Allow me to preface this with some background on myself. I'm 48 years old and have only lived alone once since I moved out of my parents house when I was 18. That one time was 1983, and I stayed drunk the whole three months I lived alone. The rest of the time I either lived with a girl or was...

Has anybody heard the latest Tom Petty album, Highway Companion? I am considering it. I like the older Tom Petty stuff, and I even have the Playback box set. I read the reviews at Amazon and they seemed positive. I was just wondering if anyone here has anything to add.

I'm afraid I need to send my Sensaphonics in and have them repaired. I've had them for a year and a half, and now the right monitor is not working properly. It has almost no volume, and what is there sounds awful. Has anyone here sent their Sensaphonics in for work? I'm a little worried...

I just got a letter from a motel I stayed at. There was an accident in the room back in April where a faucet got turned on while I was out of the room. A bag of ice slid down from the edge of the sink and turned the faucet handle on full. The sink filled up and overflowed. In fact it overflowed...

I was checking the weather today for work. I noticed the the low and high are rather extreme. I'm not sure how to dress for this kind of weather. Sorry about the big size, but I gotta run.

I recently had a photo printed by Sony Imagestation. They have always done pretty good work in the past. I do always notice some minor variations in color depth, or brightness between prints and what I see on my monitor. But this time I lost a lot of subtle bright details. The sad part is that I...

I need a zip/unzip utility. Mostly just to unzip compressed files. I googled for one and the choices are many and confusing. Not to mention everyone wants 20 to 30 bucks. Is one program better than the others? I noticed that some open more types of files than others. How often would I come...

One of our oldest members is having a birthday today. He didn't specify what year he was born so we don't know his age, but has been here since the beginning. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Audio Redneck.

Hey has anyone ever tried D-Skin? It's a plastic thing that snaps to your CDs to keep them from getting scratched. I was wondering if it might have some effect on the sound like some of the mats out there. I haven't seen it mentioned here, and a search came up empty. It looks interesting to me.

The title of this thread is a bit misleading. I have a friend that recorded his old mono taped music onto CDs and they all came out with sound from just the right side. Not too bad with speakers but it'll give ya a headache with headphones. We are trying to figure out how to split the mono or...

I was reading a magazine yesterday called "Tracks". There was an article about the recent changes in country music. Artists like Big and Rich, and Kid Rock and even Jack White have broken into the Nashville scene. They mentioned a song by Loretta Lynn and Jack White called Portland Oregon. I...

My Norton 2004 subscription is going to expire in a couple weeks. Should I simply renew it, or try something different? I haven't had any trouble with Norton. I have been considering getting a software firewall, which I haven't tried in a long time. Last time I tried a firewall program, I had...

I hope I am not the only one that sees this. When I view a thread that has more than 30 pages or so, the page numbers just keep going to the right. Sometimes everything else is stretched to the right along with them. The scroll bar at the bottom of the page sometimes is very short, indicating...

My old HP flatbed scanner finally died. I need to get a new scanner. I want a flatbed that can also scan slides and or film. I have a good printer so I don't want one of those all in one things. I want high quality scans, and I'm not too picky about the price. Anybody got a recommendation?

Hey, I've been watching the MP3 player market for a while. I have seen multi gig hard drive players, 1 gig flash players, and some other stuff. What I haven't seen though is one that would take a compact flash card, or secure digital card. Why not? I don't really want to wade through 20 or even...

Hey, I am getting bored with my DT250-80 closed phones. I've had them for a couple years now. I have been thinking about stepping up a notch or two in the closed phones arena. I have been looking at the AKG 501. Do you think that would be a good choice? I thought about the AKG 271S, but after...

Today, I keep losing connection with Head-Fi. In fact my link doesn't want to work. I updated the link and it still won't work. The only way I get here is by Googleing for my user name. This last time google took me to somebody elses profile. Has any one else had these problems? I hope I...

I think this warrants a new thread. As I mentioned in the thread about the new Velvet Revolver CD Contraband, the disc is protected. I had to wade through a long licensing agreement and agree to it before getting the CD to play on my computer. Then it downloaded some "keys" from the disc (or...

Since acquiring a region 2 DVD disc (DVD Audio and DTS DD etc) that won't play on my Sony NS500V player, I have been looking into hacks and multi region players. It is all quite confusing It seems most of the models that are offered are for the UK market. The hacks that I have found were...

The first of May I won an auction on eBay and paid via Paypal right out of my bank account. I never received the item. I tried to contact the seller several times with only one runaraound reply. I finally filed a complaint with Paypal on May 25 or so. Today, I got this from Paypal, keep in mind...

I have been having trouble with switchcraft right angle mini plugs lately. So, I went to get a pair of them in the gold plated version. Those are too expensive. I decided to grab a pair of rat shack gold straight plugs and make right angle plugs out of them. I tried to figure out how to cover...

In an effort to equalize negative vibes with positive vibes here, I want to make a positive vendor thread. I am going to start with my first experience with Mouser Electronics. Today I finally made an order from Mouser. I have been thinking about ordering from them for a long time. Ever since...

I have been shopping for a new CD player. There are several I have considered. Everything from a modified Shannling T100 to a modified Music Hall. I have always wanted an Arcam FMJ CD23t. The only problem is that the Arcams do not have HDCD capabilities. Neither does the Wadia which is a player...

I was at the local Hastings the other day, and noticed a boatload of audio DVDs that were DTS 5.1 There was also some DVD stereo audio disc's there with them. I was surprised at the age of the albums in DTS. Hotel California, Fly Like an Eagle and a couple old Fleetwood Mac albums. Is this all...

EDIT: This thread started out to be about Mescalaro, but after the release of Chrome Smoke and BBQ, I resurrected it and changed the subject a bit. So if like most people here, didn't care for Mescalaro, read on. We get to the good stuff a little ways down the line here. I just picked up the...