So ive been wanting to upgrade my audio system for quite some time. HDMI has started to creep in and my current receiver has naught and it makes me sad. Also ive had this sytem for about 6 years or so and to keep my geek cred up it would be nice to upgrade the whole system to current standards. I basicly just want something that will supersonic the shit out of my face. Everything is currently Pioneer and has served me well for quite some time.This time around im gonna mix it up a bit with an Onkyo receiver and Polk speakers to smashdify ears into dimension X.
Quite an investment actually about a grand total. But doable if I get it piece by piece over time starting with the receiver. I mean the receiver alone will power my current speakers and TV much better until I can get the rest so its a good starting point. When it comes to audiophile gear this is an entry level expense really, slangin around names like martin logan and nakamichi gets you ali g restekpah
Stayed inside and out of the cold to watch a movie yesterday everything was peachy. That is until the movie craps out in the middle and says it cannot find the file. This is very alarming to me as all of my media is stored on a central server and other then the movie the media center was running just fine which points fingers at the server. Checking the server I notice that its in a frozen state which is a normal occurence due to torrenting. Normal instinct is to reboot but this time when it came back up it did not detect my music drive. So right now all of my music is on life support which is way scary. I dont know what id do if I where to lose all of my music. I suppose I could survive and start my collection over again it would take a bit to get things back and I know for a fact that there are some albums that I wouldnt be able to find elsewhere. I have a new drive on the way from newegg so hopefully it will get here in time before things die. My reliance on technology and not haveing a good backup solution has bit me in the ass again. I dont much like physical media but I do have to say that with physical media thousands of albums just dont vanish in an instant.
*update* YAY! I was able to recover everything and move it to another drive. There are still some lingering problems with the server but everything is looking up.
First post of 2007. New design Dunno if I like it yet just thought id switch it up a bit. I like the long column blog style a little better it allows for more content on a single page. I just ate a yummy home cooked meal by “cookin mama ira” topped off with rocky road ice cream and am now washing it all down with a bottle of Stella Artois. 2006 went out with a bang of a party that the bots put together which was an amazing time, thanks for that. Mechazoid is still alive which is great its become a good communication platform for columbus area nerdy types and is still decently trafficked. Went to Ohayocon and purchased some new robot figures to add to the collection damn things are expensive. The two purchases that I dig teh most are the limited edition 12″ Canti and the MSZ-006A1/C1 [Bst] Gundam Fix Figuration they make my heart splode in all directions but now I have a need to get the rest of the fix series, robots are like vagina laced crack cant get enough. Stella Artois is all gone now time to listen to some Amon Tobin.
Ive been experimenting with multi room audio on the cheap lately and have been looking into network solutions. I have my pc with decent speakers in zee office and my surround sound setup in the living room which are both network connected. So why not find some way to sync up the audio so it sounds like its one big stereo. At first I tried doing it the lazy mans way by pressing play on both comps at the same time but the lag was too much and it never got in sync. I needed something that would compensate for the network lag and constantly keep the audio synced up. I found some software called Bass Network Player which did exactly that. Works well enough has a client and server end and did what I wanted basicly made it sound like one giant audio system. I have yet to crank it due to the neighbors and them sleeping but I will this weekend. only downfall to it is that you can only queue up one song meh! so you cant load a whole playlist and have that synced up. Id like to have something that would take my whole winamp playlist and sync it up over the network. Until then its one song at a time which is still pretty cool to hear. Just gotta keep on playing 2 hour mix sets so I dont have to constantly keep changing the tracks. Cheap asses 10.2 surround sound pretty much.
Im currently in a music void right now. Im at that point where im ready for something new to bring me into another world of sound but thus far have come up empty handed. Indie/experimental rock is starting to get a bit old hat and is edging its way into the giant abyss of “music that I used to listen to” which is dark and endlessly deep and often times recycled. My music taste kinda changes or for lack of a better term evolves/devolves every so often. Its about that point in time where I randomly download some album from the depths of the internet that smacks me in the face and makes me its beeyotch thus starting a chain of research endeavors which involves kinetic sound wave reproduction analysis (google searches, forum postings) pointing to similar sounding stuff. Ive tried listening to countless random albums and havent been hit yet. I think I may have reached a point where im over saturated with access to music and am just a null value of nothingness. Im sure it will come at some point every other progression point seems to come out of nowhere ill just sit back and wait until then.
