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Heavy Metal Be-Bop is a series of dialogues about the intersections of jazz and metal facilitated by Hank Shteamer.  When he's not talking about the convergence of two musical genres he writes for Time Out New York, blogs at Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches, drums for STATS, and wrote a book about Ween.  Pianist Craig Taborn is featured in the 2nd column; below are the albums 'name-checked', enjoy.

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Heavy Metal Be-Bop is a series of dialogues about the intersections of jazz and metal facilitated by Hank Shteamer.  When he's not talking about the convergence of two musical genres he writes for Time Out New York, blogs at Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches, drums for STATS, and wrote a book about Ween.  Drummer Dan Weiss is featured in the inaugural column; here's a Google Music playlist of the albums 'name-checked', enjoy.

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Academics agree that the rift in the Space-Time Continuum can be traced back to the exact moment that Kenny G was introduced to Miles Davis.

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I knew there was a reason I agreed to go to @Ikea with my wife tonight IKEA Lack : #Audiophile Rack

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Apparently I need to get my dog (Winston), his *own* subscription to Stereophile.

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Vic Chesnutt, wow. Let's hope this film travels to DVD faster than the 'Speed Racer' documentary. Looking forward to this one.

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Ripping the audio from CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs has never been easier and there's never been a better time than now to start ripping. Pink Floyd recently released The Dark Side Of The Moon Immersion Box set containing six physical discs including three Redbook CDs, two DVDs, and one Blu-ray disc. The ease of ripping audio from plastic discs and the plethora of new content available from Pink Floyd have given me great reason to create a thoroughly updated DVD and Blu-ray disc ripping guide using the new Dark Side Of The Moon Immersion Box Set. Pink Floyd fans and enthusiasts of music stored on plastic discs rejoice, one's favorite two channel and multi-channel music can now be liberated.

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SACD includes various copy protection measures of which the most prominent is Pit Signal Processing (PSP). The first two generations of Sony's Playstation 3 (PS3) game console are capable of reading SACD ScarletBook and bypass the copy protection.

This software makes use of the PS3 and gives you the option to backup your precious SACDs to a 1:1 decrypted ISO or you can choose to extract the individual tracks to DSDIFF (DFF) or DSF which allows you to create a DSD disc.

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Earlier this week we saw crowd sourcing and aggregating data stores of illicit drug information, now people are bringing the 'Halen to management and best practices? I'm starting to think my Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin 'Guide to Organizational Development' wasn't such a bad idea after all.

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Here's a more detailed (with pictures) play-by-play of the Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 mod

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Mod your Sennheiser HD 555's into HD 595's with a 5 minute DIY hack

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Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world's largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection.

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Sampling Rate Tutorial; why lossless files matter, or better stated 'I wish I could’ve shown this to the kid I saw at CVS with the ‘Beats by Dre’ headphones, rocking out on his iPod'.

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Feeling the 'twang tonight; so I made an Uncle Tupelo playlist of all the known covers in Spotify.

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It’s official, once Col. Bruce Hampton (Ret.) gets in your head he doesn’t leave… In fact; he sits down, makes a sandwich & drinks a beer. Damn you Col. Bruce, damn you.