Duggeh

So, if you get my mum, does that mean I can have the scotch? Cos if so I'll post her off tomo. Is your fetish for bubble wrap or polystyrene nuggets?

Haven't got a mom. Will a mum do for you awesome jokez?

Are you pregnant?

I'll have a large one of those seeing as you've got the bottle there thrice

But I always eat organic cucumber with my binaural field recordings and big macs with my Eiffel 65

Best I heard them was live at T In The Park where they were promoted to the main stage after Jack White broke his guitar finger in a car accident. It was a glorious performance in every way, totally feel good stuff and was joint highlight of that whole day along with touching Michael Stipe. Havent heard the DVD-A of Yoshimi, but as the DVD-A versions I've heard of CDs I already own don't sound drastically different im sceptical. Theres a difference between a superior mixing or mastering and the same one that isnt actually clipped out.

Such is my problem with them on one level. However they don't pretend to be something that they aren't really and if I ever want a slice of something much more authentic there's always the departmental library. I do find the Putomayo stuff to be really good fun though. And fun is just as good as authenticity as long as that fun isn't labelled as authentic.

If I had that much there's no way I'd keep using my PC as storage, id have 2 NAS units, one for use, one as the backup. The very idea of having to rip that many CDs a second time makes my left eye twitch kick in, something that normally only happens on very stressful deadline all nighters. The point would be more about the certainty of bit perfect ripping and the correction of the multiple but minor niggles there are sonically with CDs I already have ripped. There's a few albums that'd have to be converted though, either because the discs are now damaged or lost or because I borrowed them off other people in the first place.

The thing about a "100 greatest/best" listing is that it ultimately leaves readers indifferent to how they went in. Unless its a weighted list like "the 100 most important albums" or "the 100 biggest selling albums" where the top ten are what really interest the reader, the other 90 being something to read through hoping that an existing favourite or two of their might make an appearance there. 100 titles, especially for any topic where the reader is in unfamiliar territory leaves the reader drowning in foreign waters. "What album on this list do I try out then?" well number 1 is the obvious choice, except that I like the sound of number 14 more, but surely its 13 not as good points less than number 1? And do I have to try out everything here before anythign else? Lists like these are read by people who want to tick off what items on the list they know or like or recognise, or to see what inevitable item isn't there that they think should be. 10 recommended entries to jazz is more noob friendly, and 100 jazz albums that you might love is less irksome for the familiar. Perhaps im just railing against jazz though, because of late I've been getting into "world music" to use the term which as an anthropologist I should find objection with and I've discovered the depths of the Putomayo collection.

I wouldnt back up my ALAC rips. If the hard drive crashes, then its the only possible reason why I'd take the time to re-rip everything with EAC to FLAC. I've ripped the bulk of my CD collection several times now, originally with Musicmatch Jukebox (back when my CD collection was considerably smaller admittedly) to 128k mp3. Then WMP to WMA, which didnt last long. Then with Audiograbber to MP3, then iTunes to AAC, then ALAC. Every time it gets slower and takes longer. At least I've not started trying to make 24/48 rips of my LPs yet. I am however utterly anal about tagging my music fully, and the stuff I download iss often piss poorly tagged filth. Since oink went to piggy heaven though my music piracy has nosedived. I seem to only be downloading terry pratchett audiobooks recently.

I've got some 8-10 gigs left on a 250 gig music drive. Video (typically tv series downloads) live on the 200 gig drive until it fills up and I delete swathes of stuff I've watched. I don't see the point in archiving almost any of it, I'm never going to watch it all again. I think that only programme I've gone it with is Babylon 5. Porn Software (isos and such) nearly fills an older 80 gig drive and my now rather aged and noisy Raptor gets the windows install. I'm not sure what I'll do when the 250 gig drive fills up. I need to keep all of ym music in one directory so that iTunes can manage it and the squeezebox can see it all.

You can pry my Jecklins from my cold dead hands, and thats only if I don't go zombie on you to get them back.

Hippitty Burpdai Dood!

It'll never happen. Amp2 and new source well before I even see the HE60 as a temptation.

If you go SR-007, does that mean I have to find an HE60? :E

Would not surprise me to see that one reappear within the year with the front number turned a notch.

The H2 and AMT dont work either. Or my speakers.

What have you filled all that space with? Are you archiving 10,000 CDs?

Best I've heard out of my iPod, by size and in order of preference for each. Small: Livewires, B&O A8 Medium: PX100, Modded Fake PX100, KSC75 Large: Ergo 2, The Orthodome Didn't like any Grado I've tried out of an iPod, those who say you can do it for aw3s0me 5oundZ are full of swill, the MS-1, HF-2 and RS-2 all turned into nice headphones with some amp (roaring awesome in the case of the RS-2 out of the singlepower), and were flat unremarkable meh without one.

Small speakers work fine if you also use another smaller driver, K340 stylie.

Sanyo obviously.

I had the HD650 for a time and always missed them in an idle sort of way, they were first in the trade train I went on which stopped at the HF-1, Ergo 2, K340, SR-001 stations among others. I got to hear them again at the Scotland meet alongside the Ergo 2, which I hadn't been able to do before. I don't miss them anymore. I do still miss the Ergo 2 though. My plastic meh comment was directed at the look of them compared to the wood cups, rather than the sound though.

Those are two frankly stiffy inducing, gorgeous works of art which are sadly ruined by having to be stuck onto the dull plastic meh of the sennheisers. Its like an art gallery putting a couple of fabrage eggs on top of a railway sleeper an some breeze blocks. Gosh they look yummy though. Like caramelised cherubs.

R.E.M. - Reveal on vinyl.

I've spent fuck all because of head-case. So some of us are immune. Or poor.