What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2014
On the cusp of 2015, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume X: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-be-interested-vol-x
Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
Streaming | Bandcamp
(2012)
Streaming | Deezer Elite
(2012)
.....less then 5 mistakes on over 5700 albums is not a bad score......
Bert!
Have you ripped 5700 CD's? Wow! I heard one guy in Utrecht had ripped 8000 CD's, incredible.
How long does it take to hear 8000 CD's? Assume you play 3 CD's per night, 5 days per week, 48 weeks per year, you still need 11 years to hear them once! 
While not everything is a rip - also some of them are downloads. However checking the tags etc is the same amount of work.
I think it took me close to 5 months to get it done. And basically meant that I was having my PC in the living room and always exchanging CD's while watching TV etc. On weekend or holidays I could normally get to about 60-70 CD's a day. So yes it was a crazy type of job. But it's behind me - so I am happy.....
Impressive, Bert. Seriously impressive. 
The Cars. Candy-O (1979). On HDCD from 2005. The punchy, fast, accurate recording and mastering of this HDCD serves the new wave sound well. I love the music and the overall result on my system is quite impressive with a wide soundstage.
Hmmm. Haven't heard any Cars in years, and never replaced my vinyl versions of their albums with CDs. Might look this up and get reacquainted with the band.
A while since I've played this. Relaxing in an almost soporific way.
As an aside, my only CD with one of those strange rubber bungs in the case to hold the CD in place.
The Cars. Candy-O (1979). On HDCD from 2005. The punchy, fast, accurate recording and mastering of this HDCD serves the new wave sound well. I love the music and the overall result on my system is quite impressive with a wide soundstage.
Hmmm. Haven't heard any Cars in years, and never replaced my vinyl versions of their albums with CDs. Might look this up and get reacquainted with the band.
Try this one too -
G
The Cars. Candy-O (1979). On HDCD from 2005. The punchy, fast, accurate recording and mastering of this HDCD serves the new wave sound well. I love the music and the overall result on my system is quite impressive with a wide soundstage.
Hmmm. Haven't heard any Cars in years, and never replaced my vinyl versions of their albums with CDs. Might look this up and get reacquainted with the band.
Try this one too -
G
Thanks, Graeme.
I think it took me close to 5 months to get it done. And basically meant that I was having my PC in the living room and always exchanging CD's while watching TV etc. On weekend or holidays I could normally get to about 60-70 CD's a day. So yes it was a crazy type of job. But it's behind me - so I am happy.....
Impressive, Bert. Seriously impressive.
I hope the files are triple backed up.
The Cars. Candy-O (1979). On HDCD from 2005. The punchy, fast, accurate recording and mastering of this HDCD serves the new wave sound well. I love the music and the overall result on my system is quite impressive with a wide soundstage.
Hmmm. Haven't heard any Cars in years, and never replaced my vinyl versions of their albums with CDs. Might look this up and get reacquainted with the band.
Try this one too -
G
Thanks, Graeme.
And this one!
The Cars. Candy-O (1979). On HDCD from 2005. The punchy, fast, accurate recording and mastering of this HDCD serves the new wave sound well. I love the music and the overall result on my system is quite impressive with a wide soundstage.
Hmmm. Haven't heard any Cars in years, and never replaced my vinyl versions of their albums with CDs. Might look this up and get reacquainted with the band.
There are very good 24 bit version of most of their albums too
Vinyl
Tedeschi Trucks at my favourite venue Red Rocks.
On CD:-
On Vinyl takes me back to the spectacular show last August..
Bert! Have you ripped 5700 CD's? Wow! I heard one guy in Utrecht had ripped 8000 CD's, incredible.
How long does it take to hear 8000 CD's? Assume you play 3 CD's per night, 5 days per week, 48 weeks per year, you still need 11 years to hear them once!
While not everything is a rip - also some of them are downloads. However checking the tags etc is the same amount of work.
I think it took me close to 5 months to get it done. And basically meant that I was having my PC in the living room and always exchanging CD's while watching TV etc. On weekend or holidays I could normally get to about 60-70 CD's a day. So yes it was a crazy type of job. But it's behind me - so I am happy.....
I can imagine. I'm ripping a lot of classical music which takes quite some extra time as I want to have in the title the year the piece was written, the year it was recorded and by who. I also look for the original LP album cover as art work.
It can take a lot of time to find the above, especially for compilation CD's and older CD's. But the most is done now.
Streaming CD FLAC rip
(2015)
Playing CD1 of 2 for now and trying to get into this. I was slightly disappointed when I first heard it weeks ago so I'm trying again.
Cd1 of this great collection.
Bought this ages ago but only got around to playing it for the first time this evening. The performance is good - lots of energy - but the enjoyment is let down by the thin and flat recording. I've found that recordings of live open-air performances are often let down by failing to properly capture the bass, rendering bass guitar and kick-drum pale imitations of the real thing. This recording is one of them. Ah well.
Bert! Have you ripped 5700 CD's? Wow! I heard one guy in Utrecht had ripped 8000 CD's, incredible.
How long does it take to hear 8000 CD's? Assume you play 3 CD's per night, 5 days per week, 48 weeks per year, you still need 11 years to hear them once!
While not everything is a rip - also some of them are downloads. However checking the tags etc is the same amount of work.
I think it took me close to 5 months to get it done. And basically meant that I was having my PC in the living room and always exchanging CD's while watching TV etc. On weekend or holidays I could normally get to about 60-70 CD's a day. So yes it was a crazy type of job. But it's behind me - so I am happy.....
I can imagine. I'm ripping a lot of classical music which takes quite some extra time as I want to have in the title the year the piece was written, the year it was recorded and by who. I also look for the original LP album cover as art work.
It can take a lot of time to find the above, especially for compilation CD's and older CD's. But the most is done now.
I missed your point on the listening aspect. Indeed you have a point, and I am sometimes sad about it - knowing I will not hear everything on a regular base. The problem is that while I have a huge collection, n a regular base new music comes out which attracts me, so it's a kind of addiction as well. The only benefit is that I always have something which fits my mood.
Some very early Mary Black. Simpler than her later work but in some ways all the more beautiful for it. Oh, and if Mary's voice is not enough, the sax on Crusader is sublime.
Sax, bass, drums....very often an exciting combination....as in this live recording...
