Being the HUGE headphone buff I seem to have turned into, I saw the title of the article and I had to see if these actually were THE BEST headphones in the world.

I've written about the Audeze LCD-2 headphones in this blog before, but now I'm going to cover the LCD-3 model, Audeze's best headphones. At first glance the two don't look all that different, but the LCD-3s sport real zebrawood earcups and have thicker and softer real lambskin leather cushions to coddle your ears. This is a fairly heavy (550-gram) set of headphones, but they're comfortable to wear for hours at a time. Details of why the LCD-2s and LCD-3s sound different aren't forthcoming from Audeze, other than the drivers, which use similar technology, are different. I can't say the two sound hugely different, but the LCD-3s are definitely more transparent and clear. Are they worth double the price? No, the LCD-2 model remains in the line and gets you 80 percent of the LCD-3's sound, but if you want the very best, get the LCD-3s.

Rather than use standard headphone drivers that operate like miniature woofers or tweeters, the LCD-3s, like the LCD-2s, use a large, 6.17-square-inch thin-film planar magnetic driver to make sound. The Audeze circular flat diaphragm is sandwiched between rows of neodymium bar magnets. When audio signals pass through the diaphragm it moves in and out to produce sound, but thanks to its large size and superlow mass the planar magnetic drivers generate significantly lower distortion than conventional headphone designs. The LCD-3's headphone cable is detachable, via locking connectors, and is therefore user-replaceable.

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Did you buy Facebook stock? Not me... I bought Coors and Budweiser! 

Facebook Inc shares rose less than expected on their first day of trade on Friday and huge order volume caused technical problems that marred the coming out party of the No. 1 online social network.

Its shares were up 8 percent in early afternoon trading on the Nasdaq, after opening 11 percent higher and then rapidly heading south to touch their initial public offering price of $38. The gains were below market forecasts of as much as a 50 percent jump.

"We have got some unhappy guys out there," said Wayne Kaufman, chief market strategist at John Thomas Financial, a retail broker on Wall Street. "They were hoping for Facebook to be considerably better. I bet there are a lot of disappointed people in the market." 

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To be very honest I am very happy with Comcast's business class service as I get unlimited data for about 100 bucks a month plus, I'm not on the normal residential network I actually get physically moved over ( I watched a guy do it) to Comcast business network. Really very pleased. 

Comcast on Thursday decided to get rid of its controversial 250 gigabyte-per-month cap for its broadband customers, replacing it with a usage-based billing system.

The company put its current cap in place in 2008. The decision was aimed at a small number of Internet users who Comcast (CMCSA) felt were abusing their all-you-can-eat privileges by downloading a steady stream of HD movies from peer-to-peer networks. That heavy usage was limiting the bandwidth available for average customers. 

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Wow.. that is not a good day at the office! 

According to Forbes contributor Adam Hartung, Steve Ballmer is “the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today.” Ballmer, writes Hartung, has abandoned important markets (mobile music, handsets, and tablets), damaged the long-term prospects of Dell, HP, and Nokia, blew the Windows Vista deployment, and offered tech customers nothing to get excited about with Windows 7 or Office 2010. The company’s stock price has halved since 2000. Microsoft is “a PC company, nothing more.”

Worst of all, Ballmer has bet the future of Microsoft, Dell, HP, Nokia, and other unspecified companies, on Windows 8. This is “An insane bet for any CEO – and one that would have been avoided entirely had the Microsoft Board replaced Mr. Ballmer years ago with a CEO that understands the fast pace of technology shifts and would have kept Microsoft current with market trends.” 

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