From: martin@mydomain.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:46:43 -0800, sevrinx2 wrote:   
      
   > Well, there are numerous ways to play FLAC and similar files through   
   > your monster stereo system and you'd likely be impressed by the sound   
   > BUT ... I hear ya. I'd rather put on a record or cd, myself and have yet   
   > to even attempt the jump to modern formats.   
   >   
   I'm in the middle of ripping my CD collection to FLAC files on my house   
   server, That runs LMS (Logitech Media Server) to play through my monster   
   stereo system (Quad 33/303 with a pair of Celestion Ditton 44 speakers)   
   via a Logitech Touch which contains a decent DAC and acts as an internet   
   radio tuner (for Zappateers mainly).   
      
   I originally started doing this to preserve a number of Zoogz Rift albums   
   which were recorded on a PC, so needed to be copied before the dye   
   degraded, and then carried on to have all my music in the same place. The   
   player chain (LMS->Touch->Quad) works really well and my rather battered   
   ears (think 24,000 miles in 10 months in a Landrover, rock concerts and   
   screaming model engines) think the new setup sounds fine.   
      
   The main demerit so far is that, as I rip more albums and the album/   
   artist/track indexes grow larger, the ability of the Touch and its remote   
   control to easily find and play an album becomes a bit problematic, so   
   increasingly I find I'm using the LMS's web interface to select music on   
   a laptop that just happens to live in the same room as the stereo The   
   Touch only has a 4.2" touch screen or its remote to navigate with.   
      
   >> And don’t you just love those box sets with a whole cd of “ previously   
   >> unreleased “ tracks?  Well, 98/100 times one can see why they were “   
   >> previously unreleased”.....it’s because they were Terrible!!!   
   >   
   Yep - quite a bit of hooky copying goes on too. For a while I've had a   
   rather good CD of Benny Goodman small group recordings (mainly him, Gene   
   Krupa on drums and Teddy, Wilson on piano but about half also have Lionel   
   Hampton on vibes) which calls itself Volume 1. Well, recently I had a   
   look for Vol 2, but it turns out that was never released, but it *did*   
   lead me to a 3 disk RCA Victor recording thats widely regarded as   
   essential listening if you like jazz. I got it and it is, BUT I also   
   learnt that about half of it was already on the disk I already had: I   
   wonder how long it took RCA to spot it and object.   
      
   > I still haven't attempted plowing through the entire FZ Halloween '77   
   > box (I ... bought it for the costume).   
   >   
   I've been wondering about getting some of them.   
      
   I did pick up the Helsinki Road Tapes, which are OK I guess, but not   
   nearly as good as Roxy By Proxy which is a must-have if you like that   
   band.   
      
      
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