Recent content by Shugarra

These components are 6-7 years old, rough cosmetic condition but functionally they are amazing. RS-Audio is a high-end German car speaker company that is no longer imported into the states. These things were right around $1,000 new, and they were worth every penny. I absolutely love these...

I worked for HeadRoom for a year a couple years back. I don't know much about anything that has come out since then but back in 2007 they had basically all of the headphones they sell out on a board for testing. I used all of them at various times while working. Everything from the $15...

Do you guys have specific model numbers I can look up to make sure they will work for what I need?

I would really like to get a used 4/3/2 ch. alpine amplifier. Doesn't need to be powerful or pretty, just needs to work. I would like to spend less than $100. Thanks!

I'd go with the McIntosh because it looks sexy.

Sort of unrelated, but a thing I think a lot of people miss is that RC doesn't say you shouldn't buy expensive amplifiers, just that in the conditions of his test the expensive will sound the same as the less expensive. Not always of course, but much of the time, the expensive amplifiers will...

A rough frequency? What the hell is that? Both Zapco and JL are great products, but to be honest, you could probably go with something cheaper and achieve the same results. However, I'm not telling you how to spend your money, so you wouldn't be disappointed at all with JL or Zapco. One...

Hey, I work for a place called HeadRoom (headphone.com) and we manufacture headphone amplifiers. They are a little pricey, I'll give that, but very honestly they are of good quality. The lowest end line has a plastic enclosure, but you can get one with a built in usb dac for $199, and we have...

http://www.allofmp3.com -- Probably won't be around soon, but it's in a legal grey area at the moment. Extremely cheap songs, encoded at whatever bitrate/file type you'd like.

Raammat x 1500 I purchased a roll of Raammat and a roll of edead when doing my car. Raammat is the far superior deadener in my experience.

I'm certainly not calling you a liar, but I'm curious if your listening tests were done in a controlled environment or if you just listened to the different recordings at different times? The placebo effect is very real, as is user bias. Again, not calling you a liar, but could it be possible...

Those graphs do show the effect of compression but they don't necessarily demonstrate real world differences. Our ears and aural memory are horrible and therefore very susceptible to suggestion. Maybe you have, but if you haven't, download foobar and try out their abx test. It was a huge eye...

I'm looking to sell these cool in ear monitors that I have used two times for about 1.5 hours total. I just haven't found too many situations in which I needed total isolation, but they would be great for those of you in larger cities, that ride subways, etc. I have only used the tips shown in...

I've heard good things about Loudspeaker Design Cookbook.

You can't ever get it back to the original quality, but depending on the encoding rate and type of music you listen to/what you're listening on, it may not matter. While mp3 certainly isn't perfect, it does a fairly decent job for what it's supposed to do, especially if you use a quality...