Photo by Brett Jordan from Pexels A few observations on Apple’s big announcement todayA few minutes ago, Apple confirmed the rumours about its Apple Music Hifi offering. According to this press release, the new lossless audio feature, along with support for Dolby Atmos-backed “Spatial Audio,” will be available for...

My top streamed songs from the past month — in playlist formatContinuing my monthly tradition, I’ve made a playlist of my most streamed tracks on Deezer (and duplicated them on Apple Music and Spotify). Enjoy! Deezer Hifi (recommended) Apple Music Spotify

Fairport Convention, The Libertines, and Grace Slick & The Great SocietyDeezer’s Flow feature has been great for music discovery. For passive listening (while I’m working on something, doing household chores, etc.) I have Flow running in the background. If I hear something I like, I add the track to a “triage”...

Photo by Egor Komarov from Pexels A tip for enhancing your listening experienceI’ve been thinking about how most of my music consumption has been passive for the past couple of months — except for those few weeks when I was comparing Apple Music and Spotify and was extremely involved in picking the music I wanted to...

A tribute to David Bowie’s underrated ode to insanityIn February, I approached Akila Weerasinghe to commission two vintage style artworks of David Bowie and The Beatles. The idea was to get them printed, framed and hung on my living room wall. Heroes The Beatles drinking tea I really liked what he did, so I went...

My top streamed songs from the past month — in playlist formatIn March, I found myself listening to some old favourites — The Beatles, The Smiths, RHCP, REM — and a number of artists who were completely new to me. Out of my new discoveries, I can particularly recommend Jeff Tweedy and Dark, Dark, Dark. Do have a...

A head-to-head comparison in audio qualityNow that Spotify has officially launched in Sri Lanka, I see Apple Music subscribers jumping ship en masse, given the new entrant’s supposedly better recommendation algorithm. With no Hifi offering, Spotify is of no interest to me at the moment. But I was curious, and signed...

Introducing: the microblogTo push myself to write, I started publishing my incomplete thoughts in a section on my website sometime ago. I called it a Microblog. These were strings of thoughts and ideas that were too long for Twitter and too short for fully-fledged blog posts. I kept at it fairly regularly in the...

My impressions after two weeks of useI’ve now had my Little Dot MKII vacuum tube amplifier for a bit more than two weeks. This is my first experience with tubes, and I’ve been enjoying it. Coming from the Schiit Magni Heresy, which is an entry-level solid state amp ($99) to a budget tube amp ($175) may not sound...

Photo by www.kaboompics.com from Pexels I’ve been enjoying these shows and movies on Netflix latelyThe Dig (2021) This is a beautifully shot slowburn movie set in Suffolk, England in 1939. While Britain is shipping out boatloads of soldiers to the battlefront on the verge of World War II, Edith Pretty, a wealthy...

Tracking my listening habits has confirmed what I already knewI started using Last.fm in July. The streaming services I was using didn’t give me any stats on my listening habits, such as the kinds of music I listen to the most, or the amount of time I spend listening to them. Last.fm looked like a useful tool...

Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. In September of 2019, I started writing a blog post about what we had going on at Bear Appeal. A lot of things had happened,...