Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 20 11:29:54 CST 2013
If you can free yourself from Apple's control, FOSS software (like mediaMonkey and maqny others) losslessly compress CDs to FLAC files, approx 50% of CD filesize; then a small settop box like the Kdlinks HD700 will stream them all from your server to your receiver or preamp, with no corporate predator restraining your choices. PB ------ On 2013-02-20 8:46 AM, Gary Kjos wrote: > Congratulations! I'm jealous. So nice to have a system that you can > play at any volume level and not need to wonder about distortion or > what is being left out due to sampling constraints etc. I recently > bought a new receiver which has networking built in and so could > listen to the music on my PC's. I hadn't bought in to the MP3s are > noticeably degraded idea and so thought all would be well and good as > I had enjoyed these same tunes via my iPOD and from memory stick in my > vehicle without noticing significant loss of quality. When I listened > to them on the Big System though I certainly noticed! So I've since > reconverted all my CD's to WAV and am in the process of doing them > again another time using iTUNES Lossless format for playing via iTUNES > Airplay which I like for it's random play capability and have been > enjoying the music as it was intended to be heard again. > > Enjoy your new speakers! > > GK > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: >> Hi all >> >> More than 30 years ago when in the audio business, two of our clients - >> audio-visual producers - asked for new top-notch monitor speakers for their >> studios. We toured several suppliers listening to the well-known brands, >> quite expensive, and then we stopped by at Technics as they had gained much >> attention due to a major lift in quality. >> That settled it. I still recall how we listened carefully to our selection >> of "difficult" music but our real test was the reproduction of high-quality >> recorded human voice which is far more difficult to reproduce than most are >> aware of. There was no doubt - the SB-7000 speakers with the >> phase-correcting speaker alignment were convincing and the price couldn't be >> matched: >> >> http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SB-7000.html >> >> At that time I neither had the money nor the space for such speakers but >> ever since I've dreamed of obtaining a set of these. By pure accident, >> Saturday I browsed a local second-hand site, and there they were, right in >> front of me on the screen, at a bargain price - and I have the room. Through >> the years I have struggled with some compact wife-friendly speakers - very >> good of course, but still - nothing beats a 15" high-quality speaker (except >> an 18" but they are so rare). >> >> Now, this set could really be anything - burned out units or misbehaved in >> many ways. So I had to go and listen: I brought some music that can bring >> down most systems and reveal any sort of misbehaviour: Chick Corea, My >> Spanish Heart, and Miles Davis, Tutu, on CD: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Spanish_Heart >> >> It was like coming home! They reproduced perfectly and exactly like I had >> imagined with the transparent and completely neutral sound I remembered. >> They've two owners only, and no disco youngster had succeeded destroying >> them. >> So, today I picked them up and can hardly wait to get home and power them >> up. Should this day come? From time to time I thought No and resigned ... >> but today: Yes. >> >> Through the years I've kept (some sort of intuition or instinct?) this >> bright Sony amplifier to power them: >> >> http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-TA-N86B.html >> >> Though I have quite decent equipment to feed this, I might be looking for >> the matching preamp: >> >> http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-TA-E88B.html >> >> But that's another story. >> >> /gustav >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >