TMoney

Happy birthday, fellow oenophile!

Where is everyone at on spatial audio? I think I'm done with it for now. Every time I turn it off I like the sound better on the traditional stereo mix. Apple sets spatial on by default when using AirPods or beats so maybe it will gain traction in a way binaural never could. At least for right now though I think it is more "gimmick" than improvement.

2112 fan club!

Happy birthday!

Jeez

I have a friend named Tristan and whenever I think of him I always think of singing out his name "Treeeeeeeeee-stan" like in this opera!

"quacamole" = Guacamole made by a quack? 😀

It might be the tommy gun under one arm and the sacks with dollar signs printed on them in the other?

Glad to hear it, Doug, and hope you bounce back soon, KD. Second shot hit me hard also but the side-effects were gone after a day or two. Our mask mandate in California lifted on Tuesday and most people here in Marin County don’t seem ready to take them off. I went out for coffee and bagels this morning and I think I was the only person without a mask. I am sorry, folks, get used to it! We are maybe the single most vaccinated region of the entire country. Don’t look at me like I’m some kind of “republican.”

Happy birthday, Kerry!

Still a fun listen after all these years.

Not bad, but I'll take this cover from the Purple One over that every day and twice on Sunday!

For anyone who knows, is there any reason not to leave the Audio Midi Setup app set to 24-96 if the DAC can handle it even when playing lower bit-rate/sample rate content?

Exclusive is mostly to not get beeped and booped at as emails and chats roll in. I'm mixed on spatial audio. With the APM and HD800 the stereo tracks sound correct, natch. Atmos spatial sounds like a good binaural filter at best, and a bad one at worst. Is that a game changer? I dunno.

Now Apple just needs to add a way to let the Music app take exclusive control of a DAC and switch bitrates as needed.

What knavery is this? I don’t know if this sounds better or worse, but it does sound different. Reminds me of listening to a binaural recording.

AirPlay to Mac is a pretty cool feature. Leave the Mac plugged in to a DAC and cast music to it from the phone/tablet. I like it. Lots of cool little features like that today. Nothing really mind-blowing, but some decent quality of life stuff. Getting rid of tracking pixels on emails is long overdue. Et tu, Google/GMail?

RIP

Concert tour announced today as well. They are in SF in mid December!

Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet I have been seeing her name around a lot lately but I have never listened to one of her albums before now. I like it!

Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live For those "after-a-holiday-back-at-the-office" blues.

If MQA was a nothing-burger that didn't add anything over lossless I would have just shrugged and kept using Tidal. Bit-perfect lossless is the goal. Those videos suggest that MQA tracks generated from hi-rez masters actually harm the sound vs. just having a redbook FLAC. That is totally unacceptable.

Connie Willis - Doomsday Book I had the hardest time getting traction with this one. It starts slow. The characters and setting are unfamiliar. I wondered where it was going. Then it picks up… and… it is devastating. Especially after the events of the last year or so. “Apocalyptic,” as one of the characters would say. It is very deserving of all the awards it has won.

I think I’m jumping ship to (cr)Apple music soon. Once lossless is ubiquitous, Tidal loses a lot of its draw. Edit: OK, just watched the video. Goodbye, Tidal. That video is so damning.

Anyone else watching Mare? I’m caught up with it but I’m not sure if it is a good show or just addictive with the darn cliffhangers and the whodunit?