National Hi-Fi Show impressions and pics

+1.

 

Well I hate CDs so much I don't own many of them, I am mostly records. So for me the beauty of this beast is its on-line capability, and again some visitors at the show put us on to some downloads, even some from Youtube, that were quite astonishing.

 

Try the following:

http://avaxhome.ws/music/format_bitrate/lossless
http://www.demonoid.com

You may need an invitation code for the second one, if you do, let me know & I'll send you one.

There are literally 10s of 1000s of CDs ripped into flac on these sites.

Chris

 

Richard, why do you feel the need to be so aggressive all the time. I'm just showing you what's in the mirror...

 

I really enjoyed the show and would have come again on Sunday if SWMBO would have let me. I dragged along a friend but not sure he enjoyed it as much as I did. Great to meet Rob, who is terrifically nice (sorry I didn't stay longer). Briefly met Tenson and also Richard, designer of my much-missed NVA CD50 - the only piece of equipment I ever sold on for more than I paid new! For me, the VTL amps were stand-outs of the show; I've been lusting for a set since the 1980's and Luke Manley is a great chap.

 

Hi Rob,

good to see you at the show.
I didn't realise you'd put a needle drop of Richard's Bert Kaempfert record on my USB stick until this evening.
I just listened to it (on the TFS) and it sounded truly awesome. You should think about doing that kind of thing for a living...

Jason

 

Yeah, you need to rig your P9 up with one of those automatic arms from an old jukebox, to keep the records changing! Then you can just stack them up for recording.

 

The only issue I have with this "jukebox" is the time it takes to find what to listen to. I just happened to have jumped on the Squeezebox wagon (with FLAC), where the UI is particularly weak. I like Apple's interface far better, but it'll be a pain for me to start again.

 

I use the much maligned Linn Kinsky Desktop on a Samsung Q1. I have set up Twonky on a NAS, specified a decent tree structure for my music. It is actually very good. I can navigate to any one of 118000 tracks in seconds. I also use Konductor on my iPod touch to control my DS. Once again, very easy to navigate & find stuff.

Chris

 

I don't get the same reaction when I see an album on the computer, as I do when browsing the racks and think 'oh yes, I want to listen to that'. I always just think 'could listen to that, what else is there?'.

 

I remember you struggling to find something to play on Rob's computer at the show.

 

My entire collection was on that, lol.