Non of my gear is remote controllable, except for the Densen CD player, which needs something called a "Gizmo", and they cost silly money so that's not going to happen. I'd rather walk the eight feet from me sofa.
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Non of my gear is remote controllable, except for the Densen CD player, which needs something called a "Gizmo", and they cost silly money so that's not going to happen. I'd rather walk the eight feet from me sofa.
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I sometimes feel that the identity of an album has been messed with through adding tracks. I'm not talking about reissues since you know where the original ended (I quite like getting extras on those) but about new releases in recent years which may come in several different versions. It's sometimes hard to tell what the actual album is and what's the fluff that's been added. In the CD era albums have gone on too long anyway, IMHO, to have as consistently high a standard as say in the 70s. I'd rather have 8 tracks / 40 minutes of "Let There be Rock" than 15 tracks / 55 minutes of "Black Ice".
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I'd rather have 52 minutes of total silence than have to sit through "Trevor Horn Reimagines The Eighties". Don't need a remote for that one, just a strong arm and a canal.
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Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
T'other system:
Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF
A/V:
LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub
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Additional, "bonus" tracks wind me up no end.
Sometimes it's material that sits well with the album, but more often than not it's material that was rejected first time around, and it should have remained that way.
I buy CDs all the time, rip them to my home server, and stream them.
With the bonus stuff I tag it as "bonus tracks" or "bonus material", and it shows up as a separate location, and doesn't play unless you add it to the playlist.
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Bonus tracks get on my nerves too. They are supposed to add value to the cd, but what was a great album when originally released rarely needs a load of additional fluff to enhance it. If anything it detracts.
Another thing with albums from modern times on CD or stream is that they go on too long. How often can an artist sustain brilliance over 16 tracks? It's hard enough over 10. Just cut out the weakest tracks and make it a better but shorter album.
Oh, and bonus discs with out-takes and alternative mixes. I wonder how many of them get played more than once, if at all.
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Another dislike is 2 albums on same CD, or boxsets where to save a dics they have say 4 or 5 albums on 3 discs.
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Most 'extra tracks' are a pile of shite that never made the original album for the simple reason that they were shite. The only exceptions I can think of are Love's first two LPs, where the CD versions have singles added on. The singles were at least as good as the album tracks, and I never owned the original LPs, so the running order isn't embedded in my subconscious.
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