And the parrots sound like monkeys, screaming from the trees

[Swish]

Nut-bucket, eh? Admittedly, they are an impressive pair, but hardly require a bucket for containment. Thanks all the same. Ain't that Richard Buckner one helluva fuckin' nice CD? What a great recording and mastering job, really have to crank it up ... and the reward for crankin' it up is ... fuckin' great sound that gets better the higher it goes! As opposed to the dentist drill and fingernails on the chalkboard sounds that signal an impending toothache you get with most modern stuff when cranked above a whisper. That original DejaDisc release from 1995 probably turned into my favorite listen of 2007, triggered by picking up his latest Meadow. Fun when that happens

Yes, the Buckner Deja Disc is excellent, but it was skipping like crazy so I wasn't playing it much at first, then I remembered someone mentioned saving the tracks to the hard drive and creating a new disc with those tracks. Well, I did it, and it worked perfectly, even if I don't fully understand how that would work. I was just playing it on my PC with my new and very decent Klipsch Media Pro speakers and it sounds quite good. Next will be on my basement HT rig when I get a chance. Can't wait to hear them over my Paradigms!

Swish Baby

[Davey]

Yes, the Buckner Deja Disc is excellent, but it was skipping like crazy so I wasn't playing it much at first, then I remembered someone mentioned saving the tracks to the hard drive and creating a new disc with those tracks. Well, I did it, and it worked perfectly, even if I don't fully understand how that would work.

Yea, too bad so many in that batch were messed up. It is strange that the data can be recovered OK by ripping it to hard drive, but it is a very different process compared to playing the CD, since when you play the disc it syncs in the beginning and then follows the spiral track while generating a stream of data, while ripping involves grabbing blocks of data, writing to hard drive, then resyncing to the beginning of the next block, which generally requires some type of jitter correction to over-read the data block (there is an uncertainty as a result of the original audio CD time accuracy spec, so it can't know exactly where it left off). Or something like that

I assume the laser has probably lost intensity, or isn't focusing as precisely as it used to. Cheap sheet.

Have you got that Augie March CD yet? Just listened to that one, and it is really nice. Keeps getting better. Shame they are so little known over here.

[Swish]

Yea, too bad so many in that batch were messed up. It is strange that the data can be recovered OK by ripping it to hard drive, but it is a very different process compared to playing the CD, since when you play the disc it syncs in the beginning and then follows the spiral track while generating a stream of data, while ripping involves grabbing blocks of data, writing to hard drive, then resyncing to the beginning of the next block, which generally requires some type of jitter correction to over-read the data block (there is an uncertainty as a result of the original audio CD time accuracy spec, so it can't know exactly where it left off). Or something like that

I assume the laser has probably lost intensity, or isn't focusing as precisely as it used to. Cheap sheet.

Have you got that Augie March CD yet? Just listened to that one, and it is really nice. Keeps getting better. Shame they are so little known over here.

...but not to me, but thanks for the LOX anyhoot.

Yes, the Augie March cd is getting a lot of playing time in my house, and my current spouse likes it too. I certainly hear the Kinks influence, although a couple tracks could easily be Radiohead tunes. Good stuff regardless.

Grassy ass,

Swish Baby