Sorry to revive an older thread, but I didn't feel the need to start a new one.   I had access to a Bell Model 4180 Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Gaussmeter FW Bell 4180 ELF Meter and I love doing experiments, so I decided to test the electromagnetic fields (EMF) from a pair of Beyerdynamic...

Thanks everyone for the reassurance.

I really apologize for such the unconventional thread. However, I really respect the people that frequent head-fi, and I couldn't think of a better group of people to ask. I am very worried about being a good father. My wife and I were just married about a month ago and are looking to start...

I recently did an overhaul of my personal security policies.  I store all of my passwords/financial info within KeePass.  KeePass has this really cool feature where it hashes your password N times (N is like 1 million for me) so that it takes ~1 sec to verify your password.  This makes brute...

Quote:   Thanks for not trying to sound condescending.  I didn't make any proclamations about what requires training, you did.  Based on your proclamation, I simply pointed out that if it requires time and training, then it obviously isn't as prominent of a difference as one that is...

Sorry for not paragraphing the original post.  It was a late night impulsive rant, so good writing structure fell by the wayside.    Cravenz, I do appreciate that there are many links in the chain, and each can alter the resulting output.  That is why I tried to somewhat systematically go...

Thanks shigzeo.

  Balcony from my honeymoon (Maui).

From a recent newbie to all of the current newbies who are feeling out the whole hi-fi headphone situation, I just want to give my unqualified advice.  I felt I was missing out on "hearing" the best I could, so I embarked on my journey of testing out hi-fi audio equipment.    I got a Zero...

Sorry to revive this dead thread, but I think the discussion is very interesting and I have a few questions regarding what was said.  It was mentioned that you should set up two separate networks, one for secured PCs and one for leisure web-surfing pcs.  How do you have two separate networks for...

Yes, backup is another important aspect of computer management that most people neglect.  I have another thread on my person backup policy http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/363953/best-way-to-backup-your-computers-files-my-viewpoint.

  Hi everyone.  I finally got around to doing an overhaul of my personal computer security policies.  Considering that I use my computer as a filing cabinet for all of my important and personal documents as well as doing my banking and many transactions over the computer, it is imperative that...

Quote: I ask because it's something that interests me, I'd thought about the idea before but never bothered looking for programs. Yeah, checksums (I use QuickSFV) take all of the bits of information in the file and run it through a calculation to get a representative number such that...

Quote: Did this ever work? Because as you said in your post the last accessed date will be changed by NTFS and there's nothing you can do about it. I don't know anything about SFV but maybe there are options to change what it looks at, or some other programs that are more configurable...

I have a large archive of lossless music on my computer which I very much want to keep in original condition. Therefore I have taken several precautions, 1.) I back up my all my files locally and to an offsite drive 2.) I keep SFV (Simple File Verification) files for my archives to...

Sorry for all of the updates but I did finally get a response from wsz0304. He emailed me back tonight, apologized for late response (exactly 3 weeks late) due to the Chinese New Year, and agreed to send me a replacement if I split the shipping cost and pay $10 shipping. So I would say I am...

Quote: Keep in mind it is Chinese New Year over there. They're all howling at the moon and toasting their dead relatives for a Few Weeks. The Audio-gd Factory shuts down for like 2 1/2 weeks. Keep sending emails. Turns out you were right. He emailed me back tonight, apologized for...

This is an update on my Zero situation (2/2/09): Well, I successfully navigated the credit card claims process, providing a letter from a licensed professional and won the claim. I had only paid for $160 out of the $200 on my credit card but luckily my cc gave me $40 to ship it back to...

This is a follow up on the status of my dead Zero. The last I heard from wsz0304 was 1/14/09 when he told me to check to see if it was the OPAMP or the DAC board itself that was fried. I emailed him back 1/14/09, 1/20/09, 1/29/09 all friendly and insquiring if a warrentee replacement DAC board...

I mentioned before that my Zero (from wsz0304) stopped working but I wanted to have you guys weigh in on a possible cause. I currently switched out the DAC board from another Zero that had a bad HP amp so I have a running system, I am just worried that something will happen again. Also, it's...

Quote: Have you tried an OpAmp swap out? Or a Transformer swap. The one good thing about two Zero's is having swap parts I suppose. I didn't spend the time isolating the defect to an individual component, I just know it isn't the headphone amp because I tested it on the other system...

Quote: How do you check DC? just hook up a Voltmeter to the poles on the Jack? How much is too much? Yes, just use a volt meter. I can't comment on exactly how much is too much but I would imagine you really shouldn't have any more than a few (maybe even tens of) millivolts of DC on a...

Well my second Zero died after about two months. I received it early November (from wsz0304) and it was functioning perfectly fine since then until a few days ago I got no output. I noticed that I was getting signal lock (the LED lit up and the relay clicked) from both coax and optical, however...

Quote: called the "Shock Doctrine." I am trying to get it on audiobook from the library.

After trying to AB test two amps and seeing how hard it is to discern a difference when switching with only a second or two delay, I can't imagine that someone could register an accurate differences 100 hour later. Pyschology is sooo important to how you perceive sound, components could sound...