Vinyl Me Please Anthology
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duke86fan
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MAYBE they produced more than they should of.. i have a hunch this boxset is the whole reason for the price hike fiasco
they expected it to sell out.. it didn't sell out... now they have a ton of paperweights
also why does it include a nuggs subscription... i dont think the people who would buy this boxset care about MQA lossless (that phrasing already will begin a debate) live concerts
BjorgenFjorgen
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Dukey do you know about tape trading culture?
duke86fan
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i wasn't there but i know you copied tapes, traded tapes over a bunch of people, etc.
BjorgenFjorgen
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Right. Grateful Dead fans are exactly the type of people that would be interested in lossless concert recordings.
duke86fan
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but grateful dead fans already own the albums in the boxset (and you might need an MQA renderer)
BjorgenFjorgen
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Right, but for us the albums are just a jumping-off point. Deadheads love listening to shows they've not heard before.
Mather
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See the question you have to ask yourself is:
What was inside those snowballs?
Because the answer, is D Cell batteries.
How do I know this?
Because my friends, I WAS that Santa.
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TCell
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I don’t have any GD shows on cassette anymore, - I used too - but I still have some great shows I traded for on CD.
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duke86fan
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The thing is deadheads already own the albums and the new fans might start to get into live dead but they
Probably won't want a subscription to a live music streaming service that has a controversial encoding scheme
I just dunno what the box was made for
dhodo
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If anyone is interested in reading about MQA and its weird marketing claims this is an interesting article.
MQA: A Review of controversies, concerns, and cautions
Editor's Note 1: MQA ltd was sent a copy of this article several days prior to the scheduled publication date. The company requested a phone conversation, which took place earlier this week. MQA was encouraged to write a response for inclusion with the article below, but it respectfully decline t...
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duke86fan
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eh its weird but its the cheapest way i can get high res streaming because 10 bucks student discountIf anyone is interested in reading about MQA and its weird marketing claims this is an interesting article.
MQA: A Review of controversies, concerns, and cautions
Editor's Note 1: MQA ltd was sent a copy of this article several days prior to the scheduled publication date. The company requested a phone conversation, which took place earlier this week. MQA was encouraged to write a response for inclusion with the article below, but it respectfully decline t...
dhodo
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Hey I listen to normal spotify. I'm no elitist about streaming quality, I'm just not a fan of weird secretive misleading marketing jargon. If you enjoy the sound then it's great.
Ericj32
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I’m not a Deadhead at all but I dabbled in online sharing of taped shows and decided randomly to get all the shows I could find from the day I was born, so I have 2 hours and 28 minutes of FLAC files of a live Dead show in my possession.
Have I listened to it yet? no. But I’m sure I will when the time is right haha.
Have I listened to it yet? no. But I’m sure I will when the time is right haha.
JonnyH
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So, you mean drugs?
Ericj32
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I meant, “when I’ve listened to enough of the Dead to fully appreciate it” but I can’t rule out the drugs I guess.
duke86fan
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i dunno if i even enjoy the streaming quality... just my phone has a great DAC that decodes MQA completely so i can take adding an extra 5 bucks to my subscription to use a feature thats aparently good.. it all is confusing.. also why would you get a high quality DAC for spotify which is what is confusing
serotonein
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It was a whole world unto itself - lengthy message board or email threads laying out the trading tree, with "branches" and "leaves". Each branch, someone who had been doing it long enough to be trusted in the trading community to make a bunch of copies and move things along would receive their copy from the main source, so the leaves wouldn't have to worry about too much degradation in their copies. Seemingly endless discussions were had regarding the ethics of those who hoarded "rare" recordings and what they could reasonably charge someone for a copy, or if charging for more than cassettes and a mailer was fair at all.
I think the scene kept Maxell in business for many extra years even as CDs had taken hold in the rest of the music industry. Padded mailers were cheap, but you always had to keep an eye on when there were sales of the bricks of XLII 90 min tapes.
I got into the scene in the mid-90s, right as colleges started providing internet (though many were still on dial-up) and private email started to become a thing. The tape trading community was another way of keeping in touch with friends. Aside from the 2 primaries (Dead, Phish), I also got into a bunch of the secondary and tertiary (jam-adjacent) bands - Blues Traveler, Rusted Root, God Street Wine, Ominous Seapods, early (pre-Crash) DMB, MMW, WSP, Leftover Salmon, Gov't Mule; never did care for moe. or Gorilla Biscuits
All that is to say that yes, Deadheads very much care about access to live shows. Even if this box ends up selling more to newbies, then they're hoping to get at least some of them hooked on that next step of fandom & paying again when the initial free sub runs out.
dhodo
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If it sounds better to you then I'm sure it's worth it.
I don't have a high quality DAC if that's what you mean. I have an OK one someone gave me but I only use it for my PC desktop speakers.
I only really use spotify for streaming/downloading on my phone at work and in the car and through my PS4 while playing games sometimes.
duke86fan
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i dunno
im just having an existential crisis wondering if any of this matters and if a dac actually makes a difference because i just dont notice much of a sound difference and my dac seemingly makes me fatigued because its all confusing and i wanna things pop again.
this shit burns me out