I've been working on the renovation project of my parents' new place for the last few weeks (and been completely head-fi free for that span, yay) They got a hardwood flooring done and thought a nice looking pair of speakers would go nicely in the living room. Honestly they don't care that much...

James Randi, arguably the most famous skeptic/psychic hunter in the world apparently has challenged a list of people from audio publications to an ABX study including Wes Phillips at SoundStage. http://www.randi.org/jr/080504string.html#8 I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet although...

I recently picked up a pair of "Bilsom comfort" earmuffs from my parents' who got them for a buck at a garage sale. They look liked these I've had a pair of KSC35 drivers which I tried to mod by getting rid of all the plastic covering bits in the middle and found out - to my dismay - that...

So there I was a while ago, probably 6 months ago or so, listening to a Internet radio station being streamed in the ogg vorbis format. I was thinking how nice it sounded yet I thought it didn't have the same fine details of the ape version of the same song I had on my harddisk. Later that day I...

I was trying out a bunch of headphones in a local Radioshack and was pleasantly surprised by Koss PRO3AA's perfomance. As far as a pair of readily available closed headphones go, it's probably the best sound I've heard. (yeah, yeah, it doesn't say much but...) The easily blow away all the Sony...

The weather's getting better here in the north of the border and I just got myself a cheap used Taylormade 320 to replace my old trusty Mizuno Tzoid driver even though I didn't really need a new driver. I've been sticking with my irons and putter for a few years now and have really no urge to...

Big thanks to NotoriousBIG_PJ for hosting the meet and aerius(thanks for the ride), philodox(sorry man, I got confused you and muffinman and thus the highschool kid reference. I later realised you're older than me) and tomek for allowing me to try out their gears. First thing I must say...

I began to visit here again after not doing so for a while. One thing I noticed? There are always some topics that come up again and again. I can think of a few right now off the top of my head headphones vs. speakers do I need an amp burn-in what is a good closed headphone that doesn't...

I've listening to her songs for a while now. I wonder if anybody else listens to her here?

My question is.. how do I make the end bits going into the sockets of the units? I took them out once but wasn't sure how I could make something like that. I thought I could use two thick copper wires but do now want to risk intermittant Is there any fool-proof way of doing this?

These stupid emails are killing my productivity and my desire to be a model student...(not) I actually answered a few of them just to see what kind of response I get but got lazy at the end and just stopped conversing. However somebody apparently doped those con artists to send him their...

EDIT : darn, now I see goodcook already posted the information. A mod can combine the posts I guess. http://www.iriver.co.kr/board/notice_view.asp?idx=409 They explain the CPUs used in each model and the current status. They are targetting to support 360 kbps OGG files but currently they...

Purchased a Biostar "iDeq" mini computer system. A beautiful tiny machine similar to a Shuttle. It works OK but one big problem - ringing high frequency noise! I can hear it clearly with case closed and the worst of all, the noise somehow can be heard-very loudly I might add-through both the...

Nobody mentioned this yet but IGN reviewed Shure E5 as well as E5. http://gear.ign.com/articles/428/428204p1.html http://gear.ign.com/articles/409/409957p1.html

Just got up and realised all the food in the freezer have been thawed and got frozen again, bah. But anyway it was pretty fun to walk around the town and campuses with a little light on hand. There were the usual candle light cardgame sessions and monopolies but the best was when I was laughing...

After strictely using the rubber(silicon) tip for a couple of months, I tried the foamies just to see how my taste has changed. It's as if the venue has changed from a nice small room to a smokey, acoustically misconstructed bar. The sound is less "in my head" but the tonality is different...

42 mm X 10 mm, 15 grams, 128 meg. Wow.

Some of the Sharp MD players have built-in Dolby Headphone funtions and I use it all the time with Etys. I found it to work especially well with vocals. I wonder if other Sharp MD users are as enamored with the Dolby as I am and what do people think of virtualization stuff on other portable...

my wallet has seen its limit and my visit to head-fi has been rather infrequent in recent days compared to my earlier sleepless nights spent reading all the old reviews on this forum. I think I can safely conclude my journey has seen the end until I can fully recharge my fuel (i.e. 'till i get a...

I read of this headphone amp. called "Audiocube" in a korean forum.. and immediately got interested. The amp is made by a company called "Audiotrak" which is mainly known for their soundcards (Maya and Optoplay) The thing is dirt cheap. - around 29 US$ without the battery (still comes with an...

Being an audio newbie, I still don't understand why there would be differences between transports. (well i do see that there's jitter, but still...) And my question would be that... if I copy the CD data into a "virtual CD drive"(wouldn't that keep pretty much all the data bits intact?) in a...

I wonder how Tivoli Pal and Fixup Sony radios (SRF-59, SRF-S84, etc) compare against each other? I heard raving reviews for both sides but haven't read a comparative one. Also how good is the amplifer in Pal? Is it good enough to be used as a portable headphone amp.? In a totally unrelated note...

http://gear.ign.com/articles/382/382162p1.html A harddisk based player too eh? It's getting interesting..

I found this in a Korean CDP site http://www.cdpkorea.com/zboard4/zboa...board&no=20955 Thinner, longer battery life.. but what's up with that design??

first, if you haven't read them, please read Leon's review on the MDP here http://homepage.mac.com/leon/ds8/ (really nice pics!) and my review here (this thing is overly long) http://www.minidisct.com/forum/showt...?threadid=9025 now that you have read them.. you know DS8 has that weird 4...