snapping turtle
Grandmaster
Still have my carver tube pre amp and amp. Have an old turntable works well but the mid’s Are to warm and my denon sounds just as good. Never would have believed that. The tubes do have that nice warmth to them but when you get out a meter and look not hear (hearing goes so much as we age) the denon reproduces very well. Headphones in the 300 and up range are where to go for listening pleasure on a chair. We don’t spend enough money to shape the room for sound (wives hate these sound dampen items)
i tunes can get nasty if you have ripped music from other rippers and then added iTunes and did the search. I have had to redo it a few times to get the four copies of a song to go away. Found my networked backup drives more than once also. There is also one little check mark place to make the tunes lossless that is not check by default you need to hit before it does the search. That check mark changes things up so you don’t get optimized for an IPod device to fit 10k songs. I think iTunes adds a folder and if reran autofind makes another folder inside the iTunes folder causing several of the same songs to show up. Apple stuff works well for those who don’t need to do much but becomes harder and harder the more you want it to do for you. Jrivers is a nice player.
There is some newer music out that the kids like. I must be stuck pre 1999.
i tunes can get nasty if you have ripped music from other rippers and then added iTunes and did the search. I have had to redo it a few times to get the four copies of a song to go away. Found my networked backup drives more than once also. There is also one little check mark place to make the tunes lossless that is not check by default you need to hit before it does the search. That check mark changes things up so you don’t get optimized for an IPod device to fit 10k songs. I think iTunes adds a folder and if reran autofind makes another folder inside the iTunes folder causing several of the same songs to show up. Apple stuff works well for those who don’t need to do much but becomes harder and harder the more you want it to do for you. Jrivers is a nice player.
There is some newer music out that the kids like. I must be stuck pre 1999.
. The Allman Brothers were one of the first bands I really connected with and with Gregg's recent passing I started to acquire a lot of their music again. There is so much more available now than there was in the 90's when I was putting most of my collection together. So I have between 250-300 ABB CDs with all of their studio recordings and many live shows. Recently I have had some health issues and for some reason this made me start gathering in the music of my youth and beyond. I've been burning up Ebay acquiring a lot of the music I had before in better compilations and many remasters. I love to make my own version of greatest hits CDs as may taste in songs rarely matches up with whoever puts out the GH Cds the record companies make available. My taste runs all over. Of course I have dozens of Allman Brothers mix CDs but I also listen to everything from Bread and the Carpenters to Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Police, the Cars, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Uriah Heep, old REO Speedwagon, Kansas, Boston, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Garbage, Cat Stevens, Heart, Tom Petty, ELO, Pearl Jam, James Taylor, Queen, Elvis Costello, UFO, Starz, Fleetwood Mac (with and without Peter Green), Hendrix, Poco, Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles, Van Halen, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Veruca Salt, Gov't Mule, Aerosmith, Collective Soul, Soul Asylum, Firefall, etc. You get the idea.
