Linux Lingam wrote: > by the way, that ear-training tip really works. here's what i recommend: > before you set out to buy any audio gear, spend about a week or atleast 21 > days with solfege, the gpl ear-training software. say about 30 minutes a > day. you may spend more time if you wish. for those 21 days, pick up an > acoustically rich piece of music as your reference point. listen to that > piece at least twice or thrice every day until you can know every subtle > nuance by memory. don't bother using highly-compressed mp3 or other > file-formats. pick a pristine-quality wav file, or an original audiocd or > audio-dvd. [i mean audio-dvd, not a data dvd crammed with hissy mp3 files]. > > finally, discard the hypnotism of brand-faith and loyalty. take your > reference musicfile, and go test the audio-gear. you'll always be startled > at your choices. like me, you may just develop reverence and deep > appreciation for one of the finest foss utility software i know out there: > solfege. it's not just zero-price, but priceless. > > last week i spent 5 hours in various outlets with a friend, testing portable > speakers for my mp3player. you gotta hear the stuff i brought home. no other > customer in the shop was even glancing at it. the shop-manager was quite > clueless about its capabilities. by the way, bought it so i could listen to > some music in my room in bangalore, through foss.in next week. so those of > you attending foss.in and interested to prick your ears to its sound, buzz > me. you'd appreciate it even more if you muck around with solfege and have a > reference file. >
So which speakers did you finally end up buying? Thanks for the Solfege tip. The audio bug bit me recently, and after quite a sharp learning curve over a weekend I ended up buying gear whose brands I had not heard till about a week before. I am planning to buy an additional pair of speakers, and this is the kind of tip I was looking out for to make my decision. Niyam, keep posting audio related FOSS tips from time to time out here. :) And yes, I will buzz you at foss.in too. Thanks, Sandip _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
