{"id":232,"date":"2004-05-08T03:37:02","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2004-05-08T03:37:02","modified_gmt":"2004-05-08T08:37:02","slug":"new-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/08\/new-headphones\/","title":{"rendered":"new headphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (well, *technically* yesterday, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s 2:30am on sat now) my new headphones arrived in at work. From Grado Labs, Alessandro Music Series One.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty good so far.<\/p>\n<p>Having to go through my iMic on my desktop PC as the built in sound has too much noise (you hear this high pitched tone with the headphones).<\/p>\n<p>knew that imic would be useful.. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (well, *technically* yesterday, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s 2:30am on sat now) my new headphones arrived in at work. From Grado Labs, Alessandro Music Series One. Pretty good so far. Having to go through my iMic on my desktop PC as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/08\/new-headphones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-gadgets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":742,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/28\/sound-volume\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":0},"title":"Sound Volume","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-09-28","format":false,"excerpt":"I like listening to music while I work. I also like notification sounds - such as gaim chiming when messages are received (so I look at them) and such things. I use an iMic USB audio dongle to output sound to my headphones (partly because the connector on my laptop\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GNOME&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GNOME","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/gnome\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":713,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/ubuntu-and-more-than-1-audio-device\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":1},"title":"Ubuntu and more than 1 audio device","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-06-13","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to a new category of blog post: heart-it-or-fart it. This is an extenstion on the \"Inciting Hatred\" category, also allowing for praise. I have a headphone socket on my laptop that seems a bit loose or a connection is dodgy. 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The suck. Well, that strikes them off my list. In case you didn't know, I don't do the leather thing. There's also a disturbing review over at Amazon from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4409,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/switching-to-iphone-part-2-seriously\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":4},"title":"Switching to iPhone Part 2: Seriously?","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2018-12-15","format":false,"excerpt":"In which I ask of Apple, \"Seriously?\". That was pretty much my reaction with Apple sticking to Lightning connectors rather than going with the USB-C standard. Having USB-C around the place for my last two (Android) phones was fantastic. I could charge a phone, external battery, a (future) laptop, all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":325,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/21\/annoying-mp3-compression-artifacts\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":5},"title":"annoying MP3 compression artifacts","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-12-21","format":false,"excerpt":"hrrm... grrr... at 192kbits VBR using lame.. still hear them. maybe i'm going to have to encode everything at 256 minimum or something. buying good headphones can sometimes be a curse as well as a blessing.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}