wtf £279 for a pair of consumer headphones? branded by Dr Dre? That's almost the price of my new pair of genelecs (which i love, by the way)!
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/TS232LL/A?cid=AOS%2DEU%2DiTunes09Q1%2DBeats.1014_1020
this, combined with lack of firewire on the new macbooks, is really bringing apple down in my book.
/doesn't stop me from wanting an iphone though. purely for the productivity, of course/
ooh genelecs!
techno tehcno technoooooo
btw, the expensive part of the dre phones is the dsp chip that inserts nate dogg into each song.
regulators was playing on this american life a few weeks back in a piece about the lack of banking industry regulation.
OMG I have been waking up periodically (including this morning) with "Regulators" in my head since I heard that piece on This American Life. Also, I was having a discussion on whether firewire was a dying technology or not since it isn't even supported on many mainstream PC's and there is esata now which should theoretically be faster.
does eSATA come with a nice small connector? I don't really know much about it, but I was always under the impression that it didn't support too many devices on the same bus. Always seemed like more of a hard drive specific thing than an all purpose serial bus.
I think that firewire may well be a dying technology in some ways, and esata is meant to be faster and everything, but the fact remains - pretty much every single professional audio device uses firewire, and generally firewire 400. I know of no 8 channel interfaces that use anything other than firewire. Seeing as how I make a living from using these audio devices, if I want to buy a mac laptop from now on I will have to buy a macbook pro, and a 800-400 converter. no more macbooks for me. I think that kind of sucks, seeing as how I love my little macbook and it serves me very well. I have no desire to spend an extra thousand dollars for a macbook pro just for a firewire port.
huh, this eSata stuff is interesting, has great throughput, but seems pretty specifically targeted at hard drives.
Damn I had no idea that we were talking $1k for the pro upgrade when I was reading about the changes to the macbook. That really is disappointing. I just heard about esata when I got my new comp a couple months ago because it has a port on it; apparently it is a media board for doing like an hd theatre box. I don't know enough about connectors to understand why you wouldn't be able to connect a non HD device to an HD port if someone were willing to write the drivers.
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