I just got settled back at home, and I figured I might as well start the impressions thread.  Once again I'd like to thank John for hosting us at his killer place.  Although parking was a pain in the rear end, his hospitality more than made up for it.  Normally small meets in people's homes sets...

I picked up a laptop somewhat recently and I'm heavily disappointed in the headphone out's sound. It is very hissy with the Etymotic ER4P and I was hoping to put a usb soundcard on it. Can anyone offer any input on how these things affect battery life? Also, I was considering the Turtle Beach...

I have about 130-150gb of flacs on an external hard drive. I haven't completed ripping all my cds, but this external drive gets ridiculously hot so I only turn it on when I need to transfer my rips to it. I was planning to leave it running while my computer's on and use it to listen to my music...