Home General Asylum

General audio topics that don't fit into specific categories.

Lost in the translation...




















It is 5:30am on a Saturday , I've been listening to Bill Laswell's "Axiom Ambient . Lost in the Translation". Seemingly that is what my post is about, I've been on an upgrade kick for the past year, not changing to much except for the digital front end and my amplifier to get some more grunt from my Gallo Ref 3.5s. The Daphile Linux operating system hooked up to my DAC lets me up sample PCM FLAC files to DSD. It is very interesting, the Aries streamer leaves me in 2016 with a tidal hifi subscription and all the mass market music I could ever want to listen to.

However for the gems of the thousands of recordings I have in my collection, none are available or will ever be available on the streaming services. Now dead record labels, and or musicians who have died and set up Indy contracts or at least had their music pressed to CD or even vinyl, there is so much damn more music out there that these streaming services will never have. There are ways to find out what is good out there, I am not sure that any real lover of art can just deal with only music streaming services.

How much will be lost in this translation to music services? It reminds me of electronic books, just not the same, nor will it ever be.


This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  Schiit Audio  


Topic - Lost in the translation... - bullethead 02:47:22 08/20/16 (25)

FAQ

Post a Message!

Forgot Password?
Moniker (Username):
Password (Optional):
  Remember my Moniker & Password  (What's this?)    Eat Me
E-Mail (Optional):
Subject:
Message:   (Posts are subject to Content Rules)
Optional Link URL:
Optional Link Title:
Optional Image URL:
Upload Image:
E-mail Replies:  Automagically notify you when someone responds.