From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #286 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, January 19 2008 Volume 10 : Number 286 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] Devo Plays Microsoft! [Ari ] Re: [idealcopy] Oh Roundhouse Up Yours! ["Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Devo Plays Microsoft! Maybe more 'efficient' headphones would do the trick? I have three pairs of headphones and the volume level 'at the same setting' is quite noticeable........... A - ----- Original Message ---- From: Keith A To: Tim ; idealcopy@smoe.org Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:09:03 PM Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Devo Plays Microsoft! > Unless of couse they sold some sort of volume-booster for the > ipod...curse the EU volume limit! I suppose they want to be protecting the > eardrums of youth of Europe but what about those of us who already have > dodgy hearing from 20 years of watching gigs/playing bass etc?!! Absolutely. I'm a relative newcomer to the mp3 player world, and though I love my ipod the one thing that bugs me is the volume levels. They're just not loud enough for the likes of us! K. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:26:38 -0000 From: "Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Oh Roundhouse Up Yours! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "PAUL RABJOHN" > a lot of comeback gigs work out really well but this is one i'd have > grave doubts about , maybe better to live with the memories? > > p > On the other hand, they've certainly allowed themselves enough time to practice. The gig isn't till Sept! K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:14:28 -0000 From: "Garry Phillipson" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Devo Plays Microsoft! Couple of thoughts on the iRiver/iPod front... Different headphones definitely help. I got some AKG K26P's and they're plenty loud enough - they're regular headphones, albeit collapsible. Another thing worth knowing - with my Creative mp3 player I found I could download the US version of the firmware, which doesn't have the EU volume restriction. This *did* have a discernible impact, though not quite enough! Yet another interesting fact - when my iRiver packed up, because they were no longer making the same model they refunded the entire cost of the thing. Which I used to get a Creative Vision:M 30gb, am very happy with that. For some reason they seem to be stopping production on that model, but there are still some around. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:22:22 -0800 From: nowhere_man Subject: Fwd: [idealcopy] Devo Plays Microsoft! - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: nowhere_man Date: Jan 18, 2008 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Devo Plays Microsoft! To: Keith A what's up with that? they confer knighthoods on the people that blew our ears out and make us deaf then limit the volume?!?!?! next we'll be switching to larger print on our windows os and checking out the large print books from the library. then the walker for walkies. depends. june alison. ah, the panoply and rich varieties of our coming sedentary years. pogoing at the old folks home...at least britain will be a tropical island then. is there no volume limit on the US edition of the ipod? i am really curious...enough to fire off a barage of cantankerous eulogies to the powers that Bee. i have fought my reactionary tendencies all my life but not enough that i have ever bought a walkman. i despise trends and trendiness...apparently not enough that i became a punk or vice versa. i didn't own a CD changer until someone gave me one. i resisted until the end. it did change the way i listened to music as i loved vinyl and better yet my dokorder reel to reel. search became so easy! did anyone read the strolling bone article, recently, of present day sound quality? quite edifying. so much technology and bad sound quality. since there is a sound limit this is an excuse for some culture jamming reverse viral marketing. "storm the reality studio" w.s. burroughs np: nothing On Jan 17, 2008 2:09 PM, Keith A wrote: > > Unless of couse they sold some sort of volume-booster for the > > ipod...curse the EU volume limit! I suppose they want to be protecting > the > > eardrums of youth of Europe but what about those of us who already have > > dodgy hearing from 20 years of watching gigs/playing bass etc?!! > > Absolutely. I'm a relative newcomer to the mp3 player world, and though I > love my ipod the one thing that bugs me is the volume levels. > > They're just not loud enough for the likes of us! > > K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:34:36 -0800 From: nowhere_man Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Oh Roundhouse Up Yours! oh bondage was great but for my money the sax solo in "underground" was a slice of ground breaking rock. giganews has been making available all of that old back catalogue....and all the suburban studs....remember i hate school? hope and anchor front row festival is up there too. xtc with barry andrews wailing away on i'm bugged. tyla gang, the pirates, wilco johnson, stranglers, 999..............everybody. i'd be a little suspect of the gig too, especially with that ticket price. the police may have been a bunch of old tossers but they did campaign, originally, for lower ticket prices but then again........the rent these days! better they just did a concert on you tube! On Jan 18, 2008 12:57 AM, PAUL RABJOHN wrote: > may have told the tale before but i attempted to see x ray spex late 90's > , poly flounced and they did the gig with a stand in. utterly embarassing , > one of the very few times i've walked out of a gig. amazingly lora logic was > in that line up , never thought she'd get involved again and i suspect she's > still traumatised by the experience. > > a lot of comeback gigs work out really well but this is one i'd have > grave doubts about , maybe better to live with the memories? > > p > > > > Keith A wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith Knight" > To: "Idealcopy" > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:39 AM > Subject: [idealcopy] Oh Roundhouse Up Yours! > > > > In another unexpected reformation (although not quite up there with MBV) > > the Roundhouse are host to X-Ray Spex on 6 September - only apparently > > only Poly remains from the original line-up. > > > I loved X Ray Spex. > > They made three of my all-time fave 45's (the 1st three), but at 30 quid > for > a non-original line-up I don't think I'll bother - as much as I'd love to > see Poly sing those songs live. > > K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:37:05 -0500 From: eardrumbuz@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] Re: iPod Volume Limit (was Devo Plays Microsoft!) I'm in the U.S., and my iPods have a volume limit setting you can adjust and switch on or off. Maybe U.S. retailers should market them as "Freedom iPods"... they give the users the freedom to put the buzz buzz in their own eardrums. I'm happy with the volume of my iPod. I rarely have it up near the max. - -another the Paul - -----Original Message----- From: nowhere_man To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sent: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 1:22 pm Subject: Fwd: [idealcopy] Devo Plays Microsoft! - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: nowhere_man Date: Jan 18, 2008 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Devo Plays Microsoft! To: Keith A what's up with that? they confer knighthoods on the people that blew our ears out and make us deaf then limit the volume?!?!?! next we'll be switching to larger print on our windows os and checking out the large print books from the library. then the walker for walkies. depends. june alison. ah, the panoply and rich varieties of our coming sedentary years. pogoing at the old folks home...at least britain will be a tropical island then. is there no volume limit on the US edition of the ipod? i am really curious...enough to fire off a barage of cantankerous eulogies to the powers that Bee. i have fought my reactionary tendencies all my life but not enough that i have ever bought a walkman. i despise trends and trendiness...apparently not enough that i became a punk or vice versa. i didn't own a CD changer until someone gave me one. i resisted until the end. it did change the way i listened to music as i loved vinyl and better yet my dokorder reel to reel. search became so easy! did anyone read the strolling bone article, recently, of present day sound quality? quite edifying. so much technology and bad sound quality. since there is a sound limit this is an excuse for some culture jamming reverse viral marketing. "storm the reality studio" w.s. burroughs np: nothing On Jan 17, 2008 2:09 PM, Keith A wrote: > > Unless of couse they sold some sort of volume-booster for the > > ipod...curse the EU volume limit! I suppose they want to be protecting > the > > eardrums of youth of Europe but what about those of us who already have > > dodgy hearing from 20 years of watching gigs/playing bass etc?!! > > Absolutely. I'm a relative newcomer to the mp3 player world, and though I > love my ipod the one thing that bugs me is the volume levels. > > They're just not loud enough for the likes of us! > > K. ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #286 ********************************