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| Recording Industry Dirt "foul mouthed sex maniacs who want to rape their mothers"?That would be Jim Morrison, right? | |
| Didn't They Learn Their Lesson With DIVX Um, granted, DIVX was a failure, and this sounds like more of the same. But what's wrong with it? This isn't going to replace permanent DVDs that you can buy. It's just another rental option, one that saves you the second trip back to Blockbuster ... | |
| I need a musical sub under 500,,,,new or used. Technically, the Hsu is as good as it gets at this price point. That doesn't mean it'll sound best to you, in your room, with your mains. But it is worth an audition. (Try to find somebody who has one; otherwise, you've got to order one on the 30-... | |
| Is There Big Trouble Brewing? Sean: On second thought (with your latest wrinkles), I really like your lending library idea. The Apple iTunes store offers free, 30-second previews. As another current thread notes, however, 30 secs. isn't enough to really hear the song. I wonder... | |
| Is There Big Trouble Brewing? Lokie: You, too, are suffering from selective memory loss. No fabricated bands in the 60s? Remember the Monkees? And what about Motown--talk about the suits meddling with the art, Motownpractically invented the form.The way you people chatter on, ... | |
| Is There Big Trouble Brewing? Buscis, no offense, butI think you're suffering from selective memory. The classic albums that you still listen to had lots of great cuts, but the album with one hit and a lot of dregs was not invented in the 1990s. I suspect your taste, like mine... | |
| Classical Music as Relics for easy listening Didn't PDQ Bach have a joke about a classical station that promised "All Pachelbel, All theTime"? | |
| Green-'ening' CD's Well, there are three possible explanations:1) Sean's technical explanation is wrong.2) Some audiophiles prefer an error-corrected signal to the "original."3) Some audiophiles imagine an improvement that isn't really there.I would guess that the i... | |
| Apple's Music Store - The Future of Music Very true, Agon, but remember that Apple has two scaling problems here. Problem #1 is the Windows market. Problem #2 is getting the music industry to buy in fully and make their entire catalog available this way. I suspect part of the go-slow appr... | |
| Carpet or hardwood floor? I'd recommend a carpet. If it makes your room too dead, remove something else and keep the carpet. Floor bounce is generally problem #1 in speaker-room interaction. Minimizing it is never a bad thing. | |
| Apple's Music Store - The Future of Music A few notes and corrections: While the iTunes store is currently Mac-only, Apple's intention is to expand into the Windows market by the end of the year. (Apparently, part of their thinking was to work out any glitches in a small market, which Mac... | |
| Apple's Music Store - The Future of Music Well, there are still LPs, and look how long vinyl's been dead.I think, at least as far as pop music is concerned, we're headed back to the 50s, when singles (aka 45s) dominated. Jazz and classical will hold on to the prerecorded disk much longer,... | |
| The truth about interconnects - can you handle it? Jchen--Your understanding of the placebo effect, at least as it applies to perception, is wrong. (It's actually wrong even as it applies to medicine--the placebo effect can work even when the doctor tells you the pill won't work.) Simply knowing t... | |
| The truth about interconnects - can you handle it? Well said, Sean, except that I know of no one with any scientific credentials whatsoever who claims at all wire sounds the same. That canard was actually invented by the "everything sounds different" crowd, because it's easier to refute something ... | |
| Is SACD winning over DVD-A? I'd say SACD definitely has a leg up on DVD-A right now, largely because of the hybrid disks (like the Stones remasters) that are being sold as regular CDs to unsuspecting non-audiophiles. As manufacturing capacity increases, we'll see more of the... |