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| Top 10 Live Albums Bill Evans, "The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961" John Handy Quintet, "Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1965" David Bromberg Band, "How Late’ll Ya Play Til?" | |
| Modern Covers of Classics Rhiannon Giddens - I Won't Back Down (audience recording) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GiesaqcWUA Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz - Goin' Out Of My Head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kaXIOqE4A Madeleine Peroux - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome... | |
| Vinyl Only The Lou Reed album is "Metal Machine Music". It's abstract electronic music. I like "Purple Haze" and the second side of Sgt. Pepper. "Life in the Fast Lane" and "Wish You Were Here" and "Angie" and "Stairway to Heaven" don't bother me, though I ... | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, and others - "Like Minds" John Coltrane and Rashied Ali - "Interstellar Space" John Handy Quintet - "Live at the 1965 Monterey Hazz Festival" | |
| Those rare albums that are great on first listen. Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, and others - "Like Minds" John Coltrane and Rashied Ali - "Interstellar Space" John Handy Quintet - "Live at the 1965 Monterey Hazz Festival" | |
| Is there a DAC ranking list? The first question to ask yourself is what problem you're trying to solve. For example, when I bought a small-format desktop computer its sound output was awful because it used the minimal sound support on the motherboard and because there was so ... | |
| Does Anyone Buy Schiit for the Sake of Schiit? I bought a Schiit Modi 3 to hear how much improvement there would be from a simple DAC. Now my TV serves as a hub for all digital program sources and sends the signal to the Modi 3 over TOSlink. The sound is much improved. I think I'd want to hear... | |
| Budget DAC recommendation for Office system I have a Schiit Modi 3+ between my digital program sources and my preamp. It sounds great. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? For my first listen after adding a new-to-me preamp to my system I chose a live recording of the Ginger Baker Trio, with Bill Frisell and Charlie Haden. Where their studio recordings were extremely tight, this live show was loose and swinging. And... | |
| CD transport vs.streaming A factor I left out the other day: the quality of the codec that's used to convert from the data stored on a CD or in a file to the stream that travels over the network or through the data path from the CD transport to a DAC. | |
| CD transport vs.streaming When you stream music that's encoded using a lossless codec what goes to your DAC is identical to what comes from a CD. When you stream from a free streaming service there's a good chance that you're getting a compressed stream that has lower qual... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? "Duster", Gary Burton Quartet, side 2 | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? The timing information for a digital music stream is encoded into the data. The exact timing and rate at which packets are transferred makes no difference unless so many packets are dropped that the playing device's input buffer is drained. The on... |