Lee Scoggins

And we get Love Scenes, one of her best, on SACD too.

I'm also looking forward to Layle and the other Eric Clapton albums.

Rachael should like the Oscar Peterson releases as do I.

And I am also relieved to get the official word on the sonics on the three track Living Presence albums will be placed over Left-Center-Right which will prove to be a very realistic image since they were recorded that way.

Here is the full story:

http://www.highfidelityreview.com/ne...umber=11748902

I figure we are better served by discussing music among those of us who like high resolution audio.



p.s. Please note that the George Harrison SACD will be in stores February (see next story). Great news!

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

Rachael B

Lee, I already have 2 of the Petersons and they're very kick-ass! You know, it's stille disheartening to look at these release lists and see so very little new stuff....

Rachael, the big disc cat! I used to be looking for Hi-Vision Laserdiscs & D-Theater tapes, now I'm looking for HD-DVD's and Blu-rays.

I survived the AFI top 100 Film Challenge! I've seen them all.

favourite saying: hard feelings are for park benches... sit on that!

Jesper

Lee,

Sooner or later we will see them on DVD Audio with extra... So I wait.

Jesper Nielsen

John Kotches

Krall's Love Scenes has been out several months on DVD-Audio and given the heritage of the master tapes for this material, I'm not sure why anyone would raise a fuss about resampled 44.1k content being released on SA-CD.

If you want to hear the master tapes, get the DVD-Audio disc, that's where the master tapes are in their native format.

Cheers,

Surround Music Enthusiast / Curmudgeon in Training
Opinions are my own, not representative of the publication I write for.

Mike Broadman

I don't know if this is a thread-fart, and apologies if so, but I need to re-listen to the couple Krall I have and decide if I want to continue listening to her music. While she's good, I've just been too entranced with other singers and music that are so much more exciting. But we'll see.

Now Oscar Peterson- that's exciting to me! Are these new albums, old, what? *We wants them, my love*

I recently tracked down a OOP MFSL gold copy of Eat a Peach, so I'll let you folks be the guinea pigs on that one to help me decide if I should replace it with the SACD, have both, etc.

My awesome music collection

Lee Scoggins

There are many SACDs where the sonics are spectacular even though a PCM master was used. The benefits from a good DSD mastering are real. Plus, not all of the HTF membership have DVDA players or may have ones that are lower quality than their SACD players.



Mike, hopefully they will use the analog tapes.

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

Phil A

I also prefer to get this on an SACD vs. a DVD-A so I don't have extra video crap I don't want (I have "Live in Paris" on DVD-V and if I want one of those I buy it) and don't have to contemplate how it was authored and whether it will be easier to play the stereo track since I may not like the multi-channel one.

Rachael B

Mike, I did a review of 2 of the 6 Peterson SA-CD's about a week ago. They're available at Amazon France right now. They're from 1968 and they're pressed in Germany. Quite nice!

Rachael, the big disc cat! I used to be looking for Hi-Vision Laserdiscs & D-Theater tapes, now I'm looking for HD-DVD's and Blu-rays.

I survived the AFI top 100 Film Challenge! I've seen them all.

favourite saying: hard feelings are for park benches... sit on that!

John Kotches

Phil,

I put the disc in my player, and hit the play button. I have no clue if any of the discs have "extra video crap" as you so delicately put it.

Cheers,

Surround Music Enthusiast / Curmudgeon in Training
Opinions are my own, not representative of the publication I write for.

John Kotches

Lee says:


Some people think that colorizing old Black and White films is an improvement too.

Cheers,

Surround Music Enthusiast / Curmudgeon in Training
Opinions are my own, not representative of the publication I write for.

Phil A

John, my point is that most DVD-As when one hits play default to the multi-channel mix. More than likely that will not be my preference. There is no consistent authoring among discs as well. In addition, at the mass market stores and online as well, the DVD-A is usually a bit more than the SACD for that video content and potential navigation that is of zero interest to me for something I am buying to hear.

"Some people think that colorizing old Black and White films is an improvement too." John, you and Lee can argue until the cows (or mad cows) come home. In theory, there could be differences most likely of insignicant amts. from listening to many things. Since, there are more SACD titles I desire as well as what is out there in total, my SACD player is of better quality (Modwright XA-777ES). Even if there are minor differences, they would more than likely be offset by the players. If I was buying it to hear in my bedroom system, which has a Pioneer Elite DV-47A, which is better on DVD-A vs. SACD, I would buy the DVD-A.

Where I buy something on hi-rez that Warner issues which I like, I buy the DVD-A. It is Warner's business decision which format to endorse, I can't control it, and am going to buy the software I like. Right now I have a universal player in the bedroom, separate players in the main system and a spare Samsung HD1000 DVD-A player waiting for me to complete my basement. I would not lose any sleep if SACD or DVD-A won out and the other went away. Where it is put out by a label that has a history of supporting both formats, I'm going to wait and see before buying. I've gone past the days of buying multiple things to compare formats, whether they are DD, DTS, DVD, LD, etc. I have enough duplicates of software.