[shultzee]

These days you are probably right. It's all on servers... unlike in my day when we played vinyl on the air and a few of those new fangled CDs.

Amazing internet radio station I listen to is Radio Paradise. https://radioparadise.com/player. You can play different stream qualities all the way up to Flac.
You can choose four different Channels ( Main, Mellow, Rock, and Electic.). Its is funded by donations. They were out of Paradise Calif. until the fires. Fantastic playlist imho.

 

[BagelJoe]

ROFL! You covered all the bases with one picture.

So what's next for discussion? Audiophile fuses?

Only if inserted in the correct direction!

 

[yonson]

Received the replacement HEL today and it works perfectly! Very fast turn around time!

 

[bcowen]

What can I say, I messed up, sigh. I had no idea it would disappear off the face of the earth so fast!! Hmm maybe @bcowen is hoarding some like he does tubes.

If you'd ever had my homemade blue cheese dressing, you'd be helping me hoard the cheese.

 

[Paladin79]

ROFL! You covered all the bases with one picture.

So what's next for discussion? Audiophile fuses?

If you start talking fuses I need to work on pretending not to know you. I hope I did not say that out loud.

 

[yonson]

ROFL! You covered all the bases with one picture.

So what's next for discussion? Audiophile fuses?

I actually bought a couple of those a few years back to see if they made a difference. I couldn't hear anything, but then again I never took them back out either...

 

[bcowen]

If you start talking fuses I need to work on pretending not to know you. I hope I did not say that out loud.

Oh dear.

OK, since SOL was brought up, let's talk about the perfect complement for it. Apparently these just fly off the shelves and it's impossible to keep them in stock.

 

[Paladin79]

If you'd ever had my homemade blue cheese dressing, you'd be helping me hoard the cheese.

Good plan, stick to food recipes, it is much safer than audio fuses and your autodidactic abilities might shine through.

 

[yonson]

Oh dear.

OK, since SOL was brought up, let's talk about the perfect complement for it. Apparently these just fly off the shelves and it's impossible to keep them in stock.

They only made one thinking no one would ever be crazy enough to buy it... Now they are probably scrambling to go into full production, only for them to have their bubble burst when I send it back on the last day of the free return policy...

 

[bcowen]

Good plan, stick to food recipes, it is much safer than audio fuses and your autodidactic abilities might shine through.

You made me look up autodidactic. You win. For now.

 

[bcowen]

They only made one thinking no one would ever be crazy enough to buy it... Now they are probably scrambling to go into full production, only for them to have their bubble burst when I send it back on the last day of the free return policy...

I'm pretty sure there's a 25% restocking fee, but don't let that sway you. We'll all be jealous if you get one.

 

[tjw321]

These days you are probably right. It's all on servers... unlike in my day when we played vinyl on the air and a few of those new fangled CDs.

This reminded me that the BBC was broadcasting from digital sources on FM prior to the advent of CDs: https://www.bbceng.info/Technical Reviews/pcm-nicam/digits-fm.html

 

[FLTWS]

Man, that's a lot of mook!

 

[Cool Jazz]

Many (all?) FM stations play compressed, lossy music anyway, I think.

Absolutely not. From a pretty informed perspective I can say it's actually unusual to broadcast from compressed sources.

A couple decades ago, due to the cost of digital storage, MP-2 was pretty commonly used. But as storage costs came down there was a rush to replace those files with linear.

Ironically one of the pushes to get away from compressed storage came from the coming of the compressed net feeds and the desire to avoid layering compression, with its negative artifacts.

CJ

 

[thebmc]

These days you are probably right. It's all on servers... unlike in my day when we played vinyl on the air and a few of those new fangled CDs.

My spouse does a jazz show for our local npr station and she uses nothing but vinyl and CDs! I love it. She has impeccable taste