"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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I've recently been enjoying two sources of music in particular. One is the
Proms using the 320k stream. The other is some new (to me) Jazz CDs. This
prompts me to raise various points to see what people think.

Firstly, I am now of the opinion that the best way to get Proms is via the
320k stream. To me this delivers better results in general than any
traditional broadcasting route I've used. Although it does sometimes
hiccup
here - as per one night last week. Both the sound quality and the sheer
effortless dynamic range available is impressive.

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Re. your first point Jim, have you heard the uncompressed OGG/FLAC
broadcasts from Ceský rozhlas D-Dur?
http://radio.cesnet.cz:8000/cro-d-dur.flac
I gather it's still experimental, but seems to have been going for a couple
of years.
I recently heard one of their own recordings of a Schubert Winterreise
performance by a couple of young Czechs that sounded amusingly life-like
on my Linkwitz Orion open baffle loudspeakers.

I'm using Foobar2000 on Windows to twiddle the bits, but I imagine mplayer
could be tweaked to play it in Linux.

A secondary advantage for me is that if I listen to classical music from a
source that broadcasts in a language I don't understand, I'm insulated from
the constant mediation of experience that Radio Three now indulges in. I
don't
feel my enjoyment of a piece of music is enhanced by being jollied along by
the announcer. OK, I'm a Grumpy Old Man.



Justin