Category Archives: Music

Music-making took — takes — craft

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Stephen Dawson

Scrolling through the far-too-many albums on my NAS Koupit Doxycyklin v Praze Order Ditropan Online no Prescription https://sai.org/vastarel/index.html , the original self-titled Toto album (1978) caught my eye. It had been a few years since I last played it ogrish … Continue reading →

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[Re-post] Crushing Because They Can

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

[This is a repost of the original item. It’s unchanged, except for this intro. The reason for reposting it (and deleting the original) is that the original has attracted over 20,000 attempted spam comments. I’m hoping this action will stop … Continue reading →

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Slightly better than a CD

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve been playing with NAS drives lately, focusing on their abilities as music servers. That prompted me to see if I could get some of my high resolution music into a usable form. And indeed you can! Some of it, … Continue reading →

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CD listening in 2013

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

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It ain’t all that hard

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

Shock Entertainment has sent me a number of concert Blu-ray discs that it distributes here, mostly from Eagle Entertainment. One I’m presently gathering tech info on is ‘Supertramp: Live in Paris 1979’. Great sound: 24 bit, 96kHz in two channel … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Bluegrass

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

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Why do they do it?

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Stephen Dawson

I was looking for fine music — multichannel if possible — to listen to earlier today. But I didn’t want to switch on the projector or a TV to navigate through menus, so that ruled out (sort of) DVD Audio. … Continue reading →

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Are songs getting ‘louder’?

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Stephen Dawson

Statistician William M Briggs features on his excellent blog an occasional series of posts dedicated to proving that modern music is crap 2pharmaceuticals.com , at least in comparison to older music. Although there are hints that The Beatles represent the … Continue reading →

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50th Anniversay

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Stephen Dawson

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The things you can do with Lego

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Stephen Dawson

Via the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, here’s a harpsichord built entirely out of Lego. It looks beautiful, and it works. The MP3 on the linked page is the opening to Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’.

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