After much researching, deliberation, more researching, more deliberation, not thinking about it at all for about a week to allow myself to get some perspective, then a little bit more research and deliberation I finally purchased my first real headphone: Etymotic ER-6. The decision to...

Hi all, Next year for college I'm going to be using a laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) as my only audio device (except for a discman for when I go running). The problem is, I don't think the integrated audio chip will be up to the task, and you can't simply put a nice soundcard in a laptop. For...

Hi all, I'm heading off to college this fall, and I've been doing a lot of thinking on what my audio setup there will be. Right now I'm leaning towards high quality headphones. The source for pretty much all my audio (cd, mp3, dvd) will probably be a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook computer...