how does everyone feel about iOS 7?  I was disappointed by the visual design of it at first, but I got to play around with it the other day on a friend's phone and it felt natural.  The new gestures/transitions are awesome!  Coming from using an iPhone 4 day in and day out, iOS 7 with an iPhone...

Quote: Klipsch S4i are great sub-$50 headphones and have the volume+mic on the cord.

Quote: Absolutely.  I rarely by products, but when I do I spend the $$$ to make sure it's high quality and will meet my expectations.  I'd rather have five $100 shirts than a hundred $5 shirts, so to speak.

Yeah my company is staying away from Windows 8 and I'm personally staying away from it as well.  As someone who appreciates design, I don't want to use an OS with competing, disjointed design experiences in the same environment.  I'm slowly transitioning to Linux/OSX.

I'm halfway through A Feast for Crows in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by GRR Martin.   Sadly I find myself drifting through this book while being absolutely captivated by the first 3 books.  Seems like the strong narrative and purpose of the first three is gone for now.  :(

Quote: That's excellent work.  You're an inspiration!

I always love playing the Gladiator OST with any new pair of headphones that I get.

Quote: Yeah I did a little more research and they are not OEM earpods.

Quote: I agree.  Getting 90% or 95% of the way to the real experience is enough for many users (me included).  Worrying about lossless rips would be find if I was 100% sure that it was the weak link in my audio listening experience, but for now I'm not sure that's the case so 256/320 kbps...

Quote: Sounds like it's time to update the TV.  That makes sense if you are willing to go out and plop down $400+ for a new game console.

Quote: Turn based like FF VII-IX.  It looks like FF XV is going the hybrid route again, which is a shame.  :(

Has there been any information released about 3rd party headset support?

Are there any good/deep turn based RPG's that have been released lately?   FF7, 8, & 9 were glorious experiences for me, but I really haven't followed the turn-based RPG world since the playstation days.   I powered through FFX & XII, but didn't find them as captivating and the previous...

My original 360 had the RROD and I've stayed away from Xbox since then. It's too bad because I do prefer the Xbox's controller and UI. I'll most likely go PS4, but I'm planning to wait a while before purchasing. There are never enough games in the library during the first year of a game console...

Quote: That's not a bad call, but realize that your computer and local storage options are enormous.  Let's say you had 1+ TB storage handy.  Then you could have FLAC, 320 Kbps, or equivalent "master" copies and make 192 Kbps copies for your digital media.  Then maybe 5-10 years from now...