What ya listening to?

NavyVette said:
Well, Mister Peabody has been busy this morning

I had no clue this stuff was available

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

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Rock star: It's a hard life. But a fun journey.
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BeerHunter said:
One of my favorites (I was huge Dire Straits fan and still have that album on vinyl. . . somewhere! :love:
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My roommate an I bought at least 3 copies of the CD in 1985, making us part of the problem for Rykodisk:
" Honestly, the fast growth of the CD almost killed us. See, we originally oriented Rykodisc to be for the audiophile, specialty market, which we all expected to be where the CD would be for its first 5-10 years at least. Within two years we were fighting to get our CDs manufactured because the entire worldwide manufacturing capacity was overwhelmed by demand for a single rock title (Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms)."
 
I briefly adopted cassette tapes but shifted to CDs early. Tapes sucked. The one thing I liked about tapes was I could make my own 'playlists' from the vinyl records I had.

Once MP3 emerged I abandoned CDs.
 
I couldn't stand the way CD's sounded until they started employing oversampling. I had a friend who had one of the first Automotive CD players in town in his truck, and this was when Satriani's 'Surfing With The Alien' came out. That thing sounded so bright and brittle- piercing sounding. Eventually they got the CD's sounding very good as the technology grew and advanced for playback.

Back then I'd buy the vinyl album and a fresh cassette, went home and cleaned and recorded it, and then put the album away. Quite a few "half speed mastered" copies back then.

I still miss my Concord HPL-532 Mosfet AM/FM cassette player I had in my '68 ElCamino....that thing sounded so warm, and huge- through JBL 6x9's. I only used Maxell, and TDK metal tapes. They were far better than the usual cassettes that had a very limited frequency response, and had MUCH BETTER dependability and longevity.

But eventually, the CD's came into their own. Digital audio today is amazing.
 
One Ping Only said:
I couldn't stand the way CD's sounded until they started employing oversampling. I had a friend who had one of the first Automotive CD players in town in his truck, and this was when Satriani's 'Surfing With The Alien' came out. That thing sounded so bright and brittle- piercing sounding. Eventually they got the CD's sounding very good as the technology grew and advanced for playback.

Back then I'd buy the vinyl album and a fresh cassette, went home and cleaned and recorded it, and then put the album away. Quite a few "half speed mastered" copies back then.

I still miss my Concord HPL-532 Mosfet AM/FM cassette player I had in my '68 ElCamino....that thing sounded so warm, and huge- through JBL 6x9's. I only used Maxell, and TDK metal tapes. They were far better than the usual cassettes that had a very limited frequency response, and had MUCH BETTER dependability and longevity.

But eventually, the CD's came into their own. Digital audio today is amazing.
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I the sound quality of mp3 used today?
I'll claim even with these questionable ears the crisp sound of a CD is still better than an mp3.
 
gandrfab said:
I the sound quality of mp3 used today?
I'll claim even with these questionable ears the crisp sound of a CD is still better than an mp3.
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Sound quality has definitely degraded. So has my hearing. My hearing loss above 10,000 Hz rapidly goes off the cliff. Plus tinnitus.
 
One Ping Only said:
I couldn't stand the way CD's sounded until they started employing oversampling. I had a friend who had one of the first Automotive CD players in town in his truck, and this was when Satriani's 'Surfing With The Alien' came out. That thing sounded so bright and brittle- piercing sounding. Eventually they got the CD's sounding very good as the technology grew and advanced for playback.

Back then I'd buy the vinyl album and a fresh cassette, went home and cleaned and recorded it, and then put the album away. Quite a few "half speed mastered" copies back then.

I still miss my Concord HPL-532 Mosfet AM/FM cassette player I had in my '68 ElCamino....that thing sounded so warm, and huge- through JBL 6x9's. I only used Maxell, and TDK metal tapes. They were far better than the usual cassettes that had a very limited frequency response, and had MUCH BETTER dependability and longevity.

But eventually, the CD's came into their own. Digital audio today is amazing.
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I bought a TEAC reel to reel from a guy desperate for money when I was in college. It was a huge pain in the ass to use just to listen to music but the audio quality was pretty good. It also looked really cool... which I admit is why I bought it.
 
Bongo Lewi said:
I bought a TEAC reel to reel from a guy desperate for money when I was in college. It was a huge pain in the ass to use just to listen to music but the audio quality was pretty good. It also looked really cool... which I admit is why I bought it.
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I bought a reel to reel from a guy in my squadron. was pretty cool, I mostly just played with it recording on the 4 tracks and so on.

Reel to Real was old hat to me since the test bench used them for the OS and test programs, and the S3 had a reel to reel recorder for capturing data. I loved working on those.

We also had a drum memory unit for other data recording, and a core memory device - we were OLD school.
 
NavyVette said:
I bought a reel to reel from a guy in my squadron. was pretty cool, I mostly just played with it recording on the 4 tracks and so on.

Reel to Real was old hat to me since the test bench used them for the OS and test programs, and the S3 had a reel to reel recorder for capturing data. I loved working on those.

We also had a drum memory unit for other data recording, and a core memory device - we were OLD school.
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I have vague memories from school of drum memory, core memory, COBOL, FORTRAN and CODASYL databases. Mainframe stuff.

I had a lot of exposure to real time operating systems used in process control. QNX, VxWorks, RMX, some others. Most of the programming languages used with them were proprietary. As was the hardware that those RTOS ran on. Never spent much time or energy on traditional data processing.
 
MP3’s are like the McDonald’s of audio files. Highly compressed and grossly lacking in fidelity but they play well on anything and are easily stored But it’s the most efficient media when it comes to streaming and data space management. YouTube, etc all the usual digital audio content is gerically served up as a sonic happy meal.

But there are various degrees of sonic improvement in different (and some of those, proprietary) file formats including lossless, that not only equal but surpass the CD’s. Just stunning sound. But that data takes space- let’s say Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ in mp3 for example, is sized smaller in file size (and sounds ‘smaller’ too) than say a lossless audio of the same song. You not only lose data and what’s left is very squashed, but you lose freq response and dynamic range, and so forth. The music becomes dull and lifeless, and the compression also induces artifacts.
 
One Ping Only said:
MP3’s are like the McDonald’s of audio files. Highly compressed and grossly lacking in fidelity but they play well on anything and are easily stored But it’s the most efficient media when it comes to streaming and data space management. YouTube, etc all the usual digital audio content is gerically served up as a sonic happy meal.

But there are various degrees of sonic improvement in different (and some of those, proprietary) file formats including lossless, that not only equal but surpass the CD’s. Just stunning sound. But that data takes space- let’s say Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ in mp3 for example, is sized smaller in file size (and sounds ‘smaller’ too) than say a lossless audio of the same song. You not only lose data and what’s left is very squashed, but you lose freq response and dynamic range, and so forth. The music becomes dull and lifeless, and the compression also induces artifacts.
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And I thought it was just my bad hearing! :)

The factory sound system in my Jeep sucks the big one. That makes it worse. Now and then I get the itch to listen to music while driving but not often. I don't do a lot of driving. When I do, I put in my AirPod Pros. I can hear what going on while driving and still listen to music or a podcast.
 
One Ping Only said:
MP3’s are like the McDonald’s of audio files.
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I "ripped" all of my CDs into mp3s. I saved in the largest file size. Used Windows Media Player which was helpful and gathered most of the file names and info off the internet. I've bought CDs of albums I wished I still had and ripped those, as well. Beatles, A-Smith, LedZ, etc. all the studio albums are ripped. Ripping is converting a CD audio file into an .mp3 (or .wav or .wma).

PS: I prefer listening to entire albums in the order they were laid down on vinyl originally... :)
 
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