Luis Dodero wrote:
> >Sound is not just heard with your ears, it is felt by your whole
> >body. I feel that you and your entire body should be enveloped in
> >sound. You just can't do do that with headphones.
>
> Well that depends...take a look at these
>
> http://www.rumblefx.com/
>
> -Luis
Sounds like a a load of bull. A gimmick, a toy. The person who wrote
the review seems to have the writing skills of a third grader. After
the fake Sony reviews of several of their movies (they created a fake
reviewer and made up their own reviews, which were of course 2 thumbs up
plus) I'm finding it difficult to trust any reviews. How can you trust
a favorable review for say a Dell product on Cnet when there is a Dell
paid advertising banner at top of the page?
I have a feeling that these produce very boomy bass and in terms of
frequency response is far from flat. Every once and a while you find a
product that is so great and reasonably priced that you can't believe
they can be so good and so inexpensive.
One thing that comes to mind are VCR tapes. When they first were
introduced (VHS), they sold for about $15 to 25 (USD). Now you can find
high quality tapes for about a dollar. The VCR is also, in my humble
opinion, a real bargain. And with the prices of DVD players dropping
they are becoming a steal too.
The portable CD player for $20 or $30 dollars. But for $40 I don't
think that these headphones are one of them.
On the other side of the coin, some things seem to always be
overpriced. This applies to almost everything that we use in
dentistry. In terms of consumer products, I feel that cars are one of
the biggest rip offs going. Those 20 to 25 grand cars are hardly worth
10 grand.
Really good speakers are also, again in my opinion, terribly over
priced. While, if you stay with the simple models televisions are dirt
cheap and better than ever. When I was a kid a TV cost about $500 for a
black and white TV. The most you could get was 12 channels. But I
think that even that wasn't possible. There had to be a space between
certain channels if I am not mistaken.
The TVs gave off a lot of heat because of the tubes in them. The
picture tubes went very often. But back then because TVs were so
expensive you first put a booster on your picture tube and when that
would no longer work you actually replaced the tube.
They had mechanical tuners that were a constant source of breakdowns.
No remotes. Poor sound etc. today for as little as $200 for a bottom
of the line model you can buy a 27" TV with 100+ channel cable ready
digital tuner. Of course color and remote. Probably some on screen
displays. And these sets will often last 20 to 25 years without ever
giving you a problem.
Yet it still costs about $250 for a middle range (say the Sony 700) MD
player. In my opinion that is just too high. The blanks themselves are
now, to me, reasonably priced. A CDR or even CDRW might be less. But
all they are is a piece of plastic with metal foil on one side.
The MD is a tiny precision device. Self enclosed and automatically
opening it's shutter only when necessary.
Larry
-----------------------------------------------------------------
To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word
"unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
