My favourite Lou Reed song at the moment.

NYC Man is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco

This time Tim Buckley’s singing a great Fred Neil song.

Dolphins is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco

…and here’s Tim Buckley’s version.

Song to the Siren – Tim Buckley is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco

One of my favourite songs from Tim Buckley and one of my two favourite renditions, the other one being by Tim Buckley himself. This is the “This Mortal Coil version” sung by Liz Fraser (better known as a Cocteau Twin).

Spotify will, of course, allow you to compare many versions of this song and you may have another favourite.

Song to the Siren – This Mortal Coil is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco

This is my favourite rendition of Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile”. I love the quirky playing of the Sun Ra Arkestra and June Tyson’s singing.

Smile is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco

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It’s getting better!

Extreme streaming for subscribers

Spotify bumps streaming to 320kbps is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco

Neil Young’s point of view was accepted by Steve Jobs.

An interesting article on quality of digital sound is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco

I’ve just discovered that qobuz is making their entire library available for streaming at 44.1khz 16 bit FLAC. In other words at full CD quality, since FLAC is a lossless format. Their “HiFi” subscription for this is a bit expensive at €29 per month. If you spend that much or more on CD’s per month though, it might well be worth it.

I’ve been testing the service over the last few days and it works ex-streamly (pun intended) well. This is a bit like Spotify on steroids for the serious music lover/audiophile. Hopefully, Spotify and others will follow suite. Then will it really make sense for iTunes to continue to sell their music at a compressed lossy format?

See also these comments on Computer Audiophile.

…and here at gearslutz.

qobuz does streaming at full CD quality! is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco

Stereo Times have just published a gushing review of the Burson HA160D combined DAC and Headphone amp. Once again Sound Galleries were ahead of the game. We’ve been featuring the full range of Burson equipment from Australia for almost a year now.

Amazing review of Burson DAC – Headphone amp is a post from: Sound Galleries Monaco