wab, yes, weather report has lots of good stuff. Heavy Weather and I Sing the Body Electric are considered by many to represent the group at their zenith. Jaco Pastorius is one bad ass dude. He kinda got booted out of Weather Report after he lost interest in the band's direction and showed...

joelongwood, Judging from your list of gear in your profile I bet you would have wished Bob Dylan's booze soaked prose would have figured more in your life a bit earlier on. Life is filled full of eternal regrets but at least when you are feeling blue you can whip out a few sets of cans to...

Don't forget to have music pouring through your cans for about 2 straight days. I would recommend using a recording that has a good amount of pounding bass and percussive stuff in it. I thought burn-in was a load of hooey but it is true. The detail and soundstage is dramatically different...

Greg, XMMS is the mp3 player of choice for linux. If you are running another flavour of UNIX with exception of HP-UX probably the a suite of mp3 related apps with the GRiP frontend/GUI is the way you want to go. With GRiP mpg123 is the standard mp3 player that is used. The encoder of...