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MOG down!? :(
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Tyll Hertsens • Dec 02, 2011 • 3 comments

I was merrily listening to Silent Strike (merrily may be the wrong word to use with them) on MOG through my Squeeze Server, when all of a sudden the music stopped. I look at my iPad, which is running iPeng to control everything, and things just start disappearing. I push the MOG button and a cryptic message shows up to reconfigure MOG on mysqueezebox.com. After a bit of fumbling, 'cuz everything looked fine, I pointed my browser at mog ... and was greeted with a bunch of weird posts about their service interuption.

Dontcha just love a company with a sense of humor?

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InnerFidelity December Update
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Tyll Hertsens • Dec 01, 2011 • 13 comments
Months go by like weeks now. It's either because I love this job, or that I'm not writing enough posts between Updates. Probably both, but that's okay. I'll get faster because I love this job.

Let's see what's up with InnerFidelity this month...

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Music: Tango Crash "Otra Sanata"
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Tyll Hertsens • Nov 30, 2011 • 7 comments
Have you ever had the experience of looking at something, and your brain can't figure out what it is, and you stare but can not perceive?

"Otra Sanata" is something like that.

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V-MODA Crossfade M-80 and V-80 True Blood Headphones
Ear-Pad Sealed Headphone Reviews, Specialty Headphone Reviews
Tyll Hertsens • Nov 27, 2011 • 23 comments

Call me out of touch with pop-culture, but I had no idea what the "True Blood" referred to on V-MODA's V-80 True Blood headphone. A quick Google and I know we have a new kind of celebrity headphone, one endorsed by a T.V. show about vampires. Fine with me because ...

... these headphones are AWESOME!

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InnerFidelity Top Ten Headphone Gift Guide
Headphone Buyers Guide
Tyll Hertsens • Nov 22, 2011 • 17 comments
Wander through InnerFidelity and you'll stumble upon a lot of good headphones. But I thought I'd save you some time, and pick a couple hands full of some of the best ways to fill the head of someone you love, with music.

We'll start with the least expensive and work our way up.

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InnerFidelity Mentioned in NY Times Article
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Tyll Hertsens • Nov 21, 2011 • 12 comments
I don't want to break my arm patting myself on the back or anything, but heck, I do have a category for news.

And I reckon being mentioned in the NY Times is a bit of good news.

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Skullcandy Mix Master
Full-Size Sealed Headphone Reviews, Specialty Headphone Reviews
Tyll Hertsens • Nov 18, 2011 • 42 comments

I've got an open invitation to visit Skullcandy's headphone R&D labs in Park City Utah ... and I'll be taking them up on it sometime soon. Why? Because I want to see what they're doing that let them build a few darn good sounding headphones lately.

The Mix Master is one of them.

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AKG Quincy Jones Q460
Ear-Pad Sealed Headphone Reviews, Specialty Headphone Reviews
Tyll Hertsens • Nov 14, 2011 • Published: Nov 14, 2011 • 18 comments

Quincy Jones has it going on, and I liked their higher-end Quincy Jones Q701 when I reviewed it a while ago. But now we come to a very small, sealed portable headphone, the Quincy Jones Q460.

Let's see how it does.

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House of Marley Exodus
Ear-Pad Sealed Headphone Reviews, Specialty Headphone Reviews
Tyll Hertsens • Nov 11, 2011 • 12 comments

Bob Marley's "Exodus" ... wow, what a great album. I must have heard it a thousand times. It's a total classic. Prior to receiving these, I wondered skeptically if Bob Marley "Exodus" the headphone would be a classic. Time will tell ...

... but I think they're off to a good start.

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FujiyaAVIC Headphone Festival Fall 2011
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Tyll Hertsens • Nov 09, 2011 • 0 comments
Photo credt: AnakChan - The Headphone Girls greeting attendees entering the show.
Headphone enthusiasm is alive and well in Japan! Fujia AVIC, an electronics on-line and brick-and-mortar retailer in Tokyo, organizes a bi-annual headphone festival that is headphone otaku at it's finest.
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