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| Jazz for aficionados Digging the last 25-30 posts. Love, love love Byrd, Roy Hargrove and James Brown. Just finished ripping almost 2000 cd's and finally have time to listen. James is funky. Seriously so. I've heard him live twice and his band starts the gig like... | |
| Spotify Premium vs Tidal ... opinions? ghosthouse,Thank you for your reply. I've been ripping my cds for the past month to an external hard drive attached to my Macbook air using dbpoweramp.I have a Peachtree Grand Integrated that has onboard DACS and they go out to my beloved Quad 28... | |
| Spotify Premium vs Tidal ... opinions? hmmmm... so ghosthouse is happy with USB and cerrot says to keep away from it. This hi fi business is confusing. I realize it's almost entirely subjective so here's the question;If I'm happy with the sound from my transport to dac would I be hap... | |
| Spotify Premium vs Tidal ... opinions? Sorry in advance for my elementary question;To what device do you stream to to get the best sound quality? Also, I have a Macbook and an Apple TV. I want to replace the Apple TV with something better. Thanks in advance,Bob | |
| Jazz for aficionados I love this thread. Read a lot, learned a lot and have learned about players I knew nothing about.Thank you all.Back in 1969 I was in high school, and had a crush on Margo. Margo's older brother was a senior and probably the coolest human on ear... | |
| Going to rip 2000 cds. Which software? Update:I've begun ripping my cds. I'm using a MacBook Air with an Apple Superdrive and an external hard drive both attached via USB. I am using iTunes as the software.Settings are AIFF with error correction on.My first couple of cds ripped at ab... | |
| Going to rip 2000 cds. Which software? Wow! You guy are great. Thank you for your help!Right now I've got three choices:1. Use my MacBook Air with an external drive2. The Naim UnitiServe3. Get a streamer that runs off a nasNumber 1 is the least costly.Number 2 is the easiest and a... | |
| Going to rip 2000 cds. Which software? Thank for your replies.The Music Vault and the Naim server are both way out of my budget. They are, however cool as hell and would be nice to have. Ghosthouse: I ripped a couple of cds using ALAC and it took almost 15 minutes to rip each cd. I... | |
| Jazz for aficionados calvinj,Duke Pearson: Wow!~!!!! Never heard of him and now I'm digging around for recordings. Thank you!Bob | |
| Jazz for aficionados calvinj,I looked around and only found downloads of his albums. No physical cds. All his downloadable cds are on his website: http://www.edmarcastaneda.com/#!-- Bob | |
| Jazz for aficionados Great joke and immediately brought to mind the great novel, "The Bear Comes Home." It's a story of a bear who also happens to be a jazz tenor player and his pursuit of music and perfection.Here's a wiki about the book:https://en.wikipedia.org/wik... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman,Glad you liked seeing Dave as an actor. Sorry to hear the news. I never met him, but have friends that knew him well. They all spoke highly of him.Orpheus10;You said, " Maybe we should accept new musicians for what they are, and what th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Orpheus said,"Seriously, did anyone try and focus on McCoy Tyner, and Elvin Jones when listening to MFT, by Trane. I promise you will hear it differently."In the many, many times I've listened to this cut I've focused, (besides on Coltrane and t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frogman,Never heard Meldau’s version of "Where Do You Start?"You killed me with this one. Thank you.And Shirley Horn... give me a break. Every time I put that album on I start floating. Especially "Estate."Thank you.Bob | |
| Jazz for aficionados I like Meldau’s version. I like it a lot. His interpretation typifies what jazz is all about; which is finding a new way of playing a tune. I love, love Coltrane’s version. I especially like McCoy Tyner’s piano solo. Once when driving 268 miles to... |