Post by Goodwood January 18, 2009 (101 of 321)
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I have tried to adopt an SACD only policy. Unfortunately I am now resigned to buying more CDs than I would like, resenting paying anything like full price for them.
At one time I at least hoped that the most popular titles would make it to SACD - often wondering if I was throwing money away when they would eventually be replaced. Alas the paradigm has shifted.
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Post by RobM January 18, 2009 (102 of 321)
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Beagle said:
3. So what remains to be said? Personally, when I shifted to SACD, I expected many existing recordings -- those recorded in analogue -- to be reissued as SACD. But I have been disappointed to find only multi-channel being thus resurrected. The SACD market is obviously not all multichannel-centric (i.e. stereo still has its adherents), and I am sure many multichannel fans can 'slum a little' and enjoy beautiful analog recordings (patch in a halfler-circuit if you need ambiance...). --So expand the SACD market: open up the vaults and patch some of those repertoire gaps with 2-channel analogue.
--To answer Bissie's original question, 'how many of you, who do buy the occasional BIS SACD would abstain from doing so, were the identical programme to appear only as RBCD?' This is a bit like Bishop Berkeley's 'If a tree fell in the forest...'
- IF Bis issued a disc
- AND it was NOT sacd
- THEN I probably wouldn't notice
Beagle - I say amen to that.
Bissie - why can't you dig into your own vault and re-release in SA-CD stereo???
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Post by Fugue January 18, 2009 (103 of 321)
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FullRangeMan said:
The word is AUDIOPHILE.
This happen why all human beings see, speak, listen, think and looks different each other. For some reason all peoples are completly different.
Yes, I know, thank you. Since I am an English teacher, I have a decent vocabulary. I chose the phrase "sound lover" for a better parallel structure in my sentence. (As far as I know, there isn't an equivalent single word for a music lover ("musicophile" is not a word, and one finds "musicphile" only in the Urban Dictionary.) The phrase also allowed me to emphasize the two critical elements, sound and music.
We now return to regularly scheduled programming...
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Post by deangeli January 18, 2009 (104 of 321)
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I have bought only SACDs for several years now, although to be sure my wife and I listen almost exclusively to classical music. The difference in quality of reproduction is extraordinary, and we have only a stereo system (albeit a very good and revealing one). If we had to go back to CDs, well, we wouldn't.
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deangeli said:
I have bought only SACDs for several years now, although to be sure my wife and I listen almost exclusively to classical music. The difference in quality of reproduction is extraordinary, and we have only a stereo system (albeit a very good and revealing one). If we had to go back to CDs, well, we wouldn't.
I am curious, which Sony 9000 ES unit do you have? I have an SCD XA 9000 ES and a DVP 9000 ES and I understand there is a newer 9000 DVD/SACD player that replaced that stereo only one.
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Fugue said:
(As far as I know, there isn't an equivalent single word for a music lover ("musicophile" is not a word, and one finds "musicphile" only in the Urban Dictionary.)
The word is MELOMANUS (for music lover) from Melody + Man or man who likes melody or music.
I think in this site the masses of 80% or 90% are malomanos guys. They listen a battery radio or MP3 and there is all fine. They have low expectation about equipment,
they listen only the music not the sound quality. They are happy easily. Adaptation is all in this Planet...
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RobM said:
Bissie - why can't you dig into your own vault and re-release in SA-CD stereo???
Iam waiting the CRIMINAL TROMBONE series in Stereo SACD in Ultra Extended Playing Time.
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Post by TerraEpon January 18, 2009 (108 of 321)
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DSD said:
Woo dude there is a lot of unusual repertoire on SACD, and even Leroy Anderson you mentioned.
Sure, there's an Anderson disc. But that's one disc (which I own and enjoy), made of recordings from the 60s (if not 50s) -- Naxos's series is up to 5, and I believe they still have one or two more. (Looking again, ok two, but that Capriccio one is quite expensive, and I doubt it hits the idiom quite like Slatkin)
Anderson is a favorite composer. I own every recording of his Piano Concerto, one of my all time favorite pieces of music, (it's up to 5, including one with theater organ instead of orchestra), but if I kept to SACD only it'd be 0.
Let's toss some, perhaps, even less offbeat stuff, off the top on my head. I can't guarentee there's nothing, and if they are I'd wager they are Japanese only stuff and such, but...
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet full ballet
Liszt - Most of the tone poems, complete Hungarian Rhapsodies (19 piano, 6 orchestrated)
Dvorak - Early symphonies
Or to toss up some more stuff only available in RBCD -- cycles of symphonies by Atterberg, Villa-Lobos, Rangstrom, Melartin, Borodin (!), Rimsky-Korsokov, Khachaturian, and Kabalevsky. Lecuona piano music, the hoards of Liszt piano music that isn't so popular...I could just start listing composers here...Lowell Liebermann, Achron, Bloch, Suk, Suppe, Waldteufel, Lumbye, Coates...so much I wouldn't want to be without.
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Post by TerraEpon January 18, 2009 (109 of 321)
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FullRangeMan said:
Iam waiting the CRIMINAL TROMBONE series in Stereo SACD in Ultra Extended Playing Time.
That's only two discs worth isn't it?
Plus I remember Robert saying that tey have to be fully out of copyright for it to be even feasible. As they are new arrangements, I imagine that wouldn't hold.
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TerraEpon said:
That's only two discs worth isn't it?
This is really badnews, I think the copyright are 50 years...
The TROMBONE series have alot of CDs, I remember LOS BANDIDOS nº988, THE BURLESQUE TROMBONE nº318, THE VIRTUOSO TROMBONE nº258 etc...
( THE CRIMINAL TROMBONE are nº328 great new score for Piano / Trombone).
All are wonderful music with Piano / Trombone Duets. I miss this discs as SACDs.
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