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If you are into it, sure. This is a good question and I can not quite answer it too my satisfaction despite repeated attempts, but here is my best go at. Surround sound gives a larger sweet spot than …

Speakers are different than headphones. With speakers you have a sweet spot, if your head is not in that sweet spot than the stereo image is blurred in someway and that image is affected by room refle…

No I am relaying my experience. I never said this was the case for HD595/555, I said it could be the case and it is common practice. The only way to know for sure is a direct comparison on new ex…

Our brains are pretty good at compensating for the failings of our bodies. For general recreational listening matched pairs are not all that useful since the majority of music is mixed with the knowle…

If you want a matched stereo image across the spectrum, yes. I have little experience with Sennheiser but most makers of the high end (studio grade at least) will offer both singles and matched pairs …

If you buy a single they are not going to break up a matched pair and they will not refuse to sell you a single. The only way to really know is to sit down with a nice fresh and new pair of both headp…

The actual difference between the two models could be that the HD595 had selected and matched drivers, the HD555 getting all the rejects from the 595. This is a fairly common practice.

Just click the "threads" link instead of going to you user profile. What makes the conversations good is not so much that you get to engage in good conversations but you get to see and read …

>the Oxford comma isn’t grammatically correct Sure it is, it just does not agree with some style guides, but that is prescription for you. Outside of academia and journalism the Oxford comma is bes…

I would say yes. Youth was just dive in and see what happens, more action and reaction than creativity. Now I am more deliberate, I form an idea and execute it, adapt and change as things progress, I …

Cookie cutter bland housing is considerably older than the mid 20th century, we don't see much in the way of old examples because this sort of housing is not meant to last, it is meant to meet a …

Video neglects to mention that this is an excerpt from The Pale King.

I think Queinnec is either big on literature or he was writing at a time before prescription and style guides took over academia in France (has it?). Looking at his website he makes no mention of lite…

I enjoy the way it is written, especially the lack of trying to make it fun and humorous. But I am a humanities sort who spends a good amount of time in literature where prose is a much more varied th…

If they have done any research into it or have a halfway decent agent, yes. A book that sells well is probably not going to set you up for life and at best will just cover the next year or two, only a…

It is just one common example, not the rule, there are many other situations where this comes into play. What would have happened with Pynchon's post Gravity's Rainbow works if he was not ab…

>I do think the copyright term should be a maximum of 20 years In nonfiction where things get dated fairly quickly 20 years is plenty, few non-fiction books make any money after 20 year, but in the…

This gets its purpose regarding plants a bit wrong, the only time roots would be any issue is on tracks which have not been used in quite awhile and at that point the tracks will almost certainly have…

Taschen primarily makes quality artbooks in the trade paperback size instead of coffee table book size like most art books. So they are pocketsized artbooks, at least compared to most artbooks, few of…

I worked through this years ago and was rather disappointed, I felt the hand holding/explanations were not well balanced; it walks you through everything like you have no programming experience b…

Buy a boat and spend my life getting blown about the oceans a few years ahead of schedule. Probably spend some of it helping out other people who seek or live the same sort of life since it would be m…

The source and documentation for Max Mathews MusicV, the synthesis program that started it all back in 1966 and led us to Csound, PD, Max/MSP, Cmix and countless others, even updated to run on mo…

As someone who recently started learning lisp, this is great and the simplest install and setup of any lisp environment I have tried, wish I had found it a month ago. Only issue I had was the log4cl i…

HN and a few forums, bank, email/cloud, website (which is really just storage for ancient stuff I have mostly forgotten but occasionally have a use for) and that is about it. I use guest checkout…

Does Haiku/BeOS have a lineage, were they built off of some other OS in anyway or just their own thing which took what it liked from what was already around and started from the ground up?

If that is what he meant than iOS and Android are that, their touch interface allows you to do things which can not be done in the Windows/Unix world which is why the Windows/Unix world is b…

>There has to be more in the OS space than Unixes and MVS-derived OSs Haiku which comes from BeOS. I don't recall the linage of BeOS and the wikipedia entry is lacking but it is not Unix, anyo…

Slackware.

I actually ignored this site for years because I thought it was the same site as the old Hacker News Network.