The Hifi Walker H2 has arrived and I'm giving it a quick initial listen. 1. It doesn't like earphone plugs that have the extra connection for a phone mic. Standard stereo 3.5mm plug works fine. (EDIT: not entirely correct - only the Sony Buds I tried first) 2. It drives my AudioQuest Nighthawk Carbo...

An uncomfortable situation for new artists trying to become visible. One solution is that which 'The Last Dinner Party' used - they gigged solidly for 2 years to create a mystique and finally started releasing recordings when a wave of interest had built up. Slow Readers Club did something similar. ...

Soooo ... to cheer myself up a bit, I have ordered a new toy. The very excellent Fiio X3 music player that I use in the car has been doing sterling service for at least 10 years now but I am concerned that it'll stop working one of these days and, also, modern connectivity demands that you have devi...

U.K. 'Night After Night' (1979) https://i.discogs.com/-EC8ILQlmYo91BmcV3NTt6vuJKIQVU3iXxNXUB7MVyU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk5NDcx/NDEtMTQ4OTAzOTkx/Ny0xMTU4LmpwZWc.jpeg I have been off the radar for a while due to health issues, things are starting to ...

Eric Carmen (74)

Singer of the evergreen ' All By Myself'.

Good luck tomorrow morning with the forum maintenance, Terry.

Hope everything goes as planned.




Edit: the '2 April' date is confusing me somewhat.

My personal gripe is with the universal application of Autotune to vocals. It seems that nothing can be released these days without a ghastly artificial processing on voices.

Have people just forgotten how to sing properly or are they just not bothered?
Probably the latter

The only thing that really matters to record companies these days is the number of 'streams'. As highly compressed and bass-heavy pop toonz are what generate the most income, that is what the Airpod-wearers get. Audiophiles are such an incredibly small minority, their non-profitable demands can be q...

The Bluetooth/Spotify generation are the reason for the Compression - and they accept it as 'normal'.