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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

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    They put something new in a lot of breakfast cereals that seems to have changed their permeability to milk. Once was that you had to wolf down corn flakes before they became soggy. Now you could almost cut your gums on them.

     

    Whatever they have done, i would like it out of my favourite cereals pronto.

    What !

    I can't stand soggy cereal. To the point of using as little milk as possible, to just dampen the cereal without oversogification.

     

    Either y'alls tried Quaker Life? it's delicious but gets soggy orders of magnitude faster than other cereal, and eating it is like trying to defuse a time bomb.

    JAZZ - THE THREAD

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    Shit yeah, those Miles complete sessions sets are hella intimidating. The wife got me the complete Second Quintet (65-68) set :wub: which is a little more digestible as it's spread across several proper (and awesome) albums. I love In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, and On the Corner so maybe I'll take a crack at the full sessions one at a time... that cellar door one looks pretty sweet too, thanks for the protip

    JAZZ - THE THREAD

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    ooh yea, i saw a show on that scofield tour from a-go-go. i also saw medeski and wood with scofield with clyde stubblefield on drums. that was sick. I actually got to met chris wood a couple years ago in morristown, nj. hell of a nice guy, chatted for awhile, it was very cool.

     

    here is a good soundboard i forgot i even had. i do have a bunch i can give you more if you'd like. i have a lot on tape (lol)

     

    enjoy this one for now...

     

    06/26/1999 Warsaw Jazz Festival, Poland

     

    Jam

    Chubb Sub

    Coconut Boogaloo

    Start/Stop

    ITAHTLMJ

    Seven Deadlies

    Brigas Nunca Mais>

    Rise Up

    Blue Pepper (w/ Skerik)

    Bubblehouse

     

     

     

    http://mikeykeller.com/medeski-martin-wood-06261999-warsaw-jazz-festival-warsaw-poland

     

    Awesome, all over this. Thanks mang! :sup:

    JAZZ - THE THREAD

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    ^ that is awesome. I'd give my right arm for 1/2 of illy b's talent :emotawesomepm9:

     

    good man mr. dobalina.

     

    I used to see them a ton, especially in the late 90s all around NYC. we used to go to the knitting factory every week to see them (Tuesday nights?) I remember seeing dj logic with them one of those weeks and before the show we were like wtf, they are going to play with a dj? wtf!!! at setbreak we were blazing with logic right at his turntable set up talking about music, it was great. what an eyeopener for me combining electronic beats with live improv jazz. i have probably seem them 30 or so times and it's great everytime.

     

    lol, I can barely hold a candle to ya mate, I've only seen them 2.5 times - twice in providence (once with scofield :nyan: ), and then DJ Logic, Billy Martin and some other drummer doing an improv jam at a downstairs jazz club in boston. Some dude sitting one table over from us had a seizure, passed out, and fell from his chair right in the middle of the set. (he was ok after so it was :sup: )

     

    Combustication is def my favorite of theirs, though I really have to make an eff to get around to some more of their stuff because I've probably only listened to about a 1/4 of their output. Do you know of any good live recordings/soundboards of theirs worth tracking down?

    JAZZ - THE THREAD

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    how does watmm feel about medeski, martin and wood? they have loads of stellar albums. amazing live as well.

    Bob for one loves them and can corroborate your assessment of their live performances as well. :beer:

    JAZZ - THE THREAD

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    Some not mentioned yet:

     

    Mingus Ah Um

     

    Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

     

    Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners (fuck it, I like it. Max Roach is awesome on this)

     

    Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco

    Influx of bad artist names

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    I can be turned on to/off a band/artist by the name quite easily if I'm honest. If I catch a good name chances of me listening to them is increased quite a lot.

     

    I'm the same way. I expressed my feelings on this topic in the com truise thread and caught some heat from it. it was funny with wevie stonder and i do love gnarls Barkley but in this day and age naming yourself after a celebrity is quite a cop out and quite unoriginal. because of that, I would assume the music they make is the same way just by hearing one of these types of band names.

     

    Yep, I'm with you guys on this, there's a handful of artists that I won't even bother with because their moniker either screams hipster kitsch or fails the do-I-feel-like-a-retard-saying-this-out-loud test.

     

    Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie but I'd never know cus I wouldn't eat the filthy mutherfucker.

    Spam

    in General Banter

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    Ceriously Rambo :cisfor: if you'd could do a whole book of these I would bankroll publishing and distribution.

     

     

    I'd just need you to put up 15 percent of the upfront costs and I'll take care of the rest. Godbless and may Jesus' light shine kindly on thee.

    Astrobotnia 00

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted · Edited by Bob Dobalina

    whoa, remove the question mark and move this to new releases!

     

    The short attention span is rife with awesomeness, hope this delivers more awesomeness

     

     

    :sup:

     

     

    oh wait it might have been here the whole time, don't mind me just a little high here :emotawesomepm9:

    The Audiophile Challenge

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    The fact remains that I can hear a noticeable difference between 24bit and 16bit audio, and it's definitely not placebo, so I have to insist: Have any of you arguing against me actually compared 16bit to 24bit for yourselves? Or are you just regurgitating shit you read on the internet as usual.

     

    No 'fact' dude, what you're saying is a subjective statement about the being able to hear a noticeable difference between 16/24-bit audio, with no objective evidence to back it up. This is generally frowned upon in the scientific community (repeated statements like this get you banned at hydrogenaudio) and more commonly known as bullshit.

     

    Your claim that you (and many others) are able to differentiate between 16- and 24-bit audio runs contrary to modern scientific understanding of human audio perception (e.g., see the link to the paper that mcbpete posted) namely that, exceptional conditions notwithstanding, people cannot perceive any difference between 16- and 24-bit audio. Since this is the case, the burden of proof is on you to prove otherwise.

     

    If you're so confident that the differences you perceive are not placebo, pray tell, what measures have you taken to ensure that your listening experience isn't biased? If you really want to eliminate placebo/bias and objectively prove that you can hear a difference, you're going to have to do a blind/ABX test, which I doubt you'll do for fear of being proven wrong.

    The Audiophile Challenge

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    again, looks like he still thinks that compressed audio doesn't have bit depth!

     

    An mp3 or other lossy compressed audio file has no inherent bit depth until it's decompressed/decoded for playback; that you don't understand this is your problem.

     

    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=55342&view=findpost&p=500888

    Taking the bit depth first. Lossy codecs don't have a fixed internal bitdepth - the effective bitdepth changes dynamically, frequency band by frequency band, moment by moment - that's how they work. Within a given frequency band, there are often only a few bits of resolution. However, the noise floor can easily be below that of a 16-bit signal. Many encoders can accept 24-bit samples as input. Just like 16-bit samples, most of the accuracy will be thrown away, but there will be moments (typically very quiet moments!) where some of the extra accuracy will be used in some way.

     

    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=69200&view=findpost&p=613217

    Lossy formats doesn't have bit depth because they doesn't store sample values.

    Burial & Four Tet / Thom Yorke - Ego / Mirror

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    im not against limited releases but i wish they would release them digitally as well. we all have to listen to shitty rips with some radio schmuck telling me who im listening to in the middle of the track. im not sure why you wouldnt want people listening to quality versions of your music.

     

    Agreed. This vinyl only bullshit needs to stop, I don't understand why these guys don't understand that:

     

    digital download = me and people like me buy (i.e., pay you money for) it

    super-limited-edition-collectible-fucking-ridiculously-expensive-[that-is-if-it-isn't-already-sold-out]-vinyl = we download it somewhere for free

    The Audiophile Challenge

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Bob Dobalina

    DVD audio is compressed, and compressed audio doesn't have a bit depth.

    W A T M M

     

    this particular quote is very lol

    As for "MP3's have no bit depth": MP3's store the sound as amplitude over frequency, whereas a normal WAV has it as amplitude over time. The two are not directly comparable. In reality, most MP3's have a variable bit depth which often goes as low as 1 or 2 bits of ACCURACY, but with a much larger RANGE (in AAC the range is 64 bits, I think it's the same for MP3). It's because of this large RANGE that there is a _theorethical_ benefit to 24 bits playback.

    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=55336

    This coming from a admin and former AAC developer for Nero, I think he knows what he's talking about.

     

    It's yards away from watmm's poop and batcock, but if anyone's interested in separating audio fact from fiction I highly recommend checking out the hydrogenaudio wiki and forums. Over ther, posting nonsense like "24-bit is better than 16 because I can definately hear it" without any proof to back it up will get you banned :cisfor:

     

    And occilik IIRC correctly I'd already filed you under "pretentious audiophile twat" so it's good to see there's some consistency here.

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