Mapleshade magic
Well, what do you know....it is possible to get pretty high-quality music playback on simple computer speakers playing MP3 files downloaded from the Internet. As they say, you learn something new everyday...
At this very moment while I am typing this post, I am listening to In A Perfect
World by the Andy McKee Quintet through small Altec Lansing computer speakers and all the things that audiophiles look out for are there - soundstage, imaging, clarity, transparency and dynamics. The saxophone is smack in the middle where the computer screen is and the double bass is somewhere to the right. Now I can hear the shimmer of the cymbals to the left.
World by the Andy McKee Quintet through small Altec Lansing computer speakers and all the things that audiophiles look out for are there - soundstage, imaging, clarity, transparency and dynamics. The saxophone is smack in the middle where the computer screen is and the double bass is somewhere to the right. Now I can hear the shimmer of the cymbals to the left.
I can hear all the microdynamics, the soul of the music...
It sounds a million times better than the stuff I downloaded from LimeWire.
I just downloaded a Kendra Shank track and am thoroughly enjoying it. Next will be This Little Light of Mine by Kenyetta and the Larry Willis Trio.
What happened was that I was browsing through the Mapleshade Records website www.mapleshaderecords.com when I clicked the "Music" section and found that I could download either samples or complete MP3 versions of some tracks.
If the Mapleshade recordings sound this good in MP3 format on the Altec Lansing computer speakers, I wonder what magical moments there would be if I could play the actual CDs on my big rig.
Now I am tempted to buy some Mapleshade CDs...gotta check if I have exceeded the credit limit of my credit card :)
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