Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-01 Thread matka
ralphpnj wrote: > What I do notice is that many new jazz releases and new jazz remasters, > while not featuring dynamic range compression, are mastered to play > louder...). Would volume qualization even up a playing field ? Quite often I construct playlists of the same work by diff performers on

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-01 Thread ralphpnj
cliveb wrote: > It isn't just mainstream stuff that gets mangled by dynamic range > compression. Most of my purchases are in the rock genre but nowhere > close to mainstream. And they are still over-compressed. It just seems > to be some kind of dogma these days to compress rock & pop this way. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-01 Thread cliveb
Stratmangler wrote: > I wouldn't have thought that many recordings in the Jazz idiom would be > badly aflicted by being remastered - the material isn't mainstream, and > it's unlikely to have been mistreated in the same way as Pop music has. It isn't just mainstream stuff that gets mangled by dyn

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-01 Thread ralphpnj
JerryS wrote: > This is probably a really dumb question for such an expert forum, but > let's see if you can help. After spending most of my adult life > listening to classical music I became interested in Jazz after > retirement. Initially I bought cds and ripped these to flac. I then > disco

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-01 Thread Mnyb
matka wrote: > Since nobody can seriously give you a definitive answer, I would suggest > this - stop buying, start streaming. > > Luckilly, you already have a server running that can stream from qobuz > (flac, mp3, good classical and jazz catalogue) and spotify (highest ogg) > and google play

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-01 Thread Julf
Stratmangler wrote: > I was referring to the rubbish that gets thrown at us on TV and > mainstream radio. > There have always been interesting artists, but they usually find it > difficult to get mainstream exposure. I agree about the mainstream rubbish, but at the same time streaming and intern

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-01 Thread Stratmangler
I was referring to the rubbish that gets thrown at us on TV and mainstream radio. There have always been interesting artists, but they usually find it difficult to get mainstream exposure. Julf wrote: > [image: > http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/739/968/b5b.jpg] Chris :) -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Disable WiFi without Sounccheck's TT

2014-11-01 Thread Julf
lake_eleven wrote: > Would it be possible to disable WiFi in SBT as I am using ethernet. I > have EDO installed and I do not want to use TT3.0 to disable WiFi. Any > alternatives?. I am under the assumption disabling WiFi would improve > sound quality. You can turn it off by ssh-ing into the tou

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Remastered Music, to buy or not to buy (Dumb question)

2014-11-01 Thread Julf
Stratmangler wrote: > I grew up when there was real creativity in the pop genre - sadly not > the case today. [image: http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/739/968/b5b.jpg] "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Disable WiFi without Sounccheck's TT

2014-11-01 Thread lake_eleven
Would it be possible to disable WiFi in SBT as I am using ethernet. I have EDO installed and I do not want to use TT3.0 to disable WiFi. Any alternatives?. I am under the assumption disabling WiFi would improve sound quality. --