And to think we drove teh indians off teh land, their homes where "audio grade" cable supports?

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Submitted by CECE on

So that's what the medicine man was working on, while smoking some natural herbs, he was thinking how great his room sounded, cus' it musta' been the shape right? http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/audioproducts/cablelifts.php

Rockbox on iPod?

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Submitted by linden518 on

I'm probably the last person to find out that one can listen to FLAC, OGG through iPod by installing Rockbox. But I can't help but be skeptical... does Rockbox just let iPod play these files as is, or is there some file-to-file conversion process which would change/degrade SQ? I'd love to try this, but not at the cost of losing SQ...

eBay Record Collection: Starting Bid - $3M

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Submitted by linden518 on

And the listing proudly mentions that the collection includes American Idol albums. THERE's an incentive to spend that $3M. But all kidding aside, I'm sure there are bound to be killer music in there, not to mention ultra-collectible stuff. But I'm willing to bet that most of us wouldn't care for like 80% of the collection.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320230084120

Hello again Audiophiles - you've been ReDeemoned

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The Dead Zone
Submitted by Lamont Sanford on

Scientology's only motivation for being labeled a religion is purely for taxation purposes. The government of Germany is trying to ban Scientology because they know better than we do about cults and how dominating and damaging they can become to a democratic society. Whether or not Scientology is a religion is not based on the philosophy of nihilism whereas Scientology believes there is no objective basis to truth. Thus, giving anyone the room to deem them a religion if they so choose.

The Discreet Charm of Paolo Fresu

The Discreet Charm of Paolo Fresu

Mar 27, 2008 First Published:Mar 28, 2008

A few months ago, I <A HREF= "http://blog.stereophile.com/fredkaplan/111007jazz/">reviewed</A&gt; Carla Bley’s wonderful CD, <I>The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu</I>, a deceptively Dada title that referred simply to the nature of the session—Bley’s quartet, called the Lost Chords, joined by the Sardinian trumpeter, Paolo Fresu. I praised Fresu’s “appealing” sound, its “clarion tone with a slight huff of breathiness,” but confessed that I’d never heard him before. Now comes a trio album, <I>Mare Nostrum</I> (on the German label, ACT), with Fresu as co-leader—along with the French-Italian accordionist, Richard Galliano, and the Swedish pianist, Jan Lundgen—and, though it’s not as quirkily magical as the Bley, it’s a charmer. There’s at once a twilight intimacy and a panoramic insouciance to this music. Imagine a gentler Nina Rota, as if he’d scored the soundtracks for early Truffaut instead of boisterous Fellini; toss in some Argentine spice (Galliano, who also plays bandoneon, was close to Astor Piazzolla); and you get a sense of the mood. It’s a bit fluffy and sentimental, but in a good, lively way (though there’s also a spirited arrangement of Ravel’s “Ma Mere L’Oye” and a darkly stirring piece, a Fresu composition, inspired by the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet). The sound quality is quite good, though I wish there’d been less reverb on the trumpet.

Turntable Quest at an End

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Submitted by bobedaone on

Well, folks, I thought I'd post an update for those of you who have been following my analog journey from the beginning.

I was honest with my financial situation, and it didn't look like a P3-24 was going to happen anytime in the foreseeable future. There was a used Planar 3 down at the store, and I jumped on it today. When the Sumiko Black Pearl comes in, I'll go audition the table and take it home. I'm pretty excited to have an analog source, happy to be done saving, and pleased to have freed up some capital (since my total deposit was greater than the value of my purchase).

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