Posts Tagged ‘music’

Sooloos Music Server – A no-compromise solution for music

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Sooloos Music Server – A no-compromise solution for music

For all music buffs around the world sticking to latest audio gadgets, bit-compression rates have always been a tragedy. Even the first-rate sound systems accompanied by hi-tech peripherals fail to deliver, when its source is in not-so-attuned MP3 format. However, the Sooloos Music Server comes as a welcome surprise. Essentially, it is a no-compromise product that has been conceived by three great talents working with giant music libraries.

Highlighting a marvelous interface with FLAC (Free Audio Lossless Codec) – a compression algorithm the enables bit-by-bit accuracy to the source, the Sooloos offers a perfect solution to the quandary of compression. Moreover, the Sooloos also takes care of storage with a capacity of storage touching terabytes (TB) – just 1TB is can hold up music equivalent to 3,000 CDs – enough space to store the FLAC-produced files.

Sooloos is sleek system with a 17-inch touch-screen display, a stand-CD drive. The core system comprises of the source – digital-to-analog converters, analog output stage and the processor and storage with two hard drives including a mirror-image backup and primary drive.

Zimmers – The 3000 Year Old Music Band

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Zimmers – The 3000 Year Old Music BandThey are a British band with the oldest members in the world – Zimmers has the oldest singer Buster aged 100. The nomenclature is actually a derivation of Zimmer frame, which is a British name for a walking frame. Zimmers’ logo is believed to be a spoof of the Beatles’ logo carrying an image of the band walking across Abbey Road.

The band featured for the first time in a BBC television documentary, broadcasted on 28 May 2007, investigating on the feelings of isolation and confinement suffered by the country’s elderly people, as a part of BBC’s “Power to the People” series. Airing their grievances culminated in the group’s first single, “sticks it back to the society that has cast them aside”.

The band features Barry Foy with the drums at 69, the lead singer Alf Carretta is 90, Grace Cook at 83, Vera Welch at 80, Gillian (Deddie) Davies at 69, Jessie Thomason at 85 and others. With around 40 people in the band appearing on “My Generation” track and video, the total age of team adds up to 3,000 years. The Zimmers are all set to release their next single Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ in October.