I thought it would be interesting to see people post their absolute favorite albums of all time. Your desert island albums, albums with huge personal significance to you, whatever. Those albums that you know note for note and can always listen to and be blown away by. I thought by doing this we...

I'm not totally digging the sound I get with my current tube setup (TS 5998's, Sylvania 6sn7gtb). What do you guys like with the L3k?

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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2680495 I personally am getting kind of sick of Pujols's attitude. There was the Glavine thing and now this whining. He and Howard had about equal years and Howard just happened to win the MVP. Not to mention that the Phillies actually had a better...

I'm sick of seeing comments like these. A lossless format (correctly encoded and decoded) will sound, and is, exactly the same as the originating WAV file. Unless there is something seriously wrong with your encoder or decoder, in which case you would probably hear alot more loss in quality than...

Please shower me with praise and cookies in this thread so as to not take up the whole forum.

Seeing as it would be impossible for a poll to encompass the entirety of rock, post your favorite rock band, why, and one or two of your favorite albums by them. For me it has to be The Who, they just embodied everything that made rock rock, and still matured into a more complex yet still...

Honestly, they're annoying, it sometimes seems like somebody is just a control freak or needs to know the reason behind everything, and it's just stupid... (you knew it was only a matter of time)

Over the HF-1 debate in the other section I'd like to run a poll here.

Ahh man, I had a great time! Sorry I had to leave so soon. It was really great finally meeting some of you guys, Jason was a great host. Some quick impressions: Qualia 010: Their so revealing that you can hear the dirt in the NYC air! Or the cable is ridiculously microphonic. As for their...

Go to your local library, odds are they'll have a pretty good jazz selection. Just browse around and pick up a few albums from these artists, along with anything else that looks interesting: Miles Davis John Coltrane Thelonious Monk Charles Mingus Herbie Hancock Wayne Shorter Weather...

Well someone I know just finished what was probably the most expensive Senn cable yet, to use his Cardas cable with his DAC's balanced outputs. Furutech Rhodium baby! (~$140 total!) Gettin' ready. Bling bling Senns! Nice connectors eh?

I just listened to Keep on Moving, where Bob Marley, Pete Tosh, and Bunny each do a verse, and uh, is it just me or does Bunnie kick their asses? He sounds, I dunno, angelic. I was wondering, is there any good Bunny Wailer solo stuff out there or something? EDIT: Blah it's Bunny with a "Y"

Well today I went on down to an audio/video store to listen to some stuff. First I listened a bit to a few different monitors and some Polk floorstanders, through a denon reciever and some invisible source, but it was playing some female jazz that I was unfarmiliar with. (though it sounded...

Ooh a shiny new box! I wonder what's in it? YES!! MY JANUAR 2006 COPY OF WZ DIENSTAG FINALLY CAME! But what? Somebody must have added this Japanese sound pillow thing! Hm, I wonder what Pinkie and HF-1 will think? Nice...

I just watched it for the first time in awhile, and wow, what a great movie. Everything about it just... rocks. I remembered that a few years ago, this (and the soundtrack) was what totally turned me on to music. I owe alot to this movie. And did I mention that Jack Black is hilarious?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultimate-Ears-UE...QQcmdZViewItem What? They're custom fit!

I've seen a few impressions of it, but is it actually out yet? If not, when will it be? Anyone here have one?

Gah, after total failure in trying to find HP-1000s to go with Pinkie (and I'm not even sure that's what I really want), I'm getting pretty frustrated. I'll try to outline the sound I want. Tight bass, but with substance (not PS-1 bass though, those things scared me! ), nice detailed highs...

Well imagine my suprise when I stumbled onto the new VDA-2! I love my VDA-1, but this new dac looks even better. Balanced operation (though with adapters :P), multiple outputs, phase inverting, I already emailed Dusty asking if he would take a trade-in as part of the cost. For those of you...

Similar to the Eastsound cdp summary thread, how about a summary of info on the zhalou DAC, for people who don't want to read the whole 14 page monster? An explanation of the various addons and mods availible would be great too. Thanks everyone.

I just received my new VH Audio Pulsars, and lemme tell you, I love them I went with these over the grovers or oriteks, because I figured the world didn't need another grover/oritek fanboy/evanglist , and while I've never heard those, I'm really happy with my choice. These are my first real...

Yep, that's what I'm wondering. I know it's a tube amp, and I beleive it was designed by Kevin Gilmore, but that's about all searching turned up. Has anyone ever actually built one? Or are there any production amps based on it? I like the name.

I've been reading about the empirical audio USB Off-Ramp, a board based on the M-Audio transit but heavily modified. http://www.empiricalaudio.com/frComputer_Audio.html From what I've read, it bested a Mcormak UDP-1 and even a Meitner as a transport. Does anyone here have any...

That's right. They're both about the same price, but what are the differences? Sound quality? Comfort?