Did all the mods in this thread except the brown dog adapter (didn't want to try my luck again). The differences are definitely there, but I wish there were some comparisons done to other players as to just how good it is. It's definitely showing me the limits of my Meta42 though, and that...

My roommate owns the A900s while I have the W1000s. On my low-end setup (Modded tosh 3950, portable meta42, homemade magwire ics), even my non-audiophile roommate could tell right away that the A900s sounded thinner, tinnier, less detailed, and just overall harsh compared to the W1000s. The...

I think he's talking about the shred aspect of those bands, it's basically shred over lots and lots of noise (rock?). Weezer, Modest Mouse, and SDRE all popularized emo and set it off in a different direction, thus starting the different branches of emo we see today. And early weezer is SO...

I like belle and sebastian, will see them at coachella (www.coachella.com) !!! Ohhh man, look at that lineup, going to be NUTS. It's literally the best lineup in the past 5 years or so I guess.

Doves, South, Radiohead, Spiritualized, The Beta Band, just to name 4. But yeah, I suppose it's seen better days (at least as far as presence in the US. ie. pop rock). I'm big on those classic bands, but you missed all the stuff in the middle. The Stone Roses, Verve, The Clash, Blur, The Cure...

That's funny, using the Pana 570 and a comparison between the 890s with a CHA47 and a META42, there was a vast difference with the 890s but nearly none with ER6s.

djgustshaw> My roommate has that on vinyl... as he also has A Storm In Heaven and many other extremely rare verve vinyl (like test pressings where the label was written with a sharpie).

I think way to blue is just a best of. What tracks of these were previously unreleased?

As long as this thread still lives... might as well recommend Ulrich Schnauss' latest album and M83's debute. Schnauss sounds like an electronic happier Slowdive - Pygmalion and M83 is electronic shoegaze.

Damn, I can't believe nobody has mentioned Four Tet yet. I love Four Tet - Rounds more than any aphex or boards of canada album, and I own SAW 85-92 and the Richard D James album. But Four Tet - Rounds I got on vinyl But I'm not huge into electronic music, though I am very familiar with it...

Jack is a great improvisor and guitarist, he improvises at almost all his concerts. I've seen him twice live and his solos are all roughly based around the album ones but are quite different, usually much more radical. I didn't watch the grammys, but if he went off on a jam then that's awesome...

Spiritualized - Let It Come Down Led Zepplin - How The West Was Won Catherine Wheel - Like Cats and Dogs Tortoise - TNT Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish?

The british flag is commonly used to mean the "english" language, not necessarily where they are based.

It's annoying because there are infinitely worse recordings out there that people still enjoy. For example, The Beatles, most things from the 60's, 70's, and misc other modern recordings. OK Computer isn't that bad and is perfectly listenable.

ugh, if you don't listen to good music because of the sound quality then I'm sorry, you're a part of the most annoying group of people I know. Stop listening to the quality and start listening to the music. The production quality is perfectly average.

I don't think marvin ever actually says that he isn't a paranoid android, I think one of the characters (the name escapes me now) says something to the effect of, "Oh yes, Marvin, the paranoid android."

I don't really mind it. I think of it as lo-fi, which is just a characteristic. Isn't Anything is also a great album, Lose My Breath is one of my favorite MBV songs (2nd song).

haven't listened to it yet. We have an all vintage setup, Technics SL-10 turntable with some crappy AT cartridge (20 bucks), Marantz 2238 reciever (which has slowly been dying on us), and Advent Larger Loudspeakers (a landmark set of speakers from 68, repaired by us). We have a few records that...

Yar I picked up the remastered Forever Changes and have it on 180 gram vinyl too. I want to get the live concert but it's so damn expensive!

It is "I may be paranoid, but no android", not "not an android".

I have the reissue LP. I also have the CD. I also have Spiritualized CDs. That's it.

www.allmusic.com <- Your best friend. My ex has been talking about Placebo a lot (though not to me). Guess I'll check them out. Early Verve eh? Shoegaze? The Music is almost The Verve incarnate with dance rhythems, saw them last year, great show.

Gomez hooray. Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline is actually a great collection of B-Sides, some songs are better than ones on albums. I must say I enjoy Liquid Skin and ASTH very much, I own In Our Gun but I haven't listened to it very often so I'm not familiar with it. I have Bring It On in...

Thom Yorke pretentious? Attend a show and you will see that they certainly are not. HTTT certainly is a culmination of everything Radiohead ever did and has many classic songs. Nothing can beat the live versions however. Giving an album a number is just wrong to me. And if not wrong, then...

ouch, 449 for the W1000s? I'm sure glad I got mine at 315. For 449, I don't think the W1000s would be all that worth it. I'd say go for the CD3000s, from what I've heard about them. That said, I love my W1000s and probably will never sell them.