ubid.com is auctioning off refurb karmas right now with a couple of days still to go. Since there are more than 400 of them they should end up at a good price.

Quote: Originally Posted by Onix Coby also has this unit: It has an optical line out, rechargable battery capacity and screeen, and it retails for around 200 dollars here in Mexico. I am guessing it's even cheaper in the U.S. This appears to be a Coby TF-DVD500, and it is...

Quote: Originally posted by Joe Bloggs Could this be the first portable DVD-A or SACD player? No, players like the portable Panasonic DVD-PA65 with DVD-A capability (and no LCD screen) have been around for years and are mostly discontinued now. You should be able to pick one up at...

dohminator, pen companies will happily charge you hundreds and even thousands of dollars for plastic pens. An italic nib has a flat tip that produces a nice line width variation of the stoke on the paper. When you draw an `o', it has a thick stroke SW and NE, and a thin stroke NW and SE...

Quote: Originally posted by dohminator Ok guys, I'm enlisting you to help me spend some mony that I can't afford to spend. This is a list of pens that I like. Help me pick out one. My budget is only $60 - $70 max. (it can be fudged only slightly) Parker Sonnet, Pelikan Technixx...

If you get closed phones you will most likely get worse sound than you have now with the SR125s. Get an amp, and you will get better sound. Think about it...

As as alternative to the Roting 600, check out the remaining Sheaffer close-outs at arcamax.com. Most of them are heavy full metal pens (like the Rotring 600), the white dot ones come with lifetime warranty (unlike the Rotring 600), they are shipped free, and after the first order they usually...

Cool stuff but their prices are around 200% of japanese street prices. Shop around carefully, shop.conics.net maybe.

I wonder if anyone here has comments or maybe even personal experience with the fujitsu lifebook P-2040 (or P-2046) subnotebooks (use your favorite search engine to find out the details). This small (10.6"x7") notebook appears to be one of the very few notebooks with a true line-out (!) and a...

vaporware <jargon> /vay'pr-weir/ Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place). See also {brochureware}. Accurately describes the Treoplayer. Did you see the line-out on the picture in the first URL? Good to have to plug in your TA or Porta Corda.

Here are two URLs I stumbled over, http://www.emiglobal.com/mp3/chd1000.html and http://www.edig.com/products/reference-jukebox.html. Could be vaporware like the Treo, but OTOH it wouldn't hurt if the Ipod got some competition (and with larger HDs). It looks like CircuitCity is offering...

Get the 7506 online at www.samash.com and use coupon TTYB at checkout to take $30 off.

Are you referring to Ebay Item # 1295863004 ?

www.qaudio.com offers the Grado SR60s and SR80s for $60 and $85 shipped, respectively. Might save a buck or two...

You could pick up one of those Sony D-25S being auctioned at Ebay, 5 years or so old model, new old stock, not much of an antiskip if any, no digital-out, but reportedly a very good line-out. At $45 + S/H perhaps worth a shot?

Can someone confirm that this thing has no line-out? Without line-out its usefulness is close to that of a paperweight ...

Could someone give a short summary and technical explanation under which circumstances you would use the 120 ohms adapter? Does it depend on the headphone impedance only? Or are there other factors to consider? Or should we simply try and listen for ourselves? If the amp sounds better with...

zip-lock bags...!

Quote: Originally posted by blr I have Sharp MT866 MD portable. It uses a gumstick rechargable internally and has an external battery pack. The manual states that one shouldn't use rechargables in the external pack, i.e. only alkalines and metal oxide baterries. Can someone explain the...

I doubt the TA is the weak link (unless it is defective). It just amplifies what it gets fed in. The PJB has no line-out, and its headphone-out is rated at 50mW (into 32 ohms). There is not much point in feeding this into the TA (which is rated like 25mW or so, and should operate on a clean...

Senn HD25: excellent seal, reasonably small size, good sound, bass too boomy (so use a bass-weak portable).

Quote: Originally posted by disturbed I got spoilt by the speed of uploading songs on the PJB at a friends house one day With an Archos, you could have up- and downloaded the songs, using the software and operating system of your choice.

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Quote: Originally posted by JMT If you have a checking account, check with your bank about obtaining a debit card. A debit card has a VISA logo and is accepted wherever VISA cards are (especially HeadRoom), but the money comes directly out of your checking account. No money, no purchase...

Quote: Originally posted by aeberbach "That means, in 10 or more years, you can still decompress your old flac files on whatever platform you will be running then" Provided of course that someone else is still maintaining and porting the source and distributing biinaries. Or, you do it...