malsound Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 It seem my little contribution at. the jazz & classical section may have help to save this sick puppy. :) In this dog eat dog world of business , that is great news. http://m.todayonline.com/business/hmvs-singapore-stores-acquired-aid-partners
lkypeter Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 Was at their 313 store on Wednesday afternoon and they have more staff than customers.
Guest durianlover88 Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 HMV 313 the place where I first met broler WEB, cannot close ah!
westendboy Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 HMV 313 the place where I first met broler WEB, cannot close ah! :-*
ks Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 HMV 313 the place where I first met broler WEB, cannot close ah! wa...sound like lomantic story wor...
joamonte Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 It seem my little contribution at. the jazz & classical section may have help to save this sick puppy. :) It this dog eat dog world of business , that is great news. http://m.todayonline.com/business/hmvs-singapore-stores-acquired-aid-partners But how long can it be safe? That is the question..... With the faster and cheaper Internet speed/bandwidth, downloading music will be the future , those who want high quality download high Rez , those who don't care too much about SQ can download MP3..... sooner or later hard cover of music/movie media (CDs/Blueray)will slowly fade off just like CRT TV IMHO.
ootg Posted March 2, 2013 Posted March 2, 2013 wa...sound like lomantic story wor... Sounds like Bollywood movee!!!
malsound Posted April 3, 2013 Author Posted April 3, 2013 But how long can it be safe? That is the question..... With the faster and cheaper Internet speed/bandwidth, downloading music will be the future , those who want high quality download high Rez , those who don't care too much about SQ can download MP3..... sooner or later hard cover of music/movie media (CDs/Blueray)will slowly fade off just like CRT TV IMHO. Hmmm.... I am having my doubts now. http://www.tnt-audio.com/edcorner/march13.html
naglfar Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 With the faster and cheaper Internet speed/bandwidth, downloading music will be the future , those who want high quality download high Rez , those who don't care too much about SQ can download MP3..... :) :)
westendboy Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 Abso-fcuking-lutely right! Those of you who have strayed off the path, come back to it. Don't follow the wrong god
aegis0129 Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 Why cannot follow multiple gods? ;D Sometimes lazy just switch on the squeezebox, if more on then go spin a disc.
naglfar Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 I've said this before, but here it goes again....just a personal point of view when it comes to buying music. The process of acquiring the piece of music by itself is an integral part of the musical experience, and I know of many other friends who feel the same way about our passion. I still care about every aspects of a music purchase from deciding which format to purchase, appreciating the physical artwork and liner notes, brag to each other years later about how they found such and such an album, where it was purchased from, and even how much they paid for it. Where is the fun when everything is just a click away? Watch the movie High Fidelity. It's a beautiful film that captures the true passion of a music lover. How passionate more can a music lover get when he starts arranging his record collection autobiographically as a therapy for being broken-hearted? It'll be funny to watch someone do that with iTunes.
aegis0129 Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 I hear ya man, I have a substantial book collection and cannot stand the thought of reading e-books. Always fun to hunt down CDs whether online or when I visit a new place but then again I dig the convenience of digital media. I make digital copies of all my CDs just so I can access them no matter where I am as long as I have an internet connection.
Chowbotak Posted April 3, 2013 Posted April 3, 2013 One can drool over an LP or cd but I have never heard of anyone drooling over some digital music files. Buying music from Itunes is like masturbating, buying cds is like having sex with condom, buying LPs is like having sex without condom, siokest :P
malsound Posted April 3, 2013 Author Posted April 3, 2013 One can drool over an LP or cd but I have never heard of anyone drooling over some digital music files. Buying music from Itunes is like masturbating, buying cds is like having sex with condom, buying LPs is like having sex without condom, siokest :P I really dig it Brother. ;D Now try to describe this one. Playing 45 LP with field coil cartridge through a single gain stage single ended amp on a pair of field coil speakers. ;D
malsound Posted September 29, 2013 Author Posted September 29, 2013 Not anymore I'M afraid :o :'( http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/hmv-close-outlet-somerset-shift-business-marina-square-store-20130929
lkypeter Posted September 29, 2013 Posted September 29, 2013 Not anymore I'M afraid :o :'( http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/hmv-close-outlet-somerset-shift-business-marina-square-store-20130929 The classical section staff NG is very knowledgeable and has relied on him all these years. Picked up some last Monday that are 30% off. As a parallel, buying CDs through Internet is different from buying it from a physical store. Hmmmmmmm
hmvc Posted September 29, 2013 Posted September 29, 2013 In the first place, they should rent a warehouse to do its biz along with a book and coffee place. Rental cost can be controlled in this manner. Tell u a big secret. Beauty world, 1st floor sell lots of cd. Upstairs is audio trio. The cd lots of collection, I ask the lady if I keen on some singers cd, whether she can bring in. She says can. Best part is she gives better discount than hmv and online. Hahah
hmvc Posted September 29, 2013 Posted September 29, 2013 Lately I observe the collection she stocks becoming audiophile type. Hmcd etc etc. lots of pop music also. I'm going digital due to space.but sentimental cd ones will keep.
C708 Posted September 29, 2013 Posted September 29, 2013 Ppl. My 2 cents worth on the issue or rather matter on hand. I've been appreciating / listening to music from the early 80s when I first listened to records to an old gramophone @ home. Records were the de facto medium then. Of course then the gramaphone ( huge boom box with a record player in built with speakers all in one HUGE box ::) ::) ) then was the family set so I had say when buying it ....then came the then new pretender ....cassette tape 8) by then the 8 track tape & cartridge was already on it's way out..... The Cassette tape was the new kid on the block ...new, compact & recordable medium which made it attractive as you could record what ever you want to this tiny small plastic portable medium as compared to the cumbersome large HUGE round disc !! But one thing that led to it's untimely demise that a lot of people failed to see ....you still NEEDED a medium for which to record from ...in this instance the record. It's popularity has waned .....so we can safely say it died naturally..... Then in mid to late 80s when I was studying in the UK comes the new kid on the block ...the silver Compact Disc :o When it was co developed in the mid 80s by Phillips & Sony, it took the world by storm as most music fans took to it for a practicality reason.....there wasn't a need to care for those little silver discs unlike it's black predecessor where you had to contend with the cackle & hiss & take lots of care so as not to allow dust to gather in it's tiny grooves which can affect sound quality. many took to the little silver disc for practicality reasons .....& its portability !! Imagine carrying a record player around ?? Definitely not right ?? Ppl will call u a nutter !! but in the late 80s & early 90s the Discman made the medium popular !!! The record was dying ...so say the analysts ;D But the audiophiles were still backing the good old black round large disc.....it still had life they say unlike the little silver disc which churned out cold lifeless music. The CD really outsold the record in the 90s and in the mid 90s the improvements of digital music really took off ....different methods of sampling music, improvements in conversion of digital to audio conversion brought about improvements in the way music is recorded. The late 90s brought about the an explosion in the way computers came into our lives from the introduction of the Internet & the way data is stored. Music is essentially data too....just the way is stored has improved a lot in these 40 or so years.... What the present generation is totally missing these days is the simple fact that music has to come from an original source. Be it a CD or a record, it has to originate from somewhere right ?? Someone, somewhere has to write some tunes, put some lyrics onto it, compile it into an album, produce it & then put it to press for sale. Without these people doing that ....would there be any source with which we can listen to ...more relevant to the current generation to rip it digitally from ?? Its a chicken & egg situation people ...with no chicken how can you get an egg eh ?? Think about it ....If we keep ripping off songs from the internet ( yeah I know its easy ...no need to buy these albums ...just log on & rip it off youtube ) eventually we will not have place to buy it from because these places cant survive !!! Just look @ HMV, Tower Records, in the local context, Sembawang, Supreme ( remember them ?? ) can they survive when everyone's doing that eh ?? Eventually it going to hurt the record companies & finally the artistes themselves ....when the younger generation keeps going on the digital path honestly do you think there will be anymore new music to record from anymore eh ??? Most of the older audiophiles would still tend to agree with me that listening to music from our systems is still the viable solution but realistically are we just going the way of dinosaurs ??
lkypeter Posted September 30, 2013 Posted September 30, 2013 I don't do download nor ripping from CD. I buy CD very often but there are too many CD album to buy. I can't be buying more than listening. people walk into the shop not knowing.what to buy. nothing interest them. despite all these problem ironically it is the rental that kill them hard I rip my CDs so that I can locate and play them easily with a few thousand CDs that are not catalogued physically. Some are still in shrink wrap
micktal Posted October 2, 2013 Posted October 2, 2013 I buy a few hundred dollars of CDs every month or two months but mostly online (except lately bought a lot at gramophone closing down sales). I would buy more locally but first it's much more expensive cos of rental. Even if I don't mind paying a bit more for service the shop staff are all nowadays not knowledgable and it's really not worth to buy locally. I guess I'm also a bit to blame for all these closing down but I think singapore retail or maybe singapore distributors need to wake up their idea regarding pricing and service. I think it's very sad that singapore with 5.5 m people has only one big music shop hmv marina which is half the size of the old tower records and mostly selling headphones anyway.
lkypeter Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 I buy a few hundred dollars of CDs every month or two months but mostly online (except lately bought a lot at gramophone closing down sales). I would buy more locally but first it's much more expensive cos of rental. Even if I don't mind paying a bit more for service the shop staff are all nowadays not knowledgable and it's really not worth to buy locally. I guess I'm also a bit to blame for all these closing down but I think singapore retail or maybe singapore distributors need to wake up their idea regarding pricing and service. I think it's very sad that singapore with 5.5 m people has only one big music shop hmv marina which is half the size of the old tower records and mostly selling headphones anyway. Echo your sentiment that with 5.5 M, we cannot even support a decent sized classical music joint. You can buy hardware, and software but not heart ware. Was at 313 yesterday and the jazz and classical is hoarded up. Left after getting 4 sacds. If the government can support SSO, why not a classical music shop with a $1 rent in esplanade with conditions attached. Retailers n distributors are also complicit in the sad state of affairs. Perhaps we can lobby via dr. Tommy GOH.
hmvc Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 High rental killed them. Well, we still hv that cd at great world city. Decent n big.
ivanlyf_2011 Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 Bear with me please, new member here who recently took on audio as a hobby in 2011. Agree with everyone about CDs! There's something fun in buying the CDs (classical is my genre) and then reading the booklet to understand the work and see snapshots of the conducter/soloist/orchestra! And it's sad that the new generation of kids are mostly downloading downloading downloading and in very horrible quality. I'm 29 btw
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