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post #1 of 27
5/22/06 at 2:29pm
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I was at a Towerand bought myself a Bday present, "To our children's..." SACD.
Since it was $40 with tax and I never heard the album I was a little hesistant.

The sound did not knock me out like some of Elton Johns SACDs which I had never heard before and the material was good but not great. They did not have day's of future past which was my 1st choice.

Anyone pick up that one or any others?
Thanks
Grant
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post #2 of 27
5/22/06 at 3:25pm

Re: Moody Blues SACD

I got 3 of them via the net. The one you got, In Search of the Lost Chord and Days of Future ..." 'Days' was the best sonically of the 3.
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post #3 of 27
5/22/06 at 9:55pm

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I got all five in a package deal. You got my fav of the lot. I also like Question Of Balance alot.
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post #4 of 27
5/23/06 at 1:54am

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I bought all 5 from amazon.co.uk. My personal favourite has always been 'Threshold'. Be aware In Search Of The Lost Chord is Stereo only if that makes any difference to your future purchases.
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post #5 of 27
5/23/06 at 6:45am

Re: Moody Blues SACD

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Originally Posted by Grant B
I was at a Towerand bought myself a Bday present, "To our children's..." SACD.
Since it was $40 with tax and I never heard the album I was a little hesistant.

The sound did not knock me out like some of Elton Johns SACDs which I had never heard before and the material was good but not great. They did not have day's of future past which was my 1st choice.

Anyone pick up that one or any others?
Thanks
Grant

Not for 40 bucks. Thats why i dont shop at tower.
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post #6 of 27
5/23/06 at 7:46am

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Originally Posted by dany
Not for 40 bucks. Thats why i dont shop at tower.

I agree - unless they have a sale. I paid $65 for 3 of them.
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post #7 of 27
5/23/06 at 5:36pm

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Has this band finally called it quits now that Ray Thomas is gone? Will Justin Hayward be doing more solo work?
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post #8 of 27
5/23/06 at 6:26pm

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Boy i hope not,its pretty sad to hear any of them nowadays.
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post #9 of 27
5/24/06 at 8:34pm
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$65 for 3; was that the 1 or 2 Disc sets?
I know I could of got it cheaper but it was a impulse buy
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post #10 of 27
5/25/06 at 7:24am

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Originally Posted by Grant B
$65 for 3; was that the 1 or 2 Disc sets?
I know I could of got it cheaper but it was a impulse buy


All 2 disc sets - at deepdiscountcd.com incl. shipping.

I've gone to Tower and spent a few more $ than I could have at different times. I don't think they have as quite as good hi-rez selection as they used to in the one closest to me. I remember going there once as I was trying to order about 5 things (incl. DVD-A and SACD) and I could not find a website that had all of them so I just took the ride to Tower and bought them. When I've been in there the last few times, I'm rather disappointed that their hi-rez selection has shrunk from where it was. I used to watch for their 25% off sales and then go in a get stuff like MoFis which they charge $31.99 regular price for.
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post #11 of 27
5/25/06 at 8:59am
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The one I usually go to in San Francisco (Market@ Noe) use to have a Hi Rez section which recently went away. I checked for the MB SACD a couple of times and nothing ....until a few days back.
I think the only people who know anything about HiRez are on this forum. The rest of the world looks at you funny and turns up the volume on their Ipod.
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post #12 of 27
5/25/06 at 9:10am

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Originally Posted by Grant B
$65 for 3; was that the 1 or 2 Disc sets?
I know I could of got it cheaper but it was a impulse buy

I got all five of them from CD-Wow for $80 shipped. You can still pick up the ones you didn't purchase yet. I am pleased with these releases, and I like the surround mixes (on all but ISOTLC which is 2-channel only).
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post #13 of 27
5/25/06 at 10:24am

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Originally Posted by Grant B
The one I usually go to in San Francisco (Market@ Noe) use to have a Hi Rez section which recently went away. I checked for the MB SACD a couple of times and nothing ....until a few days back.
I think the only people who know anything about HiRez are on this forum. The rest of the world looks at you funny and turns up the volume on their Ipod.

So true, and the those ear buds they use with the volume up too high is causing permanent hearing damage - so they'll never have to worry about hi-rez if they do that long enough.

I won't say I've totally given up on hi-rez, but my CD playback is great and I've quit holding my breath waiting for a hi-rez version of stuff. These days with the lack of major label support (e.g. the way Sony or Universal was pumping them out at one point), I just buy the music I like. If it is available in hi-rez, that is a bonus.
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post #14 of 27
5/25/06 at 10:32am
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I went to deepdiscountcd.com and nowhere does it say on the $21.86 deluxe version if it is a SACD and when I searched using the term "SACD" it didn't come up.
Love it!
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post #15 of 27
5/26/06 at 9:13am

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I got Days of Future Past at Deepdiscountcd. I may spring for a couple of more. I was in college in the late 60s to early 70s and Moody Blues were mandatory listening.
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post #16 of 27
6/3/06 at 12:37am

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A couple of Moody Blues SACDs will get domestic (US) release.
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post #17 of 27
6/3/06 at 5:57am

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4.1 surround sound mixes?
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post #18 of 27
6/3/06 at 6:50am

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Originally Posted by Danny Tse
A couple of Moody Blues SACDs will get domestic (US) release.

Interesting the 2 I did not buy were selected for US release. Quad mixes had rear channels but no center. So the '4' likely means no center.
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post #19 of 27
6/9/06 at 2:53pm

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Moody Blues is probably my fav of the old 60's stuff......got all of their albums and most of the cd versions..... also have the 5 disc compilation release "Time Traveler".
Threshold and Childrens are the two that are ever-lasting in my mind as they were so much a part of our party times in the late 60's and early 70's. 2 friends died in 71 and these 2 albums really take me back to those times when those friends were part of the group.
As a matter of fact, the pic with my name at the left is from an album put out by Graham Edge (MB drummer) in 1977, along with Adrian and Paul Gurvitz, of Bake-Gurvitz Army.......
Now a question.... is SACD that much better than a regular CD using dsp procession?
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post #20 of 27
6/9/06 at 8:37pm

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I'm watching the MB live at Montreux from 91. Pretty bad. They are trying to be good but its not working. They have 2 backup singers that are like doing the wave with there hands during the songs. The sound is poor at best.
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post #21 of 27
6/12/06 at 2:20pm

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did ray thomas quit or did he pass away?

>> a couple of CD will be released here Tuesday...

actually, the issues here will be imports thru Universal-and discs made in the EU-esp Germany always have seemed to me to be just a little higher quality.
There they go the extra mile-here, music media is mostly considered (as LPs were) disposable UNITS of PRODUCT to move=$$$ quality was an afterthought. It got really bad in the LP days to the point that I started buying LPs of even US artists ie: Bruce Springteen from Europe
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post #22 of 27
6/19/06 at 6:40am

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Originally Posted by Phil A
Interesting the 2 I did not buy were selected for US release. Quad mixes had rear channels but no center. So the '4' likely means no center.

According to my Acoustic Sounds catalog ,In Search is stereo only, then it says mixed in 5.1 surround. A Question it says digitally remastered and mixed in 5.1. It says in the box set{$130} that these five remastered recordings needed very little remixing since they were recorded in quad.
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post #23 of 27
6/19/06 at 7:35am

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ISOTLC is Stereo only. The rest are 4.1 from the original Quad tapes even though they are marked as '5.1' on the packaging.
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post #24 of 27
6/26/06 at 1:40pm

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Mark_TS: Ray Thomas quit 3 or 4 years ago. From what I can gather, he wanted to retire after being at it for so long. Graeme Edge is now the only original member left.
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post #25 of 27
6/28/06 at 12:43am

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More Moody Blues SACDs on the way....you think? From Justin Hayward's post on his website....

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I'm whizzing off down Italy's A 10 auto-route again next week to help re-master the final two of the 'classic first seven' Moody Blues albums. Alberto has the original masters now and Danilo is coming along to oversee the whole thing. It's going to be fab! The out-takes on the bonus CD's of these last two contain tracks, recorded with Mike after Seventh Sojourn, that I thought were lost forever.
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post #26 of 27
2/7/07 at 7:32am

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Well according to Amazon.com Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and Seventh Sojourn are available for pre-order in the U.S., and will be released on April 3rd.
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post #27 of 27
2/7/07 at 4:21pm

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Originally Posted by DonnyD
Now a question.... is SACD that much better than a regular CD using dsp procession?
If you are asking if an sacd with a fully discrete* multichannel mix is better than a software-derived "surround" mix sourced from a stereo CD, in my opinion is YES.

While some CDs do have the correct amount of out-of-phase information that allows DSP chips to do their thing and create a decent suround mix, IMO most CDs do not. And even the better CDs can create some wierd mixes and obviously ALL those DSP mixes are pretty much random i.e. no human decided to put that instrument there and this vocal over here.

I will admit though that there are some true discrete mixes that really stink & the random DSP-derived home versions actually sound relatively better, but for me this is pretty rare and the discrete mix would REALLY have to stink. For example, I would still rather listen to the Doors' so-so L.A. Woman dvd-audio 5.1 mix than any DPLII/Neo/Logic7 version of the stereo track.

Also, no DSP software I'm aware of can recreate the *moving* sonic elements that many rock/pop discrete surround mixes include.

* discrete = made from the album's original multitrack master tapes or hard drive
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