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Bought a Fiio DM13 CD player. Basically a modern Discman, powerful enough to drive my headphones at least. Been wanting this to help me rediscover my CD collection rather than letting it sit there and rot.

I have not managed to disconnect totally from the internet but over the last few years I have made a big effort to put my fucking phone down. I found as it slowly became able to do everything, I was using it for everything: calls, messaging, obviously, music, movies, internet, reading, photography, games, everything! The problem is though, that while phones can do everything, they don't do these things well. We have basically sacrificed quality for convenience. So over the last few years I have tried to remove my phone from everyday things. I still use it for calls, messaging and photos but I replaced it with multiple devices for the other things. Music - got a Sony Walkman - will never go back to listening to music on my phone Movies - bought a larger tablet - will never go back to watching movies and the smallest possible screen Games - I got one of those Gameboy looking things that can play all the old retro games. 1000s of games available in them and so many awesome ones. Reading - this one took a while but I finally last year got an ebook reader the same size as a phone from viwoods. Having something that I can keep in my pocket has been a game changer. In idle moments I don't just go for my phone now, I take this out and read a little bit. It's made a huge difference to my reading and I am now reading around a book a week. The problem with getting the quality back though, is that need for more quality. I have been sucked in to the audiophile community and I am seriously thinking of getting a new pair of headphones go maximise my in house movie and music enjoyment, the only issue is they cost $3500 I likely won't by them, but the fact that I am considering buying them when I already have a $1000 pair of headphones and and $1600 pair of IEMs is worrying. If I buy them, my wife can never know.

My dad gave me a list of his favourite books so I have decided to make my way through it. First I read was Louise Penny - Still Life Loved it, cozy murder mystery set in Canada. Nothing exceptional but it flowed really well and kept me turning the pages. Donna Tartt - The Secret History It was on my to read list anyway so I gave it a shot, disappointed. It was just rich posh kids being everything you hate about rich posh kids. I can see why people like it but it was slow, nothing really interesting happened and I didn't like any of the characters.

Spiderman - Brand New Day I like ehow Marvel manages to blend action, comedy and an emotional hook very well in most of their movies. Might not be a classic but I enjoyed it very much.

Recently went home to visit family and I got the very common question "What music are you into these days?" Just the same music I've been into for 30 years. Goa is classic and just never seems to get old.

Not received it yet, but I have ordered this - a remake of one of the most fantastic mixes I have every heard. Only on the CD version does it come with an extra dub mix that I can't wait for (but will have to wait another month or more) I have not bought a CD in a long time, not even listened to one as I always listen on my Walkman, so in preparation for this I bought a new CD I can directly plug my headphones into, kind of like the Discman from the distant past, but awesome.

That's amazing. Thank you

The last CD I received before I exclusively started listening to music from a DAP or my phone. I am trying to reconnect with my collection, I have so much that isn't ripped (including this) that I haven't listened to in a long time

New Atmos??? Need to keep an eye out for this release

The Raja Rambles....nice :wow: Would love to listen to that

In the opposite to the above post, as the weather is getting hotter, over-ear headphones are sweaty and uncomfortable, however I have gotten used to the huge soundstage and amazing bass and sound of the Sony MDR-Z7M2 and really wanted this in a smaller IEM form. I bought the Sennheiser IE900s and wow, they are really good. The most open, headphone experience I have ever heard from an IEM, Please check them out of possible (BEWARE OF FAKES(

I started my prog trip with this today Currently on Tegma - Around the World in 80 Minutes

Just finished The Works of Vermin and it was one of the best books I read this year. Weird, intentionally confusing and had really good world building. When things started coming together it really gave that "ah ha!" moment.

Prodigy are what got more into Electronic music in the first place. Hearing the Prodigy Experience when I was young was mind-blowing, then Jilted as a follow up...wow!!! Still love these 2 albums. Neektone on Bandcamp remixed both the Experience and Jilted as D&B - just missing Voodoo People and No Good Start the Dance but they're excellent remix albums, he keeps the core of what makes the track special but changes it into a totally different style. I have heard so many remixes that are either unrecognizable or too similar but he does a great balancing act.

Elysium doesn't have any decent original tracks? That's an odd opinion, sounds like someone has never heard Dance for the Celestial Beings

Phobium - The inescapable contract

It was hidden but I cannot see why so I unhid it

The freestyle mix Listened to the full FFR Freestyle collection today. Really wish they had made more

Are you going to try and get your title back?

Connect.Ohmn - 9980 I think it's 100% human I love it, it's great, but would it be less great if it turned out to be AI generated?

Dakini released some music made by Suno AI https://makyo.bandcamp.com/track/mixtape-2-dreampop-makyo I think it was made by AI then Makyo edited it to be less shit, but still the result is pretty good. The AI version of Siren is the ONLY version I have ever heard that seems to understand the intonation needed in the line "did I dream you dreamed about me?" I know there is a lot of discussion about whether AI should be allowed in the arts at the moment, personally I feel like if they can make stuff I like, then it'd great. I didn't care if the art I like is by Joe Human man, a monkey, or an AI bot, if I like it, I like it. But then I have never been a pop fan, I have never understood why people get so obsessed with the artist over their art/music etc.

Because I'm feeling nostalgic. I have reach midlife crisis age, but I have no money to do something radical, so I am just awash with memories of when I was younger, fitter, felt better and was surrounded by young beautiful people all the time. Now I am older and fatter and relentlessly tired, somehow still surrounded by young beautiful people all the time, but I am no longer one of them 😔

This thread is nostalgia 😂 This whole site is nostalgic for me. Like an old sweater.

I heard 2 different things from artists way back in the MP3 days, some were dead against it, thought of it as stealing their work, others wanted the exposure, said it raised their profile and got them booked for more gigs which was where the real money was. I think it's a lot easier now as people in the second camp will often have their music on site like bandcamp for free, and those in the first will be selling downloads for the same price as a CD and you also have everything in between. I was never one for torrenting or illegally downloading music, not through any particular moral reason, I am as shitty as the next person, but I never felt invested enough to really give anything the time it needed so anything I downloaded I would listen to once, or not at all, and never again.

Randomly some NIN Nine Inch Nails - Who wants to live forever Please hold on to me, all of us are here to die...