Mr. Sinatra: Thanks again for helping me. Yes, the Phil. Eagles got to Big Ben. No, the Eagles will not win the Super Bowl. It will be the Giants against the Steelers. Except for the "punt over the goal post" deal, Pgh. already beat up the Giants. It will be a good game. (I am not counting the Eagles out yet, but they did kick our butts now didn't they!)
Your description about ITUNES' criminality explains a strange thing that happened when I ripped those tunes out of ITUNES and re-compressed them, uncompressed them, and then put them through some warmth. Now, those tunes are playing through the Duet and people are having sex 12 blocks away from here. The strange thing is this: You guys told me not to use MP3, so I used WAV at first. WAV is professional grade engineering. It is the standard. My father in law wrote about 200 famous rock and roll songs -- neat guy. He told me to do it. Forget the fact that the ripping took WAY TOO LONG AND it didn't carry the artwork with it. How about this: After it was done it sounded TERRIBLE. I couldn't understand. I ate my wheaties, I listened to my FIL, I talked to Steven Stills who is a friend of mine, I did it the right way. So, what happened? Then, you get these professionals who talk under their breath and you cannot understand what they said. Stills said "if you are converting to WAV off of a defective file -- like the Apple stuff -- WAV will highlight the inadequacy. I said "how's that?" Stills then disappeared into a room and was playing his guitar in his guitar room and was no longer speaking for the day (a total maniac). So I was left with this sound bite from him that "was what it was." I then talked to my FIL who recorded -- e.g., You Make Me So Very Happy -- and he said "Steve is right, but don't give up on MP3 files because it is all about the conversion -- can you heat up the music again." Then, to use your logo, I had a Martini because I had no clue what these folks were speaking about. Now, from your post, it all makes sense. Apple is screwing with these files in other ways. That is why there was only one way that I could get the Audials One (Tunebite) to make the music sound correct. I had to use its fantastic "Perfect Audio" feature. What that does is the following: It rips Apple a part -- kind of like a mountain lion attacking a coyote -- but then it does it TWICE IN A ROW IN TWO DIFFERENT RAW FORMATS. Then, it automatically compares the two versions and it compares the versions to a database and marries them to come away with one song that is "Perfect;" hence "Perfect Audio." It takes a little longer but I SUSPECT THEY HAD TO DEVELOP THAT TECHNOLOGY IN ORDER TO GET PEOPLE TO BUY THEIR PRODUCT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOW COMING OUT FROM APPLE'S LITTLE PET ROCK AND YOU NEED A REDUNDANT SYSTEM IN ORDER TO MAKE THE AUDIO COMPLETELY ORIGINAL AGAIN. I am positive you are right, Frank S., because this is the only explanation I have for the comments made by the two experts, because the WAV file sounded like a horse was running beside the recording, and because once I used "Perfect Audio" with MP3 I learned that MP3 is just fine IF IT IS RUN THROUGH ANALOG FIRST BEFORE IT GOES BACK TO DIGITAL, SOMETHING APPLE CANNOT DO! I think -- if you are correct -- we have the grounds for a massive class action lawsuit here. Apple sells that they are giving you the top and best of the best. Yet they might be giving you the worst of the worst. And they are not telling anybody. What's worse is that they are forcing you to marry their shitty ITUNES system, which leads to docking stations, sound systems and a digital whorehouse (Sonos does not work -- another story) even though all that could ruin a perfectly good $50,000 sound system. It is about DISCLOSURE. Why didn't they tell me this before I downloaded my library? What is unfair about that? How much downloading do you think me and the rest of us stupid idiots have spent downloading files from Apple? In answer to your question about analog versus digital on the back of the squeeze box, if you are using any sort of "computer stereo" (even the z5500 which is far away from it, but still has features of a computer stereo), then you are going TOTAL DIGITAL. TOTAL DIGITAL TAKES YOUR RIPPED, CLEANED UP, FILE AND PUTS IT BACK IN A BIGGER IPOD -- i.e., the digital source. The analog jacks on the back of the squeeze box was pure brilliance because it allows you to run it once through analog. Because this is all timed in 1.4 seconds, after you "warm up" the music again before it hits the Logitech (or any digital system), the digital system does not have time to "re-compress" and to "re-screw-up" the sound you've created. And then, it is taking that "warm" music and playing it back in perfect digital and thus there is no distortion! It is "fire in a bottle." Logitech has really thought this through -- 24 bits . . . and fast! This is explained in Logitech's materials and it is completely logical -- but as you said your ear is the guide. Your ear can't miss this one. It is a BIG difference. Now, try this: Try taking that horse dropping that comes out of the "man trapped in the box" (aka "IPOD") and run it through an analog and then to a digital. It is a comedy routine. Run IPOD through an analog. You will blow your speakers if you turn it up too loud. The new Sonos and Wadia equipment is supposed to fix that, BUT IT ONLY MAKES IT WORSE. Respectfully, let me quote from Wadia and how they've solved the problem: "Turn your IPOD into a high end musical server. The 170i Transport is the first and only IPOD component to offer true digital output, high- resolution component and S Video output and analog outputs. DIGITAL COAXIAL CABLE INCLUDED. Read this a few times. I tried this before giving up (a couple weeks ago). When I used the analog jacks, the music sounded like it was being played out of a transistor radio. Why is IPOD trying to achieve "true digital output?" It is already digital. Do they think we all have a disease? And, if they have analog outputs, why do they include a digital COAXIAL cable -- the ultimate digital slavery? BECAUSE YOU SAID IT: THEY CANNOT HAVE THE TRUTH OF THEIR TERRIBLY COMPRESSED FILES COME OUT. SO, THEY ARE NOW SELLING A "SUPER DUPER" DOCKING STATION TO COMPRESS THE FILES ONE MORE TIME FOR GOOD MEASURE. I'm calling the Saturday Night Live people. Please let me know if you have a crew willing to do the class action against Apple. First, they stole the Beatles record label and I think Jobs knew all along he was going to go into music. That is not actionable, but it is just a piece of sickness. What IS actionable is that people are downloading to high heavens off of IPOD and they are being completely misled. As I close, Hotel California has come onto slackers. Instead of a kettle drum sitting in the center of my room, I am now hearing a band playing through a pretty darn good surround sound system and the drums are cogent, warm, wide, clean, and powerful. Regards, Mitch. -- Mitchell J. Stein ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mitchell J. 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