Radio Paradise (mobile)

daveesh May 11, 2013 - 17:33	love. [ Reply ]
1wolfy May 06, 2013 - 16:37	Nice tune...like the Moody Blues in a certain way [ Reply ]
Shesdifferent May 06, 2013 - 16:36	Love this sound......I am always writing down songs from RP that I want to get........truly music loving people.....:) [ Reply ]
1wolfy Apr 17, 2013 - 13:25	"Manly Yes, but I like him too" . Rather amazing what you claim to depict about Slope from a few posts..Who knows what you'll be able to tell about me from my posts, 'oh magic one' that you claim to be. Take this brother ; may it serve you well yours truly, Wolfy. rdo wrote: I am a liberal, not a conservative. Westslope, entertaining though he often is, is a foaming-at-the-mouth, anti-American chauvinist demagogue who can kiss my America loving ass. I reject 100% your assertion that I am "sometimes" like you, much less Westlope. You are an Occupy Wall Street type, right? I am not. I am a moderate, and I am trying to do what you purport to do in this post. I invite everyone to go through our friend Westslope's gems and let them be the judge. I'd be willing to bet money he has already expunged most of his more hateful posts. I like Westslope, he can post all the hatred he wants here. But no one is exempt here from rebuttal. You are merely claiming umbrage under that age old Generation Wuss shield of liberal pieties. I do not play that way. Yours truly, RDO - Proud Liberal [ Reply ]
milleronic Mar 30, 2013 - 20:12	Love this song. Love, love, love this song. [ Reply ]
cShaggy Dec 13, 2012 - 00:45	..i'd like to interrupt the diatribing to say: i really, Really like this tune..8 > > 9.. ..and now, back to your previously scheduled flame war.. [ Reply ]
Deadwing Dec 01, 2012 - 00:50	rdo wrote: I am a liberal, not a conservative. Westslope, entertaining though he often is, is a foaming-at-the-mouth, anti-American chauvinist demagogue who can kiss my America loving ass. I reject 100% your assertion that I am "sometimes" like you, much less Westlope. You are an Occupy Wall Street type, right? I am not. I am a moderate, and I am trying to do what you purport to do in this post. I invite everyone to go through our friend Westslope's gems and let them be the judge. I'd be willing to bet money he has already expunged most of his more hateful posts. I like Westslope, he can post all the hatred he wants here. But no one is exempt here from rebuttal. You are merely claiming umbrage under that age old Generation Wuss shield of liberal pieties. I do not play that way. Yours truly, RDO - Proud Liberal What is this Westslope hate I am hearing about? Slope is one of my best RP buddies. He's a great guy. You guys make me sad. [ Reply ]
rdo Nov 25, 2012 - 09:32	Byronape wrote: That's more than a bit extreme... I think you are making the typical conservative mistake. People with these scary "progressive" ideas like fairness and concern for the health of the environment are not trying to control anyone. However, limits are placed on personal liberties every day. They are called laws. You can't kill someone, you can't steal from someone, you can't dump toxic sludge into someone's drinking water. Do you have a problem with these attempts to limit your personal freedoms? Well, what's wrong with checking the rampant commercialism that tells people that they need bigger houses so they can fill it with more crap they don't need? All that does is create needless waste, promote crime, and generate more toxic sludge from the manufacturing of that crap that they don't need. Cut the hatred and try to understand someone's viewpoint other than yours. It's people like you (and sometimes me) that makes all the current political divisiveness even worse. I am a liberal, not a conservative. Westslope, entertaining though he often is, is a foaming-at-the-mouth, anti-American chauvinist demagogue who can kiss my America loving ass. I reject 100% your assertion that I am "sometimes" like you, much less Westlope. You are an Occupy Wall Street type, right? I am not. I am a moderate, and I am trying to do what you purport to do in this post. I invite everyone to go through our friend Westslope's gems and let them be the judge. I'd be willing to bet money he has already expunged most of his more hateful posts. I like Westslope, he can post all the hatred he wants here. But no one is exempt here from rebuttal. You are merely claiming umbrage under that age old Generation Wuss shield of liberal pieties. I do not play that way. Yours truly, RDO - Proud Liberal [ Reply ]
Neil66 Sep 29, 2012 - 05:14	oldsaxon wrote: I have a wonderful DAC and an amazing valve amp that makes the ACC stream from RP sing to me...I would never have believed a stream off the net would have sounded good, but it does...really good. I almost never listen to the mp3s on my computer as they sound flat and empty...FLAC is better and I am slowly replacing my favourites with FLAC versions but it's a slow and sometimes seemingly impossible project. I have a pretty darned good DAC too ((X-DACv3) & a tremendous amp (KW500) & I have to confess the RP stream is bloody good, especially for the more casual listening [ Reply ]
oldsaxon Sep 23, 2012 - 12:04	mrtuba9 wrote: You know, I was riding with a friend this weekend in his '93 Acura that he retrofitted to accommodate his iPod. I had no idea he was a Nirvana, Radiohead, Led Zepplin, Van Halen, et. al. fan. As we rode with the music cranked, I noticed the sound was not what I'm used to hearing on RP via iTunes. Can't really explain it...I know MANY factors went into the differences, but some of the songs just sounded different. I have a wonderful DAC and an amazing valve amp that makes the ACC stream from RP sing to me...I would never have believed a stream off the net would have sounded good, but it does...really good. I almost never listen to the mp3s on my computer as they sound flat and empty...FLAC is better and I am slowly replacing my favourites with FLAC versions but it's a slow and sometimes seemingly impossible project. [ Reply ]
coloradojohn Sep 13, 2012 - 18:57	Still sounds remarkably good...hard to believe it's been four years since! and I can't help wondering when, oh, WHEN are we going to hear some new efforts from these gifted cats? [ Reply ]
mrtuba9 Aug 02, 2012 - 07:36	Byronape wrote: I'm certainly not going to argue with the expert here. I've just heard differences between the audio from the RP stream and what I hear when my wife pulls a song from iTunes. The best example I can think of is Built To Spill - Life's A Dream and Broken Social Scene - Sweetest Kill . Both of those songs I first heard on RP on the 192k stream with the good headphones and loved it. After playing it for the wife, she picked both of them up for her ipod and there is a distinct difference in the depth of the sound. It's almost like the itunes songs have been remastered so there is less range between the high notes and the low notes. It takes a lot of the life out of the song. It got even worse when I burned them onto a cd. Maybe I need to go into the itunes settings or something. I generally hate Apple and Apple software, so I have not done anything with it yet. As intelligent as my wife is, she couldn't care less about messing with computers and isn't as much as a wanna be audiophile as I am. You know, I was riding with a friend this weekend in his '93 Acura that he retrofitted to accommodate his iPod. I had no idea he was a Nirvana, Radiohead, Led Zepplin, Van Halen, et. al. fan. As we rode with the music cranked, I noticed the sound was not what I'm used to hearing on RP via iTunes. Can't really explain it...I know MANY factors went into the differences, but some of the songs just sounded different. [ Reply ]
ziakut Aug 02, 2012 - 07:30	7 to an 8 !!! Creepin' on up. [ Reply ]
Byronape Jul 28, 2012 - 06:29	BillG wrote: iTunes files are 256k AAC. I doubt you could tell them from a CD in a double-blind test. The big problem these days is not bit-loss compression (the conversion to a lossy file format like MP3 or AAC), which can be quite transparent when done correctly. Rather it's dynamic range compression — the leveling off of peaks to achieve greater sonic density, i.e. perceived loudness. This generally happens during the final mastering phase of a recording, and affects all digital sources equally. I'm certainly not going to argue with the expert here. I've just heard differences between the audio from the RP stream and what I hear when my wife pulls a song from iTunes. The best example I can think of is Built To Spill - Life's A Dream and Broken Social Scene - Sweetest Kill . Both of those songs I first heard on RP on the 192k stream with the good headphones and loved it. After playing it for the wife, she picked both of them up for her ipod and there is a distinct difference in the depth of the sound. It's almost like the itunes songs have been remastered so there is less range between the high notes and the low notes. It takes a lot of the life out of the song. It got even worse when I burned them onto a cd. Maybe I need to go into the itunes settings or something. I generally hate Apple and Apple software, so I have not done anything with it yet. As intelligent as my wife is, she couldn't care less about messing with computers and isn't as much as a wanna be audiophile as I am. [ Reply ]
spiritfla Jul 28, 2012 - 06:24	I have shared this song (band) with everyone since hearing first on RP. Great production, full...robust! 8 to 9. [ Reply ]
BillG Jul 24, 2012 - 17:04	Byronape wrote: I got my wife an iPod Touch for Christmas and she loves it. I don't have the heart to tell her that anything she gets from iTunes is going to be so compressed that it will sound like someone screaming into the end of a garden hose. I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy my RP with some good headphones and when something really grabs me, I'll get it on cd and rip it with high quality. iTunes files are 256k AAC. I doubt you could tell them from a CD in a double-blind test. The big problem these days is not bit-loss compression (the conversion to a lossy file format like MP3 or AAC), which can be quite transparent when done correctly. Rather it's dynamic range compression — the leveling off of peaks to achieve greater sonic density, i.e. perceived loudness. This generally happens during the final mastering phase of a recording, and affects all digital sources equally. Because a highly-compressed modern digital master is unpressable on vinyl, vinyl releases are mastered less aggressively. This difference in mastering style accounts for almost all of the perceived superiority of analog/vinyl vs. digital/CD. Digital files — even well-processed lossy files — can sound just as good as an analog recording. The fact that they don't is the fault of recording engineers, artists, managers, and labels who become enamored of "loudness" at the expense of nuance and/or just aren't very good at what they do. There are many exceptions to this generalization (Norah Jones's "Come Away With Me" and the most recent Alison Krauss & Union Station recording are two that come to mind). To my ears this recording is not particularly exceptional. It does have quite a bit more dynamic range than most modern rock recordings (especially in the drums) but a lot of the individual tracks in the mix are really squashed. [ Reply ]
toomanyollys Jun 21, 2012 - 02:49	Probably my favourite group of the last few years... looking forward to the new album when (if?) it ever surfaces! [ Reply ]
Rockit Mar 23, 2012 - 12:43	Nice Big Production! [ Reply ]
Byronape Mar 03, 2012 - 23:13	WonderLizard wrote: If you haven't gotten the CD or uncompressed file and listened to this on a bona fide audio rig, you don't know what you're missing. My daughter complained that after doing so, I'd spoiled it for her and her iPod. Heh, heh. I got my wife an iPod Touch for Christmas and she loves it. I don't have the heart to tell her that anything she gets from iTunes is going to be so compressed that it will sound like someone screaming into the end of a garden hose. I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy my RP with some good headphones and when something really grabs me, I'll get it on cd and rip it with high quality. [ Reply ]
Aud Jan 20, 2012 - 01:50	WonderLizard wrote: When I've enough some of the sameness here, I go to WXPN or KEXP, two excellent on-line stations, or some some cheesy Eastern European dance channel just for the hell of it. Or thecurrent.org [ Reply ]