Eyeless In Gaza are one of the great bands that emerged post punk… They were truly unique… Martyn Bates is one of the great white soul singer voices, by soul I mean Ian Curtis not Jamiroquai. I still love them —Alan McGee, March 2005 And after 18 years, they’re back on tour. I can’t say that anything they’ve made in the past (um) 25 years does much for me, but it’s hard to resist the temptation… just one encore from Caught in Flux would make it worthwhile…
Have updated my music player to use the JACK low-latency realtime library for output, and replaced Mplayer with alsaplayer as the media player. Have also dropped the Meridian 518 and Yamaha decoder from the output chain, feeding audio straight into my Bryston via the music box’s onboard DACs. Given the hardware (and purpose of the box), there’s little benefit to be had from the low-latency features of JACK, but the realtime support helps keep the output smooth in the face of other stuff running on the box (CD ripping, for example). And something in the combination of the simplified signal …