Sound engineers also typically use fairly terrible monitor speakers in their studios. I'm not sure they are the last word in equipment.

It's funny to me that people don't blink an eye at spending $100k on a car, but a $10k audio system is typically derided as wasteful. I have a pair of the previous generation sennheiser open air headphones and they are truly remarkable sounding products. Music is just mesmerizingly beautiful through them. My Focals…

Headphones or earplugs and a sleep mask allow you to completely control your domain, I don't understand why 100% of passengers don't bring on in-ear or noise cancelling headphones and instead choose to fret and whine about the way everyone around them is behaving and complain about parents having the audacity to…

JAL offers the bassinet on the JFK-NRT flight. There are only a handful (either 2 or 4) on the flight so you need to call ahead and reserve it. I think they only work for under 1 year old.

It is lovely to look at but the work items are so twee and precious. Is this some sort of etsy craft business that rents space in little used corner of a glitter factory?

Tigra and Bunny beg to differ.

KEF is still using a dual concentric design with their UniQ drivers at least in their mid-to-lower range lines. Tannoy's are also dual concentric as you described, rather than a single driver speaker with a whizzer.

There is a cult following for single driver speakers, using for example, lowther or fostex drivers which employ that whizzer design. Omega is one manufacturer of these speakers, some others are made by small bespoke manufacturers. They can actually get fairly expensive and the popularity is in part because can drive…

Of course, for $45 you ended up with four Fast and Furious blu rays. Is it one of those deals where if you watch all four they give them to you free like with giant hamburgers?

My baby is like a month old and my wife is nursing. Everywhere I go everyone is concerned about my lack of sleep, while my poor wife sleeps in 15 minute increments. I'm getting a solid 7 every night. Sure I'll pretend to be helpful randomly at 3 am for 30 seconds, but there really is no point in two people being…

My wife and her mother both taste soap whenever they eat cilantro. It is a bummer because it is so prevalent in Mexican and Thai food which I love. I don't get the taste of soap at all. I could eat cilantro in bunches as a standalone food.

Some guy almost poked me in the eye the other day with the huge pull out antenna on his ancient flip phone. I was more amazed by the relic than I was annoyed with him for wearing too much polo cologne, loud talking and waving that antenna around like a sword. I think it was a Motorola StarTAC. I couldn't help…

Its science.

I love building PCs. I hope the world doesn't abandon performance systems and desktops don't disappear in favor of mini systems and tablets.

The last time I changed jobs, about 18 months ago, I received an offer, before accepting I told my existing firm I was thinking of leaving, they made a counter, I told the new firm the facts without demanding more money (i.e., I am very interested, my salary if I stay would be X, they offered me more money to stay),…

Why not listen to your counteroffer and leverage it into more money at the new job you have lined up?

I like to render the fat down sideways on a cast iron stovetop grill, briefly sear the sides and then transfer to the oven on broil to get some open flame action.

No used games would make me think very very long and hard about ever buying this system. I also like owning physical media and would be very hesitant to put my faith in Sony's dismal network. I like my first gen PS3 because it is backward compatible and also plays all of my media including SACDs (I am one of those…

Did you know Trivection is a real thing? It came out in 2004.

Are we allowed to say +1 on gizmodo, because +1, I snortled.