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1: Computer Audio Asylum, Let's (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2021-06-28, 15:41:22 (173.56.0.147)
There are many reasons for selecting a streaming service. If one is interested in current, mostly small label jazz, Tidal is the only choice. If you are interested in European jazz, Qobuz is the only .......
2: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Who knows entirely? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2021-06-09, 07:02:31 (68.161.214.110)
I'm using a April Eximus DP1--now obsolete but excellent--feeding it a mix of Tidal and my rips of a large CD collection, organized by Roon and through a Sonore ultraRendu, listening mostly on HD800s. .......
3: Jazz Alley, RE: A lotta jazz in Bklyn. that isn't that "out" too. (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2021-04-13, 12:52:12 (68.161.214.110)
Of course, there are polka bands and mariachi bands, people playing homemade instruments--it's wonderful. Just walk through Prospect Park on a weekend, and you will hear a little of everything. I am s .......
4: Jazz Alley, RE: New Jazz in Brooklyn (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2021-04-13, 08:41:38 (68.161.214.110)
Yes, I have heard some of these people in New York. These remarkable artists have more of a following in Europe than here, I think. Cisco Bradley recently published a book on William Parker and has a .......
5: Jazz Alley, New Jazz in Brooklyn (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2021-04-12, 18:03:12 (68.161.214.110)
I have been away from the Asylum for a long time, and I was mostly on PC Audio some years ago. But for some reason I dropped by and found the relaxed atmosphere here attractive. There is an unknown ja .......
6: Computer Audio Asylum, Since the beginning of the Century (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2021-04-11, 12:43:26 (68.161.214.110)
Whenever it was, I was completely taken by the early Ipods, and I thought, "I want to use Itunes and play digital music through my home stereo." That was probably 2002 or 3. Think of where we were the .......
7: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: +1 items that shows up on the used market. (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2021-02-21, 17:43:40 (71.246.126.149)
I'm happy with the sound of my system(s) now. I listen most with old HD800 and an old Eximus DP1 with an ultraRendu. The variation in sound quality is much more the quality of the recordings than the .......
8: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Dear fellow psychos... (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2021-02-21, 16:07:08 (71.246.126.149)
I find the greatest variable in the sound quality of my gear correlatives rather directly to the amount of tension in my shoulders. This quantity can surely be measured, but, of course, it changes wit .......
9: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Where do I find computer audio for dummies? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2018-01-23, 18:59:51 (100.12.110.106)
Digital audio has proliferated. There are are vast choices for everything, and many people on this forum have expert knowledge of every tweak and twiddle. I have been doing relatively high end digital .......
10: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: This should really be measurable (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2017-12-08, 06:53:12 (100.12.110.106)
I wonder if blocks made of dawn red wood would degrade the sound of "eine kleine nachtmusik." .......
11: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Who has used a Computer as Source shortest ...:_) (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2017-12-07, 06:14:10 (100.12.110.106)
I do not know exactly when it was. I got an iPod shortly after they appeared, 2003 perhaps. I had just retired a desktop Mac--and with iTunes, I realized that it was just a big iPod. My transport star .......
12: General Asylum, RE: How does one distinguish faith based arguments from Audiophile arguments? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2017-11-27, 09:18:16 (100.12.110.106)
JE, William James also said, "We do not laugh because we are happy; we are happy because we laugh." And his book, The Varieties of Religious Experience, is devoted to a related thesis: religious doctr .......
13: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: About Roon with Tidal ?? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2017-05-08, 20:45:17 (100.38.83.235)
Some one scolded me for being off topic. I thought my point was that MQA is a trivial matter--at least at the present. The chances of any new format becoming a standard is highly unlikely, but it is a .......
14: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: About Roon with Tidal ?? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2017-05-08, 16:55:29 (100.38.83.235)
I bought a Mytek Manhattan for reasons that had nothing to do with MQA. I can only say that there are perhaps a dozen albums on the Tidal offerings that I would listen to, most of them by Ornette Cole .......
15: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Is highend audio evil science? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2017-02-03, 15:37:57 (100.38.83.235)
I have been trying to get the best sound I could afford for 50 years. This is what I have noticed: Gear that will fully deliver the musical experience has become much cheaper. A Mac Mini driving a Myt .......
16: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: I don't think that's true (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2015-06-26, 07:09:33 (100.37.214.246)
No, blind tests in photography. You have to stick cotton in your ears, however. There are, of course, endless arguments about sensors and lenses. There are arguments about how lenses "draw." A lot of .......
17: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: You know what's interesting about digital photography? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2015-06-25, 14:54:01 (100.37.214.246)
One difference is that sooner or later photographers,if they are going to make claims about better and worse, have to show their work to people. .......
18: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: You know what's interesting about digital photography? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2015-06-25, 12:06:16 (100.37.214.246)
Photographers love the Diana camera because it has such crappy lenses, and no two the same. .......
19: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: You know what's interesting about digital photography? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2015-06-25, 11:12:13 (100.37.214.246)
Yes, Tony, true enough, but doing photography is perhaps more like making recordings of yourself making music. Or making music in your own studio. One might think of limiting oneself to photographing .......
20: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: You know what's interesting about digital photography? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2015-06-25, 09:52:19 (100.37.214.246)
I have been involved with fairly serious levels of both audio and photography for 30 years. They are not significantly comparable. Audio systems are devices for reproducing a signal as accurately as p .......
21: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Air 'Purifiers' for Audiophiles will soon be 'On their Way'......... (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2015-04-15, 11:45:44 (108.6.201.233)
The ultimate cable, no cable at all: I am going to sell no cables at half the price of the $2000 no cables. .......
22: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: The Amazing Wavelength Crimson / Quotient Q1 (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2015-04-09, 17:59:18 (108.6.201.233)
Well, think of it. It times get hard, you could junk out the silver. .......
23: Computer Audio Asylum, Is Tidal just stopping on other people? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2015-04-05, 08:54:18 (108.6.201.233)
I am not having drop-outs, but sometimes it just stops. As far as I can tell it is a problem with Tidal, not with my gear. .......
24: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Here's an alternative to "controlled", which I'll probably do, when get around to it: (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2014-12-17, 12:59:03 (75.151.35.198)
And my previous posting is, I think, one possible interpretation of the meaning that Karma is a bitch. .......
25: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Here's an alternative to "controlled", which I'll probably do, when get around to it: (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2014-12-17, 12:55:46 (75.151.35.198)
Tony, what you say about mood from one listening to another is, I think, overlooked. Music will not sound the same if you listen to it twice. On the second listening, you might might find the music b .......
26: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Great point(s) (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2014-10-08, 15:22:07 (24.186.83.150)
Sordidman: I see you are a philosophy student. Many things are "shrinking and suffering": both the cultural environment and the natural environment. The ideas that the Greeks produced have prevailed f .......
27: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Thank you, but perhaps I wrote poorly (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2014-10-07, 14:48:44 (24.186.83.150)
Sordid--I mostly agree with you, but music of all kinds ihas proven to be sustainable only in live venues. From the great ballrooms of 1920s and the juke joints of the Delta to the clubs in my neighbo .......
28: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: I'm a songwriter (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2014-10-06, 18:11:53 (24.186.83.150)
Sordid--I am writer too. There are two or three different questions being muddled with one another in this thread, one having to do with the economics of the music industry, one having to do with soci .......
29: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: There's a big difference between the truth & reality (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2014-10-04, 15:47:41 (24.186.83.150)
Sordid. This is just baloney: "Never again will we ever see another artist like Frank Zappa, Mozart, Brian Eno, Miles Davis, or John Coltrane gain enough popularity to realize a modicum of success, d .......
30: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Why settle for inferior digital sound when you can have ... (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2014-09-26, 13:30:22 (24.186.83.150)
When I started teaching at the State University of New York in Albany, the music department had a state of the art electronic music studio, under the direction of Joel Chadabe (whose book on the histo .......
31: Vinyl Asylum, RE: SoundSmith has a great reputation. (mt) (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2013-09-24, 06:55:52 (74.76.238.94)
Thanks. I am in touch with SoundSmith. Talking to Tom there gave me great confidence. And they are in upstate New York, just down the Hudson from where I am. .......
32: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Roksan Radius MkII Power Supply needs repair (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2013-09-23, 09:37:01 (74.76.238.94)
I will put this here for the public record. I chased down the Roksan distributor for North American, which is Rutherford Audio in Vancouver. They directed me to the Sound Smith in Peekskill, NY. Any o .......
33: Vinyl Asylum, Roksan Radius MkII Power Supply needs repair (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2013-09-23, 08:34:22 (74.76.238.94)
The DSU powerf supply for my Roksan Radius Mk II just went kaput. No output, no pilot light, nothing. Chech the obvious (fuses, power cord. Nothing. The North American distributor did not answer and t .......
34: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: No way to answer your question, without... (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2013-05-29, 17:19:26 (74.76.238.94)
We are not talking highest high end necessarily. I can clearly hear the difference be apple lossless and aiff on an Ipod classic, a Ray Samuels P-51, and Westone 4. .......
35: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Another mini Sabre Dac.....only $49 bucks (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2012-09-18, 12:33:55 (74.76.238.94)
Is the audio out by way of a miniature jack? .......
36: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Whistle Pig (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2012-04-22, 19:18:48 (74.76.238.94)
well, a Missourian by birth, I figure whisky to be properly made of corn, rather than rye. This might be something like the argument over digital and vinyl, but I've lived in upstate New York--only a .......
37: Computer Audio Asylum, Well (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2012-04-22, 13:39:22 (74.76.238.94)
even mediocre bourbon doesn't need a mixer .......
38: Computer Audio Asylum, How did people get started? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2012-04-21, 13:08:39 (74.76.238.94)
I bought a fifth generation Ipod in 2005 or 6 (and I still have it; it is still working). With good phones and Apple lossless, the sound was so-so, but it was good enough that one could forget the sou .......
39: Computer Audio Asylum, Fair Use (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2012-03-16, 19:10:53 (74.76.238.94)
Copy-righted material covers only the words of the original text, and, while the rules for quotation are hazy, in a context such as this one, probably considerable direct quotation is allowed. Certain .......
40: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Where to get digital liner notes? (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2012-01-05, 13:03:22 (74.76.238.94)
Much of the data one hopes for in liner notes can be found here http://www.allmusic.com/ Keeping a net device at hand is easier than trying to load the data to your files. .......
41: Digital Drive, RE: How many CD's are to many (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2011-12-27, 20:27:32 (24.193.7.251)
I am an old listener too, I suppose. I also have a collection of 2500-3000 Cds--mostly jazz, but also classical, especially early music, RnB, soul and rock, from the 50s and 60s--the nostalgia stuff. .......
42: Computer Audio Asylum, RE: Pure Music 1.83- Something very special here (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2011-12-20, 16:42:51 (24.193.7.251)
Tony / Merc-- There are some audio systems that give access to the music. This does not take a lot: my Ipod, RSA P-51 amp, and some decent cans will do it. To be sure, any one could tell the differenc .......
43: Speaker Asylum, RE: Good speakers for smaller rooms (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2011-12-13, 15:17:17 (74.76.238.94)
Thanks to everyone for the good tips. I will, of course, check with the dealers in NY, but dealers, of course, sell you what they sell, and it is amazing how few dealers there are in NY, and how littl .......
44: Speaker Asylum, Good speakers for smaller rooms (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2011-12-11, 20:27:15 (24.193.7.251)
For twenty years I have lived in a a city where real estate prices are low, and I have been able to afford a nineteenth-century town of 4000 sq ft, with 16x24 dedicated listening room, and I have had .......
45: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Looking for a good integrated amp (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2011-03-22, 17:51:22 (74.76.239.125)
Thanks everyone for the information. I am beginning to get a little sense of what's out there. I have a beloved but ancient DAC, which I should probably replace also. The reviews in Absolute Sound an .......
46: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Looking for a good integrated amp (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2011-03-22, 07:17:37 (74.76.239.125)
I am moving into a much smaller place and need to make my system more compact. I have never really considered integrateds, and know nothing about them. I have high efficiency speakers, so 50 watts wo .......
47: Computer Audio Asylum, The Apple Store in NYC is a tourist attraction, with lines (0.00)
Posted by Abstraction on 2010-08-30, 13:29:15 (74.76.231.32)
How many people have actually had experience with PCs and Mac, It's amazing that people confuse their identity and a commercial brand. My first computer was an Osborne 1 (1983) cpm, then I got a Mac .......
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