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Michael Jackson Releases Uncopyable CD
Derek Jeter writes "NTK.net is reporting in their weekly newsletter that another copy restricted CD has surfaced, this time Michael Jackson's newest single, "Rock Your World". "When loaded into the CD drive, the disc spun continuously as though the drive was trying to access the TOC of a blank or corrupted CDR." Ughh, Doesn't this violoate the Red Book Standard?" I wonder how long before MP3s of this song exist despite the copy protection. So far its just free promotional copies of the single. I tell ya I'm gonna be pissed the first time I buy a CD and discover I can't listen to it in my computer.
These guys just don't get it. All it takes is one audiophile with a decent sound system, a couple RCA cables, and an MP3 encoder. Sure it'll be an D-A-D job and you'll lose a bit of fidelity on the initial copy, but once that's done, it'll be perfectly preserved, copy after copy after copy after copy.
Copy-protected music just doesn't work, because until we all start carrying around implants in our heads, the data *must* be converted to analog sound, and when that happens, the copy protection convieniently goes away.
Do you know how many radio stations actually *play* CD's anymore? At Every Radio Station I've worked at, CD's come in, get dumped into a computer, and you play the CD's from there. Most record companies know this, and some even offer us our files music already encoded on CD-ROM.
IMHO, if the record companies did this to the radio stations, they would shoot themselves in the foot big time.
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If you follow that link from above, you can actually download all corresponding mp3 and WAV files of the original not-legally-available-anymore "plunderphonics" album. It's still one of the best examples of making "original" music using a sampler ever recorded.
Stand out tracks include Oswald's Metallica remix "Net" and Beatles remix "Birth". Also don't miss the James Brown remix "Brown". ~jeff
>gold can conduct electricity better than copper.
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That is wrong. Gold conducts worse than copper. No matter what any idiot at Circuit City tells you, you cannot defeat physics. The only metal I know of that actually does conduct better than copper is silver.
If you want the _most_ ultimate cable, it will be made of silver. Too bad most audiophiles think $100 OFC cables are better, because they're wrong. Of course, because they are uninformed of the conductivity of metals, and because the people selling the cables are also mis-informed, you don't see Silver cables too often.
Anyways, the connectors are gold plated because gold doesn't corrode. They actually cause more sound degradation than you would get if you soldered some coax straight to the audio connectors on the device.
If the connectors are pure gold, you have a very crappy cable indeed.
>Quality ground braids are essential near a computer.
Yup. So make your own cable. You want the best?
Buy some bulk RG-6 satellilte TV cable. Get some RCA plugs (I suggest gold plated because you don't want corrosion!). Solder. The 75 Ohm impedance of RG-6 cable is perfectly compatible with audio cable.
Now you have the very best audio cable ever made.
Total cost: $0.20/ft for the cable, $6 total for the four connectors.
BTW: I use $2 el-cheapo cables because I don't have them near the computer, and because a 20 khz signal doesn't warrant anything better. YMMV.
Oh, and I use unsheilded cable for my computer's audio out (it's digital SPDIF out so it either works, works intermittently, or doesn't work at all. It sounds fine, but cuts out for a moment whenever the furnace turns on. Damn thing virtually outputs a mini EMP,).
I do, however, use RG-6 cable for the TV. When you start getting into Mhz, you must have better cable.
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