Author: Christopher

I was finally able to get a gigabit connection at home! It even costs less then I was paying before! Its on a congested node but it’s still way better then before. Thankfully they seem to upgrade the nodes quite often so maybe on the next iteration I will get the full speed. Now I can get more Nest cameras for around the house.

I went to the UPS customer pick up today because I bought some new home theater speakers for the living room. The speakers were huge and heavy and the guy actually came out and helped me between customers! He lent me his knife and even brought me a cold water. Absolutely fabulous customer service. More companies need to hire people like him. UPS, you are doing something right and you have my business because of it! Thumbs up!

Some pictures from the High Line park in NYC. Went with my girl a week back and it’s a really nice park. Highly recommended!

Been slowly getting all the Gorillaz albums on viynal. They are really mastered well, sound so much better then the CD version… Yes I compared.

I made a killing on eBay… I got a Okki Nokki record cleaner for super cheap! Holy cow does it make a difference. I have a Genesis album that would always skip since new… I just cleaned it and the skip is gone! This think is amazing! It’d not for everyone tho… It’s kinda big! Here it is set up on a small folding table.

It’s got a turntable that slowly turns in both directions. You apply cleaner and spread into thr groves with a brush. Once done that arm swings onto the record and vacuums up the dirty fluid. I think from now on I will clean everything before playing… No pops no nothing in silent portions of the music!

Decided to partake in Record Store Day this year! It was fun, lot of colorful people… As in actually colorful hair! I picked up a few records… As in records not CD’s! I like being more involved in the music now…. To see the mech\nanism in action… The jacket art and notes. You you still have a turn table I recommend you pull it out and dust it off!

I also picked up this entry level table and put it in my game room. It’s becoming a nightly thing to listen to while I chat with someone special. 🙂 That’s a limited edition of the Machu Picchu album by Tangerine Dream spinning.

Bentley has been having leg issues and has spent some time in the hospital lately. He is now 90 lbs and I think thats way to much for him to carry around at his advanced age. He has been staring at me for an hour now! He really wants food but i’m not giving it to him like he’s trained me to! I’m positive I’m on his doggie shit list for sure now… I’ve also not been walking him alot and have him confined to two rooms! He really should be thankful as the vet ordered cage rest. I don’t have to heart to confine him to jail when he didn’t do anything to deserve it. Have to see if the parents can resist his pleading eyes… 🙂

I’ve been listening to alot of music lately and it hit me like a ton of bricks. The problem with modern music apart from it all sounding the same is dynamic range. New music has a ton of audio compression applied during mastering. This is not the same as digital compression mind you… much more data is lost. Audio compression basically makes the music louder thereby reducing dynamic range and the subtle features of the music.

The older recordings I’ve been listening to on vinyl sound alive. They have dynamic range, though was given to mic placement and the engineers knew what they were doing. Ever wonder why vinyl sounds better then CD’s even tho CD’s are technically superior? The masters are not compressed! A compressed audio signal will cause the record lathe to carve a bigger grove, this reduces the recording time! The CD and other digital media have a better dynamic range but the mastering brick walls that range. Thus hobbling the format and keeping it from truly shining.

That’s my rant for today!