Agreed - Pink Floyd cover art is almost always worth staring at. There’s a trick to keeping the light going - it’s obvious if you think about it, but it’s also not readily apparent. Almost like it’s a simple puzzle that no one solves because no one realizes it’s even there. Leave it to the Floyd (or was it Hipgnosis’ idea??). I seriously doubt there are very many others (even among those who figured it out) who still bother to keep theirs ‘pulsing’, but the stubbornness of my OCD sometimes surprises even me….I had heard about the blinking red light on these CDs and I always wondered how long they were supposed expected to keep going for. That's crazy that 27 years later the light is still working. Also, that cover art is damn cool!
Another good recording of Mendelssohn's symphonies and the same recording (I think) of A Midsummer Night's Dream together....Mendelssohn is sometimes undervalued. No Beethoven or Brahms, Mendelssohn is nevertheless a great composer with some masterpieces. One is the incidental music to A Midsummer´s night dream. The overture he wrote when he was just 17 and the rest many years latter. Try the overture, a small masterpiece.
Qobuz- sony nwa-55L as dac- Etymotic ER4XR
Agreed - Pink Floyd cover art is almost always worth staring at. There’s a trick to keeping the light going - it’s obvious if you think about it, but it’s also not readily apparent. Almost like it’s a simple puzzle that no one solves because no one realizes it’s even there. Leave it to the Floyd (or was it Hipgnosis’ idea??). I seriously doubt there are very many others (even among those who figured it out) who still bother to keep theirs ‘pulsing’, but the stubbornness of my OCD sometimes surprises even me….
I don’t mind sharing - it’s no big secret. There’s a battery compartment hidden inside the outer sleeve that holds the cd and the bound booklet, but you have to look deep inside the sleeve when it’s empty and notice there’s a little sticker buried in there on a piece of cardboard that slides out (with a little effort) that tells you how to do it. Although once you get that far the rest is intuitively obvious, because the battery compartment (2xAA) comes out with the cardboard.So what's the trick?!?! You can't leave me hanging! I don't own the CD so I'm not looking to cheat, I'm just curious. You can PM it to me if you don't want others who own the CD to have the answer instead of solving the puzzle for themselves.
So what's the trick?!?! You can't leave me hanging! I don't own the CD so I'm not looking to cheat, I'm just curious. You can PM it to me if you don't want others who own the CD to have the answer instead of solving the puzzle for themselves.
This morning I am going to try out the Focal Elex that I borrowed at the suggestion of @Davidzak64 . The rig to start with is going to be the Burson Timekeeper 3i which is a warm solid state source as recommended by him as well. As always, it will be getting a stream of bit-perfect, hi-res goodies from Qobuz and my laptop.
First up on the test track playlist is a continuation of my journey through Dream Theater's catalog with their album from 2009 entitled Black Clouds & Silver Linings. The opening track, A Nightmare to Remember, is absolutely fantastic for testing a headphone's ability to keep the low end clean during very busy and often highly layered passages. Plus, it's just a killer track that's a good way to gauge how engaging a headphone is as well. Overall, this is one of my favorite Dream Theater albums and I highly recommend it.
Now, it's time to see what the Elex, or should I say the K650, is all about...
You are Jada's #1 fan. She appreciates your admiration for her beauty.I have seen Jada at "Pic of headphones, one pic, no words" and thought to start a thread named "Pic of Jada, one pic, no words, just love"
I was actually listening to this album the day before you posted this. It's a real Progressive Classic.BTW, how do you like the Dekoni Sheepskins on the HE400i? Any noticeable changes to the sound? I was all set to try the Elite Suede on mine, but now you have me wondering...
For tonight I have the Hifiman HE400is plugged into the JDS Labs El Stack 2+ being fed bit-perfect, hi-res audio goodness from Qobuz and my laptop. The HE400is make a great match for listening to classic rock and related genre albums from the 60s and 70s that can sometimes have a bit of a thin or sucked out sound to them because, despite being plenty detailed, they have a certain forgiving quality to the mids in particular that really helps pull a great sound from those albums.
Up in my album queue is an all-time prog great from 1973, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's classic Brain Salad Surgery. I'm not going to go into a long description of what I like on this one (what a relief right?
