What New Stuff Have You Bought? If You Care To Share Thead! :)

[afterlife2]

My Motorola 6580 modem/router stopped working and I bought a used Netgear C6250. Hopefully this one will last a while longer then a year and a half with the Motorola.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0787TRNMH/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_tp8OCb9WFDHYD

 

[snakeeyes]

My Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” SACD finally arrived.

 

[davidscott]

My Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” SACD finally arrived.

Nice. I have the CD version and used to own the LP. Let us know how much better the SACD version sounds to you.

 

[snakeeyes]

Nice. I have the CD version and used to own the LP. Let us know how much better the SACD version sounds to you.

I’ll have to dig up my regular cd but there are sounds all around in this 5.1 mix. I don’t think I can get these effects out of a matrix decoder from a 2.0 cd.

 

[davidscott]

I’ll have to dig up my regular cd but there are sounds all around in this 5.1 mix. I don’t think I can get these effects out of a matrix decoder from a 2.0 cd.

Thanks then just give us an overall impression. One of Pink Floyds best. Enjoy!

 

[snakeeyes]

Thanks then just give us an overall impression. One of Pink Floyds best. Enjoy!

It’s actually one of the best SACD 5.1 mixes I have heard. It’s better than the DSOTM SACD.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

It’s actually one of the best SACD 5.1 mixes I have heard. It’s better than the DSOTM SACD.

I have heard that too. I want to hear the wall in 5.1. That’s my favorite Floyd, but love most of their work. I also want to check out some porcupine tree in surround. Steven Wilson has done some great work in the surround mixing world. I’d love to hear his band in surround. I recently got a Sony x700. Looking forward to some 5.1 mixes.

 

[snakeeyes]

I have heard that too. I want to hear the wall in 5.1. That’s my favorite Floyd, but love most of their work. I also want to check out some porcupine tree in surround. Steven Wilson has done some great work in the surround mixing world. I’d love to hear his band in surround. I recently got a Sony x700. Looking forward to some 5.1 mixes.

I have the x800 and it does great. I also ordered The Wall Blu-ray in Atmos. I haven’t watched that one since the VHS version. LOL

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

I have the x800 and it does great. I also ordered The Wall Blu-ray in Atmos. I haven’t watched that one since the VHS version. LOL

I have the, “Roger Waters, the wall” BD in atmos. One word...awesome.

 

[3db]

I picked these up yesterday; $10 and $20 respectively. The TDKs are C90

 

[j_garcia]

Got my tix for Endgame yesterday for opening weekend. It took 2 hrs in queue to get to the order screen. Fri was not 100% sold out, but seats were very limited. Given that it is 3 hrs, I chose Sunday afternoon on the 8K Dolby Cinema screen.

 

[VonMagnum]

The box set they had awhile back had the SACD mixes and the Alan Parsons ones (I kind of liked those better, I think). I was less impressed with the 5.1 remix of The Division Bell. It seemed a bit light on bass for one thing. WYWH had a nice spread with the twinkly things on Shine On You Crazy Diamond. I don't think I've seen a surround version of Animals, which is kind of a shame since it was their last great long form album with songs well over 10 minutes. I was shocked when I saw Roger play live that they played everything from Animals except Sheep and the second Pigs On The Wing. Dogs live was just awesome!

 

[panteragstk]

Got my tix for Endgame yesterday for opening weekend. It took 2 hrs in queue to get to the order screen. Fri was not 100% sold out, but seats were very limited. Given that it is 3 hrs, I chose Sunday afternoon on the 8K Dolby Cinema screen.

Very nice. I'd love to see it in one of those theaters. I've got one around 45mi away, but I'm waiting for the right movie. This may be it.

Can't wait to hear your impressions.

 

[davidscott]

Got my tix for Endgame yesterday for opening weekend. It took 2 hrs in queue to get to the order screen. Fri was not 100% sold out, but seats were very limited. Given that it is 3 hrs, I chose Sunday afternoon on the 8K Dolby Cinema screen.

If at all possible you should try to read the Marvel Comics Infinity Gauntlet books. Thanos wasn't just fighting the earths heroes he was battling the most powerful beings in the Universe. Still they got most of it right in the first movie allowing for screen time.

 

[VonMagnum]

I picked these up yesterday; $10 and $20 respectively. The TDKs are C90

So what's up with the cassette deck love, if I may ask? Personally, I was glad to be rid of cassettes forever. I never even started a collection of originals. I joined the BMG (then RCA) CD club back in 1987. It's funny. I ended up with over 400 CDs up until this point. Until a few years ago, I didn't come close with laserdiscs or DVDs to that number, but now own over 1000 movies (over half of which are on BD). I haven't been able to find new music I like for many years (I'm lucky to buy 1-3 albums a year).

Now I did end up buying an LP rig a few years back (wanted to hear some Wild Cherry albums that were never released on CD and dump my LPs I bought in the 1990s with my Macintosh adapter I used for recording my album while I was at it. But I don't think I've even fired up the LP deck in two years now as I can play scratch free rips off a media player in 24/96.

 

[davidscott]

So what's up with the cassette deck love, if I may ask? Personally, I was glad to be rid of cassettes forever. I never even started a collection of originals. I joined the BMG (then RCA) CD club back in 1987. It's funny. I ended up with over 400 CDs up until this point. Until a few years ago, I didn't come close with laserdiscs or DVDs to that number, but now own over 1000 movies (over half of which are on BD). I haven't been able to find new music I like for many years (I'm lucky to buy 1-3 albums a year).

Now I did end up buying an LP rig a few years back (wanted to hear some Wild Cherry albums that were never released on CD and dump my LPs I bought in the 1990s with my Macintosh adapter I used for recording my album while I was at it. But I don't think I've even fired up the LP deck in two years now as I can play scratch free rips off a media player in 24/96.

Pretty expensive for blank cassettes don't you think? A cassette recording wont sound as good as the source. But I do love my TT and LPs. Most of my music is on CDs though. And I did have some nice cassette decks back in the day.

 

[VonMagnum]

I guess if one had a stock deck in a car they didn't want to change for some reason, I can see wanting to make up some tapes. But yeah, that's pretty pricey for blanks. If I had known, I would have bought them in bulk and sold them at this point in time.

I'd have expected METAL bias at the very least instead of Chrome, but those appear to be even more (like 3 for $99).

 

[3db]

I have albums that I cannot find digitally or are prohibitively expensive to replace with CDs. I have 3 highly capable Yamaha decks with onboard dbx2 capabilitis that achieves a S/N ratio of greater than 95db; ie no tape hiss. Even with normal bias bias tape, the frequency response is 20 to 20Khz. My friend was of the same opinion that tapes could never reach the quality of the source. So for shits-n-giggles, I recorded a CD on to a Chrome tape. My friend's jaw dropped when he heard the taped version and didn't realize it was the tape and not the CD I was playing. Upper tier decks like the ones I own easily reach the source in recording quality.

As far as tape prices go, Chromes and Metal tapes are no longer being produced so there are people there that are asking the moon in prices for these tapes, especially the metals. Its as slimey as store owners that jack the prices up for food and water after a disaster. Going rate for Chrome tapes are about $10

 

[slipperybidness]

I have albums that I cannot find digitally or are prohibitively expensive to replace with CDs. I have 3 highly capable Yamaha decks with onboard dbx2 capabilitis that achieves a S/N ratio of greater than 95db; ie no tape hiss. Even with normal bias bias tape, the frequency response is 20 to 20Khz. My friend was of the same opinion that tapes could never reach the quality of the source. So for shits-n-giggles, I recorded a CD on to a Chrome tape. My friend's jaw dropped when he heard the taped version and didn't realize it was the tape and not the CD I was playing. Upper tier decks like the ones I own reach easily reach the source in recording quality.

As far as tape prices go, Chromes and Metal tapes are no longer being produced so there are people there that are asking the moon in prices for these tapes, especially the metals. Its as slimey as store owners that jack the prices up for food and water after a disaster. Going rate for Chrome tapes are about $10

I don't see it as slimey to charge a premium for an item that is no longer produced. Simple supply and demand.

Now, doing the same for basic human needs is a completely different story.

 

[3db]

I don't see it as slimey to charge a premium for an item that is no longer produced. Simple supply and demand.

Now, doing the same for basic human needs is a completely different story.

I don't see it as slimey to charge a premium for an item that is no longer produced. Simple supply and demand.

Now, doing the same for basic human needs is a completely different story.

It is slimey because there are people wh are buying these with no intention to use them and sell at a higher price as teh supply dwindles away. It inflates prices unnecesarily, therefore slimey