The Third Annual Burning Amp DIY Festival

The Third Annual Burning Amp DIY Festival

Oct 13, 2009

The <A HREF="http://home.comcast.net/~burningamp/Burnigamp2009/BurningAmp/index.html… Amp Festival</A> is almost upon us. The day-long DIY (do-it-yourself) love fest, held within yards of the San Francisco Bay, attracts a good 150 DIYers from around the world who engage in the annual ritual of demming their homemade gear for other avid audio enthusiasts.

Little Girls and Lo-Fi

Little Girls and Lo-Fi

Oct 13, 2009

My problem is intensified a million times over by the fact that many of these releases are severely limited. I’m talking as few as 300 (or even just 250!) copies of a certain album are pressed on delicious vinyl, and that’s it. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Thank the holy lord up above that I live in the New York City area and I can get my hands on just about anything I want. A trip to Other Music or Hospital Productions takes just a few minutes. Of course, I could always purchase these titles online, but where’s the fun in that? Actually going to the record shop and finding a copy of the album is so much more special. It feels <i>deserved</i>, it feels <i>won</i>.

The new Sony 5400 SACD player has made your $8000 CD player obsolete.

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by commsysman on

For all you folks who own a CD player that cost under $9000;
your player is now more or less obsolete!

I have been using the Ayre C5xe for the past three years, and before I bought it I listened extensively to everything under 10 grand, and it sounded the best to me so I forked out $6000 for it (which for me was a very big deal). I thought I had bought my last CD player.

A Great NYC Concert Alert

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by linden518 on

11/8 at Le Poisson Rouge, Grand Valley State Univ. Ensemble is performing Terry Riley's seminal "In C"; their CD of the recording is also coming out, with a 2nd CD that's a remix of "In C"

Why am I so keen on this undergrad group of contemporary music-playing fiends? Only because their recording of Steve Reich's sparsely lush and lugubrious "Music for 18 Musicians" was one of my favorite CDs a couple years ago (or was it last year? Early Alzheimers...)

Black Saint, Soul Note and DIW

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The Blue Room
Submitted by satkinsn on

Fred Kaplan's current blog posting (here) has me thinking again about how valuable lossless codecs are, or could be.

Black Saint's and Soul Note's output is one of the great treasures of jazz, but most of it is hard to come by. How much better, how much safer it would be if the catalog were available as FLAC files.

Shadows in Daylight

Shadows in Daylight

Oct 12, 2009

Although it was a really lovely autumn Sunday with soft blue skies, abundant sunshine, and a crisp breeze, I was still feeling rather worn out from shipping our December issue. Instead of finding a place to watch the Giants demolish the Raiders, I decided to stay inside and listen to records. I considered taking notes to accompany each album, but doing so would have felt too much like more work, so I opted to simply listen and deal with the subsequent guilt.

Unbelievable - An inexpensive twenty year old DAC with SUPERB sound

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Digital Sources
Submitted by julianprice on

I recently bought a Wadia 170i Ipod transport and then I began to look around for a DAC that would be compatible with the Wadia and not be too costly. Most of the used DACS that I found were WAY too expensive to dedicate to a $300 IPOD transport and I was afraid that I might just have to punt on using my Ipod with "the good stuff"

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