[NAC] AUDIophile! Stereo Options?

Kneale Brownson kneale at knitknacks.com
Thu Nov 4 07:27:04 PDT 2010


Glad to hear the cancer's gone, Bart.  Now you're part man, part 
machine, eh?

Unka Bart wrote:
> Brother, when you lick stage IV oropharyngeal cancer, you feel like  
> the Billion Dollar Man!
>
> And no need for the aux jack, the hearing aids have bluetooth.  Keep  
> my phone in my pocket (or the glovebox) and just listen to whatever -  
> music, phone call, whatever.
>
> heh heh, and the remote in my pocket allows me to shut off the input  
> without being obvious about it.
>
> Now that's a useful gizmo!
>
> Yer kindly ol' whatizface
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:20 PM, NIck Miller wrote:
>
>   
>> Wow,  bart, that hearing aid makes it sound like you'll be feeling  
>> like the million dollar man.  What's next, an aux jack to plug  
>> anything into your ear and play it back?  geez.
>>
>> Guess if you're going to lose hearing you lose it in style, no?
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2010 4:17 PM, "Unka Bart" <gatorojo at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Ben,
>>>
>>> On the subject of converting your library, you hit on one good idea,
>>> that is to hire a teenager to sit and feed the converter. And MP3 is
>>> not the only format you can convert to, there are many options
>>> regarding bit rate to satisfy the most fastidious ear. I'm an ex-
>>> artillery Paratrooper which cost me a good amount of hearing loss,
>>> and last year had several applications of a chemo called cisplatin
>>> which is well documented to cause hearing loss (and I took another
>>> big hit there too.)
>>>
>>> iPods are ridiculously inexpensive today, and what I said about once
>>> you try playing digital music is serious. You'll never want to fool
>>> with mechanical players again. I use a 5 year old mac laptop for
>>> that purpose only, they are readily available reasonably on the  
>>>       
>> used/
>>     
>>> reconditioned market and well worth the cost. Probably any PC laptop
>>> with a 2 ghz cpu would do the job too and they are also available
>>> dirt cheap.
>>>
>>> Bart
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