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| NEW MUSIC Here are some websites with sample listening material that provide a nice introduction to - and focus on - specific composers:Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stockhausen-Verlag, media filesGyörgy Ligeti - Tonbeispiele (music samples)Isang Yun - Uni Mozart... | |
| Classical Music as Relics for easy listening With any luck as hardware improves, bandwidth increases/becomes cheaper, more internat'l web radio stations will emerge better serving specialist niches, *,+,^ - doubtless, others will know of better sources | |
| Of which rituals is YOUR vinyl/music a part? Viridian - Being an afficiando of eccentricity of sorts (in the fine English manner), the stranger the better indeed! I had never thought of mono Miles... I will (being utterly earnest!) now.Hail Gregm! I imagine the complete animal (man or woman)... | |
| Audio articles of interest Hey cdc, you implying we is some deadbeat insomniac? Ha, even if it's all true, great links! ...Aaaahh, the slings and arrows we must bear to keep threads alive or to subscribe to them for future ref...! | |
| Audio articles of interest Here are some tweaky links (not original: a subpage of one of cdc's links), especially the stereophile articles. | |
| Classical Music as Relics for easy listening Shubertmaniac, I take your thoughtful question very seriously and have no answers. Here nevertheless a couple of strewn remarks: While I see Sugarbrie's point regarding "small scale" -- to Flex's list I would also add Krzysztof Penderecki and Györ... | |
| Who are the Jazz Cats on Audiogon? Yo, just got back from sdc's class on Jazz. Even if in less funky hours, I do the classical fuddy-duddy thing, I'm in! | |
| Apple's Music Store - The Future of Music The exhortation to get big quickly should apply even post dot com bust. If Apple wants to see their model grow and expand, they would do well to heed their own company story (great initial innovations, but lack of widespread licensing), or to look... | |
| Stereophile Audio Glossary Salve Gregm! O' for the raining brimstone, the thunderous fury, the terrible sound of the seven trumpets and the maudlin wails of plangent audiophiles, yonder Arcadia, Avalon, nary A'goN, 'tis indeed a glossic paradise once lost, this side of Eden... | |
| Apple's Music Store - The Future of Music The question touches on a lot of important issues (OS platforms, formats/standards, the role of p2p clients,...) some of which were discussed in a similar thread. If something like Moore's Law applied to bandwidth and storage to a degree comparabl... | |
| Predictions about effects of new feature Alas, I stand corrected: Ecclesiastes was right; there is nothing new under the sun, the tablets are here to stay... | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? Cpdunn99, Tabernac hostie, mais non! Sauterne-filled strawberries! | |
| The Future of Recorded Music Avideo - thanks for the reference.Bomarc - sorry for hijack. I (actually) cheer for Apple inasmuch as it contributes to (real) diversity (not a semblance thereof). Generally, I will go for the format(s) that public libraries choose, using that as ... | |
| How Many??? For countries requiring filing of annual financial reports I imagine one could make decent educated guesses about unit turnover well within one order of magnitude, so then one would know whether it was 10-100, 100-1000 etc. OTOH that only goes for... | |
| The Future of Recorded Music I suspect you "got it" all along. It's the thin edge of the wedge. I think it is fair to point to the wedge's existence and possible to do so without being a prescriptivist. Unfortunately even open standards are not immune to muscle flex. Take the... |