’ve bought one, but it ends...

Here is some info concerning an update to the K Works Empowered power cord I have talked about in this forum here: http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showt...ight=empowered Since I know some of you do own one, this will give you some info concerning the update or for people who might be...

Well I rarely use Ebay, but I just finished an auction where the bid retraction was used to basically find my upper limit price that I set. What he did was put in a high price to see where my limit was and then retracted his bid and put in one that was just under my limit, so that I would...

This is my first (well technically second, the Bel Canto 1.1 being the other, but not competitive at all versus the modded DI/O) experiment into different sources ever since getting the DI/O quite awhile back. The reason for this is that there are some characteristics of the DI/O that have...

Here are the rest of the CES related to the high end audio... WBT was showing their new next gen plug to compete with the Eichmanns, as you can see it borrows from the very similar idea. The new high density dvd format was protoed, where they decrease pit size to get more space out...

Just got back from the CES, here are some pics of the new Sennheiser 500 series line: They have three new 500 series headphones, 595, 555, 515. DId not get a chance to listen to them since the convention center was too loud to hear them. Here is the top model 595 Other 500 series...

The digital cable is one of the last cables changed when I decided to ditch thicker non-flexible cables. The x60 came in as a very interesting possibility due to its heritage as the follow up to the Kimber D60 and its design as being very flexible along with being fitted with the bnc/rca adapter...

I picked up the Silver Spirit due to the good word that has been floating around about it on AA. Different people have said that it revealed more than the Acoustic Zen Silver Ref IIs, which of course made me curious. The cable is fairly low priced since it is on “special” right now (till end of...

The reason I got the Bolder Nitro is out of curiosity due to Wayne (of Bolder Cable) saying that the Nitro had smoked the VD Nite in a comparison he did along with a person from another audio manufacturer. The Nitro with Furutech plugs is roughly the same price ($195) as the Empowered cord...

A little history about how I came across this cable... I was looking for a new power cord when I got the Audio Magic mini stealth, which lead me to posts on Audiogon concerning the Empowered cord and how it was better than the Nite and Elrod. Risky usually to trust these things, but at $200 it...

Finally, I had to get a new equipment rack to sort out all my stuff since my crap 2 shelf TV stand just wasn't cutting it anymore... It is actually a very versatile stand since the shelves are adjustable in height, very handy. They have a nut on a threaded rod at bottom and top of each board so...

Ok, I am sure everybody who is interested in power cords know about these two cords by now. But very little information is found in a comparison on these. The Nites being highly toughted here and the Elrod touted as the best cord on AA (was until the signature version of the Elrods came out)...

I bought a 1000AVR from Best Buy, to try one of the these out for the heck of it since there has been some positive statements (here by botchki) about this certain UPS and it is very easily returnable if it does not work out so why not? The general rule is that UPS's and other conditioners used...

Don't know if anybody has seen this review yet, I know they had an AKG 1000 review as well but this one seems new... I found it an interesting read. http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/h...edouthome.html