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(Quote) So just think - if he'd had a 160GB iPod there in the hospital with a pair of little rechargeable speakers, he probably never would have made any of those records at all, and we might still be listening to Perry Como and Panfir Master of …
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That's the latest thing in web design, actually - you'll see that it changes instantly as you resize (or rather, change the width of) the window, so that the same page is supposed to work on a smartphone/tablet and the don't have to maintain a speci…
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Not sure if there are many Spinal Tap fans here, but I recently discovered this:
Brian Grosz (feat. Marisa Kakoulas) - Lick My Love Pump
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According to many (if not most) folks familiar with the subject, the very first electric guitar ever was a Gibson harp guitar, built as a prototype in 1923 by a master luthier named Lloyd Loar.
in I love twitter Comment by ScissorMan February 2014
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Better link for the Deep Elm page (on Bandcamp). There's also some post-rock and indiepop stuff in there, for those who care to root around. (Nothing I'd ever heard of, but that's not an indica…
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I was gonna say, a good rule of thumb for those just getting into classical musique is to avoid the even-numbered Beethoven symphonies at first and start with the odd-numbered ones, and probably best to get into the concertos (esp. the five piano co…
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As far as new-ish releases by less-heralded artists are concerned, my recs would have to be Holly Echo,When you run a stereo (aka "2.0") source into a home-theater receiver, the receiver performs a "crossover point" cutoff that sends audio below a certain frequency (usually somewhere from 100 Hz to 200 Hz) to the subwoofer. The rest is sent to your f…Okay, I'm still having trouble understanding why it's important to keep computers out of an audio system since in general they do nothing but good things, but if you like the results you get with an outboard CD-Recorder, that's perfectly fine. Howev…(Quote) Nah, it's driven by support cost and simple practicality. To deal with thousands of audio files and organizing and presenting them, not to mention buying them online and downloading them, you need keyboards, pointing devices, graphics and…This is the sort of DAC device I was thinking about as a good compromise/all-in-one solution for people like me (and apparently many of y'all), who have both a NAS and one or more iPods in addition to a computer (note that I do not own and am not re…I don't know how The_? plans to do it, but I used to tape vinyl LPs onto a DAT recorder (which had some of the best DAC circuitry available at the time), then play the results through the DAT recorder's S/PDIF output, which was in turn connected to …The problem here is that the Sochi bear (aka "Bely Mishka," or literally "White Bear") is too light-colored. They should have made the costume darker, so that it would look more like Yogi Bear (i.e., "Bely Medved" or "Brown Bear"). But Bely MIshka i…(Quote)
That's essentially how my own setup works, but the MCD isn't a separate box, and files do pass through it - strictly speaking, a DAC just converts raw digital audio to an analog signal, it doesn't interpret file forma…It sounds to me like what you're looking for is either a NAS that has its own separate audio output, or a DAC (or streaming media player) that you can connect an ordinary external USB drive to...? You probably wouldn't want the latter, because it wo…This album by Holly Echo, "Out the Window Music," was released only about six weeks ago - it's a kind of chamber-pop/dreampop ("symphonygaze"?) male-female singer duo from Toronto, giving away one of the best things I've heard in months for absolute…Things are definitely looking up!
This is off-topic for the thread though, so maybe we should have a separate thread f…(Quote) Seems like that would actually be the worst possible time...?That was a totally different situation, nor would I call it "amazing." This was back in 1964, and a lot of parents were terrified of "longhairs" and the Beatles and dark-skinned ethnic minorities, not to mention communists. Apparently a college stud…If there are any dreampop fans out there, Pitchfork is streaming Moon, the new debut album by Snowbird, a duo consisting of ex-Cocteau Twins bass player Simon Raymonde and singer St…I'll believe it when I have the new album in my grubby little hands. Or else on my grubby little hard drive, I don't really care which anymore.
And just to stay somewhat on-topic, this is a in Awesome Cover Versions . . . Comment by ScissorMan January 2014No, that's typical for Japanese love songs. True love is a rare thing, and in Japan, bricks are even scarcer because this is how they have to make them. It's why most of their buildings are made of timber, with those thin paper walls. It's actually …I hate to be critical, but the Vanilla Fudge version is just not much good - they don't even have a female singer to do the Phaedra part, and frankly the whole thing sounds like some sort of bad proggy rock opera.
The in Awesome Cover Versions . . . Comment by ScissorMan January 2014I realize it's not that time of year, but I just happened across a song called Avant Gardener by Courtney Barnett, so...Apropos of nothing, I had about 100 items in my SFL list when I quit eMusic - about half were complete albums, the rest individual tracks. Most were non-essential, but what isn't these days? Since then, I've been putting things in an Amazon wishlist…To get some idea, look at where this Chris Drabick feller ranks the album Figure 8. Any uninvolved pop music fan listening to the Smith catalogue for the first time, with no preconceived notions whatsoever, would consider this to be his best …Ray Harryhausen
Not a musician, but he did the special effects for in RIP Comment by ScissorMan May 2013If Oh No Ono is involved, I'd say it's probably a symbol of your willingness to accept a highly nasal male falsetto as a substitute for proper female vocals.This business with the vastness of the universe and what-not is all well and good, but what happened to Gretchen? Did she at least make it to Scottsbluff?