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AudioStream July 2015

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Cary Audio DAC-200ts
I can still remember visiting audio retailer Audio Nexus in Summit, NJ back in the '90s and seeing the lovely Cary CAD-300SEI integrated amp which was at the time outside of my comfort price zone.

Daniel J. Levitin: The World In Six Songs
I consider Daniel J. Levitin’s This Is Your Brain On Music (Dutton, 2006 see review) to be an indispensable entry for every audiophile library and he's gone and done it again. The World In Six Songs: How The Musical Brain Created Human Nature (Dutton Penguin 2008, updated and released in paperback by Plume in 2009) is a fascinating, thought-provoking, and enlightening book that explains how and why music is responsible for making humans human.

The Computer Audio Wars
Much like the world at large, there are ongoing debates, disagreements, and outright hostility between different factions within the world of computer audio (actually all of hi-fi but that's another story).

Download of the Week: Bomba Estereo
Our family recently spent some time on a Caribbean island. I have an ongoing love affair with these islands (especially the non-US ones) and have been visiting for years. One of the things you'll notice when there is the importance of music.

Roon Music Player and Streaming Software
Roon is big medicine for your music collection. So big, we're going to come at it from three writer's perspectives; Jon Iverson will provide the heavy lifting as well as comparisons to Sooloos and a touchscreen implementation, I'll be talking about a few setup tips and comparisons to Audirvana+/iTunes, and Steve Plaskin will bring it on home with his take on Roon versus JRiver from a Windows perspective. Let's Roon!

Eternify's Short Lifespan
NY-based Musicians Ohm & Sport created an app that allowed users to endlessly repeat music from their chosen artist on Spotify in 30-second loops, which is the minimum duration Spotify considers a "listen", earning that artist between $0.006 and $0.0084 per play. The app hit the 'net last week, Spotify took notice, and shut Eternify down by blocking the app from using the Spotify API. Easy come, easy go.

Download of the Week: Jamie xx
Unadventurous? That's how The Quietus' Christian Eede described Jamie xx's debut solo album In Colour (Young Turks). On the other hand, Pitchfork, Metacritic, Q, Consequence of Sound, and NME loved it. Hmm.

Cyrus Audio Stream XA
UK-based Cyrus Audio has been in the Hi-Fi game for 32 years starting out with one of the very first specialist CD players. Fast forward to today, and you're looking at a company that offers roughly 30 products from streamers to preamps, to power amps and a few combinations thereof.

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