The end of CDPs

50 quid DVD players from Asda sound the same.

The end

cheers Dave

 

Was there a particular point to this post, or are you just trying to stir up a good old flame war?

 

Who cares,I'm being forced to watch X Factor,but if an Ipod sounds the same as a 25K CDP,I reckon CDPs are buggered,as is Andy,is he sings another Phil Collins song.

 

Dave,

There is a huge sigh of relief across the land tonight.

Andy sang a Nat King Cole song.

Cheers,

Jon

PS: What do you mean "forced" to watch the X-Factor??

PPS: Your opening post was bollocks.

 

I think Dave had been allowed red wine for his tea He normally only gets that in the holidays.

He has my sympathies, I got a double dose last night, X-factor followed by I'm a celebrity.

 

Many cdps do sound alike. They use the same dacs, similiar psus, the same filter chipsets and the same output chipsets so its hardly surprising. Solid state will displace cd before too long.

 

I find CD players sound very different if you put different cd's in them, I can always tell the difference.

 

I cannot stand "I'm a celebrity.." - you couldn't pay me to watch it.

I have taste, you know.

 

I'm quite looking forward to Space Cadet that starts on Wednesday. How people can be so stupid as to believe they've been sent into space beggers belief.

 

Hmm,the debate about CDPs versus Ipods will have to wait until I next have wine for tea again.

Of far greater importance is what the hell will Andy sing next week? He has unfortunately used up his ration of Nat King Cole songs.

Anyway,Andy and Brenda will go out next and Journey South will win,but Shane will make most money. If Journey South can wirte any material I might even buy it,i think the Starsky looking one has a highly individual voice.

 

Looks dodgey to me tbh. I'm sure that whoever commissioned this show must have had the thought:- "I'm taking a helluva risk with this". Could rebound on C4 quite severely if it all goes pear-shaped.

 

Aaaah, I see Mr Saab, this was all a cunning ruse to start a flame war about CD vs solid state under the guise of:- so who should win the X Factor, eh?

Well, in my own very humble opinion, based purely on talent and consistency of performance week on week, Brenda should win outright, but whether winning the X Factor is going to matter much in terms of the remaining contestants' long term recording careers is debatable IMO.

Which one of Journey South looks like Starsky? They both have blonde hair!? If you ask me, the bloke who plays guitar and used to be a plumber has the better voice - but in truth I think they only really work as a double-act anyway.

Whatever Andy gets to sing next week, he should get the sympathy vote, cos he's such a nice bloke and he used to be a bin-man for a livin'.

 

Saw a few mins for the first time last night, I thought those two blonde guys looked like clones. I hope they don't breed.

 

I'm just looking forward to Johnny Vaughan having his head kicked in by the winner when he reveals it was all a con!

 

apparently they are using the space shuttle from some hollywood big budget flick.

Quite a charade to keep up though.

I hope it's better than that one where there was what to me looked obviously like a tranny, but the guys were competing to get with her, something just didnt look right imho!

 

The end of 50 Damp Squid DVD Players....

Hi,

Even if they did sound the same (I guess they do if your idea of "What I call Music!" is "Now 62"), they are another endangerd species, both due to the revaluation of the RMB (the stuff the chinese use for money these days) and the coming of media centric computers and domesticated versions of the current media center / media server.

Ciao T

 

Why should someone who likes Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand and KT Tunstel have inferior hearing to you?

 

Hi,

Not a question of hearing, but of music production. If you compress the instruments to near DC levels of dynamic range and run a lot of atrificial sounds there is simply not much left to expose existing differences, except gross deviations in frequency response.

Current Pop Music displays an all time low in production value and sound quality, even beating the early/mid 80's introduction of CD.

L8er T

(BTW, I did buy the exact CD for my wive, I do not "get" Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand OR KT Tunstel, somehow the "musical values" completely pass me by? Is that what some call "noise core"? BTW, she does not "get them" either and she's only 25, not an old codger like me)

 

'scuse me - what is the x factor?

 

Hi,

A British (Un)Reality TV show similar to Pop Idol, American Idol at al. Glorified Karaoke mostly, some talent is occasinally spotted and mostly reliably elimiated on the spot, this years is a bit better than previous "Idol's" and the like I suffered through in order to please my wife.

The Idea is they take a bunch of somewhat talented nobodies and let them sing on TV for a price of a Record Contract worth 1 Million (basically pocket money in todays Pop Record Market but seeming big to those who do know how that game is played), make $hitloads of money from the Phone Voting lines and advertising/sponsoship, stirr the proverbial heavily between the judges and otherwise try to keep the easily misled on the hook and putting money into the producers pockets.

Some rather excellent recent Pop Artists ended up as rejects on these shows (example Lemar) while the winners gave us such abomination as Garateh Gates and Michelle McManus.

This Years contenstants Brenda and Andy actually have a lot of talent and great voices, but the wrong Image to be big sellers of records aimed at teenagers, the rather talented and high potential in the pop market Maria got chucked out early while a guy who would likely be booed off stage at the local Karaoke Boozer was build up as "Star", but thankfully send home to heard goats again yesterday.

All in all pretty agonising watching if you consider that at the same time the Performance Channel features "Nana Mouskouri sings Jazz" or there is a still unlistened to Weatherreport LP on the shelf.... The things we do for love.

Ciao T