Spotify vs Sky Songs: Sound quality blind test
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:05:11 +0100
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49303980,00.htm
Spotify wins on OGG useage & bit rate (even on their free offering)
Though a few other blogs are presumably being paid by Sky to say the
opposite.
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/10/15/stat-clash-spotify-v-sky-songs-v-napster/
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Adrian ...
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There are only two ways to skin a rabbit....
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:43:34 +0100
....either you do it or you get somebody else to, but there's any number of
ways to attenuate a rampant 'vinyl' signal it seems (pending the arrival of
some Alps pots - see elsewhere)!
See this whole side recording I did last night:
http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/Marlene-AT.jpg
And here's the sa ...
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What pot? (Another I need, I want post...)
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:00:55 +0100
I need to 'digitise' some more vinyl (got a Norrie Paramor 'Lovers In Latin'
and an album of superb Marlene Dietrich '28-31 movie soundtrack recordings
that're positvely *gagging* to get done) but I need to attenuate the signal
from the 'recording amplifier' I'm using to the computer and can't for the
life of ...
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Re: OT Immigration : The Full Story of the Immigrants Who Opened
the Floodgates
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:56:22 +0100
Love Europe, Hate the EU wrote:
> Immigration: The Full Story of the Immigrants Who Opened the
> Floodgates
Fuck off, you yawnsome, oral-diarhorrea-wanking, irrelevant,
steaming, fly-infested, daddy-loving hellbound FREAK.
If you went into a pub and started interrupting other people's
conversations in such a ...
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Re: OT Immigration : The Full Story of the Immigrants Who Opened
the Floodgates
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:38:19 +0100
Love Europe, Hate the EU wrote:
> Immigration: The Full Story of the Immigrants Who Opened the
> Floodgates
Fuck off, you yawnsome, oral-diarhorrea-wanking, irrelevant,
steaming, fly-infested, daddy-loving hellbound FREAK.
If you went into a pub and started interrupting other people's
conversations in such a ...
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6U rack mounting instrument case
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:43:32 +0100
I need a 6U high 19inch rack mounting instrument case for my next
project. I can find plenty of 4U high cases (Maplin et al) but not one
6U high case.
Cheers
Ian ...
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Spendor SP2 Speakers on "Peep Show" Now?
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:15:29 +0100
Wow! Nice speakers!
Met them working part time in Sevenoaks Hi-Fi in 1987.
But they REALLY look like SP2s!
I ended up buying SP1s in about 1988.
Martin ...
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Re: BBC Radio using AAC and internet radios
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:53:58 GMT
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:45:52 +0100, "David Looser"
<david.looser@btinternet.com> wrote:
>"David Looser" <david.looser@btinternet.com> wrote in message
>news:7jjap0F34eblsU1@mid.individual.net...
>> "Don Pearce" <spam@spam.com> wrote
>>
>>>
>>> According to the FAQs, it resamples. It only supports 48kHz.
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Shamefully for r.a.o., an on-topic post!
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:52:12 +0100
Is this a silly user name thread?
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*No hand signals. Driver on Viagra*
Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound. ...
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Shamefully for r.a.o., an on-topic post!
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:15:38 +0100
X-posted to uk.r.a and r.a.o.
I don't want any of rec.audio.opinion groups nutters replying, and nor Arny.
Amongst a whole pile of hardware, I have a Dacmagic (24 bit upsampling box
of tricks with 3 filter settings incl bessel) my own diy nonos dac (7350)
and
an early 901 LLC player.
I don't bother with most ...
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