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Basil

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Any aficionados of High Def Music? Just got a player and a couple albums in HD. Yes, there IS a difference!
 
I'm not sure my older ears are up to it.
 
Bayless said:
I'm not sure my older ears are up to it.
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My ears are no spring chickens, but I hear a difference. Example: I have Far Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) in both regular Apple Lossless and in FLAC format HD. The difference is stark (to me anyway). The regular CD-rip Apple Lossless sounds pretty darned good, but the HD (.FLAC files) version is just WOW (Of course a good HD player and quality headphones required to really appreciate the difference. Playing throught a PC sound card and Dell Computer speakers probably not gonna cut it.)
 
Probably not for me, I'm still spinning Dark Side of the Moon on my turntable.
 
Walter, 78s or 33s? :highly_amused:. Ok:sorry:, just having a little fun. :friendly_wink:. PJ
 
78's? Way too modern.
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Paul, I have 78s, 33s, and 45s. The 78s get played on a 1921 Victrola model VVIX table top player, the 33s and 45s get played on a Thorens TD 145 paying through a MacIntosh 1700 amp to a pair of Norman Lab model 10s.
 
I have a buddy with a wire recorder. I'm not enough of an audio junkie to have anything like that. I also don't have a reel to reel or an eight track.
 
Basil said:
..........I have Far Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) in both regular Apple Lossless and in FLAC format HD. The difference is stark (to me anyway).....
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I heard it live. That's even better. :friendly_wink:

That was back in my pre-hearing aid days when I could really discern a difference.

Nowadays, my hearing is so bad, my own guitar playing actually sounds good! :glee:
 
aeronca65t said:
I heard it live. That's even better. :friendly_wink:

That was back in my pre-hearing aid days when I could really discern a difference.

Nowadays, my hearing is so bad, my own guitar playing actually sounds good! :glee:
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Live performance are fun, but a good studio performance in High Def is better (IMHO of course). I realize of course if you're hearing isn't that good, it probably would not matter as much.
 
Greg, I deleted that link. When I clicked it it caused a file to start downloading on my computer. For security reasons, I'd rather not have links to d/l files.

But back to my topic - I just bought Paul McCartney's Band on the Run in HD and through an HD player - wow! So many nuances I never heard with a 256k .MP3 file through my computer. (And I do have the original LP and it sounds great too)
 
Thing that's really amazing about all this, is how far we've come WRT digital storage capacity in my life time. When I was first in the AF, before my commission, I was a maintenance man on the NORAD SAGE Computer system (early 70s). Below is a picture of one of the core memory systems on that computer. That cabinet hold magnetic ferret core memory with a capacity of a whopping 10k (yes, k!). The next picture is of a 128GB Micro SD card like one of two that are in my portable HD player. That Micro SD card is literally no bigger than my thumbnail. That old 10k core memory system is the size of two refrigerators. It would take 100 of those to make 1 Meg of storage! It would take 100,000 of them to make 1GB! Multiply that time 128 and that's how much storage is on that little tiny micro card! Just FYI, I have 6,800 songs on that card and it's only about half full! Not to worry, the player has a second slot where I can hold my next lifetimes worth of music should this first card even get full! Mind boggling!

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My first computer was a Sinclair with 1K of memory. Operating system was loaded via a tape drive every time it restarted.

Later, I got a Commodore 64 with a whopping 64K! :friendly_wink:

Now, you can get a teeny, tiny micro SD card with 64K.
 
Basil said:
Greg, I deleted that link. When I clicked it it caused a file to start downloading on my computer. For security reasons, I'd rather not have links to d/l files.
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Sorry about that, I had no downloads. I'll try to find the video on YouTube the next time I'm on my computer.
 
NutmegCT said:
So, who else uses a Silvertone 7085 wire recorder like mine?

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Jeez - you guys with those new-fangled inventions ....
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OH GREAT! Another format I need to collect. I've got a 78rpm wind-up phonograph "The Angelograph", a nice 4 track reel to reel, a couple of Silvertone"suitcase" phonographs, several higher end turntables I found at rummage sales, a couple of decent cassette tape players, 8-track player and CD players..... I'm missing the Edison Phonograph, and I guess a Wire recorder!
Before I collect any more, I need to sort and organize what I've got. Right now it's boxes of tapes and CDs, stacks of records, and they're all over the place.
 
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