Hi
I was trying to find a title to this thread, that's the best I could find
My whole music collection is on two NAS (Network Attached Storage). I will add a third one just to be on the safe side. I am eternally grateful to HDD as a music storage as I lost my hard coded music collection twice; One in a flash flood in NY where I lost my entire LP collection which was then over 1500 LPs strong and recently my entire LP and CD collections. Most , not all of the CDs fortunately were ripped on a HDD which was retrieved and simply worked after a simple blast of compressed air...
I have decided not to go the analog route anyway so my music collection is on these aforementioned NAS.
I love the "What's spinning tonight thread". I check it from time to time and go buy many of the albums fellow members are listening to. And some albums are just wonderful. I also like the Prog Rock thread and the World Music thread..
So I have been acquiring albums and quite a lot of them .. I do that consistently. Amazon , CD Universe and all these online stores give a new meaning to impulse buying so.. there I may have added 100 or 200 or more CDs to my collection in a short time .. And there comes the problem.. I forget about many of them, not even knowing they were purchased... The drill is for me very simple. I buy the CDs, and promptly rip them to my NAS (es)... Cursory listening session but a fleeting one in many instances, while I am into something else either at work or at home... Some pieces may grab my attention and get a more thorough audition, many simply fly by without myself fully registering their existence or quality ...
What prompted me to write this thread was these following albums (among others):
I don't think it was recommended by anyone at the WBF but a cousin of mine who's a Sinatra fan talked me some time ago into listening to Sinatra. I bought this album, maybe a year or two at a second hand store (more about second hand or used later).. Ripped it , heard it (as opposed to listened to it) while doing some work and forgot its existence let alone presence in my collection. Last week I decided to go on a musical exploration and for some odd reasons got th this Sinatra album, the only Sinatra album in my collection by the way... so far.
I believe the recording was made in the 60's.. not sure... Fabulous recoding, fabulous ambiance, good music.. Frank well as good as they say he was ...Not being a Frank Sinatra connoisseur I can only reference my emotional response to the album: A great singer having some real fun and being daring .. An orchestra restrained and in control .. Good music ..
Point is I didn't even remember this album, thus I went on looking for some other albums I had acquired and to which I never listened or maybe not intently enough .. So another album came up
I have read about Joan Sutherland, even head her but never really paid attention to how good she was.. Yeah! my father thought a lot of her and yes I knew she was amongst the best ever but I was supposed not to like operas .. I find myself listening to the genre more than I have ever. Yet... call it contrary-ism, I would prefer, Maria Callas, Renee Fleming, Leontyne Price (How great can one person be) , Renata Tebaldi, etc... OMG, Sutherland is in that rarefied stratum ... No doubt , no discussions end of the debate...scrambling to find her recordings and to listen to them ... which brings me back to the fact that ..
Many of us audiophiles, despite claims to the contrary spend too little time listening to our music collection. I understand the reflexes, the tendencies and the impulses and I share them with you. The equipment, the tweaking, etc is fun .. but the music is there and just waiting to be listened to, to be cherished, enjoyed, shared and yes, part of it too, analyzed, its meaning and beauty made part of and enriching our lives ...
In conclusion , I invite you to dig back in your collection and listen to new things then share them with us, more . The ratio of Equipment threads to Music discussions thread to could well be 100:1, so we seem more inclined to discuss about equipment than what IMO matters most: Music .. Please tell us more about what you are listening , have listened to and why you liked them or not and what they brought you .. Part of the sharing.
P.S. So much music so little time ..If mods think this should be merged with the What's spinning tonight thread, i am all for it ...
I was trying to find a title to this thread, that's the best I could find
My whole music collection is on two NAS (Network Attached Storage). I will add a third one just to be on the safe side. I am eternally grateful to HDD as a music storage as I lost my hard coded music collection twice; One in a flash flood in NY where I lost my entire LP collection which was then over 1500 LPs strong and recently my entire LP and CD collections. Most , not all of the CDs fortunately were ripped on a HDD which was retrieved and simply worked after a simple blast of compressed air...
I have decided not to go the analog route anyway so my music collection is on these aforementioned NAS.
I love the "What's spinning tonight thread". I check it from time to time and go buy many of the albums fellow members are listening to. And some albums are just wonderful. I also like the Prog Rock thread and the World Music thread..
So I have been acquiring albums and quite a lot of them .. I do that consistently. Amazon , CD Universe and all these online stores give a new meaning to impulse buying so.. there I may have added 100 or 200 or more CDs to my collection in a short time .. And there comes the problem.. I forget about many of them, not even knowing they were purchased... The drill is for me very simple. I buy the CDs, and promptly rip them to my NAS (es)... Cursory listening session but a fleeting one in many instances, while I am into something else either at work or at home... Some pieces may grab my attention and get a more thorough audition, many simply fly by without myself fully registering their existence or quality ...
What prompted me to write this thread was these following albums (among others):
I don't think it was recommended by anyone at the WBF but a cousin of mine who's a Sinatra fan talked me some time ago into listening to Sinatra. I bought this album, maybe a year or two at a second hand store (more about second hand or used later).. Ripped it , heard it (as opposed to listened to it) while doing some work and forgot its existence let alone presence in my collection. Last week I decided to go on a musical exploration and for some odd reasons got th this Sinatra album, the only Sinatra album in my collection by the way... so far.
I believe the recording was made in the 60's.. not sure... Fabulous recoding, fabulous ambiance, good music.. Frank well as good as they say he was ...Not being a Frank Sinatra connoisseur I can only reference my emotional response to the album: A great singer having some real fun and being daring .. An orchestra restrained and in control .. Good music ..
Point is I didn't even remember this album, thus I went on looking for some other albums I had acquired and to which I never listened or maybe not intently enough .. So another album came up
I have read about Joan Sutherland, even head her but never really paid attention to how good she was.. Yeah! my father thought a lot of her and yes I knew she was amongst the best ever but I was supposed not to like operas
.. I find myself listening to the genre more than I have ever. Yet... call it contrary-ism, I would prefer, Maria Callas, Renee Fleming, Leontyne Price (How great can one person be) , Renata Tebaldi, etc... OMG, Sutherland is in that rarefied stratum ... No doubt , no discussions end of the debate...scrambling to find her recordings and to listen to them ... which brings me back to the fact that ..Many of us audiophiles, despite claims to the contrary spend too little time listening to our music collection. I understand the reflexes, the tendencies and the impulses and I share them with you. The equipment, the tweaking, etc is fun .. but the music is there and just waiting to be listened to, to be cherished, enjoyed, shared and yes, part of it too, analyzed, its meaning and beauty made part of and enriching our lives ...
In conclusion , I invite you to dig back in your collection and listen to new things then share them with us, more . The ratio of Equipment threads to Music discussions thread to could well be 100:1, so we seem more inclined to discuss about equipment than what IMO matters most: Music .. Please tell us more about what you are listening , have listened to and why you liked them or not and what they brought you .. Part of the sharing.
P.S. So much music so little time ..If mods think this should be merged with the What's spinning tonight thread, i am all for it ...
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