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With the Mophie pack I will win a nobel prize and start racing cars. I'll go on tour with Pearl Jam and make out with hot girls. I will do standing backflips and defeat the worlds best chess players..

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Seconded. iStrobosoft is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest as far as tuners go.
boom boom boom boom. i want those headphones in my room.
@Tom Clague

Scroll up one comment and you will see that I gave a listening test on all three of the new Shures, compared to the DT770, 80 ohm.

The D770's are not the best headphones in the world, agreed. But as far as sub $200 closed headphones go, they don't have much competition. The AKG's, Sennheiser, Shure's in that range all fall short of the Beyerdynamics.

Again, I am limiting this to closed-air headphones. open-air is a whole other ballgame, apples and oranges.
I took all three of these sets for a test drive at InfoComm last month.

840's - Very nice. I can't imagine anyone being disappointed with these cans. Great sound across the full spectrum, reasonably flat and a pleasure to listen to. I wouldn't put them above my Beyerdynamic dt770 pro's, but it is very close. Yes, they are danceable!

440's - For $125, these are OK. They didn't impress, but then again, when i tested them, the 840's became the reference set. And compared to the 840's, these are mediocre at best. Decent set for the price, but nothing that is going to blow your mind at this price. Which is what I was hoping for / expected from shure.

240's - Avoid. These were pretty craptastic. Compared to other $75 sets, they are probably decent, but when you do a side by side by side with the two other models, these are not good. $50 extra won't break the bank, so if you HAVE to have shure, get the 440's. Or test out some AKG, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic sets.

It's also worth noting that these are all closed headphones. So any comparison to open sets (specifically Grado) or IEM's is silly.
Sounds like Nissan has been playing a bit too much F-Zero.
That sounds quite delicious.
Both of the MotionPlus tennis games have fallen short of my expectations. I'll be sticking to playing Virtua Tennis on the xbox for now, since even though I'm using a controller, it is still more realistic (considering gameplay and strategy as an important aspect of realism). And I am a big tennis game junkie.

Tiger Woods however is amazing, i haven't had this much fun with a golf game in... well, ever! They nailed it.
I made a video with some pretty dramatic load times for X-Plane and the Sims 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vUViipY36I&fmt=18

Added in a timer as well.
more like Panzer Dragoon Saga (Box)
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"What is the best wireless surround sound speaker solution? I have a home theater where running wires is just not feasible. I have my own speakers, so I don't want a system that has speakers with integrated wireless. I've done a far amount of research and have only come across a few companies that even offer a reasonable solution: KEF, Kenwood and Rocketfish. Is there anything else out there? What do you recommend? Thank you!"
 

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