I am moving to Santa Cruz and I had a few radio questions. 1) Are there any good local stations? 2) What are the call letters if you turn on AM 1140, and is it clear? Any help would be very much appreciated.

Are there any implications for the new MPEG-4 format as it relates to audio compression? From Apple: "MPEG-4 is designed to deliver DVD (MPEG-2) quality video at lower data rates and smaller file sizes. And the same folks who created the popular .mp3 file format — a.k.a. MPEG-1 layer III —...

I have been listening to a lot of new music recently, trying new music from many genres, and it has led me to do some pondering. Why do we like/dislike certain genres of music? I can understand that the context of the music can have a huge effect (i.e. cattle ranchers don't want to hear...

I had an idea, while talking to carlo on the IRC channel (sorry if this is not a new idea): We all have CD's that have fallen out of favor, or we listened to too much, and basically we just do not listen to anymore. These CD's are deadweight to us. So: We start a box shipping around to people...

I have been doing a lot of listening to the KSC-35, and like them a lot. However, I found that on a small group of songs, the mid bass? is just a bit overwhelming. I found that on songs that have a heavy bass and bass drum content often will have the more subtle piano parts, or sometimes vocals...

I bought this unit in the UK, and consequently got the UK-style AC adapter designed for the 240v wall plugs. I am going back to North America, and I was wondering if I could just use another AC adapter with the same output (5v, 800mA) with the north american plugs and the 120v sockets with the...

I was wondering how people felt about various compression formats. More specifically, the new ATRAC and also mp3 compression. I realized upon getting some legitimate cans that 128 bit mp3's were just not quite enough. However, 160 seems to be alright, or at least reaches the deficiencies of my...

My buddy just got an ipod, and is currently using the earbuds that came with it (I assume these are typically sub-par?). I was wondering about good replacements that are very portable, and inexpensive (i.e. less than $40). Are the koss heaphones the champion of this priceclass for portables...

Hi all- Well, I have been scouring the boards and reading reviews, and I went ahead and ordered a pair of the Philips hp890's. This is my first pair of "legitimate" headphones, so I am eagerly awaiting their arrival. My question is about burning them in. Can anyone give me a brief...