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what did you get for Xmas? I bought myself a custom carbon saddle for the road bike.
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for anyone with old eyes. I had lens replacement last year and no longer need glasses but the downside is that I need way more light. Even with flood track lights above my LP racks, it's still hard to see the writing on the spines. This gift from my wife solved the problem.
Open up your mind, in pours the trash. - Meat Puppets, 1987
Not quite the same item, but in the same category, I've found an LED headlamp to be extremely useful as well. A game changer for DIY cable projects, cartridge set-up, making .004 poly belts for my Amadeus... plus an excellent nighttime reading lamp.
Yes, Mick, for that kind of stuff, I love this, which I use almost daily...
Happy New Year!
Open up your mind, in pours the trash. - Meat Puppets, 1987
Happy New Year to you and yours as well.
And for reading, I love this.
Open up your mind, in pours the trash. - Meat Puppets, 1987
You can install and align cartridges again..... [-; Hope you had a great Christmas! ........
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LOL. Thanks, Todd. Same to you and happy new year.
Open up your mind, in pours the trash. - Meat Puppets, 1987
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My fave Ellington record.
Here one of my fave track from the album lovely relaxed Duke's piano and Ray Nance playing a fiddle!
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I have that too.
Great soundtrack. And great film too.
Enjoy.
Similar "non audio" present here as well. New flooring installed throughout the house with the exception of the bedrooms.
Gee, all I got was a new heat pump.
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Great controller for music systems using iPeng app. :)
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Back to class A. So sweet.
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I recently purchased a kit of xovers designed by Nelson Pass, along with all the fancy bits to complete them, including deluxe RCA plugs for the IC's to connect everything.CD's: how quaint, I know. I have a $4k CD player and a $400 streamer, so, for me, CD's and SACD's still take precedence. I just can't break the habit, and it's still more satisfying to get a package in the mail and open it and hold the new discs in my hands rather than just opening Qobuz and seeing little icons of album covers that aren't really mine. Besides, the SACD's and some CD's still sound better than even hi-res streaming. This, despite that fact I stream through the Marantz Ruby dac.
berate is 8 and benign is 9
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...people here will tell you that CD's cannot possibly sound as good as what is available with streaming today because it's all been re-mastered or produced to a "higher quality". The 'specs' look better, that is for sure. Sampling Rates and Word Lengths look bigger and better, right?
So, you didn't buy a good enough 'streaming device' or you have a bad DAC and you have to upgrade to xxyy4 DAC to finally, FINALLY, get your money's worth. Every few months it's changing faster than ever in 2023. Here at AA the long term members have heard this again, again, and again since the year 2000.
I know a few things and will say it one more time - there are a few problems with CD technology from the beginning but those mastering engineers who actually listened to the end product on a great system created CD's with considerable quality.
For just one example, Dafos w/Mickey Hart is all you need in listening to hear the potential possible with the 'lowly' CD player technology. It's got EVERYTHING there. Space, depth, frequencies, and WIDE dynamic range. If streaming has anything better than the CD version you will need equipment far more costly to appreciate. How is your new 5 thousand dollar DAC?? A year or 2 later the rags will talk about its limitations compared to the new zzxydash-2 improved.
It has taken quite a bit of time to learn to master the end digital product to a higher standard that it is capable of. But a lot of the product's end result completely depends on the care taken in the recording in the first place.
The classical and jazz people usually do a better job and spend many hours perfecting their recording equipment and technique whether it's an analogue or digital multitrack machine. They take pride in their profession and are always looking to make their job easier and better. It has taken longer for the Rockers because of budgets. I have some Rock vinyl from the 70's that's pretty bad, in the 80's things got better.
This has been going on since the beginning of vinyl and tape. Just listen to the end result despite vinyl's limitations, it can be incredibly good. It's been this way commercially since the 40's with the advent of stereo.
And there is no doubt that some will read and ignore this (who, me?). Others might even agree. Some will pay attention, others will never learn. It's been this way with the world since the appearance of mankind and will never change.
Been spinning a few silver disks here of late.
CEC TL-5 transport to Denafrips Terminator DAC via decent RCA S/PDIF cable.
The Transport is a Japanese 100V version shipped direct from Japan at about 1/2 the price of a US version but, with a 120V > 100V step down, works well.
Got a few thousand CD collected over a very long time so might as well enjoy them.
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First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass
that the archaic 44/16 standard fenced in by late 70s optical media technology is as good as it gets, have at it.
Has nothing to do with streaming. Fortunately, all the majors record classical content in 24 bits at higher sample rates.
As for Dafos , you really need to hear the original 45 RPM vinyl version. ;)
Shame. I DID NOT SAY IT CANNOT GET BETTER THAN 44.1 and I'm shouting this because people frequently misread posts hastily, and you are no exception. Dafos is an old example of how good it COULD have been had the companies and engineers had the time and interest of doing things without errors and not have to be overly concerned with money. Everything costs money and that's the way of the world.
Here's a lesson that many have not learned here - ask questions if you don't understand what was said by me or anyone else to clarify a position. My previous post was a short attempt at generalizing almost a hundred years of Audio and it's not easy with mere words in a few paragraphs. I am not a wordsmith, but I did pretty damn good in college and further on.
Downloading is streaming is it not? Streaming can mean a few of things. Besides all of this non-sequitur nonsense, I like owning physical things like vinyl and CD's until it's better sorted out what to buy and what's not expensive. I am not made of money and do not come from a wealthy family. Just a few years ago many said the name 'Pi whatever' was as good as it gets for cheap. But that was then...this is now... Right NOW is no different than years ago with the age old equipment wars that manufacturers LOVE seeing and afflicting us with upgrade bugs out the ass.
And when I finally decide on what to buy myself it won't be for a few years until the bug bites me again if I'm infected. I grow weary of this type of criticism here on AA so carry on all of you who might read this.
It's got EVERYTHiNG there.44/16 does not.
"Downloading" is not streaming because files are copied at substantially faster than real time playback rates. I will agree, however, that one can stream from an internet provider or from local storage. I do both.
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EVERYTHING is there from the bottom to the tippy top with the rates of redbook. What is done with it before and after is what others have been objecting to since the beginning and with all recording mediums - hence the specialty labels like Reference Recordings.
I will also add that in proper mastering or lack thereof, it is a contributing factor to end product. And I know about the sample size dilemma as the frequency approaches 20k. Dafos is proof that it can sound quite good if done correctly and here we go back to my original post...You eagerly dismiss the proof so readily, either that or you have a penchant for polemics because it gives you a thrill behind a keyboard.
It's funny though, that through all the criticism here lately of CD redbook that a session like Dafos can sound so mightily good even today. If the digital files of it sound any better with greater Word and Sample rates then that's a wonderful thing. Someday I'd like to hear it, but for now it's awesome as it is.
And why do I hear many complaints from people that what they are using right now (streaming wise) sounds disappointing, and they are not happy since their old CD player died. They hunt for places like AA for suggestions of what to buy. Lately I've also heard some say their new stuff sounds bloody good.
There is one thing that is quite alluring about downloading or streaming or whatever you'd like to call it, is the selections available. It's awesome to have so many files to choose from, yet so little time to experience them. Let's talk about Quobuz and others someday and what their limitations are.
co-developed the HDCD format ages ago to address limitations of the Redbook standard. I have a couple of releases in that 44/20 format.
Today, they master releases in DSD or high rate 24 bit.
And why do I hear many complaints from people that what they are using right now (streaming wise) sounds disappointing...
Like everything, it's gear and release dependent. I stream Qobuz Studio (up to 192/24) and get excellent results.
...this was back in '91 if I remember correctly with the Rotel 990 TOTL and that wonderful transport. It was a statement product and built like the proverbial tank. It weighs a ton too. Unfortunately they ran out of transports and changed it to the 991. The transport looks like nothing I have ever seen before, totally enclosed cast metal with rounded corners and edges. Most likely made in the USA, it's hard to take a pic of it. I also have a few other players including an Alesis studio player/recorder with a hard drive. Here's a pic of my Pacific Microsonics chip:
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the menu for changing dither to linearize the conversion has 9 options and it's quite audible. When I called them to find out what the last one was the engineer wasn't sure what it was supposed to do because it was not described in the manual. Today if you try calling someone from a big company you'd be fortunate to get a real person at the other end.
Doc Johnson was a genius.
Here's a pic of my Pacific Microsonics chip:
Unnecessary today to extract the signal. I rip CDs using dbPoweramp which saves the content as 44/24 (even though the last four bytes are padded).
Doc Johnson was a genius.
Agree, but isn't he still alive? He is also involved with Spectral Audio .
I wonder if audiophiles will look back in a few years with such fond memories of MQA?
No, you don't need to answer that, I just like asking (through the
years, now) that question on audio boards, never expecting a
satisfactory reply from anyone, nor getting one, from anyone.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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HDCD added resolution. MQA removed it.
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Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
The inescapable truth for every medium.
Gsquared
I bought myself a few photobooks after not buying any for a long time, and I also bit the bullet and upgraded my dCS Bartok to APEX - no regrets!
That was the $150 AppleTV 4K device which has allowed me to access the veritable treasure trove of Dolby Atmos recordings in discreet channels (5.1.4 in my case) now available on Apple Music. I've been in hog heaven ever since!
it's way smoother and the highs are way more pleasing with lows less unpleasing.
Hell yeah, got a bottle of Japanese whisky, Hibiki. Didn't expect it to taste so smooth...yum yum.
Chris, I'm not familiar with mult-channel music but I know that you and a couple others have elaborate setups to take advantage of it. How would you rate the Atmos offerings available via Apple Music and the AppleTV box to the specialty downloads that you have historically listened to?
I think Kal R. is also into multi-channel music.
My only Dolby Atoms experience is with some movies via AppleTV and a TV soundbar, rear surrounds, and a subwoofer.
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I missed your post back in July.
Thanks!
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Is just great , it puts you right in the concert hall, there are some in jazz and some in pop music worth listening to, but classical sound so natural, is worth the investment.
I would go so far as to say that if you're NOT listening with Dolby Atmos (with discreet channels), you're missing part of the sound field. (And, as Javier suggests, this mainly applies to classical recordings.)
HOWEVER (and this will be a killer for some listeners), the resolution of Dolby Atmos on Apple Music is lossy 24/48. For me it's more important to have the whole sound field in all its dimensions than it is to have the nth degree of lossless resolution. (And I'm familiar with 5Ch and 5.1Ch surround recordings, having downloaded and enjoyed DSD256 and DXD files. But even hi-rez surround misses conjuring up the whole sound field like Dolby Atmos does.) Streaming Dolby Atmos is now at the point where stereo streaming was ten or twenty years ago - I'm sure that higher and lossless rez will become available for Dolby Atmos eventually. You can hear lossless Dolby Atmos on blu-ray, but the selection is pitiful compared to what's on Apple Music - or Amazon Music (which I have no experience with - I've read that the algorithms which generate the lossy files are slightly different between the two companies). I think there may be one other streaming service which offers Dolby Atmos, but I can't remember which one it is.
Also, please don't make the mistake of judging Dolby Atmos on the basis of a 2Ch mixdown. Almost all the experiences people have had with the mixdown invariably indicate that it sounds muddy. You absolutely need the discrete channels IMHO.
Anyway, I wrote up my experience integrating Apple TV 4K and the paid version of Apple Music into my system this past July (link below).
I bought a pair of tires for the front of the van. Gotta have some good treads for safe driving. They say we're supposed to get 3" of snow sometime this winter.
When I was a kid, I lived across the street from a field that was flooded by the fire department to make the village's skating rink. Back then, by this time in December the snow banks around the rink were well over six feet high and the ice would be 4" thick. These days, they're probably taking the second cutting of alfalfa in December.
Things have really changed in 50 years.
Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
Wife bought me a Yaesu FT5D radio from HRO when I alerted her that it was on sale at the lowest price of the year. I'm programming it now with Colorado mountain top repeater frequencies. I also program various repeaters into channel banks (groups) for different travel locations and turn those banks ON while we're there.Yaesu FT5D radio
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I bought her a vintage Singer Featherweight sewing machine that she will take with her to quilting seminars / classes. They're made of mostly cast aluminum. These are collectable but also practical with the travel box. Her's is not especially rare but fully refurbished, functional, and looking nice.
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too hard for me.....have a leather one.
I bought myself a pair of Audience 1+1 V5 desktop speakers, and I am absolutely delighted with them. They are also a gift which will keep on giving because now I will have the fun of selecting a driver and building a cabinet for an under the desk subwoofer to accompany them.
Since my wife of fifty-one years passed away a couple of years ago I have become quite generous with my gifts to myself.
I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having it's motives questioned.
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