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CES 2014 Complete Coverage
AudioStream.com's Michael Lavorgna provides extensive coverage of all things digital from Las Vegas.
Download of the Week: Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron's The Quest is among the records that I enjoy endlessly. Recorded July 27, 1961 featuring Mal Waldron on piano, Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone and clarinet, Booker Ervin on tenor saxophone, Ron Carter on cello, Joe Benjamin on bass, and Charlie Persip on drums, The Quest is kind of blue and kind of hot, fitting between hard bob and avante garde jazz comfortably, coolly.
Classical! HD App Delivers CD-Quality Streaming
A classical music lover's dream come true? From OraStream comes this new streaming app for iOS and Android devices that delivers CD-quality streaming of classical music.
Q&A with John Swenson. Part 3: How bit-perfect software can affect sound
The traditional Holy Grail of playback software has been to be “bit-perfect”. The software does nothing to change any bit of the samples on their way from file to DAC. There have been a lot of people making the assumption that if all the bits are the same, then different software players MUST all sound identical. This article will attempt to show how different bit-perfect players can sound different.
Separating Fact from Fiction
Are LPs, as some people suggest, an inherently flawed medium? In theory and on some levels, sure they are. Does this fact matter? No, it does not. I say this with the utmost confidence and assuredness because I have been listening to and enjoying LPs for decades.
exaSound e20 Mk III DAC
The exaSound e20 MK III DAC can handle PCM, DXD, and DSD up to 12.288 MHz (256Fs) on Windows PCs. Mac users max out at the more or less typical DSD 128. While you'd be hard pressed to find any DSD downloads at DSD 256 (or even DSD 128), you can rest assured that the e20 can handle just about any file format you care to throw at it.
Download of the Week: Padmavibhushan Dr. Ali Akbar Khan
Ali Akbar Kahn is a master of Indian classical music. His main mojo making machine is the sarod which you can see pictured in the album cover's art. Indian Architexture is a stunning recording of Ali Akbar Khan playing his sarod with tabla accompaniment by Swapan Chaudhuri.
Ayre's PCM to DSD Comparison
What the guys at Ayre have gone and done is ripped parts of three tracks to single-rate DSD and 24/192 using the QA-9 so we can compare DSD to PCM. But there's more...
Lumin Network Music Player
The Lumin Network Player is the first and currently the only product from Lumin which is a trademark of Pixel Magic Systems Ltd.
Download of the Week: The Knife
It's the time of year for lists and if I were to make one for music, The Knife's Shaking the Habitual released in April of this year on Rabid Records would be on it.
OUT Free Music Production (FMP) FLACs!
One of my rules of used record shopping goes like this--if I see a record from FMP and I can afford it, buy it. So I don't know how this post escaped me for so long.
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