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| Modern day female jazz recommendations Same comment again - it is Stacey Kent, not Tracey Kent. Agree - Stacey and Jim are a geat combo. | |
| Sonus Faber Grand Piano Home vs Concerto Domus I would be careful. I have the GP Home (and Concerto, Concertino and also Cremona) and really like them. When I listened to the Domus GP, I thought the sweet musicality was gone. The Domus are more detailed and maybe less "colored", but I thought ... | |
| Why is J River better than iTunes on PC? I recently converted from iTunes to J River Media Center 13 because J River offers 1) ability to play 24/96 file formats, 2) can use ASIO to bypass KMixer (not an issue on Vista), 3) has a more flexible user interface. For example, with J River I ... | |
| Modern day female jazz recommendations Would that be Stacey Kent? One of my favorites. Incidently, Stacey is in NYC at Birdland June 2-6. | |
| stereo reciever for sonus faber grand piano Home I have a similar setup in my bedroom - SF Home Concerto in the bedroom and inwalls in the bathroom. I went a somewhat unusual route that you might want to consider, although it is takes a little effort to set up. I use a low end integrated as the ... | |
| Classification of Benz Micro cartridges They cover a wide price range - from $250 to $5,000 with 8 price points. Like the vast majority of companies with a wide product range, they change part of the line at a time. In doing so, they end up with mixed technologies across the line. Compa... | |
| Classification of Benz Micro cartridges Looking into this a little more, I think the new Wood S H, S M and S L are the new S design whereas the Ebony H/L/TR are an older design. So, I think there is more than just a wood change between the Ebony and Wood lines. But is hard to figure out... | |
| Classification of Benz Micro cartridges The Ebony H and the Wood S H have the same internal ohms and output voltage, but the internal ohms and the output voltage of the Wood S L and Wood S M are quite different than for the Ebony TR and Ebony M. Could the wood account for those differen... | |
| Simple iTunes Question Neal - there are 2 pieces that you might be moving. There is a folder (iTunes Music folder) that contains the songs, There is also a file (iTunes Library) and some other associated files that contain information about the songs and your settings. ... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Jax2 - Have you compared the same tracks from a CD player to the same DAC you are using for iTunes? I found that on my system, there is little difference. Once I got to the state of being as good as my CD player, I have sort of stopped until I can... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Last night, I finally got to compare ALAC files ripped with EAC and iTunes - used test and copy to generate the EAC wave files and used error correction with iTunes (V 8.0.2.20). I used iTunes to convert wave to ALAC. My wife(she has better ears t... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Pop Pop is a fun CD. Still need to do some critical listening. I was aware of the Norma Winstone CD since it was nominated for a Grammy, along with Karrin Allyson's Imagina and Stacey Kent's Breakfast on the Morning Train, two vocalists that I rea... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Jax2 - I have been wanting to get Pop Pop for a while so this seemed like a good time. A lot of the music I listen to (50s/60s jazz and female jazz vocalist) often does not have great sound stage, so I thought I would eliminate that variable and g... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? The process that Apple lossless uses to "compress" the file reduces the file size but not not delete any data. Think of it like a ZIP file, which reduces the size of a file but when upzipped the data is exactly the same as you started. Apples loss... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Peter_s and Steve - I would like to understand just what extra information is in an ALAC file that degrades its sound. Any explanation or references to this? I know that this is a proprietary format, but if the claim is that there is some extra da... |