I went to buy tickets for an upcoming show in Oakland.

Sale started at 10 a.m.

Logged on and started refreshing a couple minutes beforehand.

Clicked in at 10:00 and one tenth of a second.

The next two days will make a huge difference in all U.S. artists and producers' future income. We are at a critical moment and now is the time to act. A vote in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is imminent, so your representative needs to hear from you today or tomorrow (May 11 or 12). Royalties are paid to performers by U.S. Internet radio and satellite radio, and by terrestrial broadcasters everywhere in the developed world. But in the U.S., AM/FM radio does not pay for the music it uses.

Hi

As those who know me are aware ive been getting into classical music, i seem to be drawn to piano, viloin and big scale orcheatral stuff.

Anyways on the violin front i saw Hilary Hahn and Vadim Repin and loved the way that they attack the music, i saw Mutter and though it was boring and dull. Now i understand that Mutter is talented, its just that i dont like her style.

So my question is which players and particularly which albums/SACDs should i look for to get really dynamic and/or emotional viloin music

Thanks

Alan

I know some of you guys either work from home or otherwise don't work in an office too much (e.g., you're retired). But if you do, what is your office setup? Does anyone have a vinyl rig?

I'm just curious -- maybe someday I'll slowly set up a proper stereo system. I'd probably migrate most of the gear for it from my home system as I upgrade.

Mine is mostly for "background" music (yeah, I know). Of course, I wouldn't mind having time for serious listening at work, but it isn't in the cards (which I guess is a good thing these days). Here's my modest office setup:

Here are some pictures of my Garden(and my two gals(my very pregnant wife and my 2 year old daughter). We have a total of 37 Rows on about a half acre of our land. Corn, Beans, Squash, Okra, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Watermelon, Peppers, 4 different types of lettuce, Onions.
You also see my other two babies, my two tractors, a 1973 Farm-All 140 and a Massey Fergeson 240.

First let me point out that I am not anti-CD. I simply want to point out that I have found audible clipping on many and that it is perhaps a source of the CD harshness.

This relates to my point here in the "When Bad is Good" thread concerning hard clipping with digital formats:
http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=66833&an=0&page=1#Post66833

Here's an exchange that occurred a few days ago. I hope Axon doesn't mind my posting it here but the forum seems stuck on one topic right now and I thought this might get us out of the ditch for awhile. At least I hope this will not become a subject that can so easily be driven into the ditch.

The discussion went as follows.

From Axon to jj;

Saw "Crack the Skye" on vinyl at the local record shop.

I hear the word 'metal' and recoil a bit, but I like NIN and White Stripes, etc...

Como se Mastadon?