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05-26-2004, 01:58 AM
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I went to the Dublin Best Buy since it's about 10 minutes from me. I practically have the hi-rez inventory there memorized. I have never shopped at Circuit City before since the discs seems to be overpriced and not much of a selection. The Tower Records in Dublin is quite well stocked, but charge more per disc. Fry's is too far for me to drive to browse, especially with the price of gas nowadays. On the other hand, I could hit the Best Buy in Milpitas if I am near Fry's.
I work in San Francisco, but it's surprisingly hard to find SACDs there. Maybe it's the area I work in.
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05-26-2004, 02:30 AM
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I thought it would be Dublin. I shop BB in UC mostly but get to Dublin and Mipitas occasionally. Don't bother with CC. Small SACD selection and the one in Hayward removed the DVD-A display altogether. Bought the ELP DVD-A at Fry's today mostly for the M/C mix. That should make a couple of guy's in the music forum chuckle!  Oh well. To each his/her own. |
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05-26-2004, 10:58 AM
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I wonder if the Best Buy in Emeryville is good for hi-rez?
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05-26-2004, 11:18 AM
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Don't think I've been to that one yet. The CC in Emeryville has a couple of nice sound rooms, better than the others, when they are working.
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05-26-2004, 03:11 PM
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I know there are some good high end stores in Palo Alto.
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
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05-27-2004, 05:11 PM
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Berkeley has some high-end stores as well. San Francisco Stereo, in Berkeley, is a nice store.
Just picked up 2 Rolling Stones remastered hybrids at $10.00/each.
"Big Hits (High Tide and Greeb Grass)"
"Through The Past, Darkly" (Big Hits Vol. 2)
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05-29-2004, 09:30 AM
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I picked up Sting Brand New Day and a new Tchaikovsky from Pentatone yesterday.
I also noticed that Borders is carrying Super Audios finally and breaking them out in a separate section. They have lots of Harmonia Mundis, Naxos, and other more difficult to find titles.
We are starting to see more choices on local Super Audio availability fortunately. Best Buy appears to be getting all the new releases as well at least in Alpharetta. Tower Records real deep on jazz and classical too. 
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
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05-29-2004, 01:05 PM
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I picked up Sting Brand New Day . . .
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I'm sure it's safe to assume you got the SACD of BND and not the DVD-A, despite the I think vid content on the latter . . . ?
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05-29-2004, 06:07 PM
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It was indeed the Super Audio. I know you are shocked and surprised. 
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
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05-29-2004, 06:34 PM
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This week I picked up the following titles:
T-Rex: Electric Warrior DVD-A
Issac Hayes: Shaft SA-CD
Miles Davis: Relaxin SA-CD
Wes Montgomery: Incredible Jazz Guitar SA-CD
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks SA-CD
Bob DYlan: Freewheelin' Bob Dylan SA-CD
So far I like what I am hearing from all of these. The multichannel track on T-Rex is especially good, when compared to the stereo track on the disc. Like DSOTM, they went back to the original multi-tracks to make this new mix, while the stereo mix is the original from the 70's, transferred to Hi-res.
Shaft and Miles are also superb, the best I have ever heard these recordings. Never owned a copy of Wes Montgomery before this recent purchase so I have no basis for comparison, but it sounds decent though you can definitely tell the age of the recording.
Dylans are excellent as well.
Just a heads up, I picked all these SA-CD up from BMG music club. I bought one of the Dylans as my enrollment title then got all of Fantasy SA-CD for free (still waiting on the Monk-Coltrane disc). They have a handful of the other Dylans available as well as a few more Fantasy SACD. Probably only about 20-25 SA-CD titles in total available, but still a good way to pick up some decent performances at a decent price.
J
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05-30-2004, 07:58 AM
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Well I won't list all the LP's I have been buying lately because that list would be huge but here are my SACD's purchased in May.
Tito Puente "Goza Mi Timbales"
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio "Autumn in Seattle"
Patricia Barber "Companion"
John Lee Hooker "Boogie Chillin"
Lightnin Hopkins "Broken Hearted Blues"
and not SACD's but Toshiba Japanese 24 bit remastered XTC albums - Skylarking and Nonsuch.
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05-31-2004, 11:08 AM
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#102 of 1688
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Scott,
How do you like the Lightnin Hopkins album?
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
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05-31-2004, 02:42 PM
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#103 of 1688
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Saturday's music shopping binge included:
Raume- Pieces de Clavicine en Concerts from Channel
I've recently discovered French chamber music and it's almost like a "guilty" pleasure for me- completely romantic, melodic, and beautiful. This disc is violin, viola de gamba and harpsichord and it's gorgeous.
Vaughan Williams- A London Symphony
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