Almost everyone has one of these whiney "I'm leaving Head-Fi" because of something so-and-so said. I guess I get to be unique because I'm leaving for what I said. I received yet another warning and "rule change notification" from Jude in my email today. Jude's been wanting me to leave for...

Where better to ask this than a headphone forum? Yamaha recently announced their new flagship model to have 9.1 channel surround sound. http://www.audioholics.com/news/indu..._RX-Z9_PR.html I'm just wondering: How many do we think we need? Personally, I'm a little disappointed that we...

I guess this is for the anal Mac guys out there - what's the absolute best way to encode to aac? These damned search engines won't let me search for three letter words.

Can anyone point me to some relatively unbiased info. about cylinders vs. boxes. When would you want to use one vs. the other and how does room layout play into this decision? I'm mostly looking at models from Hsu and SVS now. I've decided that Velodyne is just out of the realm of what I'm...

I don't like MS Outlook for plainly obvious reasons (if you don't know why, please stay out of this thread completely). I've been using Eudora for a while but there are a few things that irk me and it's not configurable in the ways I thought it would be. I decided to try Pegasus today for...

What's the most important thing you try to always have with you? (other than money, ID, clothes, etc.) Can someone change laptop to "laptop/pda"?

This excludes any relationship type communication. What I'm asking here is: If a friend of yours just wants to BS, what is your preferred way to do that? Elaborate in a reply if you want. I think people who listen to headphones often may choose differently than the general population. What do...

I got sick of opening packages with my keys and finally ordered a Leatherman Juice XE6. I know some of you guys are into knives and such and thought maybe if this model didn't live up you could tell me in time to cancel the order. I'd like to have a good knife too, but honestly, I find...

You guys are pretty good at finding these specific things and many of you have them so that's why I keep asking here even though a lot of the questions I ask are not very related to audio. So, what I'm looking for is a table with rollers on it that can support a mouse and laptop. They're...

I know Nick's been doing his bit on Livejournal for a long time. I guess a part of me was always nervous about running a home page. I thought it was analogous to posting a picture and list of contents to your apartment on your apartment door. I just felt like there was a little TMI on most...

Did anyone else watch the new Duck Dodgers cartoon?

Just wondering if anyone else is hooked on these and which ones you guys liked.

I'm considering building a new box. This one will be running 24/7 under heavy load and needs to be very stable and quiet. I've been an AMD supporter for years and tend toward the underdog, especially when they're cheaper... but in this case, stability is everything and the Intel isn't much...

I know there are very different opinions on this topic and most of you already know mine. Please keep this thread informational and post anything inflamatory in a separate thread in the Take It Outside forum. Here's an interesting article I found on the internet that was mentioned on Tech...

Can any of you guys recommend a PC case that meets the following requirements: rackmount design - 19" wide full ATX at least 3 drive bays does not have covered front access easy access aluminum black color low cost (use your judgment) Thanks for any help.

If you've read my other recent threads, you know I'm in the market for some good quality switchboxes. Right now my options to get everything I want are: 1. Use a high-end receiver 2. Use multiple switchboxes So here are some of the switchboxes I'm looking at...

I've been giving this a lot of thought lately and was wondering how other people fellt. I know some of you like the convenience of receivers but in my opinion most of those conveniences can be easily set up within a good macro-remote. With that taken care of, the only real advantage of a...

Can anyone point me at some links for how to build a remote controllable av switchbox?

Are any of you guys going the HTPC route? I've been reading about some of the systems on some of the various forums and I'm curious to say the least. Last night my friend and I AB'd his laptop's DVD player against his home Panasonic DVD player. To my surprise, the laptop whipped the little...

Any of you guys have opinions on the best bang for the buck pre/pros and amps for home theater? In other places, I've separately seen the Rotel 1098 and the Outlaw Audio 7100 7-channel amp but I'm not sure how nicely they would pair. One thing Head-Fi is known for moreso than other audio...

I recently bought a handful of Finest Glass toslink interconnects. You can find them on eBay easily if you're interested in obtaining them. I had always followed the common wisdom that coax was better than toslink and that had been true in my limited experience. However, I had been using...

The Venue - NextStage These guys stopped by Dallas last night and played at the Grand Prarie NextStage--June 25, 2003. I've gone on and on to compliment this venue in other threads but let me reitterate that if you're seeing a concert in Dallas, this is THE place. Other Dallas venues like...

What's the general rule on subwoofers: should they go on the floor, on a stand, on a piece of granite? I'm considering building or buying some kind of stand for my center channel that would house the subwoofer beneath it. This way both the sub and centerchannel would be located near the center...

As usual, I'm an obsessive prosumer and need some help picking something out: this time a recliner. I figure a recliner is the piece of audio equipment everyone should have but not everyone does have. This will be going in my living room which is where my home theater system is but will also...

Standard curiosity fair. I'm wondering how many people still have their VCRs in use. For the sake of being explicit, answer Yes only if the VCR is unplugged, in a closet, sold, donated, etc. Answer No if you still have it hooked up and ready to play even if you haven't watched anything on it...