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Perfect Sound Eventually? MP3s, CDs, and High Res Audio
When CD players first hit the market, some people, including many audiophiles, complained that they sounded like crap. I lived through this period and for me early CD playback was painfully bad--brittle, shrill, dry, and lifeless.
Consumer Reports On Bettering Your Digital Music
"Banished to a life of mediocrity" to paraphrase someone, I just don't know who, on how Consumer Reports makes me feel whenever I read it.
Download of the Week: Nils Frahm
Solo is Berlin-based pianist, composer and producer Nils Frahm's gift for a holiday he invented, "Piano Day will happen on the 88th day of the year, which most of the time is the 29th of March.
Antipodes Reference Series DX Music Server
Unlike computers, music servers have but a few simple jobs to do--store, stream, and serve music. This seemingly simple task, easily accomplished by the even the doggiest of computers, is actually fraught with issues. Noise, noise, and noise being just three of them.
Meridian Audio transfers software apps business to Roon Labs
If you read my CES 2015 Show Report Wrap, you'll have read this, "One of the most thought-provoking and convincingly awesome demo's I experienced took place in a bar at the Mirage after hours on a laptop and I cannot talk about it." Here's what I was talking about from today's press release:
Why All The Hate?
I was going to write an April Fools' Day post, making fun of all of the press over Tidal, Pono, and Ethernet cables but I just couldn't be funny.
HotHardware Gets It Wrong, Again
Let's get right to it. Here's guest Editor, Jamie Fletcher, from a new article on HotHardware in response to Cables, Bits, and Noise: How Cables Can Make A Sound Difference...
Audioengine's B2 Bluetooth Speaker Sweepstakes
Register to win an Audioengine B2 Bluetooth Speaker (MSRP $299) we are giving away.
Alan Lomax. 17,000 Sound Recordings Online. For Free.
Folklorist Alan Lomax spent about 60 years, beginning in the 1930s, traveling around this country and the world recording our musical heritage. From a 1991 interview with Lomax on CBS...
Download of the Week: Olafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott
The Chopin Project is a re-interpretation of Frederic Chopin’s music by Olafur Arnalds and pianist Alice Sara Ott. The recording, produced by Arnalds, employs vintage microphones, analog recording equipment, non-traditional microphone techniques, and subtly prepared piano.
The Wavelength Audio Crimson HS with Quotient Q1 DAC Module / Silver Transformers
The Wavelength Audio Quotient DAC Module is a new upgrade for the Crimson High Speed USB DAC that has added DSD 64 / DSD 128 as well as support for PCM files up to 32/384 kHz.
Now That's Soundstage!
The sound was eerily present, although bass response was a bit diffuse, and the upper registers a bit bright. Tone colors were portrayed in a natural manner and overall there was nice sense of dynamic swing. My biggest complaint was a complete lack of imaging.
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