What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently? - Page 80

Added another MTT Mahler, the 5th Symphony.

Finally got the Norah Jones used, Clapton- 461 Ocean, Dylan- Blood on the Tracks, ordered the Zander Mahler 3rd from Deep Discount.  We'll see if they actually ship it.

I first listened to the Doobies on my upstairs system one day last week and thought it sounded a bit off for Mofi. I put it on my best system last night and changed my mind. After last night's listen I decided that several cuts were not just not all that well recorded or the tapes were beat up, maybe some of both...? The cuts that have horns, well, the horns sound a bit muffled. It Keeps You Runnin' has that flat made for AM radio sound. The other hit song, Takin' It To The Street, sounds less AM to me. I'm thinkin' this one was never a stellar sounding album.

Sounds like a pass.

It's finally here!!

Steely Dan's "Aja" stereo single-layer SACD!!

(the faint vertical line is from my HP scanner....it's not actually on the packaging)

 !!!! One of my top 5 albums.  This is a must-buy for me even though I have the MoFi version. Can't recommend the ClassicAlbums dvd highly enough either.

Taking this thread full circle back to it's first post over 6 years ago.

My latest Hi-Rez purchase is Trey Anastasio's self titled DVD-A.

Has anyone heard Trey's Shine DualDisc?

Is it worth searching out?
 

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Originally Posted by Lee Scoggins 

It seems like the Music forum has been real contentious lately with all these hirez studies around and maybe we have lost the real reason we are here...to talk about music!

I have been buying discs faster than I can play them. I got the Trey Anastasio self-titled album which I love to play on my DVDA player

'The Very Thought of You' - Nat "King" Cole

'Love Is the Thing' - Nat "King" Cole

'Seven Steps to Heaven' - Miles Davis

'Someday My Prince Will Come' - Miles Davis

All hybrid multi-channel SACDs from Analogue Productions.

Craig:

Oooooh.  I am VERY curious about your impressions of the NKC discs.  Please let us know what you think.  i'm also pretty curious about the Miles discs.

A lot of people in THIS THREAD are also interested about the NKC discs.

Okay, give me another day or two to collect my thoughts....need some more listening time.  But I don't see how anybody who is a fan of the artists or the genres could possibly be disappointed.  Visit http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/ for much more qualified feedback than I could possibly give.
 

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon 

Craig:

 

Oooooh.  I am VERY curious about your impressions of the NKC discs.  Please let us know what you think.  i'm also pretty curious about the Miles discs.

 

A lot of people in THIS THREAD are also interested about the NKC discs.

Another one came in today:

'Ritchie Valens Greatest Hits'

Audio Fidelity SACD, mastered by Steve Hoffman

Found it new in the shrinkwrap on the AMZ marketplace for $15!  (just had a cracked jewel case.) 

just picked up MFSL's Rock of Ages by the Band

I got Elton John's self titled album a week or so ago.  It is the only EJ I didn't have on SACD, and it does not sound good.  It seems to be noise reduced to death.  Impressive for a few seconds, but downright annoying after that.

Just picked up the Talking Heads DualDisc of "Remain In Light".

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Originally Posted by Blair G 

Taking this thread full circle back to it's first post over 6 years ago.

 

My latest Hi-Rez purchase is Trey Anastasio's self titled DVD-A.

 

Has anyone heard Trey's Shine DualDisc?

Is it worth searching out?
 

I haven't heard it, Blair, but note that--not unlike so many Duals at this point--it's cheap enough to just do a blind buy.  Used copies start at 6 cents.

 

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Originally Posted by Craig_Ehr 

'The Very Thought of You' - Nat "King" Cole

'Love Is the Thing' - Nat "King" Cole

Thanks for mentioning these (and the link to the other thread, Mike).  I'm feeling that delicious ex post facto smartness now for having withheld purchase of these on pricey DCC gold CD for all these years now.  

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Originally Posted by Paul.S 

Thanks for mentioning these (and the link to the other thread, Mike).  I'm feeling that delicious ex post facto smartness now for having withheld purchase of these on pricey DCC gold CD for all these years now.  

You're a smart guy.  And, you're welcome.  I'm mighty itchy to pick up one of those Cole discs.  Since the one I really want (After Midnight Sessions) has been postponed to October, I think I'm going to pick up Just One of Those Things later this month.

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In the meantime, I picked up a Dual Disc of ELP's Isle of Wight live CD today.  Something I just happened to stumble on.  Haven't heard much about that disc...

Just a "heads up"/FYI:  If Amazon Marketplace is any indication, the hybrid multichannel re-release of the Titanic score SA-CD might be getting less common at $15 and under prices.  There have been many available at that level for years and now the cheapest is more than twice that.  Finally decided to go ahead and replace the original stereo disc I sold a long time ago (after e-mailing the seller first to make sure it was the right version of course).

There IS a hybrid multi-channel SACD of Titanic OST? Link, please, all I have is the dts CD, which sounds great, but can only be played in my DVD player, and is impossible to rip to wav :(

Howdy Mikael.

Here's the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001ENY7G/ref=oss_product

Upon going to SA-CD.net to get their link . . .

http://sa-cd.net/showtitle/1828

. . . I noted the low price ($12.61) next to the Amazon.com link in the upper right-hand corner of the page.  Clicking that takes one here:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00016B93A/?tag=sacdinfocom-20

I don't know what this is.  "Music from the Motion."  Ooops.  July 2008 release date.  An import.  Curious.  Anyone know what this is?

Re ". . . the dts CD, which sounds great, but can only be played in my DVD player . . ."

Try that disc in your CD player.  My understanding is that DTS on CD is PCM-encoded and therefore different from the way it is presented on DVD.  I think any transport with a digital out can play DTS CDs.

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Originally Posted by Mikael Soderholm 

There IS a hybrid multi-channel SACD of Titanic OST? Link, please, all I have is the dts CD, which sounds great, but can only be played in my DVD player, and is impossible to rip to wav :(

You can use foobar2000 with the dts plugin to play your cd on the computer.  Then you can downmix from within the program multichannel to stereo if you desire and output to wav, flac, mp3, et al.  you could also output to multichannel wav or flac if you wanted.

Paul: You are right, of course. What I meant was I can not play this in CD players that have internal DACs, only those with digital out, so not in the car, portable CD player etc. And thanks for the link, I went surfing and actually found it on a European site (Zavvi) for a good price, so here's hoping I actually get the SACD and not a regular CD.

Craig: I'll check that out. I can play it with VLC player, downmixed, but have not been able to capture the downmixed waves yet.

(strange how the post editor won't let me write anything below the quotes...)
 

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Originally Posted by Paul.S 

Re ". . . the dts CD, which sounds great, but can only be played in my DVD player . . ."

 

Try that disc in your CD player.  My understanding is that DTS on CD is PCM-encoded and therefore different from the way it is presented on DVD.  I think any transport with a digital out can play DTS CDs.

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Originally Posted by Paul.S 

Howdy Mikael.

 

Here's the Amazon link:

 

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Originally Posted by Craig_Ehr 

You can use foobar2000 with the dts plugin to play your cd on the computer.  Then you can downmix from within the program multichannel to stereo if you desire and output to wav, flac, mp3, et al.  you could also output to multichannel wav or flac if you wanted.

 

I just bought the DualDisc of Talking Heads "Remain In Light" last week.

Nat King Cole. I would love to get an LP album or sacd by him. About 50 years ago, we had a record of his. The only song I can remember at the moment was "Goodnight Irene". I used to sing that line (not song--can't sing worth a cr...) over and over in my head. Loved it. Ahhh, the memories. Thx, guys.

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Originally Posted by Lee Scoggins 

I heard a new Mofi CD that actually sounded as good as SACD today.  The Yes Album is amazing.  One of the best CDs I have ever heard.

Agreed

MoFi hit a grand slam with this one :)

Latest hi-rez purchases:

Foghat - Fool For the City,  MoFi SACD

Toto - Hydra,  JSACD

Nat King Cole - The Very Thought of You,  AP SACD

Flaming Lips - Embryonic Ltd.Ed.,  includes DVD @ 24/96 LPCM

I bought The Yes Album MoFi also.  They did a great job with it.  I probably need to go ahead and get Fragile.