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Don't know if we have many science experts on the forum? Being in a rather philosophical mood and inspired by a Youtube interview with Richard Feynman explaining some interesting science phenomena (like ice, elastic bands and magnets), it sort of set my thinking hat wondering whether life at its...

For those of you familiar with the headphone world, should all have come across Tyll Hertsens of Innerfidelity fame at some point in time. I am a great fan of his website and his objective of measuring headphones and trying to correlate what we hear with what we measure. His measurements library...

Here is an interesting interview with Paul Barton of PSB, where he talks with the owner of Head-fi about getting better measurements on headphones and how that correlates to people's listening preferences, based on the work they've originally done with speakers at the Canadian Research Centre...

So woke up @4:00 this morning from a neighbour in our complex furiously pressing the hooter on his vehicle. First thought was that was quite rude, till lots of shouting ensued and then I was wide awake. So the story ends up it being a botched hijacking attempt. Neighbour in the passenger seat...

Received my Philips Fidelio L1 from Massdrop yesterday through the Post Office after they shipped out beginning of November so great service. Some first impressions: - Excellent sound quality for the asking price, doesn't do anything wrong which is very rare at this price point - Excellent...

Read this interesting article today on HDCP 2.2 compliance and 4K playback. I wasn't even aware that this authentication could potentially be an issue down the line when 4K content is finally launched. Bottom line, looks like 2014 is not a good year to buy a fully future proofed 4K AVR...

Thought I'd start a thread where we could post to some good deals on headphone related gear. The general Heads up thread seldom/never have any items related to headphone gear.

Interesting video (static photos with running commentary) from the BBC Magazine: On the tracks of Australia's last record maker Interesting to see that vinyl records are cut from CD masters. Also not difficult to see why they are expensive if you see the amount of manual labour involved.

Attended today's play at Centurion. Geez, all I can say I'm glad it wasn't me in the middle. Johnson makes Harris and Siddle look like tame kittens and even they were bowling really well. Think today was best summed up by Johnson's last ball before the rain came down nearly taking off Peterson's...

Here is a very interesting article for people who would like compare high end (flagship) headphones. I think the article is also great in explaining why expensive headphones also sound much better than mid-level and entry-level headphones through the measurements and where designers are fazed by...

I now have a copy of Norah Jones - Come away with me in both 24-bit/96Khz (HD Tracks) and on vinyl. So I did an A-B comparison this afternoon with the MBA + RL Concero and the Thorens TT connect to the Yamaha AVRs phonostage. Its very tough to a direct comparison as there are so many variables...

Sad day... :vsad: Now we are stuck with only Koreans still making plasma TVs. Hopefully OLED will mature quickly and drop in price. http://www.whathifi.com/news/panasonic-officially-ends-plasma-tv-production

Boy, what a day... :facepalm: Got to the office (which is my parents home) this morning, finding the entire home had no electricity. The power must have tripped sometime over the weekend. Normally my NAS warns me of power outages, unfortunately I had to move the 3G router to a place that didn't...

Don't know if anyone of you saw last evening's performance, but if you are a fan of Tchaikovsky's works you simply cannot miss it! I think there is still one performance this evening again and the Linder Auditorium. It was simply one brilliant classical piece after another and finished off with...

Just a quick heads up... If you were intending to watch this game, you might better want to turn up the telly else you might miss the game entirely! :puke:

Just came back today from a 3 day hike in the Kruger Park. We hiked the Lonely Bull trail. Must say it was pretty awesome sitting around a camp fire in the evening with nothing but wilderness around you. And hearing a lion roar about 2km from your tent give you quite the chills. Next morning you...

Hi all, Bought my first projector over the weekend. Due to my current status of renting a home rather being an owner I could not go the normal route of installing a roll down/fixed projection screen and therefore decided to build my own one and see whether there are cost savings to be had over...

Hi folks, Were just wondering whether anybody else has the same problem? I recently received a new Airport Express as a gift (square shaped one) and I have been trying to use the Airplay feature via the optical link with my Audiolab M-DAC. It does output audio, but every 2 seconds or so the...

Since selling my home and sort of being freed from the shackles of ABSA I have been looking around for another bank. A lot of folks I have been dealing with on the forum were quite lyrical about how good FNB has been. Here are my dealings so in trying to apply for a new account. I applied for a...

The Hifiman HE-500 is an orthodynamic headphone from Chinese manufacturer Hifiman, made famous by in ear monitors such as the RE-0 and RE-252 and planar magnetic headphones such as the $1299 HE-6. The HE-500 slots in below the HE-6 at $699 and differentiates itself by being much easier to drive...