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Quote: Originally Posted by krmathis Do not believe everything you hear or read! Wait, what?

...It also seems that my ignorance is showing. I suppose I have been hanging around in subjectivity land for too long. Thanks for the link to The Audio Critic, and that amplifier article. I suppose the real question is why anyone would want to read flowery ******** in lieu of a real review.

Quote: Originally Posted by nick_charles Mostly I think they imagine things a lot. I wish they would be forced to do blind testing with level matched components, but that aint going to happen... I don't want to see anyone be forced to do anything. I do think that a stereo...

Quote: Originally Posted by muxenle well I was counting all that as part of the wrapping. I guess the plastic itself isn't bad, its just those stickers... I hate those thing with a venengence. +1. Whoever affixes those stickers should be shot. I'm all for the cardboard album...

...Gleison moves away and Josh just chases after him. (Neer throws a front kick that lands) Goldberg: <indecipherable grunt> (sounds like "teak") *pause* Goldberg: That was for my crew. Mark Dellagrotte. Completely unprofessional. Their job is to call the fight, not to boost their own...

Quote: MMA got mainstream ever since UFC started airing on spike. then we saw IFL, strikeforce, and others on main network stations like NBC, etc. Wrong. MMA is not mainstream. Mainstream means the majority of the population is aware of it, and it enjoys a large following. Ask a...

Quote: Originally Posted by fuseboxx WHAT. THE. ****!? Shogun vs Machida = Best fight I've seen in the UFC in a long time - so technical, strategic & disciplined - and worst decision I've seen in quite a while: How the hell did Lyoto win that?!? Robbed. To be fair, it was close...

Quote: Currently i have a pair of crossroads HR2 that have a static/crackling sound issue in the right earbud. Will recabling fix the problem? If so, i can get it recabled at a shop and save some money... I don't know. But surely the manufacturer would replace a defective product...

See http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f6/how...ep-pics-50729/. Changing the jack should be easy, and if done properly won't affect the strength of the jack or cable. Soldering the cable to the jack doesn't introduce weakness, that's how it was made in the first place. Changing the entire cable...

Quote: Originally Posted by roadtonowhere08 fuseboxx: I think the "heyday" of rock (1950's-1970's) is a nostalgic love-fest by middle-aged baby boomers and easily led gen-X and gen-Y people who are too damn lazy to look for the outstanding music that is being put out today. It's...

Quote: Originally Posted by Spaceman_Spiff I thought that I was ready to pull the trigger on these. But while re-reading this thread I am concerned about the number of build quality issues. Can anyone who has bought a pair recently comment on the build quality of their pair? Have...

Iz in ur computer, stealin ur bitratez.

I don't even know what to classify this as... other than pure awesome.

Fall is definitely my favourite time of year. Colder weather, spectacular foliage, stronger beer, pumpkin pie... What's not to love? The air around here gets very dry as winter settles in, and I also have the dry hand problem. However, there is a very simple solution: Buy a good...

I thought that I was ready to pull the trigger on these. But while re-reading this thread I am concerned about the number of build quality issues. Can anyone who has bought a pair recently comment on the build quality of their pair? Have the quality control issues (rattling components...

Quote: Originally Posted by Csericks There is a great deal of space between "aged terribly" and "relevant today". I suspect that we may be having a conflict of definitions. When I say that a piece of music has aged poorly, I mean exactly that it is less relevant today than it was...

Done and done. I assumed that "bought online" meant purchased mp3 for download, and not purchased CD's through amazon.

Going from the Wikipedia list, I would have to say: Murmur - REM

Quote: Originally Posted by cajunchrist It's spelled AKG, but it's pronounced throat warbler mangrove. bar. Lol. Classic. Here's one for the kids: The Austrian audio manufacturer "Akustische und Kino-Geräte," or NAMBLA.

...as it once did but I'm not convinced that it is entirely a bad thing that the early Beatles recordings do not sound fresh as today's music. *sigh* This is the problem with criticizing things that people have a large emotional attachment to. You love the Beatles. I love the Beatles. No...

Quote: Originally Posted by HipHopScribe Some of their early music. Completely agree. Just about everything they wrote before they started taking drugs has aged terribly.

CDBaby is great. Always a pleasure to do business with them.

I would prefer to eat something from Subway than from McDonald's. On a different point. I avoid Subway because I find that they all smell absolutely awful. Really terrible. I don't mean that they are unclean or anything like that, but something they use in their bread makes the restaurants...

A Google search for frameless eyeglasses returns US Patent 6557994. Since you are into pince nez, you may want to have a look... Patent US6557994 I don't know where you can buy them though...