Not to snark or troll, but does any manufacture of a smartphone really have audiophiles in mind when designing what is essentially a mini computer as its main function with communications as secondary? I get that there is some effort put in to MP3 music capabilities in to the device's...

Sorry to revive an old thread. I bought one last month at e-Earphones in akihabara. As far as I'm concerned, it's pretty much junk and am amazed that A-T attached their name to them. I bought it to kept boost a pair of ATH-ESW9 over the sounds of busy Tokyo Streets. It can barely drive them. So...

YKYAAW you spend more on cans each month than your car insurance premiums.

But somehow I suspect Bose is not during Beats because they use or have ANC technology as so much as for the way Beats is accomplishing it. I'm sure there are plenty of ANC headphones that do not accomplish the task in the same manner as the Bose. You can have the finished outcome trough...

  Got a cat right here, but his ears don't appear to be removable and I'm sure he wouldn't care to lose them.

I just don't care all that much for the sound from open headphones, tried quite a few wasn't really in to any of them.

  Lain was a rather revolutionary series when released. It was also Yo****oshi ABe first anime if I recall. At the time of its released, the commercial internet was still brand new, 90% of the 10% of Americans who had net access still accessed it through AOL or Compuserve. for the most part. I...

Since, I don't care for open back cans, I've never given much considering to buying them before, but the story is pretty interesting.

Don't know if anyone on here reads Ars Technica much, but they just dropped a decent size article on Grado. I think most on here know most of Grado, but there may be a few n00bs. Maybe some new stuff the vets don't know too. I found it a good read.  ...

Nah, everyone knows celebs wear Beats

New(er) Simpsons makes my ass hurt, litterally. Now, time for my classic Futurama rage dump...

  Not yet, the antagonist has yet to be introduced. Ep.3 or 4, we get to meet RJ the super secret org plotting to privatize JNR.

  For that kind of money, Apple could have probably have purchased Bose. While Beats is the "hip" trend right now with a particular demographic, one would assume that the patten portfolio of Bose would be a better fit that Beat's street cred. And while, I know that audiophiles do not care for...

This should be 800x600 friendly. Sorry bout my QR code, I'm too lazy to go in to storage drive and find the hi-res image. I thought for sure the delivery guy was gonna get his ass smacked by the train. I picked this shot since I'm listening to Super Bell Z at the moment.

I always wanted to create my own anime based on the video Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys. But, know how they are, I doubt even if I could afford it, the two remaining Beasties would never go for it. The closet Ive seen anything I liked along my idea has been Intergalactic 5555, and Kacho Oji...

I would think that the Beats acquisition came too late in the game for Apple to change  the iPhone 6 specs; and I did not foresees Apple dropping the 3.5 jack without having fully integrating its own proprietary headphone manufacturing capability (ie Beats). Now, as for the iPhone 6s, you have a...

  My GF couldn't finish it, it was too sad for her!

/rant start Looks like I have about 50 hours of burn-in on the new ATH-A500X (Audiophile ART series) headphones. Overall, they're great hooked up to the PC for watching anime or other TV stuff, (yeah, I said it, I watch anime, wanna fight about it!) but I prefer the sound signature of the...

  I'd totally wear that case only to serve as a cautionary tale of what not to piss ¥3500 on. Frankly, it's cr@p like that case is why I make it a point to avoid riding the Chuo line near the Akiba anymore.

  I use to be a professional NEET, I collected unemployment during the recession for a year after my years of being a freeter came to an end with the economy crash. On the verge of even becoming a professional Hikikimori, but I enjoyed going out for sushi with the blokes for that.

I thought about that route but fear the sweat would kill the headphones pretty fast.

I stopped by WallyWorld today to stock up on ¢99 two liter bottles of Mountain Dew that was on sale. While there, I grabbed a cheap $12 pair of JVC Gummy IEMs for $12 just to try and see if I could even do IEM's. I wasn't 100% how well I could handle the pressure difference of having them in the...

Ugh, time to go through my gallery of pix from Watchuseek.com to post on here, I suppose.

  Sorata is pretty typical for harem anime series. I've seen bigger bakas in shows. No, if you want a series where the guy is actually combatant, check out, Ryuugajou Nanana No Maizoukin, he's a somewhat a thinking's man's idiot.

Couldn't find a recent thread, nor one that fell within my criteria.   I'm a relatively big fellow of 210 pounds. Not quite Godzilla US, King Kong of Ted Kennedy big, but big enough that I swear like... like a lot when I do anything. As a result over the past two years I power walk two miles a...