Now CD less...
Posted by: solwisesteve on 16 April 2015
I've done it... At the weekend dropped off all my CDs (c.300 plus about 50 DVDs) at the charity shop. With the recent sale of my Rega and LPs I'm now 100% streaming.
Sorry to have added my second paragraph in edit, But it does not spoil the point.
Very best wishes from George
An example here is that last week a friend of mine died aged 94. He was first double bass player in the Covent Garden [Royal Opera House Orchestra] from 1955, so he had the occasional £10 cheques from when one of his recordings was replayed on the BBC.
I would guess that this little bonus will cease with his demise.
But it is fair enough that he was rewarded for his efforts when the original performance was recorded from live by the BBC or done in the studio.
He at least owned his house when died. Not a huge over-payment for a life's work in professional music making.
ATB from George
Examples like that are much harder to argue with than, for example, multi millionaires like Taylor Swift pulling her music from Spotify so that she can make more money with Tidal, even though the principles are the same
An example here is that last week a friend of mine died aged 94. He was first double bass player in the Covent Garden [Royal Opera House Orchestra] from 1955, so he had the occasional £10 cheques from when one of his recordings was replayed on the BBC.
I would guess that this little bonus will cease with his demise.
But it is fair enough that he was rewarded for his efforts when the original performance was recorded from live by the BBC or done in the studio.
He at least owned his house when died. Not a huge over-payment for a life's work in professional music making.
ATB from George
Examples like that are much harder to argue with than, for example, multi millionaires like Taylor Swift pulling her music from Spotify so that she can make more money with Tidal, even though the principles are the same
Apparently there was a sound quality concern as well - a friend of a Nashville friend who worked on "Red" mentioned this in passing - so go figure....
Hm, I'm sure a lot of her fans are listening on kit that would notice the difference too.
An example here is that last week a friend of mine died aged 94. He was first double bass player in the Covent Garden [Royal Opera House Orchestra] from 1955, so he had the occasional £10 cheques from when one of his recordings was replayed on the BBC.
I would guess that this little bonus will cease with his demise.
But it is fair enough that he was rewarded for his efforts when the original performance was recorded from live by the BBC or done in the studio.
He at least owned his house when died. Not a huge over-payment for a life's work in professional music making.
ATB from George
Examples like that are much harder to argue with than, for example, multi millionaires like Taylor Swift pulling her music from Spotify so that she can make more money with Tidal, even though the principles are the same
Apparently there was a sound quality concern as well - a friend of a Nashville friend who worked on "Red" mentioned this in passing - so go figure....
Dear David,
BBC recordings at the ROHCG are at least as good as anything achieved in the EMI, RCA or CBS studios at the time. I don't think anyone would complain about the quality from transfers of these radio monitor tapes even decades on ...
ATB from George
PS: For example. Beethoven Overture Fidelio [from the complete opera] in Klemperer's wonderful production from 1961 at the Royal Opera House. The Testament CDs are rather finer than this youtube MP3 transfer! Far better than the EMI commercial recording which followed for example, even on EMI CDs ...
The original tapes are now preserved at the British Library in London ...
If you're a musician, can't sit back and live off royalties and don't like how hard you have to work by touring, then fine, don't. Get a real job.
(Disclaimer - I pay for all my music. Nice and legal-like. I don't necessarily agree, but I also don't break laws - except rolling through stop signs on my bike)
And you might 'consider' theft to be the taking of something for which you have not paid the requested compensation.
In any case - the world you portray is, apparently, full of musicians giving it away for free.
You, presumably, listen exclusively to their music and don't expect to have any right to listen to music for which there is a charge - without paying that charge.
Otherwise - you'd be a thief. A little theft, hardly worth noticing, no worse than a hundred and one minor crimes we commit each day - justified because we're special.
If you want something for which payment is asked - then you pay, negotiate or don't have it. There's plenty of local school recorder club music available for free.
https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...570#1566878605658570
With the latest change in cables (elsewhere referred to by open-minded individuals as "foo", "snake-oil", "religious relics") my listening tests (ongoing, to be sure I'm not deluding myself) have resulted in me starting the looooong process of ripping my CD collection to NAS.
I've over 5,000 to do and a week after commencing I've not reached the end of the As.
I'll be keeping the CDs.
Take your time, get the metadata right. I still have albums split into 2. Without the data right, its basically useless.