Kevin Hall wrote:
> "Darryl Johnson"<
Darryl_...@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:jgoqjt$9jq$1...@dont-email.me...
>> "Direct Stream Digital, a technology developed by Sony and Philips ...
>> that uses pulse-density modulation encoding. The format uses 1-bit
>> sampling at 2.8224 MHz, which is 64 times higher than the 44.1 KHz used by
>> CDs. The result are huge audio files, about 300 MB for five minutes of
>> audio. There are very few music publishers offering DSD files at all."
>>
>> Apparently Neil isn't happy with MP3 music and thinks we could do a lot
>> better.
>>
>> I've never heard of this particular format, myself, but perhaps some of
>> you have.
>>
>> As the article I found this in mentions, it wouldn't be a good format for
>> music downloads. Not at current bandwidth limitations. And it would take
>> Terabyte-sized drives to store a decent music collection.
>>
>> My ears would, undoubtedly, not be able to discern any difference, even
>> through good speakers, but people with young and healthy ears probably
>> could.
>>
>> --
>> Darryl
>
> Seems a touch ironic coming from a guy in his late 60s who has never been
> able to sing on key
I have never bought that argument. YMMV. Pitch with Neil, especially
Neil and Crazy Horse is hard to pin down, but it's not that "out". It's
"sour". It's very low-pH pitch, but it's there.
Seriously, when I first really listened to this music when a young'un,
it was the treatment of pitch and timbre that most made me think all
my music teachers were telling me very little....
> and who, at this stage in his life no doubt has his
> hearing seriously clipped relative to where it was in his 20s.
No question.
"Neil has his own private P.A and a Yamaha mixer. He has a separate
microphone that's not connected to the house for each amp, and he can
mix these to any level he wants. He mainly hears Deluxe, a lot of
Baldwin, and very little Magnatone. Out front and on record, you can
hear mostly Deluxe and Magnatone. Inside the big speaker cabinet to the
audience's right are 2 two-way Maryland Sound P.A. cabinets with 2 15s
and a horn apiece. These cabinets have 2000 watts of biamped power, and
gets turned excruciatingly loud. It just kills me to go out there-I
just about get knocked over. And that's what Neils hearing. This
produces the feedback, and if we didn't have that on, the sound
wouldn't be the same. Neil doesn't wear ear protection, and he's had a
problem with that recently. I doubt if we'll be seeing this again soon.
Right now he's gone into total acoustic. "
http://thrasherswheat.org/friends/amps.htm
That's from 20 years ago...
> Could it be
> possible that Brother Neil, a notoriously sharp businessman, has an
> alternate agenda here? You know what they say about marketing; " Be
> careful not to step in any". ;-)
>
I would not be surprised - it's getting about time for The Archives to
come out...
> KH
>
>
--
Les Cargill