Post by rammiepie November 25, 2009 (31 of 41)
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Kal Rubinson said:
He is entitled to do so only so long as he gives them a fair listen. As it turns out, a recent shipment of SACDs and BluRays for me was sent, by accident, to him. He graciously offered to send them on to me but asked if I was in a hurry to get them or if he could give them a listen. I agreed and he did. Fair enough?
Kal
So it's possible that the immutable Sam Tellig will become a convert to SACD and um blu-ray? In my experience, you can't teach an old dog new tricks so this should be interesting. BTW, I received a box of goodies myself, today, mostly blu-rays but the Kent Nagano Bruckner Fourth (Sony: SACD multi-channel) was among the items and a quick listen (presumably it was DSD~recorded) convinced me that it is a worthwhile purchase (especially at Amazon's bargain price of under $12). BTW, I enjoyed John Atkinson's comparisons of the DCS Puccini (with U-master clock) with the Ayre and the Meridian 808.2. Any chance, you'll compare the Sony 5400 with the OPPO BDP-83? Or would that comparison be superfluous? Or, better yet, the SE version of the OPPO (analog out) with the Sony HDMI out (for multi-channel, of course).
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Post by DSD November 25, 2009 (32 of 41)
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Kal Rubinson said:
He is entitled to do so only so long as he gives them a fair listen. As it turns out, a recent shipment of SACDs and BluRays for me was sent, by accident, to him. He graciously offered to send them on to me but asked if I was in a hurry to get them or if he could give them a listen. I agreed and he did. Fair enough?
Kal
Kal sounds fair to me, where any of the SACDs or BluRay's Opera? If so that might change his mind as one of the reasons Sam didn't like SACDs was the lack of Operas.
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DSD said:
Kal sounds fair to me, where any of the SACDs or BluRay's Opera? If so that might change his mind as one of the reasons Sam didn't like SACDs was the lack of Operas.
Yes but he didn't play any of the BRDs as they were still sealed. I do not know if he has a BR player.
Kal
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Goodwood said:
Come on record companies - there is an opportunity for you! Surely it can't be the greatest marketing challenge in the world to feed a demand. Let's at least start with some reprints of deleted/hard to find/over priced titles.
exactly, if titles are selling out why not press more????????
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flyingdutchman said:
I would choose whatever format gives me the music I love.
But what if you could buy the same recording only separately each different format, which would you prefer?
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Post by Julien November 26, 2009 (36 of 41)
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Osbert Parsley said:
But what if you could buy the same recording only separately each different format, which would you prefer?
You don't need to ask this, Flyingdutchman was just writing that to upset Teresa.
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Post by wolf359 November 26, 2009 (37 of 41)
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steveo said:
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
Disraeli ?
Steve O.
Full quotation is as you stated, alleged to be orginated by Disraeli but no hard evidence to back it up as other similar phrases were around at the time. According to wikipedia Mark Twain picked the phrase up and popularised it.
In the context of the Stereophile poll I could have equally written "the people have spoken, damn the people" Which is what maybe the likes of non SACD belivers may be thinking given that SACD seems to be at last garnering some good positive publicity and the number of machines is increasing, all we need now are more and varied genre discs.
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interesting quote from their Cambridge Audio 650c review (January 2010)
I guess you were right wolf359 with the line "the people have spoken, damn the people"
you gotta love Stereophile.. :-/
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Post by urbo73 December 24, 2009 (39 of 41)
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DSD said:
If you had to pick one primary format for your music, what would it be?
Submitted by Stereophile Staff, Nov 15 2009
http://cgi.stereophile.com/cgi-bin/vote.cgi
Vinyl: 22%
CD: 17%
SACD: 28%
DVD-Audio: 5%
Download (specify format): 21%
Web Radio: 0%
Radio (FM, HD, XM, etc): 0%
Tape (specify format): 0%
Other: 3%
Vinyl at 22% .....Some real, real cuckoos out there...Laughable really..Sad too..
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Julien said:
You don't need to ask this, Flyingdutchman was just writing that to upset Teresa.
Hardly.
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