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I'm real pleased with What's Going On. I've listened to it multiple times since recieving it friday. Nneither layer sounds even the least bit pumped up. The CD layer is hard to tell apart from the SA layer. I amplified this album much more than the usual album, more than the usual Mofi album. I noticed something I'd never noticed before, or forgotten about. At the end of the title track, just as it's almost faded out, there's a little studio noise of some sort. It's just a little thang.

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I got yet another e-mail from CD universe today that would seem to indicate Foghat is "discontinued". Yet I saw it on other's sites last week but with no ship date. Maybe CD Universe isn't gonna carry it?

I think I'll try ordering it elsewhere if prices is'a equal.

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I picked up the Norah Jones SACD "Come Away With Me".

Chris

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Just ordered "Ray Sings Basie Swings" SACD.

Chris

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got Thriller on SACD. Sounds incredible.

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is that single layer SACD only or is it hybrid?

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I don't think Thriller was a hybrid in any region...? I cannot recall it being so.

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Bob Dylan SACD Sampler and Master Music's Red Hot Audiophile 2008

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Oops, double post

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I just received Porcupine Tree DVD-A, "Fear of a Blank Planet". It was import from the UK from The Burning Shed. I have all of the previous Porcupine Tree DVD-A's.

Chris

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Well, I picked up the Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road DVD-A finally today (on a great sale, BTW!) and, as always, youse guys is right on the money. It sounds fantastic!

Turns out my wife is thrilled. This was one of her "big albums" while in high school. So she is singing along and having a great old time rediscovering the album.

Also, picked this up...as a blind buy. Have yet to give it a spin:

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AND I made your wife happy?!?

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I appreciate ALL your help, Paul.

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From Telarc....

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Not that it matters but when did Telarc stop using Super Jewel Boxes for their SACDs?

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My previous Telarc SACD was "Round-Up", which was purchased in 2006 and came in a regular jewel case.

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I'd hazard a guess that that packaging change is related to the (IMO unfortunate) decision by Bob Woods and Jack Renner to sell Telarc to the Concord Music Group in 2005.

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Even worse, I've now seen three examples of ordinary redbook discs in super jewel boxes (that's just cruel).

My box set of Genesis 70-75 has arrived and I've been sampling a few select favourites. Supper's Ready in MCH is, in a word, AWESOME!!!

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Anne-Sophie Mutter Carmen-Fantasie (SACD)
Reiner Mahler's Song of the Earth (SACD)
Reiner Spain (various) (SACD)

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Talking Heads Brick, 8 CD/DualDisc (DVD-A) box set came in today.

Chris

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The Telarc group is trying something new. I think Concord is a great record company, I have a bunch of their SACD's but it doesn't appear sales have been good. Concord isn't alone having that problem.

Stereophile: Once Telarc, Now Five/Four

Chris

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Thanks for that Stereophile link . . . but arrrrggggg! It presents some frustrating, depressing information and raises more questions than it answers.

It sounds like "the Telarc group" doesn't exist any longer as we've known it.



I was/am a huge fan of the label; since I first got a CD player in 1986. Have more Telarc CDs than any other classical label. Loved how Jack Renner and Bob Woods--two former musicians--started a company via, amongst other things, making the first digital recording of a world class symphony orchestra anywhere and grew that company into the largest American-owned classical label. Renner even took a moment to personally respond to a letter I sent the company about how wrecked to tears I was over the beautiful "Agnus Dei" (a choral arrangement Barber wrote in 1967 of his "Adagio For Strings") on their Evocation Of the Spirit album. These developments are very sad news to me.

It's unclear from that article whether the Telarc name will continue as a going concern for new releases. Bishop et al are working under a new banner but it sounds like most of the legacy Telarc folks have been fired from CMG.

And furthermore, this casts a pall over the future of new SACD releases from the one company I'd been counting on for those. Out of a 2009 release slate of 15 titles, "[s]o far, only two multichannel SACDs are planned."

Will Benjamin Zander now not complete his Telarc Mahler cycle (I think he just had 8 and 10 left)? Erich Kunzel is the best John Williams interpreter I've ever heard. Dare I say some of his perfs of older JW scores are not just better-recorded but even more passionate than the originals. Is the fabulous sci fi/epic/adventure series of Kunzel/Cincy Pops discs that began in 1984 with Time Warp and Star Tracks now kaput?

I guess I should start prioritizing all the Telarc stuff on my wish list higher before it goes OOP . . .