A number of years ago I was in a darts team and we called ourselves The Four Skins. The drawback was, we were very bad players.😉
I have started to copy my CDs to mp3 files on my hard drive and then transferring them to a small bluetooth tablet. With a bt receiver connected to my amp, I can sit and relax and chose an album just by swiping the screen.I was so over all that jumpng up and down and flipping discs, cleaning discs, worrying about discs. CDs were so much easier. Then I put all my CDs onto a hard drive, 1000s of tracks at the touch of a button. Hurray!
But I found that having easy random access to my entire collection made me less relaxed. I was always searching for something to cool to play, that song, that album, that something. ADD - arrggh! Going back to spinning vinyl made me relax and listen to an entire album. To enjoy the journey. If you have the discipline to not jump around from track to track on the music server, I say Bravo!I can't do it.
For background music, I stream from the interwebs. No worries.
I've ripped all my CDs to flac, and as time permits, capturing my large collection of vinyl. The files all live on terabyte drives on a linux system. . . Play through an OrangePi with MPD.
I was about to reply, "Depends whether there's alcohol at the party," but then remembered that one of them doesn't even drink.
Inspired by Jan Didden, my wife set up a streaming system, ripped all our CDs to a large drive in FLAC, and has it controlled from her iPad. We live in wonderful times.
Yup. I been talking to Foobar with my phone for about a year now, calling up FLACs on a whim. Of course it's not the same experience as the old vinyl ritual, but the music sounds so much better these days - definitely the opposite of stressful.
Besides, who among us hasn't experienced the horror of carefully sliding your favorite LP from the paper sleeve - thumb on the rim, 2 fingers on the label - only to have it inexplicably slip from your hand and gash itself on the corner of the turntable on its way to the floor! The vinyl ritual wasn't always stress-free, either.
- Jim
Besides, who among us hasn't experienced the horror of carefully sliding your favorite LP from the paper sleeve - thumb on the rim, 2 fingers on the label - only to have it inexplicably slip from your hand and gash itself on the corner of the turntable on its way to the floor! The vinyl ritual wasn't always stress-free, either.
- Jim
I remember starting out as a neophyte with double-wide papers. As my skills improved, I graduated to 1.5s, then 1.25s. I was down to singles by the time I checked into rehab. 🙄
- Jim
- Jim
Similar set up here, except I did it motivated by strong complaints about the piling system in use for 1000 odd CDs from She Who Must Be Obeyed... Apparently they didn't look good......
Worth it though, as I can now control the system from any device on our network, yet the sound is streamed from one dedicated device, not over wifi...
And that increases the % of time that I get my choice of music 🙂
Or gritting your teeth watching someone grab an LP from the sleeve with fingers all over the grooves. It was those people who never seemed to get pops on their albums either.. Grr!!
Billshurv, i dunno which record. SY, quantization noise on CD is as unlikely, as microphones and amplifiers have S/N ratios of less than 98 dB. I would like to correct myself, radio does sample. Any thing, which changes its own state as for example as a sine generator changing its phase, samples the world. With amplitude modulation, sampling rate equals once or twice carrier frequency, depending on if carrier becomes de-modulated with a one- or two-way rectifier. Usually one-way rectifiers are sufficient, because carrier is so much higher than signal bandwidth.
Every point on the world is continuously changing phase as the earth rotates on its axis; is the world sampling the world, then?
And the sampling signal is itself changing phase; so presumably we have sampling sampling? Which changes phase, so we have sampling sampling sampling? Leading to sampling sampling sampling sampling? Ad infinitum?
It's turtles, turtles - oops - sampling, sampling all the way!
Think I'll go sample some dinner now. Using my digits. And moving my phase, sorry, face. A veritable explosion of unbridled samplage! 😀
-Gnobuddy
I'm still amused that so many people try to pick faults with digital audio, obviously it's not perfect but then what is?
Sampling several times is how EAC makes more accurate copies, why is sampling a bad thing again?
Like many here i have used reel to reel, 8 track, Philips cassette, vinyl, CD and PC audio. Digital done well is the best for convenience and sound quality, especially when using headphones. Vinyl through headphones is terrible and tape not that much better.
Time to sample some lunch now i recon.
Sampling several times is how EAC makes more accurate copies, why is sampling a bad thing again?
Like many here i have used reel to reel, 8 track, Philips cassette, vinyl, CD and PC audio. Digital done well is the best for convenience and sound quality, especially when using headphones. Vinyl through headphones is terrible and tape not that much better.
Time to sample some lunch now i recon.
Just listened to a rather nice recording on this label Champs Hill Records - About Us . A retired farmer builds a concert hall and starts issuing records of lesser know music. Certainly unstressed now after an hour of oboe music.
Concert hall homes: A house that hits all the right notes - Telegraph .
Gotta be the ultimate upgrade.
Concert hall homes: A house that hits all the right notes - Telegraph .
Gotta be the ultimate upgrade.
Many studios fall short of what modern digital recording can actually achieve. A listen to some of the HD recordings released by Naim easily confirmed that for me a few years back.
What i heard from Naim was stunning, exceptional even. It confirmed to me that digital is way better - when done well.
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