Qrates, Montreal, Axpona, Munich, Headphones and Horns

Qrates – crowdfunded vinyl

“Artists and labels can promote their music online to fund vinyl pressings, deliver exclusive content and items, make their music streamable and offer free downloads and bonus tracks to their fans. We also offer statistics and reports services.”

Shows

Another triple-header show month? Almost a quadruple header:  Montreal, Axpona and Munich… with Newport not far after.

A nice Montreal Show Report by Canada HiFi

Mike Fremer describes Patricia Barber’s set at Axpona well. We like Patricia Barber, but only when we do not hear her in an exhibition room at a show [where it was played to death several years ago, from which we never recovered :-)].

HiFi Pig is trying to corner the market on Munich High End 2015 news and doing a good job at it.

Other Stuff

Inner Fidelity has a headphone shootout that looks promising.

Retro hi-fi always entertains me. That turntable above is JUST what we are looking for… [Riiiight, Neli? :-)]

And another article from the same site: Realistic High Fidelity Horn Loudspeakers and Enclosures – 1956

That’s hi-fi for now folks. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Tidal Hate, roon and chosen.fm, CanJam SoCal wrapups

The Press hates TiDaL Streaming Music. They really do. Or they hate Jay-Z. I don’t get it [and no, it is not the press hating rich people – they LOVE rich people. Who do you think buys ads?]

Long detailed list of Hate Press in Computer Audiophile and a summary at AudioStream.

Some of it is people having problem with a subscription service. Mr Lavorgna comments that freemium is dead, but in fact it is growing rampantly, it is just not working out so well for the musicians and journalists yet. When one game can make $200M to $1B+ off of freemium, it is not dead. It is that the music services still suck, they just don’t know it yet.

Maybe Roon or Chosen.fm will fix this:

It appears that the core Sooloos team now sees the Online Streaming Cloud services light and is doing something about it at RoonLabs

And Chosen.fm is also trying to get it done right, where right means both music lovers and musicians both win.

Inner Fidelity and AudioHead both had blurbs on the CanJam show in South California that was.

Kind of slow news for a few days… must be that Spring! is finally rearing it wonderful head…. 🙂

That’s hi-fi for now folks. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.