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Dummy is still my most played album in my library, this should be here tomorrow:

Haven’t been to YesAsia for a long long time, just went there to look up some 方大同 CDs, they now have a news / editorial / reviews section, pretty cool. They really need feeds for it though, otherwise I will almost never check it.
YesAsia.com: YumCha! - 娛樂產品專題及評論

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SFist: Touched by an Angela: La Rondine at SF Opera.:
Angela Gheorghiu, the diva, made her SF Opera debut on Wednesday evening, in Puccini’s La Rondine.
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Now, Angela has some redeeming qualities: one could excuse her for her behavior; being diva in the truest operatic sense of the word, that’s her job after all. Plus, she brings [...]

Found this on Noah’s Cool Stuff list, very cool…

Went to the AT&T Park for the free livecast of Samson and Delilah, pics didn’t turn out well, but I youtubed my favorite aria, “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix” (”My heart opens to your voice”):

Some info on the opera and the simulcast:

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By now I’m sure you’ve read about Amazon’s new service. Looks like they encode with variable bit rate at 256kbps average, not bad. Price is lower than iTMS too. (between 89 to 99 cents). They even have a Amazon MP3 Downloader for easy download. Pretty nice.

Check out the video of Janine Jansen talking about the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, I think I have 5 different recordings of it, and I’ve been to countless performances of this piece. The best was some Korean violinist in HK with a loaned Stradivarius, I think it was from the Royal School of Music. (I’ve also [...]

I was pretty excited following the live blogging this morning, somehow I thought there was a 160GB iPod Touch! Turned out the regular iPods just got bigger hard drives, the iPhones got stripped down to the iTouch, and the only thing truly unique is the new Nano. If the Nike+ kit works on the new [...]

I’ve always wanted a 100GB iPod for my lossless library, hmm… these guys are from Cedar Park, which is north of Austin like about 15 minutes from my house there… interesting… If I care enough for more capacity I can probably get the Toshiba MK1011GAH HDD somewhere else and do this myself, but the price [...]

I am very curious on the SQ on these cans, I think A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) uses GAVDP (General Audio/Video Distribution Profile), which could use several lossy codecs like SBC (subband codec), MPEG-1,2 Audio, MPEG-2, 4 AAC, and ATRAC (the evil Sony MiniDisc codec). So my lossless tracks will get compressed when streamed over [...]