Shane_B.

To me, the difference is they didn't hide it so to speak. Nobody with strings in their song sat there and did it themselves. But the difference between the two groups is, one had professional studio musicians do most of the work, the other did it themselves and were closely involved in the process from start to finish. And there's no right or wrong in regard to doing that. But more of my respect goes to The Beatles for the group hands on. At least at the beginning. As technology improved over their careers, then they changed. And eventually went back to the early days. The other thing for me that really turns me off about The Beach Boys is their involvement with certain people. I've read that one psyco inparticular actually co-wrote some of their hits but never received credit. Hard to say if that's true but there's no denying their involvement with him. And as I sit here typing this Please Please Me comes on and all I hear is the 4 of them. Messed up lyrics and all ... 🙂 listen close around 1:25. 🙂 You can hear the frustration in Lennon's voice when he does the first "Come on" after the mess up. 🙂

Thanks to my Columbia House membership way back in the day, I inadvertently ended up with dozens of 1st release CD's before the loudness wars. I'm probably sitting on a small fortune of CD's to the right buyer. I have the original CD release of Brothers In Arms among many others. I haven't touched my DAW (for music) in several years. Seems I remember that whole lufs -14 (or whatever it was) is a nice sweet spot to shoot for. What we consider proper was actually mastered for vinyl for various reasons. From the RIAA curve, to the turntable, to the pre-amp, and then the main stereo amp, it all seemed to be calibrated for a very particular level. Now there are no limitations of a mechanical form, so I can see how this ball started rolling. Plus, how much dynamic range is there really when you have two tiny speakers rammed an 1/8 inch from your eardrum like most do nowadays.

They just raised it 19% here in NJ. Kicks in at the end of the month. As for masters, I hope it's the start of a new trend too. These days I listen to music I don't even particularly like just for the quality of the recording.

The thing that sets McCartney and the Beatles apart is, they wrote and recorded their music themselves. Espwcially in the early years. They never had The Wrecking Crew backing them other than George Martin's input. Sting was a good businessman, but a writing legend he is not ....

I never got all the fuss about them. Pet Sounds Vs. Sgt. Pepper ... uh ... no. Still sad to see a legend go though.

And I stand corrected again ... the new GPU's by Nvidia are PCIe 5. If you can get one, assuming you'd want one. They can keep their fake frames and fake fps @ thousands of dollars. No thanks. At the prices they are getting for those GPU's they should be able to render Blender and the Unreal 5 engine at 8K together in real-time while you're playing a game in my opinion.

I'm never going outside again. I'd die if I couldn't eat any of that.

I knew I had heard that song somewhere but couldn't remember. I thought it was just because the melody is so similar to Can't Help Falling In Love With You. Now I want to watch a double feature of that and Munster Go Home. They go very well together. Back in my oldies band days we did Can't Help Falling In Love With You. The rhythm guitar players wife's name was Shirley. We always changed it from "like a river flows, surely to the sea ..." to "... Shirley to the sea.". They never picked up on it, but the rest of us got a laugh out of it in a corny kind of way. She passed away a quite few years ago and he passed away a few months ago. Fond memories of a better time. I say "oldies band days" but since moving back to NJ and helping my brother again with his business, I'm revisiting a lot of my old haunts working on machines part time for him. We do POS systems and Copiers. Every one of the bars and legion halls I've been to that still have bands said people just want to hear 50's, 60's, and 70's. I could call up the guys that are left from my old band, have a couple practices, and be playing out next weekend. Funny how it all comes back around.

Reminds me of the origins of Love Me Tender by Elvis. The music is near identical, but the lyrics are quite different. My brother found a 78 of Elvis' Love Me Tender at a yard sale one time. He framed it and has it hanging in his music room. It's not worth anything, but it's kind of cool to have Elvis on 78.

Not if you sign away your rights to it. It's pretty cut and dry, legal, and very common in the music industry. I remember reading that Paul McCartney wanted to buy the rights back to The Beatles music from Michael Jackson after they were sold to him and he said he wanted too much. I don't know if he ever got them back or not. I haven't read about this, but you said she bought back her rights, which implies she gave someone else control when she signed a contract. She had no rights at that point. Glad she was able to get them back though. Not bashing her or anyone for feeling wronged by this situation, but she must have signed a contract. And the fact she paid them and didn't sue them tells me she knew going in what the deal was.

Used to do this one too ...

If I had a nickel for every time I played this one that he made famous. This version includes the rare extra verse. It was almost never played on the radio because it was almost 4 minutes long.

Damn it Jim, I'm barely a guitar player let alone a PC builder. (Bones/Star Trek) I was always under the impression liquid was strictly for overclocking. I just did a quick search for closed loop AIO's and the cost isn't that much more than that beast of a D15. The bad part is though, everything is going up drastically. My $1100 build is now $1500 (W/D15) ... $1600 for a closed loop AIO. If I would have had a knee jerk jump on it right away reaction like I normally do 2 months ago when I started looking in to this, I could have built this system for around $1200 w/AIO. Pricing keeps going up by the day. That D15 is only supposed to be $150, it's at $180 now. The highest recommended AIO for the 14900 is $267. Frustrating.

Glad he's doing well. He doesn't make 'bad' content, but his style doesn't agree with me. He kind of comes off like, "I'm great, so you should think I'm great, you know, because I am great.". I once used a phrase here to describe what I think, but if I remember correctly I either got banned or my post was censored. Something about a pretentious ... anyway. That's how he sort of comes off to me, so I don't subscribe and I've only watched a few of his vids. But about 5 million people disagree with me so there ya go. You know what they say about opinions. I watched live when Ludwig became the top Twitch streamer of all time. He cried. See, that's humility. J/K.

Over time they do. How well the system was planned out and put together determines the length of time you get out of it and how much you will have to service it. Fluid levels can drop, the system can become dirty and clog the cooling plate, the system may need to be flushed. Leaks can occur. There are a lot of potential failure points. Especially if you push your system and don't have a really clean environment. There are a lot of video's out there about this, like this one. AI must be at play ... I fired up Youtube this morning while having my coffee and it was the first recommended video that came up. Lol. I've never seen that one before this morning, but there are plenty of maintenance video's regarding AIO's out there. Then you get into, are you just doing the CPU? Are you cooling the CPU and GPU? Sorry, I don't have the patients for all of that, but I agree with what others have said that it's almost a necessity nowadays. Especially if you are doing gaming on a 14th Gen CPU with a newer graphics card or doing heavy video editing work. It's just the way the world is going. I personally don't think you need it at all for DAW work though. I'm convinced the overheating problems with the newer Gen CPU's was a two fold Intel and mobo manufacturer problem. From what I've read they were set up to overclock by default even if you don't overclock. There were also a lot of bad CPU's manufactured and that has been corrected. I don't think running excessively hot was the expected norm and it can be corrected in bios settings. I'm not sure where someone who does this for a living gets parts, maybe bulk discounts, but I've been watching all the places I have available to me. The cost of the new Intel AI based CPU's that run significantly cooler, plus a new mobo to support them, are significantly higher than the still current Gen 14's. Particularly if you are aware of the limitations of cheaper mobo's and want to get one that doesn't make cuts like split lanes or doesn't have the actual base Gen 5 RAM speed. A lot don't. They split the CPU lanes for the GPU PCIe slot and M.2 drive slot 1 and they only support 4800. Gen 5 RAM is 5600. If you see RAM advertised as 7800 with CL 30 ... most are actually 4800 CL 50. You can tell what their base specs are by turning of XMP. To get the higher specs you have to overclock them. I had to dig forever to find a mobo that did not split lanes and supported 5600 not overclocked. They don't tell you any of that in the specs when you go on Newegg, Amazon, and other places. You have to pick a mobo and go download the manual to find it. The one I'm going with does not split CPU lanes and supports base 5600 without overclocking, but if you fill all the onboard controller run M.2 slots, after the first slot the speed starts cutting down. Same with RAM on all mobo's. Never fill all 4 slots, it cut the speed down. Only ever use 2. If you want more RAM, yank out your old sticks and put two bigger ones in. Or, buy one off the shelf and save yourself a whole lot of headache and be happy with what you have. They aren't going to be bad. It's just the fact if you have the time to diy and research, you can build yourself a killer system that costs significantly less than off the shelf.