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Anyone have favorites to scare the little kiddies that come trick-or-treating? Of course, the classic is Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, a great piece of music, and it deserves to be heard. It's become associated with Halloween as the ultimate example of spooky music mostly because it was used in all those old movies that featured mad organists playing their subterranean instruments beneath old opera buildings in the middle of the night. Another great album I play on Halloween is Witches Brew with Alexander Gibson conducting the New Symphony Orchestra of London.

Over in the Dark Tower, there has been some discussion about how computers were not fit to rip CDs. If you still go over there, you might want to read the thread, and the beginnings of this thread too, especially the excellent article by Robert Harley. Anyway, the discussions over there prompted me to post what has become known to some over there as "The Post"

Welcome, Bob. I know your posts will be of great interest to all of us here. Many followed the building of the CarverFest amps.

He's kind of an unusual guy, I understand, but he knows his stuff.

Welcome to the show.

My point is that bad music can be produced on any medium.

If it's on vinyl doesn't make it good.

Glad you decided to take the plunge.

. You can probably get a used copy somewhere like Amazon

I have one (from the '70s) that I think is expired. Doesn't light a neon bulb.

Excuse my stupidity, but what is the Phoenix Audio Forum all about. What is its affiliation? Is there a like set of products behind the forum?

Welcome!

Actually, there are a lot of factors that are contributing to the decline of the music industry. Part of the blame is with the record producers that just couldn't see the digital revolution and fought it tooth and nail all the way. Napster played a part by distracting these folks from changing mode to protecting mode. Clearly the internet is where you will, in the future, get your music, liner notes, information on groups, etc. What is needed is a unfettered distribution channel for the music you want, in a format that suits your tendencies. I'd be willing to download an album in 24-bit 192kHz FLAC, and pay more for it than the guy that wants it in MP3. If either Amazon or the iTunes Music Store could negotiate with the labels for that, perhaps everything would be fine. But I don't see the labels budging off their press and print model — and so crappy music and piracy will prevail. I read Appetite for Self-Destruction by Steve Knopper. It lays it all out in there, and is an interesting read if you are into the history of the record labels and their heads, but a little tedious at times.

Aren't your walls made of adobe (). You shouldn't have range problems with the mini near where your main rig is.

I've found that conversion between lossless types is pretty easy, no matter what you choose. It seems the common denominator for PCs is WAV. For instance Apple can convert Apple lossless to WAV and vice versa. FLAC Frontend can convert FLAC to WAV, etc. Windows Media Player can convert WMA lossless to WAV. So, just choose a lossless format that's convenient for your organization tools, and don't worry. The most important thing is to have a good database for organizing your music, and a lossless format to store it into.

Well uncompressed AIFF is to Apple as WAV files are to PCs.

I ripped all my vinyl at 96kHz 24-bit (whereas CDs are 44.1kHz 16-bit). They can't necessarily play through lesser DACs, but can be stored in FLAC or WMV lossless or Apple lossless. I don't know why you would want to store uncompressed (WAV) in that compressed is decompressed to play and is identical to uncompressed, and you can tag it and associate album art with it.

I rip Apple Lossless into iTunes that I use with Squeezeboxes attached to my different systems. Same idea.

Two thoughts here. There is the standard coding for CD's which is going to happen when you burn. The real issue is what are you going to burn from. Any lossless codec will burn the same onto a CD (hence the name "lossless"). So, be sure to "rip" into a lossless codec when you first move a CD into your music library, so you can get the same thing back when you "burn" it. BTW, WAV is uncompressed and takes up the most space. FLAC, WMA lossless (and if you are into iTunes — Apple lossless) are compressed and take up less space, but remain lossless.

Those are the ones I use. For the C-1 pilot lamp(D400), you need to change R411 to a 480Ω ½W resistor.

As was said earlier, it depends on the original source. If you're burning MP3s and have a player that can decode them, you can burn them as data on a DVD and get a whole lot on there. Must burners don't allow you to burn CD format onto DVDs, and I don't have any software that will burn to DVD-A format. Ideally, I'd like to burn DVD-As at 24-bit 96kHz for quality, but haven't the software.

You might try a Carver C-9 hologram generator to widen your soundstage. Speaker placement is important to get a big soundstage, with or without Sonic Holography.

The one that always tears me up is "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne I'm going to rent myself a house In the shade of the freeway I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning And go to work each day And when the evening rolls around I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again Amen Say it again Amen I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening I've been aware of the time going by They say in the end it's the wink of an eye And when the morning light comes streaming in You'll get up and do it again Amen Caught between the longing for love And the struggle for the legal tender Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring And the junk man pounds his fender Where the veterans dream of the fight Fast asleep at the traffic light And the children solemnly wait For the ice cream vendor Out into the cool of the evening Strolls the Pretender He knows that all his hopes and dreams Begin and end there Ah the laughter of the lovers As they run through the night Leaving nothing for the others But to choose off and fight And tear at the world with all their might While the ships bearing their dreams Sail out of sight I'm going to find myself a girl Who can show me what laughter means And we'll fill in the missing colors In each other's paint-by-number dreams And then we'll put out dark glasses on And we'll make love until our strength is gone And when the morning light comes streaming in We'll get up and do it again Get it up again I'm going to be a happy idiot And struggle for the legal tender Where the ads take aim and lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender And believe in whatever may lie In those things that money can buy Thought true love could have been a contender Are you there? Say a prayer for the Pretender Who started out so young and strong Only to surrender