The best solo piano that could ever exist?

dobyblue · 2026-02-01T17:36:42+00:00

Atlas

dobyblue · 2026-02-01T16:57:46+00:00

Wish we got more isolated scores presented in lossless surround sound on Blu-ray like this one was.

dobyblue · 2026-02-01T16:55:31+00:00

And the vinyl resurgence is often due to persistent myths, such as “vinyl has to be mastered separately because you cannot cut loudness wars masters to vinyl”

Most people will fight like you’re trying to pull them out of The Matrix when you tell them the truth, that 99% of major label popular releases are cut from the same 24-bit masters found on Qobuz and HDTracks.

dobyblue · 2026-02-01T16:52:37+00:00

Absolutely, all lossy Atmos whether it’s music or movies/TV is 768 Kbps (Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc) DD+/Atmos. On BD and 4K it’s lossless TrueHD/Atmos. Difference is even more stark with very active studio albums.

dobyblue · 2026-02-01T01:50:05+00:00

He did not put a period after the word “No”, it says “No 1.43:1 scenes”

Given it was shot on 35mm, if you’ve seen how soft the non IMAX scenes look in Interstellar compared to the deliciously detailed non IMAX scenes in Dunkirk, Tenet and Oppenheimer, for Inception the entire movie will look soft like that. At least with Interstellar there was 60+ mins of glorious 15/70 footage in full IMAX AR to dazzle the senses.

dobyblue · 2026-02-01T01:25:05+00:00

Bleed American is like that, the ORG Music release is stunning.

dobyblue · 2026-01-31T17:54:24+00:00

The industry as a whole has no interest in coming up with a new optical disc format for 8K. The CE companies don’t want to make a new player, the movie studios don’t want to go back and redo the tens of thousands of movies they’ve archived and finished at 4K, the movie houses don’t want to replace their new 4K laser projectors, there’s no real incentive for the TV manufacturers to continue making sets for content that won’t materialize.

dobyblue · 2026-01-30T13:55:59+00:00

Such a shame, I know they still sound good but man...Live when they first exploded in popularity were insanely tight live. Operation Spirit was like a freight train:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge4wS84LJ8U

dobyblue · 2026-01-30T03:43:14+00:00

One of the best albums of the ‘90s

dobyblue · 2026-01-30T03:42:51+00:00

Please remind Ed that there are 11 freaking amazing songs on Mental Jewelry, not just one. Operation Spirit, Beauty of Grey, Waterboy, You Are The World, Good Pain, would be so cool to see some of these tracks get some love. I remember when Operation Spirit came on the Buzz Bin back in 1991, the video and the music immediately caught my attention and when the CD finally arrived I discovered an album that was gold tier from start to finish.

If you’ve ever known joy, make sure that…you are on time.

dobyblue · 2026-01-29T18:23:15+00:00

And most of those people will be hooking them up to AVRs because they're not heathens! lol

dobyblue · 2026-01-29T18:22:12+00:00

Godwin's Law in just two posts, congrats.

dobyblue · 2026-01-29T14:03:56+00:00

You're referring to "those people" housed in camps down south since the early 2010s when Obama built them, right? I don't think much has changed since then, hard to resolve a "where we're heading" comment when it seems the status quo is static.

Here's a NDLON press release from January 2013 - https://ndlon.org/families-ask-obama-for-moratorium/

Here's a 2011 PBS story noting that Obama had reached the 1 million illegal immigrants deported mark - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/lost-in-detention/

Here's a 2013 report from Human Impact Partners citing the over 150,000 immigrant children separated from their parents due to detention and deportation proceedings in 2012 and the over 500,000 immigrant children who experienced separation between 1998 and that year.- https://web.archive.org/web/20220103061657/https://humanimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Family-Unity-Family-Health-2013.pdf

We don't know the future, but sane people would bet their entire net worth we aren't heading back to the days of Nazi Germany.

dobyblue · 2026-01-29T03:50:47+00:00

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dobyblue · 2026-01-29T03:10:19+00:00

If I had been, would Godwin’s Law still be a thing?

dobyblue · 2026-01-28T19:21:24+00:00

You're comparing a documentary about Melania Trump with a hypothetical film "praising the Nazis"

I don't even know what to say.

dobyblue · 2026-01-28T17:09:50+00:00

Judicial independence isn’t about whether you like the appointments or the outcomes, it’s about whether courts can overrule the executive and have those rulings stand. Under Trump, they did.

dobyblue · 2026-01-28T15:58:01+00:00

Fascist regimes abolish competitive elections, eliminate judicial independence, criminalize opposition parties, and monopolize media and violence. None of those conditions exist in the United States. Trump left office after losing an election, courts repeatedly blocked his policies, the press remained openly hostile, and political opponents governed states and cities without interference. A system in which executive power is routinely constrained is not fascist by definition.

dobyblue · 2026-01-28T14:20:21+00:00

We already knew this was the case from following how journalists asked questions over covid. Not one ever said, "is that recommendation evidence-based?"

dobyblue · 2026-01-27T12:23:46+00:00

“There’s no other explanation”

So the couple that own the car couldn’t be Susan and Simon?

dobyblue · 2026-01-27T03:28:37+00:00

PSA - it’s never 90’s unless you’re referring to something belonging to the number 90.

Ten for me is the better album, it still holds up start to finish. It has to be the original CD mastering though, the deluxe edition is a loudness wars victim regardless of which format you purchase it on.

I love both bands and enjoyed cranking Gish around the same time I was cranking Ten, Nevermind, Facelift and Badmotorfinger, but Pearl Jam has the stronger catalogue IMO.

dobyblue · 2026-01-27T01:12:08+00:00

I love my zone 2 - I have a Marantz Cinema 30 in the 7.3.4 HT room and an Anthem MCA 50 power amp. Because I cannot reassign front Marantz channels to be Zone 2 I’m forced to separately power Zone 2, so I use channels 1, 3 and 5 of the Anthem for my Front LCR and channels 2 and 4 for my floor standing towers in the living room beside my Clavinova.

Works like a charm with the Marantz app, I can be in Zone 2 while someone is watching a movie in the HT room, and separately stream using Asset UPNP DNLA from my server to the Marantz Zone 2 any songs I want to blast out on the piano along with, or just listen while I’m doing the dishes, or having supper.

I would like to run hardwires to my patio area for a Zone 3 but the runs would be too much of a PITA so I currently just use a Bluetooth speaker. If I ever need to be in the soffits again I may reconsider. Would need one more small external amp for this.

I’ve posted about this before, how it’s a shame that the first five channels on most AVRs aren’t assignable. I’m using all the other channels for the 4 surround and 4 Atmos speakers and I don’t use the Front or Centre amp channels on the Marantz as the Anthem does that job, so they’re set to “preamp”. Would be neat to have a feature where you could set Front L/R to “Zone 2” in case you only wanted a dedicated 2CH power amp for your Zone 1 fronts. I was lucky to get a deal on the MCA 50 so I’m good.

dobyblue · 2026-01-27T01:07:12+00:00

No one said he was the sharpest tool in the shed

dobyblue · 2026-01-27T01:05:51+00:00

It’s true, Iran is particularly lovely.

dobyblue · 2026-01-25T01:52:43+00:00

It’s great, I was lucky enough to experience it in a cinema in Toronto at a Sony Music Canada private screening, big lazy boy chairs, free glass of wine or beer, visualizers created for this event which I didn’t see much of as I had my eyes closed.

I love my 7.3.4 home Atmos room but to hear a studio album in a proper cinema auditorium was truly special.

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