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The record labels want their music to stand out, i.e be louder than others. They do it by compressing the dynamics of the music. It is called “The Loudness War”.

I stumbled upon BBC Sound of 2009 winner Little Boots on the BBC web site some month ago. I downloaded two BBC videos (MPEG4 and AAC 128 Kbit soundtrack) with live performance of “Meddle” and “Stuck on repeat”. Very good and interesting music!

I took the soundtracks from the videos and listen to them a lot. The sound quality was surprisingly good, the BBC has people who knows what they are doing. I was looking forward to Little Boots first album.

A couple of weeks ago I bought the album “Hands” and it’s quite good but I’m sorry to say that it sounds like crap. “Meddle” and “Stuck on repeat” are on the album but sounds nothing like the nice BBC recordings.

Bye bye CD player. I enjoyed listening to my Thule CD player a lot and I’m sure the new owner will enjoy it also. My new setup however sounds even better and I have all my music at a touch of a button. Lets call it progress.

I have had a Apple AirPort Express for some time. The interesting function is that it can stream music from iTunes to the stereo, something Apple calls AirTunes.

Connecting it to my amplifier via the analog line out works well but the sound is not Hi-Fi quality. To get that you need to use the optical digital out to a DAC.

Plocka fram en några år gammal skiva med en favoritartist och jämför med en skiva de gett ut nyligen.