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It's made in France, by silly French people, not that there's anything wrong with French people, and chicks with French accents are hot.

Go vinyl. Pro-ject RM10 turntable, a nice cartridge and phonostage will fit in your budget.

http://www.danleysoundlabs.com/technical%20downloads.html Download the sound files, crank the volume to "11", and enjoy. I need to go find a speaker dealer with some big-ass bass horns so I can crank the fireworks recording to real life levels & get the full dynamics without clipping or compression.

Set the timer, then dance around until it takes a picture.

Isn't cannibalism illegal though?

Yup, it's all in his head.

The solution, clearly, is to buy a set of closed headphones to block out the beep. Or you could just run an extension cord and listen to your rig outside.

This depends on several things The output of your cartridge The gain on your phonostage The gain of your amp If you have enough gain in the rest of your system, then a TVC will work just fine, if not, then you'll need an active preamp to make up the gain or an amp with more gain.

Definitely not safe for work, but that's what I wanna be doing. What is the most bling piece of audio gear you'd want to own?

It's a Sony. I've yet to hear a Sony that I like and I don't expect that trend to be broken anytime soon.

Who is your favourite pornstar?

What? Don't look at me...

Valley girl She's a valley girl

This topic lied to me, there are no pictures of this Katie Melua person.

A bunch of concert tickets. Chick Corea at Massey Hall John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimention, also at Massey Hall Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Sessions Revisited, Massey Hall again Buddy Guy, yup, Massey Hall God I love living in Toronto.

It took the stupid worthless wankers long enough. Two years and more "why the fuck aren't they MoT's yet?" posts than I can count, and now they finally get slapped with the tags.

I, for one, approve of the K701 being kicked out the door.

Head-case was down?

Done, but that doesn't help since my scanner went tits up...

2 contracts for gasoline futures on the NYMEX.

Well, I guess this explains the secret to getting mad bass with an Ety...

Of course now that you've said that without knocking on wood, you've jinxed yourself to repeat the mistake, and likely with far more dire consequences.

It's not that weird, you just got corrupted by the bass.

I get buzzed by these planes from time to time...

I know it definitely can be done. The October 2007 issue of Hi-Fi News & Reviews has a nice article on measuring headphones, as well as how some of the measurements may correlate to how the headphones sound. Run a tech article in basic easy to understand language in every issue, and have sidebars or even a whole page if needed in the reviews themselves to explain the unique features of the gear under review. For instance a tube amp review might have a sidebar on what fixed bias is, what its advantages are and why it's used, much the same way a car mag will have a blurb on say, Honda's VTEC technology. After a year or 2 of reading, the readers should have a basic layman's understanding of the principles behind the designs, and you can start pointing them towards journal articles, research papers and so forth which discuss the issues in more depth.