Question: Does your Digital Music Library exist solely to support your portable, in-the-car/headphone listening needs, or, are you also streaming these digital audio files to your main system? If so, tell us how [...]]]> So many of us are using iPod’s or iPod-like devices, so we’ve got some, if not all of our CD’s ripped into our computers.

Question: Does your Digital Music Library exist solely to support your portable, in-the-car/headphone listening needs, or, are you also streaming these digital audio files to your main system? If so, tell us how you’re doing this…

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Angus Young, the hard stomping, riff ripping guitarist from AC/DC turns 56 today. Young was born in Scotland but moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia in 1963. Known for his stage presence, wearing shorts on stage and some of the most memorable rock licks ever recorded. I still have a copy [...]]]>  

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Angus Young, the hard stomping, riff ripping guitarist from AC/DC turns 56 today. Young was born in Scotland but moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia in 1963. Known for his stage presence, wearing shorts on stage and some of the most memorable rock licks ever recorded. I still have a copy of Back in Black on Vinyl sitting in my collection. Priceless.

Read a short 2010 interview with Angus

What’s your favorite AC/DC song?

Though it snowed again her in the Northeast it is spring and summer is not far behind. This means that summer music festivals have been announced. There is just something about listening to live music outside that stirs the soul, though there are a fair number of indoor festivals [...]]]>

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Though it snowed again her in the Northeast it is spring and summer is not far behind. This means that summer music festivals have been announced. There is just something about listening to live music outside that stirs the soul, though there are a fair number of indoor festivals as well. Here are some links to sites that list the 2011 summer music festival

schedules.

Metrowise Covers music festivals nationwide

About.com This article covers this summers classical music festivals

Music Festival Junkies Pretty decent list of festivals across the country

The Concert Sound, Indoors

Of course if you can’t get out you can always rent a concert Blu-ray of your favorite artist, pop it in and let Marantz take you away with breathtaking sound. Most Blu-ray concerts these days are recorded so well you’ll think your sitting in the audience, not in your living room. Do you have a favorite concert you’ve seen on disc?

Free Services Pandora and Slacker are Free programmable radio services. They let you choose an artist or set of artists [...]]]>

How often do you purchase CD’s and MP3′s? Many people especially younger folks have starting to get their music mostly from streaming sources like Pandora, Rhapsody, Slacker and Groveshark. Each of these services works a little differently.

Free Services
Pandora and Slacker are Free programmable radio services. They let you choose an artist or set of artists and then they build a station around it for you to listen to. You cannot choose specific songs but you’ll hear your favorite artists about 2-3 times an hour, the rest is artists like your favorite.

Subscription Services
Rhapsody is a subscription service that also has genre based stations, but Rhapsody lets you choose from a large catalog of music that you can listen to on-demand.

Hybrid
GroveShark is a hybrid, it lets you choose the songs you want to listen to on-demand for Free but has a much smaller catalog than Rhapsody. Grooveshark also has a subscription model that lets you listen on a mobile device and save play lists.

Are you still buying CD’s and MP3′s?
Will all this instant gratification drive down CD and MP3 sales? If you could pay the price of 6 to 15 CD’s to listen to whatever you wanted without any of the hassle of owning a product that has to be stored or backed up, would you?

Several Marantz products allow you to access 1000′s of Internet Radio stations and services like Rhapsody and Pandora. Check out the M-CR603, NA7004 ,and the SR7005

If you already own a Marantz component you’re already a winner in our book. You appreciate great sound when you hear it in music and movies. So no matter who won the Academy Award for best sound editing and best mixing you’ll hear every detail just as it was meant to be [...]]]>

Cover of Inception

If you already own a Marantz component you’re already a winner in our book. You appreciate great sound when you hear it in music and movies. So no matter who won the Academy Award for best sound editing and best mixing you’ll hear every detail just as it was meant to be heard through your Marantz AV Receiver or Component.

This year’s nominees have a good mix of Drama, SciFi and Action movies.

Which was your favorite sounding movie?

Sound Editing

• “Inception” Richard King (Actual Winner)
• “Toy Story 3” Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
• “Tron: Legacy” Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
• “True Grit” Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
• “Unstoppable” Mark P. Stoeckinger

Sound Mixing

• “Inception” Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick (Actual Winner)
• “The King’s Speech” Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
• “Salt” Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
• “The Social Network” Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten (Best Soundtrack)
• “True Grit” Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland