Posted on 07/24/2010 11:37:54 PM PDT by Nachum
Yes, that is correct with the DAC being FAR more critical than the PC/server that holds the digital file.
24/96 downloads at https://www.hdtracks.com/
If you have a laptop/netbook, simply download “Media Monkey” for free software to hold the 24/96 files and output the digital signal
DAC audio quality varies depending on the clock used, the analog circuit, the power supply and construction technique...just to name a few.
Go to my “Neodio” link above as I have expanded a bit on these and other criteria.
As I mentioned, Neodio is the best sounding DAC I’ve ever heard regardless of price. It has been the reference digital source of last 3 CES shows for Lamm/Wilson that demoed $135k amplifiers and $100k loudspeakers and demanded the best digital possible.
After you review our Neodio US webpage, feel free to contact me with any additional questions. As a Freeper, I can assist you for a limited time with a special US dealer price.
Jim
Goose Lake MI 1970....
Thanks - interesting read!
My mastering engineer friend based in LA that I mentioned above, remastered the definitive version of Pet Sounds (in mono as Brian Wilson mixed it) among many, many classic albums. He mentioned to me that the tape formulas were changed in 70’s.
When he remastered “Hotel California” for gold CD, baking the tapes was required and only lasted for a short time. After that, the tapes need to be baked again for proper playback.
I’m always fascinated about these back stories i.e. when ray Charles recorded “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” using left hand to “read” the braille lyrics while playing piano with his right - all at the same time and needing only 4 takes to get it. Easily the most haunting version of that song i have ever heard.
I remember going nuts when the Beatles’ BBC tapes were discovered back in 1982.
(HUGE Beatles fan here.)
It's the Dixie Chicks lesson: while the Left does most of the boycott threats, it's a bad idea to get the Right pissed off at your political posturing.
Another BIG Beatles fan here, too.
I recall like yesterday the girl next door and I moved to LA from Ohio - a couple of 18y/o kids - and eventually found an apt just below the Hollywood sign.
Anyway, when the White album was released KHJ had an in studio guest to tell about each track before playing it. the “guest” was George Harrison and really cool insights as I remember.
My LA mastering friend worked on solo McCartney remasterings and was “this” close to doing the entire Beatles catalog and even began working with the original tapes at Abbey Road. Never ws finalized but he was generous to me with gifts and I have master taoe copies of all their albums and some unreleased studio demos from the White album incl studio chatter. Kinda cool to listen to the “boys” and engineers talk.
Ahhh, those were the daze!
lol
because arty folks over there as a rule are just as effed up and stupid and uninformed as they are here and here we tend to note the exception in anything customarily contrary when it surprisingly favors our view
and as a side note I am old enough to have seen Tull's Benefit, Aqualung and Thick as a Brick tours and I did enjoy his old stuff
a cool mix of Ole English traditional music and art rock and early on blues and jazz too but it lost it's cool factor with success..like many did then when pop did not rule
I have to agree, most of the lyrics were a bit weak.
Take that God cursed “Bungle in the Jungle” for example.
One of the most interesting books I ever read was, ‘All You Need Is Ears’ by George Martin. I found the book in a small Minneapolis book store while on leave with the Marines back in 1983. I highly recommend it. There was indeed a “fifth Beatle”, and it was George Martin, no debate. These days you can probably go on line and find that book anywhere.
By contrast, my “copy” of Brian Epstein’s ‘A Cellarful of Noise’ (or, as John Lennon called it, “A Cellarful of Boys”) is a manila folder filled with daily clippings of chapters as they were published in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in 1964. Still have it.
Maybe. But he was very cordial with Rush. I think they were in the same hotel in Hawaii — back when Rush had the heart scare. Elton heard about it and left him a note wishing him well. Rush called him to thank him and that’s how the idea for the wedding blossomed.
Elton said he believed in “building bridges” across ideological lines.
They’ve done shows in that part of the world when it was downright dangerous, unfashionable isn’t going to phase them. Ian likes the fans, he likes the fans a lot, and he really doesn’t give much of a crap about anybody else.
Of course that interview is 6 years old and they haven’t done a studio album yet. An interview with Ian I read a couple of years ago said he wasn’t interested in doing any studio albums until the band got so old they couldn’t tour anymore, he said studio time distracts from tour time and he really enjoys tour time. And yes he’s a hardcore leftist, like 99% of everybody in the performing arts, performance is about feeling and so is liberalism, it’s a natural match.
A former member who’d been gone from the band for about 20 years before making “the change”.
I haven’t forgotten him bad mouthing the US.
[and then back pedaling furiously when his fans were outraged]
Since he can accept Islam as easily as Christianity, let him go play for the Iraqis.
He’s not getting another dime from me.
IMO, he’s finally gone bonkers.
On his last album [”Rupi’s Dance”] for the title track, he penned this;
Dainty feet circles inscribe
Upon the frozen parquet.
Arabesque in compound time:
Stately Pavane or Bourée.
Sultry smile, come hither gaze –
Black hair softly shining.
Calls me up to half-lit bed.
Sweet cloud with golden lining.
Oh, so young with ageless smile –
Born of ungodly maker
Draws me: moth to candle bright –
Fiery pleasure-seeker.
She dances through the flower-filled room –
Sea-green eyes a-sparking.
It’s Rupi’s dance: the message clear.
Her movement does the talking.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Yeah, it’s a great song. Maybe you’ve never had a pet. And he’s never really worried much about religion, except when people pollute it.
‘Maybe you’ve never had a pet.”
LMAO!
Oh, that is just too rich.
If you’d bothered to look at my page, you wouldn’t have made such a ludicrous assumption.
Of ALL the MANY pets I’ve had, ~I’ve~ never even looked at them in a sexual way, let alone written a song about them “seducing” me.
You have no idea to whom you are speaking.
I’m old enough to have been a fan as long as they’ve existed.
There is *nothing* you can tell me about Tull that I don’t already know.
[hint: does my _user name_ ring any bells?]
He’s never worried much about religion?!?
Have you even ~listened~ to the entire Aqualung album?
*Any* of the myriad “Christmas Songs”?
“Divinities: Twelve Dances With God” slipped right past you?
*Ever* listened to any of his interviews where he discussed religion at length?
Gah.
Noobs.
He got rich playing to Americans and then slammed the conservatives.
Sorry...I’m loyal to my country, first.
He should’ve just shut up and sang.
David Palmer.
[great looking guy...fugly woman]
Wait, what?
I thought I said chicks weren’t tough enough for FR.
;<)
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