bipod72
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| Concert Ticket Prices - Not a Rant - Just an Observation Concert ticket pricing has been terrible the last several years. Ticketmaster, AXS, and Live Nation have pretty much locked down the market. Every Live Nation owned venue uses Tickemaster because they're essentially the same company. They utilize ... | |
| A Great "Budget" Headphone System My budget entry-level headphone amp was the now-discontinued Schiit HEL 2.0, connected to my MSI laptop via USB-C, that I bought during the Covid lockdown days. I have a pair of Sennheiser HD650s and I wanted something that would be a step up from... | |
| Startling AI results. AI is not infallible. Whether it's the free or paid version. The output can vary greatly depending on the subject matter. Whether that's writing on a certain topic, doing research for a specific project, or asking it to do the heavy lifting on res... | |
| Best concert you've attended @shtinkydog This has been a great thread because many people have listed the cream of their crop and others listed shows they found to be great (but not the greatest). I'm guilty of having a long list of great shows I've been to, for various reas... | |
| Best concert you've attended @tomcarr I’ve been going to concerts since I was a kid. My dad took me to see Chuck Berry, Bob Seger, Queen Ida, and the Moody Blues when I was young. The first concert I went to with a friend, sans parents, was to see New Order and Echo & th... | |
| Best concert you've attended I’ve seen a lot of shows and I can’t say that there is one that was the best show I’ve ever seen in my life. Many are memorable for the setting, the events leading up to, during, or after a show. Some were great performances by bands I wasn’t expe... | |
| What is the best sounding vinyl? The best sounding vinyl, to me, is what I have in my collection. Carefully curated and collected over the years. Some albums are not the best fidelity-wise, some are muted, some are new vinyl, some are 60+ year old pressing that have been listened... | |
| What are My Options for Ripping My CD Collection ? I use a $50 LG Blu-ray CD-R player to rip my CDs, and JRiver software (inexpensive IMO for lifetime upgrades) on my PC. The JRiver does a great job for what I need. But honestly, I don't really listen to much of my digital library. I either stream... | |
| The not lost but hard to find art of vinyl records I would 2nd/3rd/4th using Discogs to catalog your collection. I started using it a few years ago to catalog my vinyl and CD collection. Primarily to keep track of what I own and see if I have any hidden (valuableish) gems. I find it very useful wh... | |
| Anyone else prefer listening to their system more than a concert? I still enjoy going to see certain artists live that I like and are playing in the right venue. I long gave up going to arena and stadium concerts for various reasons: 1) competing with scalpers and ticket bots to get decent seats, 2) ridiculous t... | |
| Apologies to Norah Jones, I needed more bass! I would recommend Norah's album Little Broken Hearts if you want to hear her music with a bit more umph and bass. She collaborated with the producer Danger Mouse, so that album is decidedly not in her traditional oeuvre that most people associate ... | |
| My CD-player stopped working. Does it make sense to invest in a new CD-transport? If I were in your position, I would get a quality CDT. A few reasons why. I enjoy listening to vinyl, CDs, and streaming. But, I have quite a few recordings that aren't available on streaming platforms and may not ever be. I might be able to find ... | |
| Striking a balance between musicality and resolution For my own person walk along the path of hi-fi, it has been to slowly build up a decent quality hi-fi system that sounds musical and is clean. For me, having a system that plays any music cleanly, revealing nuances and subtleties in recordings I h... | |
| How much will I now pay in duties to ship a stylus from Japan? The import tariffs I would be less concerned about. It's the delay in collecting them and who is responsible for paying them. Since Trump ended the de minimus import rule, delays are affecting everything now. Even things below $500. Which wasn't t... | |
| Cloud storage for 8TB of music files on an external HD As much as cloud services provide convenience and expansion for file backup, I don't want to be tethered to any particular data company. And nearly every large tech company, including Apple, leverages Amazon Web Services. This includes cloud stora... |