Meze’s Classics 88 Headphones have some serious style going for them. With a wood grain finish available in matte or glossy, and what I’d characterize as a “warm but pleasing” sound signature, these come with a “recommended” seal of approval if you want your headphones to have a little touch of class.

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4:58 Fair for Canada? Canadian Telco’s band together against competition
20:59 Amazon working on a new screen tech called “Paperwhite”
23:55 Amazon moving into more markets
30:00 Josh from Fractal Design joins us!
32:50 There really isn’t that much mark-up on custom computers
49:16 AMD Possibly abandoning FX processors
57:00 Core 1000 refresher?
1:01:09 Josh destroys Linus –
1:03:20 EA shuts down servers prematurely – gets sued
1:09:48 EA sucks ever so slightly less
1:12:02 Lab grown burger tastes horrible
1:14:25 John Carmack joins Oculus as the CEO!
1:16:57 Old ideas being resurrected into realistic devices
1:19:48 The stream fails 3 times… starts up again with minor hysterics
1:21:00 The Jobs movie and Ashton…
1:23:46 Console optimizations will just make PC even stronger
1:26:20 CUDA is doomed says Roy Taylor of AMD
1:29:38 Samsung in mass production of 3D Vertical NAND Flash
1:31:29 Nvidia dives into tablets
1:34:19 HD9970 Rumours are nothing short of beast
1:37:22 Microsoft digs a deeper hole for its console
1:42:50 CBS blocks online subscribers from watching their content if they use Time Warner
1:45:38 Build logs of the week

The most overkill gaming PC buyer’s guide we’ve ever made has landed. Our Haswell 4th generation Core i7 processor is complemented by dual NVIDIA Titan graphics cards in SLI. All of this is cooled by a water cooling setup that costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Enjoy.

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Ironically today NVIDIA reached to say my Shield is en route, so all this effort may have been for nothing, but one way or another I’m really looking forward to testing out the real thing vs our DIY solution.

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Pricing & availability: Seriously? You want to buy this? Lawl.

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Since we didn’t receive and NVIDIA Shield and we still want to have the handheld experience while streaming desktop games from a PC, we decided to build our own.

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Can hard drives still be sexy? ADATA says “yes” but I’ll let you be the judge.

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The G1 Sniper 5 from Gigabyte is their answer to the RoG series from ASUS. It features better onboard networking, better onboard audio, and “overbuilt” grade components.

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3:38 Former EA CEO states good games are better than good graphics
7:15 JJ from ASUS joins us!
13:40 Similarities amongst Z87 boards
27:28 Perpetuating ignorance
30:33 TUF series boards vs ROG boards
31:42 New ASUS sound cards on the way
33:49 Air/Watercooled ROG Graphics Card
36:30 Where would you like to see ASUS grow into
41:18 ASUS ROG Boards VS MSI Gaming Boards
46:19 4K upgrades expanded + Linus vs JJ baller setups
49:52 WD Red Hard Drives
51:38 Up and coming ASUS products
54:08 Dual socket ROG boards
1:00:20 RIADR Express on PCIe v2? Why?
1:02:20 Why not more AMD motherboards
1:03:39 Why are the new Z87 boards gold?
1:06:45 AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta drivers brings frame pacing to Radeon cards
1:14:08 Samsung denies phone test trick
1:26:04 USB 3.1 Spec has been finalized, ramping up to Thunderbolt
1:29:48 The Foc.us technology works… but does the Foc.us work?
1:30:15 BMW i3 – “Cheap” mass produced carbon fiber cars on the way
1:34:02 NFC tag ring hits kickstarted goal in 3 days
1:36:35 Modified Galaxy Note II carries 288GB of storage and a 8,500 mAH battery
1:40:55 Pressure cooker raid
1:43:52 Google Fiber not to be used to host servers
1:49:00 $20,000 Worth of space ships blown up in EVE Online
1:52:00 Moscow subway to read SIM cards on phones
1:54:14 300GB discs coming soon
1:59:10 Nvidia creating their own personal VR headset
2:04:45 Build logs of the week!

The Hammerhead Pro headset from Razer is for bass heads. There I said it. They look awesome and the build quality feels awseome, but if you’re looking for a reasonably balanced “reference” sound without doing some serious EQ tuning, these aren’t for you.

I mean, it’s right in the name: “Hammerhead”

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