MeloManiac

I think I get it. If the artist isn't in this picture, it ain't no jazz: https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/dec/17/a-great-day-in-harlem-behind-art-kaness-classic-1958-jazz-photograph

So ok for Linux. And what about - Sampling rate: 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz - DAC resolution: 16bit Is that good enough?

Yes and Salieri was insulted and jealous because Mozart made composing look so easy. While it is not. Mozart was a prodigy. I guess Mozart was a jazz musician, improvising like that... Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5047U met Tapatalk

Hmm... I still have nostalgic feelings about my student years. For a while, the only music playing device I owned was a plastic clock radio. It must have been as low-fi as could be. But the memory is very strong. Of course, soon, I bought a pre-owned Dual turntable and amp, with really good speakers. I still regret bringing those to the waste disposal, some years ago when I moved....

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I discovered GoGo Penguin's A Humdrum Star on Qobuz. I first thought it was electronic music, but then found out it is all acoustic bass/piano/drum. I even bought the vinyl double album. I used one song, Raven, during assembly at school and the students loved it. Jazz dead? No way... Verstuurd vanaf mijn 5047U met Tapatalk

I only learned to appreciate jazz in my twenties - I'm almost 50 now. I love listening to jazz standards such as A Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme. For me, jazz is here to stay. I still continue to discover great music on recent albums. My latest discovery is Brian Bromberg, an extremely gifted electric and acoustic bass player. Fists of Fury (Kamasi Washington) is another one I like to play loud on Klipsch speakers! I'd like to compare jazz with baroque music. Baroque music is the music typically composed between 1600 and 1750. In the 19th century, there was a Bach Revival, and of course, baroque is still very popular nowadays. I'm convinced jazz is similar, there 's going to be a succession of jazz revivals, and from time to time, great (new) jazz artists will come and go...

http://www.elekit.co.jp/en/product/PS-3249R I'm planning on building my first DIY tube amp kit (the Elekit TU8200) One of the options is adding a built in DAC module. specs: - Power supply system: USB bus power (Possible to modify to self-power system to supply external power) - Operation system: Windows XP or higher, Mac OS X or higher - USB: 1.1 or 2.0 - Sampling rate: 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz - DAC resolution: 16bit - Output distortion rate: 0.014% (USB bus power) - Frequency response: 10Hz-22.5kHz (1kHz) - PCB size: 97x45mm I'm wondering if the specs of this module are good enough and futureproof. Also, it is listed as compatible with Windows OS and Mac OS, but I'm running Linux (Ubuntu Studio). Is linux going to work with this module?

Qobuz is in Europe and they offer "encoded in 24-Bit, at frequencies that can go up to 192 kHz - these are actually the same files that are used in recording studios." For streaming and download. They don't mention MQA. Why (not)?

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I bought a set in December 2018. My first ever Klipsch speakers. I love them. I drive them with a Denon RCD M41 microsystem (2x30W). I also bought a cheap, china made, hybrid tube amp. They sound even better with tubes... The RP160M is now reduced in price, because the RP600M, its successor, is on the market now. Virtually the same. Bookshelfspeakers really need to be put on a bookshelf or on stands. Consider this: if you have the floor space, you may want to buy floorstanding speakers such as the RP-5000F. This will avoid the need of buying stands...

Steve Huff is very positive about the Sixes, except for the phone amp. http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/klipsch-the-sixes-speaker-review-mid-fi-at-its-finest/

Don't give up hope. In the past weeks a 17 year old 'talented' and articulate girl, Anuna De Wever, has gone heads to heads with Belgian politicians. She managed to mobilize thousands of highschool students and put the environment on the number one spot for the coming local and European elections in May. The movement even made it to Leonardo Dicaprio 's FB page. You can read about it here. Some say the educational system may be bad/rotten, but the individual, both teachers and students, still can make a difference. I can only speak for Belgium, of course, but I can vouch for it: the standards of excellence are not declining in the curriculum, at least not on paper. It is just that there are now so many ready available distractions around, all the time calling for attention, social networks and binge watching and computer games, just naming a few of them. For teachers, it is a brutal force to deal with. Add to that, the often difficult home situation of many students.

I take it you're writing about the situation in the US? Well, I live in Belgium, you know, its capital is Brussels, which Trump called a 'hell hole'... I'm hearing the same complaints here, about the downfall of education. In the videos above, they don't complain about the younger generation, but rather about the 'song factories' in the music industry.

This guy is more objective and descriptive, rather than judgemental. He also covers most of 20th century pop and rock music.

Oh yes, education was so much better in the 'good old days'. Check this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection (Sarcasm alert!!!!) Another brick in the wall

Actually, I pretty much agree with you... If you look at Netflix - great technology: but what is on offer is 98% bad. But that doesn't mean there are no good, 'modern' movies made these days. But you'll have to look elsewhere to find them (or buy the blu-ray). And some millennials do exactly that. Just not all of them.

Singles were still around at the end of 80s, as you can see in this graph I googled. For the past 25 years, I have been teaching in secundary school, and I can assure you that in each class group I teach, there are at least a couple of students interested in 'quality' music, and yes, they'll listen to albums too, old and new. This was no different in the 1980, 1970s, 1960s etc. : in each class group, there would be a couple of students really into music, while the majority would buy the occasional single, and no more.

So, you're saying that 'singles' is something modern or something very old??? Come on, singles go as far back as the recording industry and they have always been important. I grew up in the 1980s and singles then still were the norm. And with Napster, people would (illegally) download their favourite songs of an album (the singles) and ignore the rest! You are wrong when you say people 'no longer' have the patience to sit and listen to an album on two accounts: 1) some young people do listen to albums and 2) in the past many wouldn't listen to albums, but to singles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_(music)#Early_history

My previous post was meant to be sarcastic. The person in the video is biased and prejudiced towards what he calls modern music. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Conversely, ugliness is in the eye of the beholder too.To my 80 year old mother, all rock music sounds the same, from Pink Floyd over ACDC to Bon Jovi and Metallica. In the video, a similar generalisation towards 'modern music' is proposed. The guy in the video obviously doesn't like 'modern music' - btw, is that a new genre? To build his argumentation, he uses un-referenced pseudo-science of Spanish origin (!)... By doing that, he ignores all the wonderful music, uncompressed music that some young talent produces every day of the week, anno 2019. He prefers to live in the past and he tries to convince us we should do the same. Also, he ignores the fact that most of his 'old' music was recorded and played back on terribly sounding gear: bad microphones, bad amps, bad radios (compared to contemporary technology). Most of the people in the 1960s enjoying their music were no audiophiles and few would have access to high end klipsch speakers.... More than 2000 years ago, Plato/Socrates complained about the terrible taste of the younger generation. This guy is no different, and he's wrong...

Prejudiced and biased towards recent music... Conversely, all 60s music sounds the same. Rolling Stones are just a Beatles clone. Coltrane is just one of many sax players out there, they all sound the same and play the same tune over and over again. Baroque music? Who cares, variations on the same theme... Young musical talent has access to affordable gear that is much much better than ever before. So let's stay optimistic. John Lennon reportedly once said: "I'm an artist. You give me a ****ing tuba, I'll get you something out of it."

Ken Rockwell: "[Tube amp] waveforms are highly asymmetrical because each old tube was quite different from the others, but the key here is that even though they are clipping, there are no sharp edges to the waveform. (This old amplifier and its weak old tubes still sounded fantastic at normal levels.) When a solid state amplifier clips, there is a sharp edge where it looks like someone simply took a pair of scissors to the tips of the waveforms. The sharp edges of solid state amplifier's waveforms at clipping give rise to insane levels of very high order ultrasonic harmonics, which are what blow out tweeters." Source: https://kenrockwell.com/audio/why-tubes-sound-better.htm Ken also has some nice waveform pictures to illustrate this. He also explains this: "Tube power amplifiers are usually rated for the power you actually need and will use, like 8 to 80 watts per channel. Solid state amplifiers tend to be rated up to stupid and dangerous power levels as prices increase. No one needs or uses 300 WPC except public address systems; 300W will melt any single speaker. Sadly not only do you wind up paying for and having to lift these solid state beasts, they sound even worse down at the rational levels at which you will actually enjoy them. [...] Don't let me stop you if you want a 100 WPC amplifier, but you don't need it unless you like to crank it, have a big room or inefficient speakers, or enjoy very wide dynamic range classical music at concert-hall volume." (This reminds me of a friend guitar player who loves his 15W tube guitar amp much better than his 45W amp: the small one opened up at the volume he needed to play, while the 45W opened up at a volume that was much too high for the venues they were playing...)

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I'm learning a lot here, so I thought I 'd share this video which explains why clipping is a bad thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PF32APSjrk

"To give you the best balance of power and performance, select an amplifier or receiver that delivers continuous watts (many times erroneously referred to as “RMS”) in accordance with the speaker’s rating. For example, a Klipsch RF-83 floorstanding speaker is rated at 250 watts. So, any amplifier that delivers 250w/channel would be a good match. Don’t be misled, by the way; although a speaker’s peak power rating can be much higher—in the RF-83 example, it’s a whopping 1000 watts—remember that peak power means exactly that…a momentary exposure. Trying to make any speaker perform for more than an instant at peak is to invite disaster! The right amplifier, one that has its power well matched to the speakers, will also eliminate the need to overdrive components, which can induce clipping, which at best distorts the signal and at worst can cause serious damage. Believe it or not, underpowering speakers carries as much danger as too much power. Horn-driven speakers, such as Klipsch, are much more efficient than their direct radiating counterparts, and require less power to create great sound. Just be sure to keep the receiver’s output closely matched to speaker specifications to ensure years of trouble-free performance." source: https://www.klipsch.com/support?guideTitle=Receivers-and-amplifiers&guideId=ccc343a6-14bb-4a2f-b2e4-50a42b5deae6