The Return of the Fab Four

So far I’ve purchased four of the remastered Beatles albums:  Beatles For Sale, Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.   The sound quality is amazing.  It reminds me of Super Audio CD (SACD) quality.   I can’t help but wonder what the remastered content would have sounded like on a real SACD disc, [...]

The Beatles 09-09-09

Hardcore Beatles fans are waiting for the the ninth day, of the ninth month, of the ninth year, of this new millennium for the remastered Beatles catalog to be released.  It’s been 22 years since the last reissue of the Beatles, when their LPs first came out on CD, when many audiophiles claimed those productions [...]

MAGIX Music Maker 15

Do you secretly dream of creating a hit song, but lack musical talent or singing ability, well MAGIX Music Maker 15 is for you.  Just watch the video to see what I mean:

I was impressed with this sales pitch so I downloaded the free trial version.  I’ve always wanted a Mac [...]

LG BD390 Blu-Ray Player Part 2

I’ve had my LG Blu-Ray player for ten days now, and I’m learning a lot about this specific player, and Blu-Ray players in general.  I had been waiting for the price of a Blu-Ray machine to fall below $200 before buying, which it had, but I ended up spending $150 more for my player because [...]

New to Me, Old to You?

I discovered popular music as a kiddo while riding around in my Daddy’s 1955 Pontiac, playing with the AM radio push-buttons.  This was around 1958, and I was seven.  For some reason my parents didn’t have a radio in the house, nor did they own a record player and records.  Music wasn’t important in their [...]

Rhapsody v. Zune v. Lala

I recently discovered Lala from reading Ed Bott’s “6 Music Services Compared:  Who Can Beat the iTunes Monopoly?“  Lala is the slickest way to listen to music on the web yet.  And since it’s free, anyone who loves music would be crazy not to try it out.  Joining Lala gets you 50 free web songs.  [...]

A Zune Christmas

My wife got me a blue 8gb Zune for Christmas and I’ve been spending this morning downloading albums to play on it.  I bought the Zune Pass which lets me have access to almost everything for $14.99 a month.  I’m used to subscription music because I’ve been a Rhapsody subscriber for years, but I never [...]

Out of Print – The Bad Side of Digital

There is a downside to digital music, especially if you’ve moved completely to digital downloads and have given up on CDs and LPs and want to be completely legal.  Most albums only stay in print for a certain period of time.  Famous records from artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones tend [...]

My Poor Man’s Sonos

Sonos is considered the Mercedes of the music media servers, but I have had to make do with my Toyota-like SoundBridge.  What makes the Sonos system so deluxe is it’s $400 hand controller, which has a LCD screen to aid in locating songs.  The Roku Soundbridge has a tiny handheld remote which controls the SoundBridge [...]

Where’s The Jazz

My friend Lee pointed out that Rhapsody.com is weak on jazz, so I decided to test it.  I went to Jazz Review and checked the 11 albums that are marked “New” on the Jazz CD Review Database.  Rhapsody only had 5 of the 11.  However, 3 of the 6 that weren’t on Rhapsody were missing [...]