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...

Quote: Originally posted by Magicthyse What version of VPC, Tweertinelle? I'm doing an editing job at the moment and am using someone else's computer. When I get home in approx. twelve hours, I'll have a look. I picked it up from an Aussie programmer friend, so it's probably the...

Quote: Originally posted by Nick Dangerous I'd like to hear a review of these cans. I did not like the W100 when I last tried them. I'd love to borrow a pair to review, since I never respected AT gear before and wasn't aware of AT's Japan-only high-end fare. I listen to and play...

Master Bloggs is making the correct audiophile move by only listening to music for a few hours a day. I myself spend all my waking hours listening to music, writing it, tracking it or practicing it. I'm like that Pavlovian mouse in the cocaine experiment, hitting the sonic snow button until said...

Girly shade of blue, you say? Interesting. Tell me, do you feel that Senn 600s are a more *virile* shade of blue, or does the answer involve wearing Equinox support? Do you regard the wooden surfaces of W100s as girly or buff? Which headphones do you feel best express your manly burly...

Quote: Originally posted by Magicthyse Would be at least a stopgap, but VPC crashes when transferring songs over OS9 and doesn't work at all (NetMD device is not even recognized) in OSX. Odd you should say that. I have a hoary G4 450DP and was able to make NetMD work at least once...

I presume you're talking about the possibility of hanking NetMD with a Mac, in which case, fellow G-pard, be advised that the only avenue is to use Sony software under Windows emulation. Lots of apps do emu and, these days, strapping young Lextek, most can be found in hacked form. That's all...

Quote: Originally posted by Eagle_Driver That's exactly where I got my ER-4S from [Headroom] - when it still sold for $269. Now it's $299 I pity the grebe who excretes piasters when s/he could be bleeding less ($259, with impolite haggling) at Scientific Plastics, Inc., where...

Quote: Originally posted by kelly My objection was to perpetuating the stereotype that ALL gear that uses a certain technology necessarily produces a certain sound. That some gear does, or that you have gear that does, is not surprising--to assume that a piece of gear you have never heard...

Quote: Originally posted by kelly Solid state equipment is not, by its nature, necessarily cold nor accurate. I'm not certain whether you're speaking to Scrypt or not. If you are, allow me to point out that he didn't suggest solid state was necessarily "cold" or "accurate."...

(Dear Pudenda 500: Please refrain from referring to the ER-6 as "stubby." It has already developed a shape complex due to our massive preference for the older and more virile ER-4. Henceforth the ER-6 must be referred to as "girthy" in order to restore its ear insertion esteem.) I'm so very...