Personally not very interested in multi-media aspects. Would prefer if they stik with music and do it well. Do you know when the next version of the Ipod is sceduled to come out? Zin

I've really been enjoying Internet Radio lately. Its a great way to experiment with new music and find music you otherwise might not have tried, all without having to plunk down the bucks to buy a CD. I assume most Head-Fi'ers are familair with the big sources of internet music, but I figured...

Excellent link! Had never heard of the leak before, but will definetly keep it bookmarked to get a preview of new releases. Zin

Excellent thread! Just one question ... I read or heard somewhere that the CDs you get from these music clubs are not the same as the ones you would get from a retail store. I don't remember the exact details but seem to remember something along the lines of - they are "special" CD pressings for...

I grew up in the 80's, so I also had a bit of mix. I lived in a suburb that was being developed when we moved in. I can fondly remember exploring many a construction site on weekends and getting into all sort of “innocent” trouble with the neighborhood gang. However, I also vividly remember the...

Quote: Originally posted by vwap Although... why would you want to use a compressed medium as a transport? ... Unless you're throwing lossless on there, it's really not worth it to use the iPod as a transport.. Might as well get a component CDP like the SCD-C333ES and use that as a...

I was an investment banking analyst for 2 years, you want to talk about crazy work hours, that was miserable. I can honestly say I worked many 80+ hour weeks in those years. Weekends were just another work day, when you were on a live deal. While I do miss the pay, I like having the time to...

Yeah I agree, most of the new players aren't too attractive to me. They seem to be adding features that I don't care about and forgoing the ones I do. He has a nice list of features that he would love to see in MP3 players and there's a few I really would like to see also. Quote: 2...

Thanks for the info. Cool, looking forward to it, subscribe is a neat function. Zin

There is a thread that has some good information that I want to remember for when I'm ready to make my next purchase, so I subscribed to the thread. Today I wanted to check out the thread again. But when I go to my user cp and change the slider to from "the beginning", it says there have...

Only a head-fi G-string could complete the picture

Not sure if anyone has posted info on this before, but for those you who like to have a DVD-burner this seems like a pretty neat new product from Sony. Image you could burn a DVD with ~8 full CDs of .wavs or ~50 full CDs of .mp3 (at -APS). Plus it can also act as a CD-RW. Some detail can be...

Did not do this test, but have done extensive tests on my rig at home. I first ripped 12 of my favorite songs, then encoded them at -APS. Then burned one compilation disk with the .wav and one with the .mp3. Then I randombly chose disks put them in my sony NS755v and listented through my Corda...

EAC is the only program where, when set up corectly, you can be assured of a 100% accurate rip if it says it is 100% accurate. CDex does not do this even in full paranoia mode. However, in 99% or more cases CDex will provide the accurate results, but its not 100% guaranteed. So if you find...

Try doing some searches, there was a thread on this 3 days ago: http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showt...ghlight=burner If you need more information than in the thread or the associated links check out Hydrogen Audio (http://www.audio-illumination.org/) and do a search there. Zin

Man oh man! How many more glowing comments like this can I read and maintain my resolve. Thanks for taking the time to put down your thoughts, Zin

Download EAC and Lame and configure them properly. Here is a link with explination on how to do this: http://www.chrismyden.com/nuke/modul...&file=painless If you want more details, do a search many posts on this topic. Zin

1) The Strokes - Is This It? 2) The Doors - Doors 3) Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session (but in a good way) 4) Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory 5) Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World 6) Avril Lavigne - Let Go 7) Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2

Just returned from Radio Shack. They sell a 4-pack of Foam Replacement Pads (33-377 part number at top of package). They fit quite snuggly on the KSC35s. They are a little thicker and perhaps a touch more dense than the stock pads, but sound seems relatively unaffected. For $2.99 much better...

Sort of related to CD-burners, and since I feel I got a great deal I wanted to pass along the info. I just bought 100 Taiyo Yuden 80m Silver 48x CD-Rs for $29.00 and 4.67 shipping (Fed Ex Saver). These disks along with Mitsui disks (maybe still slightly better) are generally regarded as the...

Well guys it looks like I'm gonna have to postpone hosting an event. I have to leave boston for a week or two on the 25th of Feb. And since 2 of 4 people interested already are going to another meet on the 23rd, I don't think it make sense to host it then or the 22nd. If anyone else wants to...

As JahJahBinks pointed out within a particular bit rate VBR > ABR > CBR, so rather than choose between 128 and 320 investigate the VBRoptions. The most popular of which are --alt-preset standard and --alt-preset extreme. Again see the link I posted above for directions on how to use those...

True if EAC+lame isn't working then 2 seperates may be better. But based on Senor4Qs post, my guess is the problem lies within EAC or incorrectly setting up lame to work with EAC. I could be wrong of course but his problems seem directly related to EAC other than time display errors (which...

Alternatively you could download just the lame executable and have EAC use that encode wavs it rips. This also makes tagging simple. Here is a good tutorial for beginners. http://www.chrismyden.com/nuke/modul...&file=painless Zin

Well it has been a while since the last Boston meet and I'm getting eager to have another one. There's a lot of phones I'm interested in checking out. Unfortunately, my system has only seen minor changes since the last meet (purchased some Cardas Neutral Reference IC's from RVD), because I'm...