I asked that very question before retirement . . . but I did not tell him why.
If I had to guess, that is probably the reason he was the only one that acknowledged (telephone call) receipt of the letter.
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If I had to guess, that is probably the reason he was the only one that acknowledged (telephone call) receipt of the letter.
AFAIK, most if not all modern vinyl is made this way with maybe a few exceptions.
It would be fun to play an original pure analog and it's digitally remastered counterpart through a high end turntable in a blind sampling for a bunch of audiophiles.
A guy I knew a long time ago used to paint the edges of all his CDs with a green marker because it made them sound better.
Some of the older bands who have money record on tape and vinyl.
I know one of kiss last records was recorded on old school tape because they thought it sounded better etc
They said it’s harder and much more expensive…but when your a mega band it doesn’t matter.
Someone needs to dub in harp music.
That was my first thought.
Articulates different in modern Brit. English, sounds more like, "I bend to the will of Allah," or something.
Neither do I buy on vinyl, unless it's a legacy piece (curio/relic) that I cannot get otherwise. A recent example of that would be the original Herbert Von Karajan's full cover of Ricard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra." It's the full 40 minute ver. (London Records), the opening of which was the one actually featured in the Kubrick 2001 movie. Not available on CD to my knowledge.
I don't have the locked cabinets for CDs, but I get it. I do some ripping but only to have it on my desktop to listen. Still, I keep the CD as backup. It helps a little as it cuts down on wear & tear on the CDs themselves, especially for things that are no longer replaceable.
A good example of that would be Michael Jackson's "BAD" album. That was a full DDD Digital recording. And it sounded kinda weird (too "electronic") when compared to the BAD video. Funny, now they have YouTube videos where the "reactors" are reacting to "mashup" versions of Bad vs. Weird Al Yankovic's "FAT."
I haven't listened to my Vinyl in a long time. I'm just saying, I have the turntable if I ever wanted to.
Exact same here. I've spent my entire career as a media technology exec, I don't trust streaming one bit. I buy everything I like and file it in the basement as backups (~1600 video titles ripped to high-quality MP4 and available across the house on a Plex server, and ~800 CDs ripped to 320k MP3 for the car/phone/etc.) FWIW, I think 320kbps MP3 is pretty damned close to CD, good enough that I haven't listened to a CD in a decade or more...
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The best is direct to disc. The bad part is if anyone makes any kind of mistake it’s there to stay. I have a couple, recorded direct to disc,at an old church renovated into a recording studio. The acoustics are astounding.
This video must hit real close to home for someone in power, it’s already taken down
True story
Tiny terrier sacrifices its life to save five children from pitbulls
A plucky foot-high Jack Russell terrier named George saved five children from two marauding pitbulls, but was so severely mauled in the fight he had to be destroyed, according to his devastated owner
How about...FUCKING NO. THEY ARE NOT US.
They are fucked up in too many ways to just say "come on in" cause they like owning guns.
No. Just no.
Fuck that shit. I'd rather have real sheet rocking Messicans.
We should be so lucky. Put the gallows (several of them) on the Mall and televise them
The last Brits to leave England for America, that had a backbone, left there in the 1700’s
And that is why I still have a "player" for all those different kinds of content... especially a "direct drive" turntable. I don't have much in the way of "classic cassette" or "8-Track" original content (my father had a lot of 8-track), but I have a decent bit of vinyl, including some MFSL Original Master Recordings. I even had an original "PlayTape" Mini cassette player (although it didn't look like this)
These days, I have a shit-ton of Audio CDs and DVDs (and now Blu-Ray). I guard those religiously.. And I maintain players for each form of content. I even have one of the original Sony "Discman®" mini players. And, believe it or not, I still have an old Sony "Betamax®" VCR as well as VHS players.
I had made the decision long ago that buying content in those forms is how I'd preserve my ownership of it "in perpetuity." I never did subscriptions or "streaming services" or beyond that, as I knew they'd try to enforce DRM and the content might "disappear" at some point. And I was proven correct several times. Consider the Discovery TV series "Sons of Guns." A fantastic show about guns, if it weren't for the a$$hole that starred in the thing and owned the shop. The moment Will Hayden got "busted" for those sex crimes, they yeeted that show off their streaming servers, pronto! If I had paid to subscribe to that show on those servers (which I hadn't BTW), I'd have been SOL! Similarly, for those who subscribed to it (I DID NOT!!!!), the "Honey Boo Boo" series. They yanked that series quickly, once it was determined that "Momma June" was sleeping with a child molester, or whatever.
By purchasing the "hard copy" DVD or Blu-Ray, that could never be taken away. It's also why I never went in for whatever that "purple" digital streaming thing was that came along with DVDs because I knew it was all about DRM. I had to be able to download a physical digital copy in order to preserve it. If I couldn't, I wasn't going to buy/download it. Now, if I find something I like that's "digital," I may download it (via purchase if I can), but I'll also try to find the hard copy CD/DVD or whatever, in order to have it as a "back up." They can't ever say, "I didn't buy the content."
I'm no "Napster."
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