"Don’t buy the cheap ear-clip headphones. It’ll hurt your ears"

I didn’t think Philips was a cheap class, but it was indeed low price… So, the 3rd headphones I bought was Sennheiser PMX 100. I heard a lot of good thing about Sennheiser, how they precisely produce a great quality of sound.

I bought this from E-Bay this time, for $27. Pretty cheap since it’s in open-retail packaging (the display model). At least it’s not fake compared to many counterfeits items for Sennheiser CX series (I just knew that last night =D).

So, here’s the quick spec:

• Frequency Response: 15 Hz - 27 kHz
• THD, Total Harmonic Distortion: <0.1 %
• Nominal Impedance: 32 Ohm
• Cable Length: 1.4 m
• Weight without Cable: Ca. 60g
• Sound Pressure Level (SPL): 114 dB (SPL)

My score for this headphones: 8/10

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This is the 2nd headphone I bought after Sony MDR-V150. Philips SHS 390 — from Walmart this time (avoiding re-stocking fee? I love Walmart!).

I’m not really into an ear-clip/hook type of person. I was curious though, therefore I bought it for around $12, I forgot.

Here’s the quick spec:

• Headphones Form Factor: Behind-the-neck
• Headphones Technology: Dynamic
• Connectivity Technology: Wired
• Sensitivity: 102 dB
• Response Bandwidth: 12 - 22000 Hz

It has bit deeper response compared to the previous Sony, but the sound quality is quite decent. Way better than MDR-V150 in my opinion. Bass - Treble are in balance, even not really spectacular, but it’s reasonable.

My score for this behind-the-neck headphone is: 7/10

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I’ve been looking around for a an excellent cheap pair of headphones these weeks. I will go through a simple review for every each pair I purchased.

The first one is this mini-headphones from Sony. MRD-V150. I’ve been using earphones for many many years, so I think I’m going to try the new dimension of listening experience eh? Yeah, I bought this from Circuit City for $19.00 —

My score for this headphones: 5/10

This headphones really disappointed me. It might be my own stupidity but it’s how I feel.

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It should be my 3rd year living in United States. I live in seacoast area, New Hampshire to be exact. It’s close with Boston, MA — which is like an hour drive from here.

Well, there are two types of employees here, Temp and Permanent.

Basically, either you’re hired and working directly with the company, or working in a company through Agency. Needless to say, working through agency is somewhat easier since it’s them who will look up the job for you, while in the other hand, they will pay you less =)

In my State, most of positions and job fields are in factory line. Either assembling, machine operator, which mostly requiring our muscles to work. That’s what I do now, and I’m getting tired of it.

I’m a graphic designer basically, and I’m looking forward for a suitable position for myself, but it’s almost impossible to find this field in NH, even through many Agencies. I’ve tried…

Few days ago, my friend told me about moving to Boston - since there are more offers in that place. He also told me about this work agency, called Hollister. Boston Jobs are their main scope, and their networks are basically dealing with collar’s instead of T-shirt, jeans and sneaker’s workers. Yep, office work.

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This might be the best PC Monitor from Samsung, dedicated for videophilias. If you’re using a 22" and up of LCD Monitor for your PC, you might want to consider buying one of these SyncMaster.

There are two models, T240HD (24”) and T260HD (26”) — both of them have a 1920 x 1200 native resolution with contrast ratio 10000:1, a built-in DTV Tuner, a DVI port as well as one D-Sub, 2 HDMI 1.3a and a SPDIF.

The estimate prices are targeting Korea’s market, and expected to be around 570€ for the T240HD and 690€ for the T260HD.

After bombarding laptops with "EEE PC" brand, Asus took a break this time by releasing the new Laptop series: B50A (15.4"), F8 (14.1"), F6 (13.3"), G71V (17") and G50V (15").

Other than G71V and G50V, the rest are using the Intel Penryn Core 2 Duos as processor. They also built with a pretty solid and powerful system, at least to run Vista this day. Ironic, but yes, it has (up to) 4GB of RAM, 320 GB HDD, and 256 MB Graphic Card from ATI Radeon.

The G71V and G50V using the Intel Core 2 Quad QX9300 and 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT graphics since it’s dedicated as a gaming laptop. It has also the gaming hotkeys. 2 x 500GB HDD, means 1TB for a laptop is definitely kickass.

There are no information yet about the price and release date.

With AMOLED Touch Screen technology, Cowon  brings you the sexiest and most elegant Media Player. With 3.3" Display panel, it has also 16 million colors on 480 x 272 resolution. Powered by dual-core technology, even it’s only 500MHz, it’s more than enough for a PMP. The other features are: T-DMB digital television tuner, Bluetooth, FM radio, TV-out, and G-Sensor accelerometer.

With single charge, this player could playback the music for nearly 2 days (40 hours). The look, features and performance seem promising. We expect to hear the price and release date soon along with the more detailed specs.

YouTube Camcorder? Yet another YouTube-ism camcorder enters the market.

Facts: most YouTube dedicated camcorders are ignoring the term of quality.

Can’t really blame them since most of it are selling the portability over quality; however this JVC Everio does not really attached to that stereotyping. The video quality on this camcorder is pretty decent. Not just that, it also have some smart features desired by YouTube user.

First, it has a fast start-up speed. For capturing unexpected moments, it surely does help a lot. The 35x optical zoom also brings the scene closer to your viewer. Then, it also has a nice and easy touch-screen navigator.

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It is the first one. Kensington released the wireless USB docking station, which allows you to have the 5 USB ports, DVI monitor port and speaker ports.

Speaking about the wireless, it’s absolutely a best friend for notebook users. You don’t need to bother plugging in or out your device(s) every time, and you don’t need to worry about the cable and such.

The WUSB (Wireless USB) is quite a new standard, which for some notebooks are not compatible with this docking station, however, a few companies, such as: Belkin, D-Link and IOGEAR they have a wireless USB adapters and hubs, that allow you to add a (limited) WUSB on your PCs and peripherals.

This device costs $230. Pretty expensive indeed, either worth it or not, it’s your own decision.

Finally the USB upgrading itself. Yes, it’s faster than before — like 10 times faster. USB 3.0 can transferring 27 GB of data in 70 seconds.

In the picture above, you can see how it looks like. Not really a brand new look, which is good. The left-side is the fat one, which is often used for a printer port, and the right-side is the normal one.

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