DAT-heads Digest #965, Volume #6 Mon, 22 Dec 03 10:50:00 EST Contents: need speaker recommendations for listening to audience recordings. please! ("Kevin Kachel") Re: The first taper? (Aaron Heller) stealing is stealing (carlos martinez) re: Transfer of VHS tape ("Gary Davis") Post error (KindTaper@aol.com) ISO a couple shows (Adevccpj@cs.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin Kachel" Subject: need speaker recommendations for listening to audience recordings. please! Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:30:03 -0500 hey guys. i'm ready to take the plunge into high end (i quess really low-mid high end) audio. right now i have an old akai aa-a25 receiver and a magnavox cd player. i've decided that i want to buy speakers first and spend about $600. i listen mostly to audience recordings and would like to optimize my system for them (FOB, OTS, on-stage)... but i do listen to sbds quite often, too. i've been becoming very frustrated trying to find people who can offer up speaker advice who listen to audience recordings themselves. i really want to start auditioning speakers soon, but i'de like to narrow down my choices as there are so many. if you need to know specifically what i listen to, click my list below my name. after i have speakers i will buy a 2 channel stereo preamp and power amp. i dont know exactly what i'm going to get, but Parasound is looking pretty good to me right now. they supposedly have a great bang for the buck ratio. so, i'de really like to hear some opinions on this matter. its very frustrating when you have nobody to talk to. i used to know one guy who could have provided me with a wealth of information but he fell of the face of the earth. figures. thanks a lot, kevin http://db.etree.org/kevinkachel Kevin http://db.etree.org/kevinkachel _________________________________________________________________ Make your home warm and cozy this winter with tips from MSN House & Home. http://special.msn.com/home/warmhome.armx ------------------------------ From: Aaron Heller Subject: Re: The first taper? Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:26:32 -0800 > From: "Zach Sheeran" > Subject: The first taper? > Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 08:16:29 -0500 > > I heard this on NPR today and had to share. It's DJ Spooky talking about a > guy named Lionel Mapleson who was making cylinder recordings of orchestras > in 1903. The first taper, maybe? Wonder how many cylinder-heads there > were? Mapleson was the Metropolitan Opera's librarian and made his first recordings in 1900 from the prompter's box. By 1902, he was using a 6-foot horn on a catwalk above the stage. His activities were curtailed in 1903 by the Opera's management when they agreed to let Columbia records issue studio recordings of the Opera's stars. (There were also rumors that the singers complained of things falling from the catwalk onto the stage during performances.) He made a few orchestra-only recordings in 1904 and then apparently lost interest. The cylinders are at the Rodgers and Hammerstein sound archive at Lincoln Center, which is part of the NY Public Library. See http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/millennium/mapleson/@Generic__BookView for further details, including Real Audio files of some of the cylinders. ------------------------------ From: carlos martinez Subject: stealing is stealing Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:03:06 -0200 (BRST) >From: h Grape Minkoff >Subject: stealing is stealing >Reply-To: the_GrapeMan@yahoo.com >Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:30:40 -0800 (PST) > >If you copied the cd, then you didn't buy it and you DID cost Bod Dylan >his royalty. If you weren't going to buy it, you don't have the rights >to it and you shouldn't copy it. That's the stealing part. > >Same with software. Nice words! Though I don't think this is the right place for them. Maybe at some RIAA forum they might be welcome and et you some applause! To start with this forum is based on mails and tapes interchange from people that make their hobby of recording music shows furtively. So they are probably stealing from those artists from your (and their) point of view. Aren't they? Now about CDs ans software I frimly believe that the record companies and the software companies are stealing from us when they charge the prices they do. Instead of crying piracy, and charging higher prices to compensate from it, why don't they simply sell CDs at a more reasonable price, like the price LPs were being sold for when CDs came into the picture. Producing a CD is trillions cheaper than an LP was and they are charging us three or four times what we should pay. Technology has already being paid for several times, but they still charges as at the beginning. About software, two weeks ago I went to a site to buy a PAL to NTSC transfer program that was being sold for less than $100 until a few months ago. But another company, Focus, bought the software and is charging $300! Isn't that outrageous! If I could find anyone that can sell me a pirate copy of that program for the old price I would run to buy it. Maybe it's time you start thinking all these matters from a different point of view. Carlos E. Martinez ------------------------------ From: "Gary Davis" Subject: re: Transfer of VHS tape Reply-to: g@hoxnet.com Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:21:33 -0800 You would probably find it easier to get someone to offer to transfer the tape for you, than to pay for you to buy a machine. However, if you don't want to send the tape to a fellow DAT-Head, there are commercial transfer places which could do it for you, probably under $50. --Gary ------------------------------ From: KindTaper@aol.com Subject: Post error Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:31:52 -0500 Sorry for the nonsense post. Usually my posts go through coming from the web based AOL browser. For some reason, this post did not, and I'm taking it as a sign. Thanks, Wes Kindtaper@aol.com ------------------------------ From: Adevccpj@cs.com Subject: ISO a couple shows Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:47:52 -0500 If this goes through more than once, sorry.... Hi all, I'm trying to track down 2 shows on DAT: Counting Crows July 17th, 1999 from The State Theater in Kalamazoo, Michigan Pearl Jam August 18th, 1998 from The Breslin Center in Lansing, Michigan Any help is appreciated, my list is linked below http://www.phishhook.com/lists/IM_STILL_ALIVE thanks, Scott ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** To unsubscribe from this digest, please send email to dat-heads-unsubscribe@datheads.phish.net If your email address has changed, you may (optionally) send the message to dat-heads-unsubscribe-oldaddress=olddomain@datheads.phish.net and the old address will be removed. 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