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Category Archives: Hifi
Back Again
Well, the last few months have been exciting. But now, Mrs Bloke and I are now installed in our new – well nearly a century old – house in a cool little town in New Jersey. And as I have … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycles, Blah! Blah!, Boltorr Road Halt, Court & Social, Hifi, Modelling, Music
Tagged Alan E Hill, bicycles, Boltorr Road Halt, cycling, hifi, Mrs Bloke, Red Bank NJ
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swu.fm Bristol
Temporary radio station here : http://www.swu.fm/ Bristol, UK. South West Underground fm
HiFi : The Digital Line
HiFi Now there’s a word you don’t see or hear that often these days of listening to highly compressed music squirted through cheap ear-buds from your phone for your ears only. Another day I’ll reminisce about when we used coats … Continue reading
Posted in Hifi, Techie
Tagged .flac, analogue hifi, audio file compression, audio file format, audio tagging, CD ripping, dbPowerAmp CD Ripper, digital hifi, Exact Audio Cop - EAC, high definition audo files, lossless audio format, MediaMonkey, mp3, network file server - NAS, qobuz, studio quality, tags
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Sansui AU-317 MkII Integrated Amplifier
For some reason, this article written some years ago now, elicits the largest number of Google referrals to this blog. The actual article itself is still available on BlogSpot. Here to be precise. The link to Sansui’s sales brochure still … Continue reading
Hifi by Numbers
Over a period of time all my CDs have been ripped and stored in my digital music library situated in a NAS and neurotically backed up in triplicate. However, most of my LPs – if you remember those round bits … Continue reading
Are you sitting comfortably?
Then I’ll begin. I suppose I was an early adopter of internet radio. I liked the idea of a device other than a computer accessing audio streams, and being a Brit living in the US it meant I could listen … Continue reading
Posted in Hifi, Media, Music, Techie
Tagged BBC internet radio streams, hifi, internet radio, lossless format, mp3, music, music player
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Down The Tubes
Just as playing an LP is as much theatre as the actual or perceived sound quality there’s something rather warm and homely about listening to a valve amplifier, or tube amp if you prefer. Mrs Bloke was rather surprised to … Continue reading
Posted in Hifi, Music, Techie
Tagged amplifier, hifi, Musical Paradise MP-301 mkII, Sansui AU-317 mk II, tube amplifier, tubes, valve amplifier, valves
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Today I Am Mostly Listening To Mary J. Blige
The London Sessions Mary J. Blige American R&B royalty records in London shocker! Mary says, “The UK is a better place to make music than the States“. Let’s see if that’s true.
Posted in Hifi, Music
Tagged Mary J. Blige, The London Sessions, Today I Am Mostly Listening To ...
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LiquidLounge
Do you want to listen to a radio station which plays an eclectic selection of music, most of which you’ve never heard before? Hmm. Thought not. But if you do try LiquidLounge, broadcast from the heart of my NAS here … Continue reading
Posted in Hifi, Music, Techie
Tagged internet radio, LiquidLounge, music, NAS, network attached storage, ShoutCast, ShoutCast GUI, WinAmp
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That Grumpy British Bloke Is Back
Yes. I’m back on the blog. It’s been a while, but I’ve just been too absorbed in facebook and kind of lost the plot. But Oh! That British Bloke is back on a new platform. It’s even on my own … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycles, Hifi, Modelling, Music, Railways
Tagged Alan E Hill, cycling, hifi, modelling, music, new blog, That British Bloke, WordPress
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