Is it how much you spend or how you spend it? Is it how you organize your priorities when it comes to audio? Is it only a state of mind? Define the word "audiophile."
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Radio Free Colorado continues to play the great Rock & Roll radio classics from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, The Eagles, Springsteen, etc. along with more modern rock favorites like U2, R.E.M. and more.
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Radio Free Colorado has just added a 192 kbps MP3 channel! Here is RFC's 192 kbps MP3 server direct URL link:
So heres what I'm looking at. I will be buying a new house in the coming weeks and will be adding a home theater system in the living room. The living room is open concept right next to the kitchen and dinning room, so while is primarily for watching movies (Son BDPS300) and sports (Motorolla HD DVR) it will on occasion be used for music as well (mostly rock on the heavier end of things).
I just read that the Plinius 8150 can be used as a preamp, as it has pre-out connections, and that the Leben has an input for the preamp which allows it to be used as a power amplifier, bypassing the source selector, volume control, etc etc.
What if I were to use the Plinius 8150 as preamp to Leben?!? Would this lead to atrocity? I'm also asking b/c I heard Plinius has a pretty good phono stage, and it would be nice if I can hold off purchasing a dedicated phono stage for a while & purchase a decent turntable straightaway instead.
While on vacation, I brought my R09 recorder to record in-flight audio and also record how my spanking new AudioTechnica ATH-ANC7 noise-cancelling headphones. The recordings are of rather high quality and available in lossless format without any filtering. The only processing on the files are fade-in and fade-out and also reducing the volume of some of the clicks resulting from turning the noise-cancelling unit on and off.
The idea with this is that you can
Kudos should go out to Fremer on defending audiophiles as music lovers first & foremost. He's right; Teachout's dismissal of him seemed almost purely based on Fremer's being an "audiophile." I'm a newbie to the hi-fi world, so I was surprised that the term "audiophile" had a negative connotation. Here's something to consider, though, for a more balanced look at the situation. Such a negative connotation on the word "audiophile," and the reductive binary of "audiophile" vs "music lover" stem also from within the hi-fi community as well.
...about the ways I listen to music, and how those ways have changed.
I don't recall the last time I've put on a CD or LP, then actively listened without doing something else. I used to do that all the time. I need to to do it again.
I do listen to music while I'm using the PC, or as background to doing other things, or in the car. I often stop what I'm doing and attend to the music in that situation (I had to pull the car off to the side of the road the first time I heard Tom Russell!).
I am saddened to have read that a man of Art Dudley's stature and writing talents is forced to supplement his income by playing at wedding receptions. Jobs in the wedding industry are some of the thankless and grueling jobs out there. You get a glimpse of it from Art's description of the audience's reaction to the band. It's a shame that Art has to be a part of that industry given his obvious talents as a writer and having run a magazine of his own.
My heart goes out to you, dude.