CDs vs Downloads

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by malcolm on

Are CDs going the way of 8-tracks and 78s? Is the future here for downloading the whole classical catalog in high quality sound? I visited the iTunes site and tried to find something, anything, classical. I got nowhere. Is everything downloadable designed for tiny headphones and 4-minute attention spans.

Please tell me if you can get anything classical and out of the usual--with first class sound -- from a download.

Master Tape Sound at Home

Master Tape Sound at Home

Jan 27, 2007

Out of all the audiophile phrases, none stirs the hearts of music lovers like "true to the master tape"—not even "the absolute sound" of the original instruments, which even audio idealists realize is simply too much to demand. But true to the sound of the recorded master tape, now surely that's a goal within reach.

The Hour of Power

The Hour of Power

Jan 27, 2007

PS Audio's Paul McGowan is a man with a mission: He wants to teach audiophiles about AC power, from the creation of the universe to its final destination in our contemporary electronics components. Toward that end, McGowan wrote, produced, and narrated a one-hour documentary DVD called <I>From Coal to Coltrane</I>, which provides a lively look at a subject many of us take for granted.

AACS: "We Have Not Been Hacked—Just Our Players"

AACS: "We Have Not Been Hacked—Just Our Players"

Jan 27, 2007

Okay, now things are getting confusing. Hot on the heels of his <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/010107hacked/">announcement</A&gt; that he had hacked HD DVD's Advanced Access Content System (AACS) digital rights management (DRM), muslix64 claimed to have done the same to Blu-Ray's implementation, with the help of anti-DRM crusader Janvitos. You can read the whole saga at the <A HREF="http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120869">Doom9 forum</A> but we'll just give you the juicy bits: "In less than 24 hours, without any Blu-ray equipment, but with the help of Janvitos, I managed to decrypt and play a Blu-ray media file using my known-plaintext attack."

new amp

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Amplification
Submitted by dazm on

hi all, my first post on here , enjoy browsing and reading,getting ideas,so the new amp got today Cambridge Audio AZUR 640A V2 Black , speakers wharfdale 9.1 , connected to squeeze box 3,pacific interconnects, well impressed with the sounds, my old kenwood amp died today had it 14yrs can't complain. thanks

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