rr12267
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please keep us up to date when you figure this one out. Personally I like Linux over windows but at times peripheral support can be arduous.
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please keep us up to date when you figure this one out. Personally I like Linux over windows but at times peripheral support can be arduous.
DBaldock9
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I did my PC update (HW, and switch to Linux) last weekend, since today - Tuesday, 14-JAN-2020 - is the End Of Life day for the Extended Support from Microsoft on Windows 7.
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I've purchased a copy of Windows 10 Pro, to install in a VM on my Linux system, but I'm also planning to keep my Windows 7 Pro installation (as a VM) available for a while, to make sure everything that I was doing, can be done in either Linux or Win10.
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While poking around the Internet, I came across "Audiophile Linux", which has just been updated to v5.
It uses a Real Time Kernel, and only runs the minimum background daemons necessary for playing high quality audio.
The tricky bit is that it's an Arch Linux distribution - and is installed manually, with a lot of typing in terminal windows, and editing config files.
I might give it a try.
One more entry for this week's WOW.
From British shoe-gaze poster boys Ride, who released their last album over 20 years ago, then split acrimoniously.
They re-formed the band a couple of years ago, and this was the second song they released from it. It's pretty cool.
As they say, "form is temporary, class is permanent"
It was also quite interesting to hear how two of the band members described it:
Mark Gardener says: “‘Home Is A Feeling’ to me is like a slow, wide-screen, sonically layered, slowed motion warm wash.
Like returning home as dawn rises totally exhausted and spangled after a long ..long ...big, great night out’”
Andy Bell says: “Out of all the new songs ‘Home Is A Feeling’ comes closest to the early Ride sound.
We felt comfortable going vintage on this tune because the album we are making has a pretty broad sonic scope.
It’s a short and sweet, melodic tune, with stacked harmonies, reverbed-out guitars, slowed down drums, and a huge distorted bass sound.
Erol put his sage-scented electronic wizards hat on to sample up some of our harmonies and make them into a synthesiser preset, which we ended up using on this and some of the other tunes too.
We wanted this song to sound jet lagged, so everything on it was recorded with varispeed, either faster or slower than real time.
It’s like 1966 Beatles meets 1988 My Bloody Valentine… in other words, Ride.”
From British shoe-gaze poster boys Ride, who released their last album over 20 years ago, then split acrimoniously.
They re-formed the band a couple of years ago, and this was the second song they released from it. It's pretty cool.
As they say, "form is temporary, class is permanent"
It was also quite interesting to hear how two of the band members described it:
Mark Gardener says: “‘Home Is A Feeling’ to me is like a slow, wide-screen, sonically layered, slowed motion warm wash.
Like returning home as dawn rises totally exhausted and spangled after a long ..long ...big, great night out’”
Andy Bell says: “Out of all the new songs ‘Home Is A Feeling’ comes closest to the early Ride sound.
We felt comfortable going vintage on this tune because the album we are making has a pretty broad sonic scope.
It’s a short and sweet, melodic tune, with stacked harmonies, reverbed-out guitars, slowed down drums, and a huge distorted bass sound.
Erol put his sage-scented electronic wizards hat on to sample up some of our harmonies and make them into a synthesiser preset, which we ended up using on this and some of the other tunes too.
We wanted this song to sound jet lagged, so everything on it was recorded with varispeed, either faster or slower than real time.
It’s like 1966 Beatles meets 1988 My Bloody Valentine… in other words, Ride.”
Dobrescu George
Reviewer: AudiophileHeaven
My in-depth review about FiiO BTA 10 is live now
https://www.audiophile-heaven.com/2020/01/effective-solution-fiio-bta-10.html
https://www.audiophile-heaven.com/2020/01/effective-solution-fiio-bta-10.html
groucho69
Headphoneus Supremus
And I am HOME again.
Next time I want a better view from my room. Temps ranged from 33C to 37C, but the thermometer at the pool reached the low 40’s every day. My main camera and my Ruizu A50 stopped working. The A50 has recovered but I know it cannot travel. Not sure yet about the Nikon.
Next time I want a better view from my room. Temps ranged from 33C to 37C, but the thermometer at the pool reached the low 40’s every day. My main camera and my Ruizu A50 stopped working. The A50 has recovered but I know it cannot travel. Not sure yet about the Nikon.
Electronic things not liking where you stayed, strangeAnd I am HOME again.
Next time I want a better view from my room. Temps ranged from 33C to 37C, but the thermometer at the pool reached the low 40’s every day. My main camera and my Ruizu A50 stopped working. The A50 has recovered but I know it cannot travel. Not sure yet about the Nikon.
majo123
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Bought myself a fiio btr5 today for my birthday from me too me lol ...will have it by Monday I will let you all know if it's a thumbs up or down all though I'm hearing good things.
WOW:
First up: Go hard or go home. Blackberry Smoke, kicking ass and taking names since 2003
Next up, an atmospheric acoustic Bruce Springsteen number, amped up in a live performance featuring The Boss, plus guitar maestro Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchman etc).
If you've never seen Tom Morello doing his thing on guitar, you're in for a treat
Finally, to calm down after all that excitement, a more haunting and tranquil but really rather good track by Canadian born, Australia-based acoustic singer-songwriter Garrett Kato.
He's got some really good stuff; worth checking out
Hope y'all enjoy
First up: Go hard or go home. Blackberry Smoke, kicking ass and taking names since 2003
Next up, an atmospheric acoustic Bruce Springsteen number, amped up in a live performance featuring The Boss, plus guitar maestro Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchman etc).
If you've never seen Tom Morello doing his thing on guitar, you're in for a treat
Finally, to calm down after all that excitement, a more haunting and tranquil but really rather good track by Canadian born, Australia-based acoustic singer-songwriter Garrett Kato.
He's got some really good stuff; worth checking out
Hope y'all enjoy
mbwilson111
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WOW - Ghost
and... one of my favorites - Eric Andersen. The title track from his great album Ghosts Upon the Road. It is said to be autobiographical.... talking about his younger days.
Here is a nice review of the album.
https://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p00172.htm
I was lucky enough to see him play at the Ann Arbor Ark once... not sure what year...
and... one of my favorites - Eric Andersen. The title track from his great album Ghosts Upon the Road. It is said to be autobiographical.... talking about his younger days.
Here is a nice review of the album.
https://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p00172.htm
I was lucky enough to see him play at the Ann Arbor Ark once... not sure what year...
WOW : Ghost
ENJOY!!!!
ENJOY!!!!
And a WOW Neil Peart tribute....
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timorinolee
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My customs are here! Once just a dream, now a reality. Couldn't be happier!
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