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Twentysomething – Jamie Cullum (US Import Dual Disc)
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Format: Dual Disc (CD/DVD) Audio: CD side 2 channel 16 bit PCM @44.1 khz / DVD Audio 2 channel 24 bit PCM @96 khz/ 5.1 24bit PCM @96 khz Country: USA Label/Date: Verve/2004 Track Listing: These are the Days Twentysomething Wind Cries Mary All at Sea Lover, You Should've Come Over Singin' in the Rain I Get a Kick Out of You Blame it on My Youth High and Dry It's About Time But For Now I Could've Danced All Night Next Year, Baby What a Difference a Day Makes Frontin' Jamie Cullum’s second album, and his first for Verve was his best selling to date and firmly established him as a Jazz star in the making [...]
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Blue Train - John Coltrane (US Import DVD audio)
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Format: Double Sided DVD (Dual Format) Audio: DVD Audio 2 channel 24 bit PCM @192 khz / DVD Video 2 channel 24 bit PCM @96 khz Country: USA Label/Date: Classic/1999 (Original album first released in 1957 by Blue Note: 53428) Track Listing: Blue Train Moment’s Notice Locomotion I’m Old Fashioned Lazy Bird I originally purchased a 2004 Rudy Van Geller CD re-master of this album about six years ago purely on a whim as I was keen to explore Coltrane’s music and as it was on offer at £4.99 at the local HMV, it seemed a good value [...]
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DualDiscs
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Having now got the taste for high definition 24 bit/96khz digital audio, I was keen to explore what other content is available other than downloads [...]
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High Definition Audio
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Having successfully set up a very high quality bit perfect PC -> DAC system that is capable of 24/96 playback thanks to the Quad 99CDP2's digital input and the onboard Realtek's digital output, it was only a matter of time before I took the plunge into 24bit audio primarily out of curiousity as to whether there was any significant improvement over standard 16/44.1 CD playback [...]
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Choosing the right digital camera
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Only four years ago some experts were predicting a slowdown in the digital camera market, claiming that it had peaked despite a 20% growth in terms of sales in 2005 [...]
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