Nineteen likes on Facebook's Headfi group post so far after one day, so it deserves its own thread here on Head-fi I think.   I love to listen to music, and would like to say that being a tech/audio enthusiast has helped me actually become more skeptic and a better critical thinker in general...

Believe it or not, *each* of these speakers costs $240.000 :S Anyone near Bonn Germany might want to check them out too, after all the audition is free.   http://marten.se/blog/tag/bonn/

OK guys, here's something I immediately thought of when watching this video: whether we can collectively identify absolutely all headphones appearing in this video. There are 25 languages, but not 25 headphones. Some appear more than once, and Spain and Portugal aren't wearing any. Let's see how...

Just saw this on WhatHiFi online: Bryston BHA-1 (£1425)   http://www.whathifi.com/news/bryston-adds-high-end-headphone-amplifier    

Article on Wired.com: Despite iPods and Walkmen, Rates of Hearing Loss Dropping

Hi all, I'm sure there are many classical music listeners here, so here's a challenge. I'm trying to remember what this music is, and there´s no way I can recall. For some reason I keep thinking it might be some Wagner or Mahler, but I'm really not sure, and can't identify it. It's in this...

Just saw the article: JH Audio JH13PRO Custom Earbuds | Wired.com Product Reviews

Browsing Headrooom's measurement page I noticed a new (for me) addition: some measurements of balanced versions of some headphones. But most importantly, I observed something quite odd about those graphs when comparing them to the non-balanced version. Balanced seems to change the...

Search the forums and found absolutely no match for "memristor". So I'm creating this thread to gather any thoughts, in particular from the electronics Gurus here in Head-fi. Memristors are this "missing link" of electronics, a fourth fundamental unit of electronic circuits after the...

An interesting ad campaign right now going on from Nokia, not sure if anything about this has received posts here already. They feature posters with very strange headphone like structures. Below some examples. Btw, I have no connection with Nokia whatsoever. Just thought this could be an are...

Bose Corp. to cut 1,000 jobs — 10 percent of staff (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech And yet unbelievably: Quote: The company has an estimated $2 billion a year in sales.

Recently i've been participating in several other online forums besides Head-fi. One forum feature I was particularly impressed with was the "Thanked" counter. An example of that feature can be seen on Ubuntu Forums The left of every post on every thread on that forum not only identifies the...

Brainwave-reading headphones need no batteries - tech - 18 April 2008 - New Scientist Tech

Judge to RIAA: You can't sue over songs 'made available' via P2P | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com

And the book seems actually very interesting: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. By a Neurologist, Oliver Sacks. This book is among Amazon's Top 100. Anyway, rather interesting that some Grado's are featured on the cover of this popular book on music: Amazon.com: Musicophilia...

Checked the magazine shelves today at a local bookstore, there were December and January's issues of The Absolute Sound. Has anyone noticed a recent increase in headphone gear coverage on this magazine? Those issues had an article on best PC speaker setups, and oddly enough, among the...

After getting a new PC but no speakers for it, I purchased these in December from Amazon. They have rather good reviews, and allegedly very good sound for their size. The only problem, Amazon sent an email saying they can't be shipped in the promised date because they aren't in stock...

Today I went to a live orchestra performance. Here's the program they had: 1 Obertura La Flauta Mágica (Magic Flute Overture) W. A. Mozart 2 Doble Concierto para Violín y Violoncello en La Menor Op. 102 J. Brahms 3 Cuadros de una Exposición Modest Mussorgsky / Maurice Ravel I...

Despite all the recently closed threads related to discussions on cables, I thought this comments I posted in another thread deserved their own cable comparison related thread. Built a DIY aftermarket cable for my HD650's (see this and this) which actually has one third of the electrical...

Building an aftermarket cable for my Senns HD650, final step was to solder the stock cable connectors. Cut them off from the stock cable and peeled the external jacket off, then a thinner internal jacket, and here's the surprise: Those wires in the sennheiser cable have some...

In general, how many hours do you think are appropriate to break-in a headphone? By appropriate I mean, after that break-in length of time you select, the headphone would have achieved a sound signature that basically won't change with further break-in in any significant way for you. Either...

You might win an Iphone. http://www.wired.com/special_multime...get_tournament The winner for me was the IBM PC, but I will recheck all my choices before deadline (August 8). Actually entered just because I was curious to check the candidates they had. Some are rather odd, but all...

Quote: Blockbuster has been renting both Blu-ray and HD DVD titles in 250 stores since late last year and found that consumers were choosing Blu-ray titles more than 70 percent of the time. "The consumers are sending us a message. I can't ignore what I'm seeing," Matthew Smith, senior vice...

Found it interesting that this is Wikipedia's pic of the day: Here's the link to the image entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jack_plug.png And here's Today's main page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Just browsed a PCWorld magazine and found out the following impressions, allegedly coming from Michael Jordan (not the basketball celebrity, but the guy from linux.org.) Apparently, Ubuntu is the Linux distro that has had the most improvement. Fedora, preparing its version 7, comes next...