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  1. trini...talk to Zeb...he'll prob be able to order what you're looking for, so long as you know exactly what it is you want

    Hahaha - I actually spent an hour on Sunday talking to Zeb. I just picked up the black at tnt so I think i'm cool for now.

  2. I did - they're running out of sizes unfortunately though, hence my question.

    I picked up the brown thermal from Nomad and am looking for others.

    I have the black one on hold at TNTBlu as well.

  3. I personally have a pair of E2C's and I love them. Noise canceling wise they work great I use them everyday and there only a few instances where they don't completely block out outside noise. Since I do commute to school everyday I take the bus and subway and it's the online where I can hear noise from my surrounding. ( Sound from the bus engine and well the subway is very loud in general) But with the the E2C it does reduce the sound significantly. Sound quality is an other thing I use them with my iPod and I find they don't produce very well when it comes bass and tremble. It is going to take you a while to figure out which earbuds you should use but once you figure it out and your confortable with the feel of them you'll love em. Like I said at the begging if noise canceling is one of the most important factors you can't go wrong with the E2C's I can stand next to a busy boulevard with dozen's of cars passing me by and I won't even hear them coming all I hear is my music.

    Your bass/treble issue isn't with the E2Cs but rather w/ the Ipod. The Ipod's native sound is horrible when you hook them up to quality headphones - they only sound good (to me) through cheap shit headphones.

    It's the one reason I won't replace my 5-year old Iriver with an Ipod since the iriver (with Rockbox) sounds 100x better.

  4. triniboy: I was advised to get the nike air max 180 II... I dunno about buying another brand + a pouch... seems even more complicated than it already is. I'm a beginner at running btw.

    Then at least go to a proper running store and let them advise you. Running in the wrong shoes can fuck you up proper.

  5. Ppl need to stop w/ the wayfarer/frogskin revival.

    Yes, it's a classic frame but like every other pair of sunglasses out there, it's not for everyone.

    Yet because of the hype, loads of ppl are gonna be walking around with sunglasses that are 'now' but look like ass on their face.

    end rant.

  6. well i work with tv's and see them every single day. i surprisingly know an extensive amount about HDTV's

    First off, don't go to avsforum.com

    they know too much and you will never ever get a clear answer, those guys have 76 page threads about contrast/brightness settings for a 40 inch sony xbr.. the people on those forums can be very very confusing

    DLP or LCoS/HD-ILA tv's are going to give you a big screen for a little bit of money. They contain a lot of moving parts and require maintenance every four to five years. They are extremely sensitive to voltage fluctuation due to them using an actual lamp. They have a limited viewing angle. They have a high resolution and are great for people who love to play video games. If you want a big screen and don't want to pay a lot of money up front, this is the tv for you. You will end up paying the same as you would for a plasma over time due to extended warranties and/or maintenance (lamp or color wheel replacement) and a power filtration device. If you're looking at these, I'd recommend a mitsubishi and maybe a samsung. sony projection tv's (in the $2000 range) are you going to give you bad color representation/saturation and as much as i'd tried to adjust the settings its always bad whether it be projection tv's or projectors, anything that uses their LCoS technology isn't good (for the money, at least

    As the other dude said above, the rise of DLP tv's brought down the price in plasma tv's by a lot. This is good news because plasma tv's have the absolute best picture! With a plasma display, you will get the widest spectrum of color, most accurate and realistic color representation and fastest refresh rate. You can get a good size tv for $2000 if you shop around. A plasma tv is going to consistently give you the clearest and most realistic picture. Since plasma tv's use 2 glass panels for the screen, if it is in a well lit environment, you're going to get some glare coming from it. People think plasmas don't last very long and have burn in issues.. this was true 4-6 years ago, but unless you are shopping for a 4-6 year old tv, you aren't going to run into these problems. They have the widest viewing angle and last as long as a tube tv. If i swayed you into getting a plasma, which believe me, has the best picture point blank, get a pioneer plasma or panasonic plasma.. the picture will always amaze you. Pioneer and panasonic plasmas are worth every penny. stay away from samsung, lg, or new comers like vizio or hewlett-packard.

    LCD tv's are your other flat panel option.. they are extremely bright and offer the worst of the three technologies as far as color variance. They are great for someone who is going to use it heavily for videogame/pc connectivity. LCD for watching movies and sports is not so fun, they tend to pixelate and have graininess or have issues with banding (when an image is caught in a grid in lay man's terms). They also have a limited viewing angle but not as bad as DLPs

    as far as 1080p.. don't get sucked into the gimmick man. Like i said, i work with these tv's every day.. i've seen a 1080p source on a 1080p tv and on a 720p tv and they look the same. i've connected a sony blu-ray player to a 40" sony xbr (their flagshp model) which is 1080p and then to a 50" panasonic plasma thats 720p.. the plasma looked better. If you are buying a tv that is over 65" and you will be closer than 6 feet from it, this is the only time you will ever notice the difference. Nobody in their right mind watches tv at these proportions. its a marketing gimmick, believe me.

    Another thing not to get tricked by is contrast ratio. There isn't an industry standard as to exactly what that term means. TV companies are free to claim whatever they want in this category. This is why tv's like sharp which look good on a sales floor and terrible in someone's home are such good sellers. Sharp says 1080p and 10,000:1 contrast, and refresh rate of 4ms. the 4ms refresh rate is on an interlaced image, the tv does not read interlaced images. It accepts them and downscales them to a progressive one with duplicate frames. That refresh rate just jumped up to 8ms. They are tricks. Samsung lcd's have a contrast of 15,000:1 by the way (haha bullshit).

    What I'm about to say last will sound really cliche and stupid but.. I've worked with these tv's for a long time and I will tell you this, resolution doesn't mean shit, contrast ratio doesn't mean shit, and refresh rate doesn't mean shit. If you want the best quality for the price, take your time looking at them carefully and use your own judgement with your own eyes. What you see with your own eyes, and the amount of inputs and features that are useful to you should be the only deciding factors in your purchase, not technical specs that are all marketing gimmicks. Over the course of the last year, I've come to the conclusion that pioneer plasmas are the best tv out on the market today, and panasonic are a cheaper alternative that is slowly getting closer to the quality of a pioneer.

    If it was my $2000, i'd get a 42" pioneer or pioneer elite, or 42" panasonic 75u or 9uk series. I do not work for either company, but i do sell tv's.

    Thanks for all of this - I've been leaning towards plasmas myself, especially the panasonics but I think I'll look at pioneers now.

  7. I got my trench from them during the xmas - I don't think the quality's bad at all. I'd put Reiss as one of the better high-street retailers.

    I also have a pair of caramel boots that I got on sale from the NY store last summer.

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