Controversy generates interest and that's why flames persist. It's also why I cease to be interested when they do. Rather than get upset over some low-level thread that seeks its morsels of ire like a bottom-feeder scanning the ocean floor, I find it best to start another thread. If only...

My god, the tone of this thread is still intact. Think of this as a slim strand of empathy that remained free of sentimentality and bickering throughout 9/11 II. Miraculous? Not really. We should do it more often. Real empathy isn't just a matter of feeling sad or identifying with...

Grinch, my embryo-pard: I do know about the Sampo machines, which read anything and are great for DIY (putting in a hard drive, for example). Still, their stretchy PAL conversion is a known issue and would mar my Eurotrash film marathons (current favorites: _Death Laid an Egg_, by Julio Questi...

I'm looking for an unproblematic multi-region DVD player that does PAL to NTSC conversion without stretching the image and outputs 24-bit/96k. Does anyone know anything about the new Jaton PSD7611K? Supposedly, it does everything better than the Malata n996 (except x-y scaling) and is twice...

Really inclusive review, Kelly. You even offered provoking suggestions for the future of the META. Magazine reviewers try to do that with new gear (i.e., devices, not British heroin) and often succeed on the rhetorical level. But on the technical level, they're usually spinning fiction. I...

. . . unless you consider me to be bonkers as well, Big Red. See my Sun-Dried Bison Deposits thread for corroborating testimony -- finding it with the Head-fi search engine should be bracingly simple. Listen, if Don, pro-*fesh*-uh-nal rep of Etymotics, finds it impossible to get a...

Recently, I received an e-mail (see below) from an individual who seemed interested in purchasing the worst earbuds possible for the largest amount of money. She seemed not to be interested in buying from an individual (I tried that already) but rather from a retail vendor or established...

Quote: Originally posted by kelly If you don't mind, I'd rather you guys take the rest of the personal stuff to private . . . I'd rather us use the rest of this thread's life for anything else anyone wants to discuss about what came out of the Dallas meet. No problem. See Scrypt's...

My god, what a dashing figure piano black must have cut at the post orifice, that stitched smile warping under the wind of the overhead fan. I have no idea why s/he was overtaken by this seizure of altruism (though one of PB's alternate personalities could be a Marxist data processor), but boy...

Quote: Originally posted by Badtz how does that marantz portable cd-r recorder fair? Can't say -- no one I know has tried it. There must be reviews (though I rarely trust those). I have time. I'll wait. Quote: I'm primarily interested in finding a portable recordable medium...

Quote: Originally posted by Badtz for studio purposes...... would recording with a MD & transferring to the pc/mac yield acceptable sound quality? It depends on what you're doing. For bootlegs, and for certain kinds of field and foley recordings, most MD-Rs would be fine (but...

My father, nephew, longtime companion, deceased mule train, Uncle Nard, Androgynocuspidoor and I are honored to invite you-all to a spirited eye-punting tournament: Two-fisted Winkless Taxidermy Tough-off 2002. We'll be hosting the tussle at our favorite elitist watering hole, the Indolent...

Actually, both iTunes and Audion can distort if you don't set the Sound Control Panel at around 50-60 percent and keep your mp3 player within the same range or less. Another good side effect of keeping the master volume lower: Your ears won't flee to Yonkers when Ye Olde G4 restarts. (I was just...

Quote: Originally posted by leon Yes, I like the industrial design, but I do agree. Exactly. I do like industrial design, but not when used *in place of* necessary audio features (like uncrippled resolution and the ability to make copies). Quote: Not to mention Apple just...

Thanks for the exceptionally kind queue-bump, PB. As you doubtless realize, I PM'ed you immediately after reading your post. I just wanted people to know I'd done that so they didn't feel I was taking advantage. I only post to the Head-Fi web board on weekdays. While I've never written a...