Good morning!!!!

[NHBX]

Huge fan of cream great group one of many ole slo hand was in. Did you see last live concert Ginger Baker did before he died? It is on UTube

 

[kenmbz]

Older CD recording had many flaws, some just due to understanding of music.

Noise floor was one if them, cut the noise too much and you lose breathing, string strumming and other components that make the music more realistic.
As this was figured out, a few bits were given up to allow a bit more "noise" and these components made a huge difference.

Sampling rate is another, sample too slow and you miss parts of the music, so faster sampling is better, but more costly equipment.
Took the industry a while to figure the balance between cost and sampling rate to get a good sound.

Also number of bits, if you don't have enough, the music gets clipped. So some "compression" is used to make the music fit. Too much compression and the sound flattens too much. Again, finding the right balance.

Most of this has been figured out, but some CDs still come out sounding horrible.

Much of the detail work was carried out by the classical music recording industry, where the range is very wide. Think how soft one instrument playing can be compared to the whole orchestra going full force (sometimes with cannons!).

On a good live Jazz recording, you can hear the breath intake before the next note comes out and the fingers moving up/down the bass strings. Adds a lot of depth to the listening experience.

I did a white paper in college on CD recording techniques and methodology. Boy that was a long time ago, when CDs where just coming into the mainstream.

 

[Buppies]

You found it

 

[plowhog]

Poured first cup of coffee.

Ron, found a photo for you of a woodpecker on our property ...

 

[Buppies]

Nice woodpecker and great picture

 

[daugen]

Ken, thanks for great explanation.
what I stream on the "audiophile" YT channels so far
has sounded much more live and realistic than the cds.
well at least cd's won't wear out.

I also find I like close miked studio recordings better than live.
Seems the music gets lost in crowd noise and also all that "reverb" noise is hard on my tinnitus.
folks who like classical music want that big sound stage and
classical at least you don't deal with a noisy audience

I used to have Sibelius Sym 2. Need to find that again.
I really know very little about classical music, opera, anything particularly old or cultured.

It does sound nice, always liked the wind instruments
the clear sound of an oboe or bassoon, but you don't often hear them close miked and really up front and personal
unless they are solos vs part of a big orchestra
though I'm sure if I googled oboe music I'd find it.

good idea about Amazon music. I have a smart tv in rv and unlimited wifi so
time to "track" that down. There is also Pandora and many more, whoever has least amount
of commercials gets my nod

RNG, slow and steady wins the race. Remember to have fun every day. Pretty sure you are good at that.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

For years, manipulating or copying photos, including batch copy, was very easy using Windows explorer. Then I ran into Apple or Google's photo storage. Those systems have barriers to make it slow and difficult to get your pictures out. I think they hope you get so frustrated you just give up. Of course your next step then is to pay them more fees for added storage as the bloat of photos expands.

I disabled letting my phone auto-update photos to the cloud. That just gave me two headaches to deal with instead of one.

I don't send my photos to the cloud, where anyone can access if they get ahold of the right credentials. If you download to PC from Iphone, you can't really do it with explorer. It doesn't show the Image number, and when copied it uses the date of copy for the date of the picture. I found that using the microsoft Photo App works, and it keeps the proper date of when the picture was taken. They updated the app, so I use the older Photo Legacy app. It takes a little while to scan the phone, but it works well.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain.

Neighbor’s dog has found a way to breach our fence. My major concern isn’t him visiting but if he can get in mine can get out. Guess I’ll be checking the fence line today. The pigs are known to win here over a curious non hunting dog. Mine would be curious, always are when they spot them outside the fence.

Happy Hour was very good
My tasty contribution was a chicken filled tortilla.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Looking4new]

I don't mind symphony orchestras, but I would much rather listen to a good pipe band. John Philip Sousa (Washington Post March) is pretty good too. As well as 50s & 60s rock I guess that makes me weird.

As far as ambition goes, I got plenty of that but my get up and go, gets up and leaves without me.

Off to play a video game from back in 2007.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Guys,
Sorry late check in, working today !
Ct, 30 to start going to 40 ! After work a few hours of work and the hop on jet to southern Florida!

Kids did have fun last night ! Nana is having withdrawals already and we haven’t left yet !

Hope all have a blessed and safe day ! Will probably check in late tmrw provided we have WiFi at our condo rental !

Have a good evening!