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x2 You'd need a USB -> digital converter, though.

Those are gorgeous.

There are different types of mechanisms? Yes, I am that ignorant. What are most of them? That's what I'm used to. Or proximity capacitive touch sensor "mechanisms". What's so special about the happy hacking keyboard? Will it make me happy to hacK? See, I'm already doing it. Are all the hip script kiddies using it? No, seriously, what's so special about it?

So, either what's the best "value" keyboard that I should get, or how much should I consider spending, if they're all the same? Basically, I need to get an add-on for a laptop that I've been using more frequently, and everything I have is PS2. $10? $25? Should I get this? Or should I just get the cheapest thing I can find with full-size keys (currently, the price to beat appears to be US$10)? Or should I get one of those roll-away ones? I'm asking for experience from people who've gotten keyboards for their laptops as well as advice on price-setting.

I guess. Who cares? http://tinyurl.com/6ynwhc

Dew et. You can't really be a snob about it until you try it and hear it for yourself in your own system. I double-dog-dare you. Uh...except that you would need moar amps.

No, that's the definition of an equilateral triangle. If both of those are seven feet, then that follows your/Cardas' definition, but that's not nearfield. Nearfield means you're close to the speakers, period. I mean, think about it -- if both of those are 15 feet, then it still qualifies as that definition of nearfield, but I would still not call it nearfield. 7 feet is not "close to the speakers", that's a body-length away and then some. Think of an engineer sitting at a mixing board. The speakers are usually at the other side of the listening board and no more. That's nearfield (unless, of course, he has a 7-foot mixing board [which is not unheard of] -- not all engineers listen in nearfield -- some of them have it in the wall, which is some distance from the mixing desk). I would say within a couple feet. It might be a function of the room, but I'm not going to do the math. Intuitively, it'd have to be some small fraction from the distance to the nearest wall, like on the order of one order of magnitude (1/10th). That's just off the top of my head...basically, you're listening such that first reflections are essentially irrelevant. And it's also got to have something to do with the size of the room -- obviously, if you're in a closet, you have to be right up against the speakers, and if you're in a huge auditorium, you have a little bit of room to play with before I -- anyway -- would stop considering it nearfield. But you still have the floor to contend with (again, when I, anyway, would consider it to stop being nearfield), so there's an upper limit, that no matter how big your room is, it wouldn't be nearfield. 7 feet would be outside of that, IMHO.

10-band parametric EQ? That's pretty nice. Alright, I stand corrected.

No, boominess is a function of overhang, not amount. You can have emphasized bass without it being boomy (cf. PS-1). One of the nice things about listening to my Dynaudios with their fancy shmancy tweeters was that despite the elevated bass, is that I could still hear the midrange and treble, and clearly. The only time I got distracted by the bass was psychologically -- I.E. I caught myself listening to the bassline, rather than the gestalt. But listening nearfield at modest volumes will help -- you'll be listening more immediately to the speakers, less to the room's resonances. That's why I recommended listening to your floorstanders in nearfield -- it'll give you an idea if your new supposed listening situation -- the nearfield one -- with its combination of volume and distance -- is enough to overcome the room's acoustics.

You can't select any more than one frequency (I don't mean select yes/no; I mean select as in I want this one at 2134Hz, and this one at 2233Hz, and this one at 2345 Hz, etc.), though, can you? To me, it sounds like the GS-1000 has 2 or 3 peaks and valleys real close together in a rather important frequency region.

May I just be the first to say: did you try hitting yourself on the back of the head with a shovel? good luck with that. Floorstanders don't take up that much more room than bookshelfs/monitors...if you put them up on stands. Have you tried it? Just bring them into the middle of the room, and listen to them nearfield. It'll give you an idea if you're heading in the right direction. You may reconsider your "no room treatments in '09" stance, too. Did you try plugging the ports with old socks/ERS paper holebungs? Spendor's S3/5's sound great nearfield, if only at modest volumes. JM Labs Tantal 509's sound great near-ish field (a couple feet away), and I have them backed into corners -- but that may be what you consider boomy. The bass is well...present. I've had the Dynaudio Special 25's corner loaded with the holebungs in place -- sounded great, but then I'm definitely a basshead. Mebbe I should just stay out of this thread.

Not bad for wireless. Will check wired later.

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Good luck with that, Al.

Both with (roughly) the same amount of right leg up. I think what threw me (although for only a minute or so) is that it wasn't funny, just interesting.

Dude, that is by no means complicated. I'm talking multiple variable-width, frequency-selectable ranges that only a computer could control, no set of knobs would be sufficient (that I'm aware of). I mean, yeah, it's Grado's most comfortable headphone, but...just not worth the effort.

Yeah -- the difference in what he wants and those "saved searches" is the immediateness of the response. One of those things that as soon as the item popped up, he'd be alerted. I'd wait for web 2.0. Me, personally, I just sign up to paying more for the item.

I was thinking of EQ'ing it to where I'd like before judging, but then I don't know of any EQ's that complicated.

I'm thinking it might not be linear like that.

I guess it depends on what the truth behind the stories are. Right now it reads as a he-said/he-said type argument. There are certain computer hacker types I'd like to take a napalm to.

Probably because it was designed before anyone other than Headroom was balancing headphones on the then-named Blockhead. It hadn't really caught on yet. I wonder if it could be rewired to do so. It should just be a matter of taking different leads off the transformer, neh? I doubt you'd want to do it as is, as they're designed for different impedances.

If 120mm are quieter than smaller fans, I wonder how much quieter a 120cm fan would be?

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