I don't see why any unsigned band wouldn't be on CDBaby. If you have a CD, $35 is a good investment to start selling it online. Think of all the trouble you'd have to go through to sell it yourself : creating a e-commerce website, getting the ability to take credit cards, shipping each individual order, etc. CDBaby does all that for you. And if you want to sell each CD at cost, you can do that, just tell CDBaby you want the price to be your cost + $4. So really it is only a $40 investment.
I also spend more on my system than the average person. I'm a little different than you though where I go for pleasing instead of accurate. Actually my outlaw reciever is pretty neutral and accurate. But I prefer the sound of klipsch's horn tweeters. My highs start to roll off in my ears sooner than most people so I actually like the boosted highs that they give. Plus the characteristic of the sound mimics to me what the band would sound like in a concert venue, or a movie would sound like in a theater (two places where horns are also used often).
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In most places doing that would be illegal and might cost you considerable expense.
You sound better than most car guys.:) You treat your cars like I treat my audio/video gear. You are aware that there are things you can do to make improvements but can't be swayed simply by seat of the pants (or in my case golden ear) judgements.
The problem is, most people never take there car to the dyno. They read article that says part x adds 20 HP to car y. They assume it also adds 20 HP to their car. It's the same thing with audio equipment. A lot of guys with more money than brains, and a lot of salesmen who exploit that.
Here's an example I was looking at buying a 5 disc marantz cd changer. I went to the store and described my system to the salesmen. He happened to have one hooked up to a system of equivalent quality. I listened and was impressed with the way it sounded. He then said I should hear a higher model single disc CD player. He happened to have another of the 5 disc and the single disc hooked up to another system. This system was compossed of parasound amps and preamps and magnaplaner speakers. I could detect a slight difference between the players on that system (it was a blind test, but not double blind). I then asked if he could hook the higher model CD player up to the cheaper system so I could audition it there and he refused. This lead me to believe I probably wouldn't be able to hear those same small differences there.
And this is the problem with most people in almost small hobbies they don't approach it from the right angle. It maybe that that cold air intake acutally gives 5% performance and the dyno in the add was on a civic with 400 horsepower. So that car 20 extra horsepower, but your stock civic will be lucky to get 5. Or that new amp that you buy maybe able to provide 200 watts per channel of clean power, but if my speakers are 100 db/w at 1 metter efficient do I need that extra power?
Apparently you haven't heard the claims of a cold air intake adding a magic 20 HP to your car.:) The car guys are just as bad at buying products which may not yield a signifigant amount of perfomance for a whole lot of money. That cold air intake may add alot of power to a highly tuned race car, but to a stock civic you'd be lucky to notice a difference.
They're no different from videophiles, computer nerds, or car guys. They have a hobby they enjoy and are willing to throw lots of money at it. I enjoy good audio quite a bit myself, and although I don't consider myself an audiophile I do care about my gear. The difference between me and them however is that I'm not going for neutral sound/perfect audio reproduction (that's why I bought klipsch reference speakers, gotta love the horns).
I think audiophiles get a bad rap because the ears are such bad instruments to do measurements with. Not many people will argue that the $5000 pioneer elite RPTV looks better than than the $1500 RCA TV. Looking at them side by side makes it easy. And it's easy to tell when someone is using a cheap S-video cable versus a nice shielded one. But when comparing a high quality audio component to a cheap one, alot of people can't hear the difference. I find it hard to believe that electronics make a huge difference in video but none at all in audio.
I would disagree that cables make no difference. Cables can make a huge difference in the sound of your system. Of course the point of diminishing returns is reached pretty quickly. 12g or 16g oxygen free copper speaker wire will sound better than lamp cord most likely and will probably not degrade as quickly over time. Now is the improvement even 10%? Most likely not, but I can hear the difference. Just like I can tell the difference between the RCA's that come with a system and a decent pair of Acoustic Research RCA's. Now beyond that I feel that the point of diminishing returns is reached so quickly it's not worth my money to upgrade any further. paying 100's or 1000's more for a.1% better sound is just not worth it (if it is even better). I also have a feeling (although I have never been able to prove it, but if some one were to loan me the money to buy some expensive cables I could) that the super high end audio cables are not passive components. They most likely are designed not to be neutral and color the sound in a certain way, hence people preffering the sound of one cable to another.
What if some kid doesn't have the $8 at the show to purchase the CD? What if he wants to turn on a friend to the band? I didn't say that the postcard only had URL's to download the songs, you could also have the CDBaby website to buy the whole CD. You're just giving people options. I don't see how the $40 is a huge investment.
Take this scenerio you have your CD on CDbaby for $9.95 and iTunes also for $9.95. If someone downloads it, apple takes a 35% cut and then CDBaby takes their 9%, leaving you with $5.89. If they actually purchase the CD from the website CDbaby takes a $4 cut leaving you with $5.95. Not a huge difference. Then take in the fact that you actually have to pay to master every single physical CD that is sold on the website, and at production runs of 1000 or less that's at least $1 per disc. In that scenerio selling the MP3's actually earns you more cash then selling the music from the website.
Now I realize selling the albums from your show earns you the most profit (which is also why I buy CD's at shows whenever I have the oppertunity). But there are reasons you want your music avaliable in other locations. Lets say I see a great show. I buy the disc and start playing it for my friends. They love it. Now if they only have physical CD's and the only place to get them is at their shows, my friends are just out of luck or are going to have to copy my disc. But if the band has their disc on CDBaby they can go download it or a few songs or buy the whole physical media. I can't be undercutting myself, because those customers wouldn't have bought anything if I hadn't had those options available.
The other problem is that people are looking at this in purely a money fashion. This is about more than the money. Being a closet musician myself, I know that at the level most of these guys are at there is no chance of them turning a large profit on this kind of thing. What you're really trying to do is get as many people as possible just to hear your music. That's the only way you're going to get enough following to actually get big enough to make money. Having your music in a lot of different places makes getting heard easier. Especially when all those places also provide free previews.
This doesn't stop them from selling cd's at their shows. They can still record and duplicate their cd's themselves. But they can also have postcards at the shows with their logo and a list of URL's where you can purchase their stuff online. If you've already shouldered the cost of recording and mastering a CD to sell, the $40 is a drop in the bucket and surely couldn't hurt.
But remember that the economies of scale have come into play. They've already fronted the costs of aquiring the infastructure (somewhere to house them, management, backup systems, power, cooling, etc). Adding a couple of terrabytes of storage won't increase the costs all that much.
If you shop at a health food store you can find soda's that are sweetened with 100% cane sugar or beet sugar. If you live in texas you can usually find cane sugar dr. pepper if you know where to look. If you must have soda, I'd suggest one of those.
But aspartame (nutra-sweet) is dangerous to a lot of people causing sever neurological effects. It gives me severe head-aches and causes my mother to loose conciousness. If it effects some people like that, I can't imagine it's too good for anyone. If you have to stick to a diet drink I'd suggest picking one sweetened with splenda.
I'd cut out the milk. There's really no reason to drink it. Other than the vitamen D, there isn't too much of a health value (brocolli is a better source of calcium) and if it's not skim milk it's way too high in saturated fat.
I used to live in dallas, and if the beggars bother you there, trust me when i say you never want to move to the west coast wonderland as you put it. Depending on what kind of place you want to live in, there are lots of great places near downtown to live. You could combine your bike with the dart train and get to most anywhere. I personally was partial to the lofts in deep ellum and the west end when I was single. But the addition of a live in GF caused that to be a problem. I suggest looking at houses around lower greenville or in oak cliff (don't let the bad rep scare you, there are some really great areas, and now is the time to move in). If you're still to far away, bike to a park and ride and take the train. You don't have to bike every day, but there are plenty of nice days almost year round where you could do it.
But bread, pasta, and sugar aren't necessairly bad for you. It's the kind of bread, pasta, and sugar that most of eat. Whole grain breads, small portions of al dente pasta, waxy potatoes, carrots, fresh fruit all contain good carbs. White bread, refined white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, etc, shouldn't be eaten by anyone... The trick is to just eat a good diet, everything in moderation.
1) I do not want to drive to a store and browse their horrific layout, surrounded with Nelly-wanna-be's and teeny-boppers.
A lot of people like going to music stores to browse. If you're picking the ones with Nelly-wanna-be's and teeny-boppers you obviously aren't shopping in the right place. I don't like grocery shopping with trailer trash, so I stay away from buy for less. That doesn't mean I don't go to a store to buy groceries. I really enjoy going to the music store, browsing through the cd's talking to the other people there, looking at the used cd's, seeing the concert calender, listening to what they're playing in store (perhaps not even released yet).
2) I do not want to obtain an OBSOLETE medium for my music. CD's are out. Why should I be restricted to one artist, one albumn, per medium? CD = 8-track-tape in my mind. I want all my music in one place (think iPod).
Did i miss the memo on CD obsolesence? The next gen formats are also on 5" discs (DVD, DVDA, SACD) which also play CD's. Most every car and home I've been to in the last 3 or 4 years has a device to play shiny little discs. Few if any have a way to play songs of a memory card. Best case scenerio is I could hook my MP3 player up through RCA cables. Nothing about a CD limits you from keeping all your music in one place. Simply rip everything you buy and use the CD's as nice convient backups. Plus if ever a better compression format comes about, you still have high quality masters to rip from.
3) I do not want to pay $16-$20 when all I want is one song from the Artist I would be willing to buy (yeah, that's what CD's go for around here. Here = New York City/Long Island). And many times the one song I want is not the "single" which is released at close to $8 regardless!
First, I live in one major metropolitan area (Seattle) and have lived in another (Dallas), and I can assure you that if you're paying $16-$20 for a CD you have no idea where or how to shop. First of all stay away from Borders, Virgin, Barnes and Noble, Tower, etc. They charge MSRP on everything. The exception being new releases which are usually
4) I do not want to be unable to backup my music. New CD's are starting to disallow reading in a computers CD drive. Pathetic.
So far this has only been a handful of CD's. Use your pocket book to vote, simply don't buy them. I assure you that if the label is going to put that kind of restriction on the CD, any download will be so encumbered with DRM you wouldn't want it anyway.
5) I do not want to listen to one artist at a time! I only listen to my music via the playlists I have made. "Party Mix", "Smooth Mix", "Drunk Mix", "Stoned Mix", "Desert Combat Mod v0.38 Mix", etc.
What about a CD makes this impossible? If all your songs are ripped to your computer you can set up massive playlists. Even if they aren't you can still set up a mix cd by using the actual disc. But I must say that if you're only listening to mixes, you are trully missing out. I couldn't imagine listening to Portishead NYC: Live at the Roseland, Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, or The Flaming Lips Yoshimii Battles the Pink Robots without wanting to hear the whole album.
Firewire might be able to pass it (although 270 megabit for uncompressed video seems low, but I'm too lazy to do the math) but what do you have that can record at 270 megabit? You need quite a computer to keep up with that.
I personally perfer the acoustic research cables. Not quite as pricey as monster, but of similar quality. Anyone who says cables don't matter does not know what he is talking about. I will concede that you quickly reach a point of diminishing returns with cables, but cheap RCA and s-video cables are well below that point.
Very untrue. DVI is uncompressed video. Do you realize what bit rate uncompressed video is flowing at? As far as I know, there aren't really a whole lot of things out there that can record that kind of digital stream at DVD resolutions, not to mention HDTV resolutions. That's why the MPAA loves DVI.
i beg to differ. I've actually played with ultra sonic speakers. You take two ultrasonic devices and play them at frequencies that are opposed by the amount of the signal you want to hear. Then you allow them to cancel eachother out. You're left with the difference.
This only applies to really big name artists on major labels. Or huge independent artists (pearl jam and the like). Most smaller artists loose money when touring, or break even.
PacBell became cingular and I do believe they still have SIM cards in their wireless phones. Just like with T-mobile you can open your phone, take out the card and pop it into another compatible phone and all your settings will transfer. The difference between hear and europe is that all the companies use slightly incompatible phones.
It does exist on your POTS line. The caveat is though, if you move from one area code to another they usually won't let you keep your number. And since you are moving across dallas you probably swapped area codes. If you didn't, bitch and moan and they'll let you keep your number. You have a LNP charge on your phone bill, if they won't let you keep your number make them take it off.
well, i'm moving into a new place soon (august 1st)... probably not before then. I'm going to use MDF, which is easy to work with. Plus the Home Depot will make some (most) of the cuts for me. After that it's just wood glue, screws, and a few brackets.
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I don't see why any unsigned band wouldn't be on CDBaby. If you have a CD, $35 is a good investment to start selling it online. Think of all the trouble you'd have to go through to sell it yourself : creating a e-commerce website, getting the ability to take credit cards, shipping each individual order, etc. CDBaby does all that for you. And if you want to sell each CD at cost, you can do that, just tell CDBaby you want the price to be your cost + $4. So really it is only a $40 investment.
I also spend more on my system than the average person. I'm a little different than you though where I go for pleasing instead of accurate. Actually my outlaw reciever is pretty neutral and accurate. But I prefer the sound of klipsch's horn tweeters. My highs start to roll off in my ears sooner than most people so I actually like the boosted highs that they give. Plus the characteristic of the sound mimics to me what the band would sound like in a concert venue, or a movie would sound like in a theater (two places where horns are also used often).
In most places doing that would be illegal and might cost you considerable expense.
You sound better than most car guys. :) You treat your cars like I treat my audio/video gear. You are aware that there are things you can do to make improvements but can't be swayed simply by seat of the pants (or in my case golden ear) judgements.
The problem is, most people never take there car to the dyno. They read article that says part x adds 20 HP to car y. They assume it also adds 20 HP to their car. It's the same thing with audio equipment. A lot of guys with more money than brains, and a lot of salesmen who exploit that.
Here's an example I was looking at buying a 5 disc marantz cd changer. I went to the store and described my system to the salesmen. He happened to have one hooked up to a system of equivalent quality. I listened and was impressed with the way it sounded. He then said I should hear a higher model single disc CD player. He happened to have another of the 5 disc and the single disc hooked up to another system. This system was compossed of parasound amps and preamps and magnaplaner speakers. I could detect a slight difference between the players on that system (it was a blind test, but not double blind). I then asked if he could hook the higher model CD player up to the cheaper system so I could audition it there and he refused. This lead me to believe I probably wouldn't be able to hear those same small differences there.
And this is the problem with most people in almost small hobbies they don't approach it from the right angle. It maybe that that cold air intake acutally gives 5% performance and the dyno in the add was on a civic with 400 horsepower. So that car 20 extra horsepower, but your stock civic will be lucky to get 5. Or that new amp that you buy maybe able to provide 200 watts per channel of clean power, but if my speakers are 100 db/w at 1 metter efficient do I need that extra power?
Apparently you haven't heard the claims of a cold air intake adding a magic 20 HP to your car. :) The car guys are just as bad at buying products which may not yield a signifigant amount of perfomance for a whole lot of money. That cold air intake may add alot of power to a highly tuned race car, but to a stock civic you'd be lucky to notice a difference.
They're no different from videophiles, computer nerds, or car guys. They have a hobby they enjoy and are willing to throw lots of money at it. I enjoy good audio quite a bit myself, and although I don't consider myself an audiophile I do care about my gear. The difference between me and them however is that I'm not going for neutral sound/perfect audio reproduction (that's why I bought klipsch reference speakers, gotta love the horns).
I think audiophiles get a bad rap because the ears are such bad instruments to do measurements with. Not many people will argue that the $5000 pioneer elite RPTV looks better than than the $1500 RCA TV. Looking at them side by side makes it easy. And it's easy to tell when someone is using a cheap S-video cable versus a nice shielded one. But when comparing a high quality audio component to a cheap one, alot of people can't hear the difference. I find it hard to believe that electronics make a huge difference in video but none at all in audio.
I would disagree that cables make no difference. Cables can make a huge difference in the sound of your system. Of course the point of diminishing returns is reached pretty quickly. 12g or 16g oxygen free copper speaker wire will sound better than lamp cord most likely and will probably not degrade as quickly over time. Now is the improvement even 10%? Most likely not, but I can hear the difference. Just like I can tell the difference between the RCA's that come with a system and a decent pair of Acoustic Research RCA's. Now beyond that I feel that the point of diminishing returns is reached so quickly it's not worth my money to upgrade any further. paying 100's or 1000's more for a .1% better sound is just not worth it (if it is even better). I also have a feeling (although I have never been able to prove it, but if some one were to loan me the money to buy some expensive cables I could) that the super high end audio cables are not passive components. They most likely are designed not to be neutral and color the sound in a certain way, hence people preffering the sound of one cable to another.
What if some kid doesn't have the $8 at the show to purchase the CD? What if he wants to turn on a friend to the band? I didn't say that the postcard only had URL's to download the songs, you could also have the CDBaby website to buy the whole CD. You're just giving people options. I don't see how the $40 is a huge investment.
Take this scenerio you have your CD on CDbaby for $9.95 and iTunes also for $9.95. If someone downloads it, apple takes a 35% cut and then CDBaby takes their 9%, leaving you with $5.89. If they actually purchase the CD from the website CDbaby takes a $4 cut leaving you with $5.95. Not a huge difference. Then take in the fact that you actually have to pay to master every single physical CD that is sold on the website, and at production runs of 1000 or less that's at least $1 per disc. In that scenerio selling the MP3's actually earns you more cash then selling the music from the website.
Now I realize selling the albums from your show earns you the most profit (which is also why I buy CD's at shows whenever I have the oppertunity). But there are reasons you want your music avaliable in other locations. Lets say I see a great show. I buy the disc and start playing it for my friends. They love it. Now if they only have physical CD's and the only place to get them is at their shows, my friends are just out of luck or are going to have to copy my disc. But if the band has their disc on CDBaby they can go download it or a few songs or buy the whole physical media. I can't be undercutting myself, because those customers wouldn't have bought anything if I hadn't had those options available.
The other problem is that people are looking at this in purely a money fashion. This is about more than the money. Being a closet musician myself, I know that at the level most of these guys are at there is no chance of them turning a large profit on this kind of thing. What you're really trying to do is get as many people as possible just to hear your music. That's the only way you're going to get enough following to actually get big enough to make money. Having your music in a lot of different places makes getting heard easier. Especially when all those places also provide free previews.
This doesn't stop them from selling cd's at their shows. They can still record and duplicate their cd's themselves. But they can also have postcards at the shows with their logo and a list of URL's where you can purchase their stuff online. If you've already shouldered the cost of recording and mastering a CD to sell, the $40 is a drop in the bucket and surely couldn't hurt.
But remember that the economies of scale have come into play. They've already fronted the costs of aquiring the infastructure (somewhere to house them, management, backup systems, power, cooling, etc). Adding a couple of terrabytes of storage won't increase the costs all that much.
If you shop at a health food store you can find soda's that are sweetened with 100% cane sugar or beet sugar. If you live in texas you can usually find cane sugar dr. pepper if you know where to look. If you must have soda, I'd suggest one of those.
But aspartame (nutra-sweet) is dangerous to a lot of people causing sever neurological effects. It gives me severe head-aches and causes my mother to loose conciousness. If it effects some people like that, I can't imagine it's too good for anyone. If you have to stick to a diet drink I'd suggest picking one sweetened with splenda.
I'd cut out the milk. There's really no reason to drink it. Other than the vitamen D, there isn't too much of a health value (brocolli is a better source of calcium) and if it's not skim milk it's way too high in saturated fat.
I used to live in dallas, and if the beggars bother you there, trust me when i say you never want to move to the west coast wonderland as you put it. Depending on what kind of place you want to live in, there are lots of great places near downtown to live. You could combine your bike with the dart train and get to most anywhere. I personally was partial to the lofts in deep ellum and the west end when I was single. But the addition of a live in GF caused that to be a problem. I suggest looking at houses around lower greenville or in oak cliff (don't let the bad rep scare you, there are some really great areas, and now is the time to move in). If you're still to far away, bike to a park and ride and take the train. You don't have to bike every day, but there are plenty of nice days almost year round where you could do it.
But bread, pasta, and sugar aren't necessairly bad for you. It's the kind of bread, pasta, and sugar that most of eat. Whole grain breads, small portions of al dente pasta, waxy potatoes, carrots, fresh fruit all contain good carbs. White bread, refined white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, etc, shouldn't be eaten by anyone... The trick is to just eat a good diet, everything in moderation.
1) I do not want to drive to a store and browse their horrific layout, surrounded with Nelly-wanna-be's and teeny-boppers.
A lot of people like going to music stores to browse. If you're picking the ones with Nelly-wanna-be's and teeny-boppers you obviously aren't shopping in the right place. I don't like grocery shopping with trailer trash, so I stay away from buy for less. That doesn't mean I don't go to a store to buy groceries. I really enjoy going to the music store, browsing through the cd's talking to the other people there, looking at the used cd's, seeing the concert calender, listening to what they're playing in store (perhaps not even released yet).
2) I do not want to obtain an OBSOLETE medium for my music. CD's are out. Why should I be restricted to one artist, one albumn, per medium? CD = 8-track-tape in my mind. I want all my music in one place (think iPod). Did i miss the memo on CD obsolesence? The next gen formats are also on 5" discs (DVD, DVDA, SACD) which also play CD's. Most every car and home I've been to in the last 3 or 4 years has a device to play shiny little discs. Few if any have a way to play songs of a memory card. Best case scenerio is I could hook my MP3 player up through RCA cables. Nothing about a CD limits you from keeping all your music in one place. Simply rip everything you buy and use the CD's as nice convient backups. Plus if ever a better compression format comes about, you still have high quality masters to rip from. 3) I do not want to pay $16-$20 when all I want is one song from the Artist I would be willing to buy (yeah, that's what CD's go for around here. Here = New York City/Long Island). And many times the one song I want is not the "single" which is released at close to $8 regardless!
First, I live in one major metropolitan area (Seattle) and have lived in another (Dallas), and I can assure you that if you're paying $16-$20 for a CD you have no idea where or how to shop. First of all stay away from Borders, Virgin, Barnes and Noble, Tower, etc. They charge MSRP on everything. The exception being new releases which are usually
4) I do not want to be unable to backup my music. New CD's are starting to disallow reading in a computers CD drive. Pathetic.
So far this has only been a handful of CD's. Use your pocket book to vote, simply don't buy them. I assure you that if the label is going to put that kind of restriction on the CD, any download will be so encumbered with DRM you wouldn't want it anyway.
5) I do not want to listen to one artist at a time! I only listen to my music via the playlists I have made. "Party Mix", "Smooth Mix", "Drunk Mix", "Stoned Mix", "Desert Combat Mod v0.38 Mix", etc.
What about a CD makes this impossible? If all your songs are ripped to your computer you can set up massive playlists. Even if they aren't you can still set up a mix cd by using the actual disc. But I must say that if you're only listening to mixes, you are trully missing out. I couldn't imagine listening to Portishead NYC: Live at the Roseland, Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, or The Flaming Lips Yoshimii Battles the Pink Robots without wanting to hear the whole album.
Firewire might be able to pass it (although 270 megabit for uncompressed video seems low, but I'm too lazy to do the math) but what do you have that can record at 270 megabit? You need quite a computer to keep up with that.
I personally perfer the acoustic research cables. Not quite as pricey as monster, but of similar quality. Anyone who says cables don't matter does not know what he is talking about. I will concede that you quickly reach a point of diminishing returns with cables, but cheap RCA and s-video cables are well below that point.
Very untrue. DVI is uncompressed video. Do you realize what bit rate uncompressed video is flowing at? As far as I know, there aren't really a whole lot of things out there that can record that kind of digital stream at DVD resolutions, not to mention HDTV resolutions. That's why the MPAA loves DVI.
i beg to differ. I've actually played with ultra sonic speakers. You take two ultrasonic devices and play them at frequencies that are opposed by the amount of the signal you want to hear. Then you allow them to cancel eachother out. You're left with the difference.
This only applies to really big name artists on major labels. Or huge independent artists (pearl jam and the like). Most smaller artists loose money when touring, or break even.
PacBell became cingular and I do believe they still have SIM cards in their wireless phones. Just like with T-mobile you can open your phone, take out the card and pop it into another compatible phone and all your settings will transfer. The difference between hear and europe is that all the companies use slightly incompatible phones.
PCS isn't a competing system. It's just what Sprint calls their CDMA system.
It does exist on your POTS line. The caveat is though, if you move from one area code to another they usually won't let you keep your number. And since you are moving across dallas you probably swapped area codes. If you didn't, bitch and moan and they'll let you keep your number. You have a LNP charge on your phone bill, if they won't let you keep your number make them take it off.
well, i'm moving into a new place soon (august 1st)... probably not before then. I'm going to use MDF, which is easy to work with. Plus the Home Depot will make some (most) of the cuts for me. After that it's just wood glue, screws, and a few brackets.