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  4. End of the road for in-car CD players

    in Audio Talk

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    I just leased a 2012 Ford Fiesta (the most basic model). It has an AM/FM stereo with an auxiliary jack.

    At higher trim levels, you can get a CD player. This is oddly apparent, as my AM/FM-only unit has a CD button and an eject button.

    I'm getting to the point where I don't use the CDs I have very often at all. The car used to be the last place. Not any longer. Plug in the iPhone with tons of albums from Rdio, and I am set.

    I trust there will be some brand of car CD player for some time to come. OTOH some models are offered so cheap at the moment that it would be possible to buy one or two as replacement and store them.

    The only trouble will be a lack of dashboards in new cars that you'll be able to fit with an old-school rectangular car stereo. Much like when the auto industry switched from the two-knob radios to the one-big-rectangle models.

  9. Miles Davis Forever LP

    in Recommendations

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    I looked at it in the store. Certainly mixed messages around the tracks' status as "unreleased." As in "unreleased until it was released several years ago in a boxed set."

    I'd have rather seen a something like a bootleg from the 70s released instead... :rhappy:

  10. Record Store Day Tomorrow

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    People were lining up at 1am at one store here in town. They opened their doors at 9am. :rfr

    I have to say that the forced limited edition thing is a bit lame. The day is great for record stores, really helping things along to fill the registers. Which I am all for.

    But from a guy-buying-records-to-hear-them perspective, I just can't hang with waiting in line for 8 hours to HAVE A CHANCE at getting what I am looking for.

  13. Pink Floyd "Animals"

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    I get off of the Floyd train after Wish You Were Here, for the most part.

    Everything after Pompeii/Meddle was less exciting. Echoes was, and still is, a revelation every time I hear it.

    Hearing Animals brings be back to my youth, with a cassette dub of the album cranking out of my dad's Magnavox boombox. :tup

  15. How common are tiny imperfections in vinyl???

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    I've bought a number of new LPs recently (new titles and reissues) and it is hit or miss.

    Bubbles aren't the issue, however. It seems like warps are the rule, rather than the exception. I've NEVER had a problem with old vinyl being warped, but it seems like every third new LP I unwrap has some degree of warp-age. Which is a huge bummer.

    I've come to be less picky about it, as warps are so prevalent. None of them are so bad as to cause sound issues, thankfully.

  16. Your favorite headphones?

    in Audio Talk

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    I love the Grado SR60s at home.

    At the office, my Sennheiser HD202s do a fine job of isolating sound. (They have what seems to be a bottomless extended bass range. Lowest of the lows come through with these things.)

    For foot commuting in these Mpls skyways, I use Skullkandy Titans, a nice set of in-ear buds. Less bass response than I might like, but they fit well. There was some cable noise-conduction issues, which I addressed by inserting them upside down and routed the cables up and then behind my ears. Problem solved.

    I honestly don't know how folks can use those stock Apple earbuds.

  19. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by WD45

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    Gerry Mulligan - Butterfly With Hiccups (Limelight mono) A delight, both in terms of the music and the packaging.

    I've got that one, too. Metallic Limelight sticker and booklet inside--quite elaborate for the day, I'm certain. My Limelight copy of Dolphy's Last Date has a booklet, too. Did Limelight do this for all of their releases?

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