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Smithsonian Folkways Radio
A world of music in streaming sound. After I followed the Kora Trail to the Smithsonian Folkways website and Foday Musa Suso, I clicked on their Radio Player and spent the better part of the evening immersed in the music of our world. China, Africa, Mexico, American roots, and more.
The NPR Music App
If you like NPR's First Listen and other music-related programming, you'll love the app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Reader Deckeda recently mentioned the NPR Music App in one of his comments and now's as good a time as any to check it out. The newest featured release is Oneohtrix Point Never's R Plus Seven and its a doozy.
Download of the Week: Howard Hanson-An American Romantic
Howard Hanson (1896-1981) was a conductor, composer, and director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He was one of the most prominent American composers of musical Romanticism who believed that music should strive to preserve beauty, clarity and simplicity. You won’t find dissonance in Howard Hansen’s music.
Download of the Week: Takeshi Nishimoto
It's been a tad crazy around here lately. For many reasons. Hectic, kinda frenzied, always feeling as if you're not done even when you've just finished. There's always something else. Which helps explain my very recent infatuation with Takeshi Nishimoto's Lavandula.
Totaldac D1-Dual DAC
The Totaldac D1-Dual DAC does not contain a Delta-Sigma DAC chip as do most DACs on the market today. Rather it employs a discrete R2R ladder DAC using 200 Vishay 0.01% VAR Bulk Metal® Foil resistors per stereo channel (100 per DAC).
DSD Resources: DSD Download Sites
Most important of all is the music. Here are the places around the 'net where you can find DSD downloads.
1st Edition
How To Play a DSD File: using Foobar2000
Getting DSD to work on a PC with Foobar2000 requires the installation of three drivers—your DAC Manufacturer's custom driver, the ASIO output driver, and the SACD driver. The following guide is a generic step-by-step approach for installing all three drivers.
The Calyx Femto DAC
There has been a movement in the design of high end DACs to reduce jitter to extremely low levels due to the emergence of extremely accurate oscillator-clocks.
Getting Started With Computer Audio Part 3: Music
We all know everything we need to know about music, right? I mean, we find music we like enough to buy, and we buy it. Simple. Well that was the case back when we had physical media as our only choice. More or less.
DSD Resources: DSD Download Sites
Most important of all is the music. Here are the places around the 'net where you can find DSD downloads.
DSD Resources: DSD Media Player Software List
In order to play back DSD files, you'll also need media player software that can handle it. No, iTunes and Windows Media Player don't (on their own). Here's a list of DSD compatible media players.
DSD Resources: DSD DAC List
Here's a (growing) list of DSD-ready DACs.
How To Play a DSD File: using Audirvana Plus
With all of this great DSD news of late, I thought a simple guide to playing back DSD files might come in handy. Since the setup process differs --ending on whether you're using a PC or a Mac as well as what media player software you're using, we're going to offer separate setup guides by media player.
Resonessence Labs Concero HD Digital to Analog Converter
Way back when I reviewed the Resonessence Labs Concero (see review), I wondered/wished, "I wonder if they could easily add DSD capabilities to the Concero?"
Q&A with John Swenson. Part 1: What is Digital?
What is digital? John Swenson: In order to understand some of the more esoteric interactions between digital systems it is necessary to have a basic understanding of how digital systems actually work at a hardware level. I will attempt to provide enough information to understand the interactions, but not get into the nitty gritty of the real implementation details.
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