Many stores don't charge you when a virtual transaction is made, due to possible complications and liability. From a retailer perspective, it's safer to not charge your credit card until an item is shipped or picked up. I don't know of the exact legal issues behind it, but it's very common...

Do let us know if you decide to pick up the coppers

I second Hotel California, and third Under the Bridge. For hip-hop/rap fans, Busta Rhymes ft. Eminem - I'll Hurt You. It's not very musical, but the bass is punchy and clean, and the violins have a nice range for treble. Beware low quality versions of this song, as they sound like utter crap on...

Link doesn't work. And if he's considering earphones, take a look at this thread: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f103/b...addict-477560/

Quote: Originally Posted by Sr. Oscuro Thanks for your answers -I also thought on PX100, but I don't like supraaural too much :S Are they really comfortable? I don't run with mine, but I can attest to the PX100s being, in general, very comfortable to wear, even for hours on...

dabulls3: To answer your first and third questions, it largely depends on how you feel about the SE530s and their overall sound signature. From what I know (I've never owned SE530s), the one thing they do wonderfully is mids. If you're perfectly happy with that, then you don't have much reason...

dweaver: Good to have your opinion of how they perform though, I've always wondered how they fit/sound but never considered buying and trying them for myself, especially given the price they usually go for. Based on what you said, I think I'll stay away from them unless I can get them for a huge...

dweaver: I'll take any opportunity I get to practice persuasive rhetoric. All kidding aside, I forgot about you saying you'd have to return the golds to buy the coppers; I was under the false assumption that you could have both of them side by side for your own listening and testing. But, in...

ethan961: Ultimately it's just the quality that matters though; if you're happy with the performance of a product, and you're happy with what you paid for it, you should be happy with it all around. With monster, I don't think their products have ever been terrible, just extremely overpriced...

Quote: Originally Posted by doo_wop why so nervous? you've just ordered them? clearly you didn't understand my post... Nervous? No, just curious as to why you make a blanket claim that the Monster Turbines are all overrated, without providing any reasoning behind it. Correct...

Quote: Originally Posted by doo_wop i'm gonna go ahead of time and say monster turbine pro (gold, copper, ...) Based on what? Have you heard them yourself and formed some first impressions (if so, what are your thoughts on them and why you think they're overrated), or are you...

My current order status is "In Production" with an estimated delivery date of 3/31/2010, and I ordered last night as well. I think that's more or less a placeholder though, my dell laptop arrived weeks earlier than it's est. delivery date.

grokit: ah, should have thought to check that. good thinking. I'm curious how those sound, and whether they're worth the relatively steep price in comparison to the TF10s themselves.

Quote: Originally Posted by theKraken11 x2 two posts above yours: Quote: Originally Posted by ben4345 From memory, like ortofons but with less coherent highs, smaller soundstage, significantly less impact and depth (musically) than the ortofons have.

Anyone know if bing cashback is available for dell.com right now? Can't seem to find any links for it on bing

Quote: Originally Posted by elnero Which cable do you have for your Triple.Fi's? Ra97or, I'm seconding this question, I'm curious to know as well.

Not sure what the lottery is based on, but I'm looking to buy a new pair of IEMs soon so I'd definitely be interested in trying these out too.

fortunately for me, my family doesn't know about this "hobby" of mine; they just think that I am using generic (read cheap) audio equipment

Being a long-time simpsons fan, I really enjoyed this movie; definitely worth the $7.50 admission price, in my opinion. watch for those bart + ned flanders moments, they're some of the better ones in the film

my last audio related purchase was an x-fi xtrememusic (already have the opamps and capacitors ready for modding) more recently though, I ordered a gigabyte p35-ds3p motherboard for my new intel q6600

ugh, I finally received my XtremeMusic and bought the soldering tools, but I'm not so confident in my modding skills just yet, especially on a task like this. You'd think they would be bigger, but when you put it all into perspective, like next to a dime or ruler...

Quote: Originally Posted by rockin_amigo14 get something new. that's always more fun than fixing stuff. the "welcome to head-fi and sorry for your wallet" phrase finally makes sense

Quote: Originally Posted by darkninja67 So the reports are coming in that the Q6600 is a wicked overclocker and it runs cool. wicked indeed, the "good" batches of G0 stepping Q6600s overclock to 3.6GHz stable, on AIR

Quote: Originally Posted by meat01 Quote: yesterday the Q6600 was $299 at newegg...this morning its $375... what happened? Supply and Demand maybe or price-gouging perhaps you can still grab a Q6600 from other retailers for less than $310 shipped, and even a...

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