XRCD Listening = WOW

I received my package of XRCD's yesterday and wound up listening to hi-fi well into the wee hours of the night. It's hard to believe the difference but they sound excellent on my system (Arcam Solo/paradigm 100). Even the Eagles "When hell freezes Over" was amazing. Until I get into vinyl these CD's are amazing in fidelity..(www.xrcd.com)

Headphones for college...

I'm sure this question has been asked a hundred times already but I'm sure many don't remind responding once again.

This fall I will be heading off to Texas A&M as a member of the Corps. As such, I will have limited space and limited privacy. With that said it seems to me there could be no more useful graduation gift than a nice set of headphones.
I'm rather new to the industry and really have not a clue as to where to begin looking in choosing a product so what better place to start than here.

Pass The A1

Pass The A1

Reissues. Hey, I don't care who you are, everyone has a guilty pleasure that's now been reissued on CD, possibly with bonus goodies. What's gonna happen to reissues in the big, new, all&#150digital, all&#150download, all&#150the&#150time world is an easy one: listeners will do the same thing they do with new records, download the tracks they want and leave the lesser tracks as scraps. Funny how it's now possible to think of cuts of meat and record albums in the same breath: bites of choice flesh you eat surrounded by bone, fat and gristle you leave. It must make musicians feel real good to see their collection eviscerated in this way. You can say it serves them right for filling out albums with lesser tracks but then there's that creeping alchemy that happens upon further listening when some of the tracks deep into the record become essential. How many album tracks have you grown fond of after repeated listens versus those that jumped out at you the first time you dropped the needle or pressed play?

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