Okay, so I decided to make my own thread: I am a short person (5'2 maybe, 5'3.) I went to Ikea about a year back and picked up some cheap $129 chair. After using it for some time now (and probably getting several hours of use on it daily), I have come to hate it. Ontop of that, it's ripping...

Didn't see one before. My Barmitzvah's coming up next week and the week after that we are doing all the photos so there will be lots of smiling. Now I realise my teeth are crookid because my mom never took me to the orthodontist like she was told to by the Dentish (she believed this crowding...

I need to convert a vob file to avi from a recent movie made about me for my Barmitzvah. I went googling and picked up a bunch of software, but it is all crap that you need to buy and will only do half of your movie or whatever for free. So what software is free that will convert my vob to avi?

It seems as of recently yousendit hsa went from 1gb to 100 mb which hurts for people like me who use it to transfer large files. I was curious if other then dropload (100 mb too) if there were any free services that supported 400 megabytes - 1gb.

Okay, so my Barmitzvah is next week and I've been wanting an LCD TV forever so I am planning to buy one. I began looking today and found this tv at Bestbuy (http://www.samsung.com/Products/TV/L...S2652DXXAA.asp) and fell in love with it. The sharp didn't look to be as solid an build (or maybe it...

Hey guys, I am planning to get a 26" LCD HDTV of some sort (probably Samsung although I haven't done too much research) in an week or two. I want to use all the regular stuff like dvd player with it, but I also want to hook my computer up. My computer has one DVI port and one VGA port. I have an...

A minute ago I was playing around with my new optical switch checking to make sure the connections work fine. In the proecss, I disconnected and reconnected a few cords. The optical switch has mini optical - full size optical adapters, and one of the optical cord connectors seemed to stick to...

Heh, as some of you might know, I have blacklights in my room (2x48 inch and one that is like 18 inches or something.) I love to play around with things that are very reactive. My mom buys a lot of pop and there was some Canada Dry tonic water laying around. Now I don't drink alcohol obviously...

As some of you may know, I picked up an pair of wharfedale diamond 9.1's. They are my first speakers, and are hooked up to my marantz 2216b. I love them, but they only have 5" drivers and the bass is sort of weak to me (what can I say, I'm a bass junky, I sometimes love the effect of a little...

Hey. As some of you may know, my Barmitzvah is at the end of this month. My videographer decided to shoot some clips of me, and we are making a short movie (4-5 minutes) called "In the life of Brian." It will be showed at the party of the Barmitzvah via projector. We are looking for an good song...

I want to buy my first pair of real sunglasses. I know absolutely nothing, and I was hoping you guys could educate me. Do I want a polarized pair? Are oakleys the way to go, or for the price are there better brands? Can I get a decent pair for $100-200? Should I buy used or new (assuming I don't...

I was feeling bad for crowding the before and after thread. Anyway, we were discussing cables to hook up the whaferdale 9.1 diamonds I am thinking of buying to my vintage marantz 2216b. Apparently I need an cable terminated with bananna plugs or unterminated so I can terminate them later...

I picked up some O'reilly iPod book and they had a whole little section on headphone amps and stuff. Pictured was an headroom bithead, hd-600s, and some other phones, dacs and amps. Hell, they even had some portable amp design (forget which, one of them in a tin though) in the book from...

Alright, a bit of a long / complicated story, but here goes... My sister is 17 years old and works at a day camp. Today was the overnight day so she was supose to stay over night with the kids in her group. She called my mom around 11 PM saying she had some chest pains. I have asthma, and my...

When I go to respond to somebody (send email), via audiogon I get to a page saying this: Set-Cookie: lst=1153079743; expires=Fri, 31-Dec-2009 00:00:00 GMT; domain=.audiogon.com; path=/; Content-type: text/html I'm using IE 7 / Opera 9, and I have deletd cookies, cache, etc etc in both...

Okay, so I just hooked my samsung hd950 up to my Dell 2005fpw computer monitor via dvi using an hdmi-dvi cable supplied with the dvd player. The samsung screens work fine, but when I put a dvd in, I get a flashing blue and black. I have tried DVI Mode A & B, 420 p, 720p, and 1080i, and I still...

So after much contemplation as to what to do with an audio rack, I decided to build my own. Every decent looking rack I could fine was atleast $300 CAD, and did not have the perfect dimensions for me. Therefore, I began browsing for options. Originally, I planend an IKEA Lack rack, but decided...

Hey guys, I may be interested in speakers in the future. My second pair of interconnects is coming today, and I plan to have my headphone amp on the tape output of my vintage marantz 2216b, and then my computer, xbox 360, and CDP on analogue inputs. This should work, and they will all output to...

Bullcrap. Has anyone read through one of these things? They are freaking hilarious, they may as well write 500,000,000 dollar insurance, cause they sure as hell aern't going to replace or repair any of your equipment. The one I was just reading states you need receipts of the damaged equipment...

Hey guys, I've been looking at some conditioining units as my current APC surge protector is very bad for wire management, it's getting really tight on maximum amperage support (12 amps is just about what I am using, the overload led begins to light up a bit) and I've been looking at the Monster...

Hey guys, I was playing with my new rca's (nakamichi) and the locking feature on my PPA (don't think it works very well with this type of rca jack, unless I'm doing the locking thing wrong), and I realised one of the rca jacks is slightly loose. Is this fine, or should I go ahead and try to...

Hey, I was curious if it was possible to mute all windows sounds and applications except for my spdif input (which is my sateille radio.) It'de be nice to have that feature for foobar2000 too, their are just so many different applications..

Hey guys, some of you may remember I found a load of vinyl in my basement. My parents looked around for their old turntable, but it turns out my mom gave it to one of her best friends about 20 years ago who got divorced 15 yeras ago and her husdband took the turn table. Anyway, I am looking...

Hey, so now that I've got some stuff and my desk is cluttered, I've been looking for an audio rack. I've had some offers, I'm looking for <200 CAD. Here's what my offers are so far Bello At-484 - http://www.sjgreatdeals.com/at-484.html (this one is in the best consideration) - 200 CAD...

Last night I was playing a game of UNO with Aurora, and it seemed to be I was the only person in the room who enjoyed the UNO music (which we concluded is categorized under the lounge genre.) So, am I the only one who enjoys this stuff?