Month: July 2013
HD Tracks is the Future of the Music Industry
From record album to tape player to CD and SACD or DVD audio, the future of recorded music is high definition and the future of music playback formats is the digital download. The leader in high definition music downloads is HD Tracks (www.hdtracks.com). For a little less than the price of an SACD, HD Tracks […]
July 29, 2013
Stuck Disneyland Ride Leads to $8,000 in Damages
Some of the cases attorneys take never cease to amaze me. The fact that they win some of the more outlandish ones amazes me even more. Anyone who has taken the “Small World” ride at Disneyland knows that it sometimes takes days to get the tune of the song, “It’s a Small World,” out of […]
July 22, 2013
Play Back Digital Audio with J. River or Amarra
iTunes was great for small portable digital audio device playback, but if you want to hear digital music that has an analog warmth and quality then you need to download third party software from companies like Amarra for Mac and J.River for Windows. iTunes just wasn’t conceived or designed for high resolution audio playback. It […]
July 15, 2013
Using Apple Lossless Compressed To Improve Sound Quality
It always seemed logical that music CDs copied from a computer CD ROM drive would retain the same sound quality if played back by the same computer. The computer simply copies sets of 1’s and 0’s after all, right? Logically, it seemed that the sound quality would remain the same, but upon further investigation and […]
July 8, 2013
A Headphone Amp Does More Than Blow Your Eardrums
An amplifier just increases the volume and does not affect the quality of the sound coming out of your speakers or headphones, right? That is what I used to think, but that is WRONG! The thought that headphone amp is not a sound neutral device was one of those things that were so contrary to […]
July 1, 2013