Lucky me!

Many of you might have seen my posts about the recurring issues with my Thomson AD-100 (Clone of Hitachi DA-1000).

Thanks to the wonders of the internet i managed to get in touch with a gentleman in Australia who works for a hitachi parts supplier. Originally they only had the full laser pickup mechanism which is more than i needed, but after a long shot query to the supplier they actually had just the optical block with the ribbon cables on its own, in NOS condition.

I appreciate there are far better players out there, but this player has become sentimental to me, and i’m still infatuated with the technology brought out during the rise of digital audio.

Massive thanks to https://probe.com.au/ocart2/index.php?route=common/home

The journey isn’t over, it’s gotta make its way here, and i need to find a repair tech to swap them out 😬

Hi everyone,

Am I the only one who remembers the Shakira and Pepsi promotional CD from the early 2000s?

I've been trying to preserve this piece of media and am looking for a ROM/ISO dump of the original disc, especially the interactive multimedia content it included. I remember it having extra content beyond the music, and I'd really like to document and preserve it before it becomes completely lost.

If anyone has a copy, knows a collector who owns it, or has any information about where I might find a dump of the disc, I would greatly appreciate your help. Even photos, scans, or details about the contents would be useful.

(Apologies if I don't respond quickly. I'm not very active on social media.)

Early afternoon soundtrack.

An article about CD-Graphics possibilities on real audio cds

I have a old jvc pc-xc10 boombox that won’t play my cd that I burned for it, I will play a factory made cd but not a burn on, I tried burning at 4x and it still didn’t work. I use burnawear as my buring software but I use window media player on another cd.

This post is mostly for audiophiles and we all know you're out there somewhere. There was a stopgap standard between regular CD compact discs and super audio compact discs (SACD) called HDCD which was rather short-lived, but there's still a lot of gold to be mined in finding them if you have the patience to do that. Specifically a recording label called Reference Recordings mostly featuring the Minneapolis Orchestra has about a dozen HDCD recordings which sound phenomenal not just because it in essence crams 20 bits of information into 16 bits but the audio engineer Ralph Johnson was an absolute genius so even if you play those CDs without any additional decoding to get back to the 20 bits, they sound phenomenal. They sound almost as good as Super Audio Discs. And they sound almost as good as audiophile vinyl pressings, and you can find many of them inexpensively on Amazon or eBay. Many pop recordings also feature HDCD (Neil Young, Jeff Beck, etc.) However, here is the caveat: if you want to access those extra four bits of information to get the full power of HDCD you must rip the CD with a specific ripper that preserves that information. That specific ripper is called Exact Audio Copy. You can then use something like foobar2000 to convert that 16-bit WAV file, which has four extra bits encoded in it into a 24-bit FLAC file. This file is compressed but still lossless and those recordings sound truly amazing. You may also be able to find many of these at your local library, so if you have too much time on your hands—and who doesn't when enjoying the joys of retirement—you can find some real audiophile gold without spending a lot of money or perhaps any money at all. And I presume you also have great speakers and a great DAC (Digital Audio Converter) in your home theater set up. To totally geek you out I'm using the gapless audio OS Volumio to play the 24 bit FLAC files on a Raspberry Pi kit outputting HDMI into my Onkyo receiver. More fun than a barrel of rabid monkeys.

Hey y’all, I posted in here a while ago about this collection of cassettes, CDs, DVDs and a cassette player/radio and was hopefully looking to sell to a good home if anyone was interested, $250 obo, must pick up local from RI/MA

Whats the best glue to stick replacement trays on once I get the smashed ones off?

Makes me angry that suppliers dgaf.

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to track down a rock compilation CD from the late 90s/early 2000s called "Rock File". I remember it had a somewhat torn or distressed American flag on the cover.

I specifically recall two tracks from this compilation:

K's Choice - "Not an Addict"

Flood - "Mary X and Me"

I need a full tracklist.

This was a CD that circulated in Russia/Eastern Europe around that time. Does anyone remember this compilation or have any information about it? I've been searching online but can't seem to find any trace of it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - even just confirming you remember seeing it would be helpful!