hooting_monkey
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I've found myself liking Ogg better than mp3s lately, especially now
that I have an mp3 player capible of playback. I rip only Ogg Vorbis @
256 VBR on my Xbox and PC now. Usually use my Xbox to do ripping since
its usually just sitting there, and then I ftp it to my PC.
I'm thinking that while you have the means you should try all the
popular audio formats... (WAV, WM Lossless, Apple Lossless, AAC, MP3,
OGG, WMA, and FLAC. Obviously you can't really compare them when they
are all at 320, so maybe compare them at bitrates you can easily find
anomolies at, like 96, 128, and 160. Them compare them at their higher
bitrates like 192, 256, and 320 against the lossless formats. Might be
hard to get AAC and Apple Lossless. Not sure if you actually need an
Apple or just iTunes to do Apple Lossless, and only premium audio
programs rip AAC. If you have any issues needing a program to rip,
gimme a PM, I will 'aquire' a program for you. That is only if you
would like to do this though.
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Lol, my list of keys got deleted. I guess that was a little overboard, but oh well.
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Packers,,, even though their record is horrid!
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I think they are SB2s.
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Gilbert Gottfried
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Scott Weiland of former Stone Temple Pilots / current Velvet Revolver
Lajon Witherspoon of Sevendust
David Draiman of Disturbed
or Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses
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PM me with what you are asking for the KSP 400s.
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Don't have a working digi cam, but I'm proud of my little SB-1s. My
girlfriend says they are cute and they are the best $100 investment I
have ever made.
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The average consumer, which makes most of the Klipsch purchases doesn't
want a pair $5000 monster speakers, they want small speakers to match
their thin TVs. If Klipsch never made the Synergy line, I would gamble
that they would have been out of business thanks to Bose and JBL long
ago. Retailers know this too. You think retailers want to try to push a
product that isn't gonna sell in large numbers? Without Best Buy
carrying their speakers (which are the fastest selling speakers at the
HT dept. at my local BB) I would bet that Klipsch wouldn't be where it
is today. Companies have to give the majortity of the consumers what
they want if they wanna stay in business for the higher end consumers.
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Well, I just made this an I'm pretty impressed with it. Though the xbox
is kinda low-fi, the DACs aren't any worse than your average HTPC, and
you do have the option of coax out. If you have one laying around, or
can get one cheap, you can copy games to a hard drive in it, stream
music, movies, and pics from your pc and internet, and watch dvd and
cds. It requires a few things... Xbox, 10 and 20 torx screwdrivers, a
large capacity hard drive, some way to copy game saves from your
computer to your xbox, an ftp client, and a copy of 007 Agent Under
Fire. Total cost to most people, $250.
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Well, the Ogg Vorbis format uses an open souce codec that allows
changes to be made as hardware and science are more understood. It
seems to sound slightly better than an mp3 at the same bitrate.
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It's kind of cool that they can have enough cpu power in small mp3
players like these to use SRS effects, and still have room to decode
Ogg files. I remember when my old Rio had enough power to play mp3s and
wmas. No wav and no Ogg support.
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I recently picked up an iRiver T30 at Worst Buy. I see it has SRS on
it, and I'm wondering if I can actually tweak it a bit to sound a
little more like my speakers and alot less like my headphones. BTW I
use Sennheiser HD497s with this incase it matters. I guess I'm kinda
wondering what your impressions are of this stuff. If anybody who is a
little more enlightened on audio than I am wants to trek over to their
site and read about what this stuff is supposed to do, that would be
great. It has SRS, Focus, TruBass, and some Boost thingy...
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Or transvestites named Harley. Not sure if they sell those...
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The first one is called a "Mothership" in weather slang. The second
appears to be a wall cloud. The third is obviously a tornado, possibly
from the previous formation?
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Yeah, well now I gotta balance money between my network, current car, my future RX-7, stereo, and a new bike.
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Vodka is cheap, therefore more money for speakers.
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?<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>XMSirius
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Won't radiating it in all directions with sound bouncing off of every
wall in the area destroy any type of imaging, effectively making
everything sound mono-ish? But I guess you make more money when you
sell two or more bad speakers that effectivly sound like one bad one
than actually just selling one bad speaker. Those Bose researchers are
amazing!
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OHH MAN, I can't stop listening to Guns N' Roses. I think there should
be a genre called 'Guns N' Roses'. "November Rain" is the best song in
existance!
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Well if you are gonna while about people that arem't building energy
efficient homes, expect some criticism to your remarks. Most
efficeintcy enhancements come at a steep price, which homebuilders
either can't, or find it difficult to pay for. So maybe you should loan
them money to do so and quit whining. Also, I wanna know what kind of
car everybody drives. I drive a '95 Saturn SC1 that gets 36mpg hwy and
28 city, so I'm doing my part.
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Come on moon, our boy Farve's almost as old as you.
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$2.99 in central wisconsin here. We don't even get our gas from south,
we get it from refineries around locally and get our crude from
Canada...
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Members Weekly Music Recommendations-Nov. 21
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