Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Thu Feb 21 05:03:53 CST 2013
Hi Peter Thanks, sounds like a good idea. I'll check it out. /gustav -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Peter Brawley Sendt: 20. februar 2013 18:30 Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: A big day 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 > > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com