Epinions Recent Reviews for dxbari

Why Buy Sansa: Armband Much Better Than Expected

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:20:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - I recently bought a S
anDisk
Sansa e270R music player, and wanted to use it while exercising. This would be: jogging, biking, using exercise equipment, etc. So, I set about buying the accessories I would need for the...

Open Air Headphones for the Active Listener

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:51:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - I recently bought a S
anDisk
Sansa e270R music player, and wanted to use it while exercising. This would be: jogging, biking, using exercise equipment, etc. I checked online and at a few local stores for headphones...

Why Buy Sansa: e270R: iDon't Know What the Fuss is About...

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:39:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - BACKGROUND (skip to Main Review if you'd rather get right to it): So, after quite a while of working almost nonstop I decided to take a vacation. That basically means not going to work a refamiliarizing myself with the place I pay the...

Outstanding Sound from a Compact Package

Thu, 3 May 2007 14:41:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - I have been meaning to finish this review for years. While it is likely you won't find this product any more in first run retail, it makes appearances on eBay (there right now in fact) and other outlets. When I set out to make this purchase, I needed...

Not a Bad Little Iron

Thu, 3 May 2007 14:00:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - I had been using the same iron since college, what probably was the basic of the basic models. It did not have the ability to spray water on clothes while ironing, making for a real issue if I had to iron something in a hurry. The options were to buy a...

S-H453F-K Speaker Pair: Pioneer's Low Cost, High Quality Option

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:07:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Pioneer is a familiar name in the speaker and home audio arena. While no longer a market leader in the consumer home audio market, they still produce a solid product at relatively modest prices. In a world where top model floor speakers cost thousands...

SS-MF550H Speaker Pair: Sony's Bargain Floor Speaker Option

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:07:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - When looking for a compact floor speaker set, the first pair that I bought were the Sony SSMF550H. I was unhappy on many different levels with that choice. Evaluation/Issues They sounded alright in the store but I wasn't sure how it would...

Logitech MX1000 Laser (9311750403) Mouse: The Laser Mouse of the Future: For Early Adopters

Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:56:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Logitech is the undisputed king of PC input peripherals, and their reputation is well earned. The MX1000 puts even more distance between their products and competing brands. Its laser-based sensing technology is head-and-shoulders above what was...

Mitsubishi's New Must-See DLP TV Fleet: Technological Convergence at its Best

Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:34:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Big Screen Television. For many years the concept was somewhat better than the reality. Big screen televisions were: blurry, grainy, unreliable, too difficult to calibrate, too bulky on the whole, and flat out expensive. Not to mention that in an age...

A Lot of Style and Surprising Substance

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:04:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - "What's the cut, poppa?" Well, Junior, it's a mixed bag. At some points channeling the Bee Gees with the vocals, or Ben Folds with the piano, or Filter with a wall of noise, this group (that flamed out after two obscure albums) is all over the place...

Filter's Sonic Dog: All Samples Cleared

Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:14:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Filter is a band that you either like or hate. Poseurs? Possibly, but Short Bus rocked when it hit in 1995, plain and simple, distilling Industrial into a slick package that then wasn't being done by every wannabe on the music scene...

The Album Non-Fans Just May Adore

Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:13:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - This is the only Pumpkins album I own, and may ever own. Okay, I think I own two, the followup to this one I think. It was dirt'e cheap for some reason so I picked it up on a lark, but who knows where it went. But back to this one, or the band rather...

In Square Circle: A Paradox in Title and Content

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:04:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Stevie Wonder, instrumental virtuoso and musical genius, needs no introduction. Volumes have been about his music and influence, as well as his well documented "decline" in the 1980's. One of the drawbacks of unfettered genius early in life is that...

Soundtracks. Bond Soundtracks.

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 04:04:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming wrote a series of adventures about a character, James Bond, that have remained incredibly popular the world over nearly forty years after his own death. This popularity of the superspy character--with a predilection for...

Quintessential Rap Soundtracks: Make Way for the Gangsta [Rap]

Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:00:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Fraternal twin to the New Jack City (NJC) soundtrack (actually it hit about 4 or 5 months later), this soundtrack is nearly on par with that effort and equally classic. When the Boyz 'N The Hood movie arrived on the scene, it reached a...

The First Glimpse of Luther-As-Superstar

Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:38:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - By the time of this 1991 release, Luther Vandross was a bonafide superstar. With a run of three straight outstanding records building his popularity (The Night I Fell in Love, Give Me the Reason, and Any Love) and a wildly popular...

Freedy Johnston's Big Hit

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 03:48:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Freedy Johnston is one of the last great singer/songwriters. In the vein of a Paul Simon or Bob Dylan, he can write a great tune and great lyrics but the vocals can take some getting used to. His voice on it's best day could be described as nasally,...

Forgotten Pop: Glenn Medeiros Makes it Big

Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:45:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Glenn Medeiros, best known for his worldwide hit "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You", sings here on this 1990 self-titled album (not be confused with the self-titled album on the Amherst Records label) which marked the pinnacle of success that he...

Bell Biv DeVoe's Swan Song on the Charts

Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:32:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - They should have never let Babyface leave the studio. Whatever it took: begging, pleading, buckets of money--anything--to keep him in the studio long enough to make an album's worth of songs like this. The lone hit and only redeeming quality of...

Glenn Frey Flies Like An Eagle

Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:25:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - In the seventies there was this little known band called the The Eagles. They sang a couple of songs that people liked, and their greatest hits album was bought by their immediate families and a few other people--something like 26 million of them...

Kid A: Magnificent Yet Convoluted

Mon, 2 Sep 2002 02:05:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - If OK Computer was the world at the edge of ruin and technological mayhem, Kid A is a headlong dive into the apocalyptic abyss. An album that's taken nearly two years to grow on me (and it wasn't until the followup Amnesiac had been...

A Remix Album that Can Stand Beside the Source Material

Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:47:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Bell Biv DeVoe (BBD) is the epitome of the niche vocal group. Composed of New Edition alums Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins (the man most directly responsible for Boyz II Men's rise to recording prominence), and Ronnie DeVoe. So what do you do if you take...

Booth and the Bad Angel Make Beautiful Music

Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:18:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Comparisons are difficult for this borderline concept album created by the duo of Tim Booth (lead singer of UK pop band James) and master composer Angelo Badalamenti (of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Mulholland...

The Album That Wrecked Their Careers

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:05:00 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Rarely has one album been more damaging to a solid career than this 1993 debacle. Incredibly, Bell Biv DeVoe did manage to revive their career (excepting the lackluster NE reunion that went nowhere in the late-90's) nearly a decade after this was...

Little Stevie Wonder, Brilliant Even Then

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:06:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dxbari - Arguably the first album by Stevie Wonder, legendary musical talent and pioneer, released in 1963. As the name indicates, this is a jazz album (instrumental, in fact) and is the only pure jazz album he's ever recorded. Though it is generally believed...