Just wanted to drop an FYI for everybody who shops on Taobao or Tmall: November 11 is the massive 11.11 sale day on those platforms. At the expense of sounding too press release-y, it is legitimately the world's single largest online shopping 'event'. Just about every vendor slashes prices. Most...

well, maybe it wasn't that compelling/drastic, but the one song that got me interested and made me investigate more was a punk/hardcore song "No More" from Youth of Today. It was the straight-edge variety of hardcore, and I was already wrapped up into that whole lifestyle and not using alcohol...

well, this thread will probably get deleted, but, hey, it's based on a scientific study. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-mpp012705.php

Anyone know where Sharp released the MD unit MT831W(GL)? I'm looking into one of these, but without an AC adapter, so I'm trying to find out how I can find a replacement part or, if possible, a suitable substitute (plus requisite power transformer for US outlets). Inferring from the scant...

Does anyone have any tips for stronger ankles and knees? Most of what I find Googling seems to be aimed at rehabilitation. It's still stuff for strengthening, but I'm hoping to find more, whether PT or more rigorous exercises that work those areas. I've never had a major injury on either...

is there a good US-based place to order both an Elpac 24v power supply and Plainview batteries/charger?

http://dvdrewinder.com/index.php?mai...1&reviews_id=1 lol ... but i wonder if anyone fell for it...

I'm waiting on my HD25-1 to arrive and I'm reading through these cable threads. My main reason for getting the HD25s is portability -- walking around the city running errands or walking/hiking through the park or just going to the library, preferably running my phones unamped out of the...

I guess my initial obsessions since joining head-fi are ebbing, and I'm not so prone to leaving the house with ipod, sik din, amp and an extra pair of cans stashed in my bag just in case i get the itch to switch. Now I find myself going back to MX500s or Porta Pros out of the headphone jack for...

I was going through some old stuff and found these Audio-Technica clips that got me through the days before Head-Fi (B.H-F.?). A buddy of mine picked them up for me in Akihabara at the same time he bought the Sharp MT-831 for me (I think it was '99). I had used them up until last year sometime...

I just notcied in an ad for Sportapros something about an inline mute button, which only has a few mentions in the archives here. Mine doesn't have that button. Does Koss concurrently propduce models with and without it, or is it regional, or an older model, or what?

All other things being rosy, I'll soon be without a home system. And, if I want to listen to music besides on a portable, I will need to go budget. I'm about to move for the fourth time in 8 months, accounting for two states and three continents and an uncertainty about location in the...

I think I'm about to do it and get my first real set of headphones... Thanks, by the way, for everyone's great input over three of four different threads for first-time headphones. Now I'm leaning heavily toward Grado SR60s or SR80s with the flat pads. I admit that, besides their sound, I like...

About a month of reading these boards and all o' youse are turnin' me! Just bought my first amp, off of head-fi, too, and I'm now I'm eyeing up other headphones. I really like the E888s, but while I'm waiting for them to come in from Bluetin, I'm running a pair of Mx500s, which sound great...

Well, this sucks. After much shopping, I was all psyched to get my first pair of decent earphones -- E888s that I picked up from Audiocubes. Broke them in and it was like nothing I had ever heard before. I started listening to stuff I hadn't heard in ages and was hearing new things. Then this...