Bit-perfect Monk at Carnegie - like I never heard it before

9/5/24

While listening to my bit-perfect Deadbeef installation, configured as described in a previous post, I played Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, which I'd heard through Clementine driving my Zen DAC V2, and hearing it through Deadbeef was like hearing it for the first time. If you get any CD-grade Monk recordings [1], this should be one of them.

Anyways, I listened to music for about four hours, from about 3-7, without any interruptions from software. When I had the "buffering" problem mentioned in the previous post, I rebooted the installation, and it still had the problem. So, I suspect that it was triggered by date and time window, perhaps stored in a file which would be scanned periodically. If it happens again, I'll try changing the timezone, or system time, to see if it helps. But ultimately fixing the problem would require identifying the malware and removing it.

Notes

[1] Consumers don't need high-res, according to High-Resolution Audio: Does it Sound Better?​ by Goldmund Acoustic Laboratory, which is famous for its extremely expensive gear and would sell a super-expensive high-res DAC if they thought high-res sounded better. Recording engineers need high-res to efficiently produce clean CD-grade recordings. Mark Waldrep PhD, a.k.a. Dr. Aix, an expert in recording, was once a proponent of high-res for consumers, but now claims that CD-grade is all they need.