tomstatham

Posts4,856. I am not going to go back and read all your posts Just hope at least some of them were about music. The only Dead I have are some DVD rips of Workingman's Dead and American Beauty plus some concerts I got from (legal) sources: the Internet Archive. All the rest is records and CDs. The DVD rips are in 24-96 and sound comparable to these albums on my cheap speakers. If these are the songs you want, I don't know if it is really worthy it to get another copy. I still want some of the other albums though. Also, now that I have heard them, I would like to get a copy of the original mix of Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa. --TomS

While there are a few interesting off-topic comments here, reading this entire thread has pretty much been a complete waste of time. Except for a couple of posts by some that have actually listened to this music. I don't care if you all are a bunch of crooks, steal music or porches, or not. I want to find out about the music. Usually I learn a lot every time I come here. Not so much today. --TomS

Thanks for posting this. I was looking at those albums just today and came here to find out how compressed they were. When I did a forum search for ZZ Top, no matches came up, then I saw this thread. --TomS

I found out how to get foobar to read the tags. Also, I downloaded about 900 other xml tag files from the place on sourceforge where the input_SACD plugin is. Still haven't tangled with JRiver. I would still like to find out if it's possible to tag the iso file itself but I'm not holding out much hope for this. Thanks all --TomS

Hi! I'd like to get some advice on how SACD iso files are tagged. I have some isos that aren't tagged in some areas and also some with typos. How can I fill in this info? I tried to use foobar and that made xml files in my application data folder (I use windows) but didn't change the actual iso file as far as I can tell. If it's not possible to tag the actual iso file, how can I get foobar to recognize an SACD metabase file. I tried dropping one into the SACD metabase folder but it didn't work. It does recognize one that I created myself but not the one that came with the iso. I searched around the forum for this. If it has been covered already, would someone please point me to the right post? Thanks for reading this, --TomS

Personally, I do like Neil Young. As for this PONO, It will be nice to have something for Hi-Res music out there. Don't expect it to popular,though. For every forum like this, there are probably 100 or more MP3 forums. Only a few people even care about audiophile music. --TomS

Rip SACD files; Do you mean from your player or that you already have a SACD iso. Because that is the first step if you have a player is to rip the iso file. After that, you can extract the .dff files with scarletbook and convert to 24/96 PCM with audiogate (free.) Not all SACD iso files can be ripped this way. I downloaded some from Mojave productions that scarletbook wouldn't process. I had to use foobar. Many people here have access to outragous equipment and softwares costing thousands of dollars. It's just a guess but I would assume that these people are professionals that have access to their companies' equipment. --TomS

Maybe we should ask how much of your total income is spent on music? If you make a good pay but live like a bum with a $20,000 sound system you probably are an audiophile. --TomS

Recordings indistinguisable from the real thing? Maybe you should think about what type of music would sound good in your listening envoronment. A single person playing an instrument and singing is pretty easy to replicate. It will sound like they are actually there. The Boston Pops is maybe a different matter. You might not want to have that kind of experience in your house. The neighbors would probably complain. I've been to concerts that you could hear from at least a half mile away. That's probably illegal now in most places. --TomS

All of my first systems were tube. I have fond memories of them. I hated that tinny dry sound that transistor amps produced in the '70's and 80's. They always claimed great specs but sounded like a car radio, not like real music. Over the years I was exposed to equipment that was solid state and sounded great. The science lags behind the art. In the final analysis, we must go with what sounds good. Then look for the reason it is good and try to emulate that. I have always believed in Class A but Class D does work for subwoofers. In the end, keep an open mind. --TomS

All my life, I have wanted equipment to play my media according to the idea of accuracy: a straight wire with gain. Now I no longer believe in that idea. All audiophile systems color the sound. Just look at the speakers. I like omnidirectional Ohm Walsh drivers but have heard many other impressive systems. Theoretically, all amplification should be neutral so that leaves the source and the speakers as variable. I want to have the computer as the source. Even if DSD sounds better, I wish to be able relay all of that to the speakers as neutral as possible. If I want to modify that to sound more realistic, I still want to have access to the unmodified signal as much as is possible. This is my idea of audiophile. Beyond that the considerations are more of a custom personalization. Maybe my high requency hearing has declined as I got older. If I compensate for that, it's music as I remember it, not music as I hear it live. I don't think any system reproduces live music for all types of music but some can come very close. Maybe you don't really want Jimi Hendrix playing in your living room. you just want to know what he sounds like. --TomS