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post #31 of 43
11/18/09 at 3:44pm
For those of you wondering if the HOTSTUFF free gift code was worth using, I can clearly say that it is not worth the trouble.  I ended up with a New York Jets embossed UNO card pack in a helmet shaped case.  Be sure to use one of the extra savings codes instead as I have to assume that most people would rather have the $5 instead of something like this.  At least this year my order arrived about 2-3 days earlier than normal.
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post #32 of 43
11/21/09 at 6:33pm
My HOTSTUFF gift is a collection of books called Images: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows.

http://www.amazon.com/Images-No-1-Roger-Burrows/dp/1561381098/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258857151&sr=8-1

It will be someone's Christmas gift.
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post #33 of 43
11/21/09 at 7:15pm


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My HOTSTUFF gift is a collection of books called Images: The Ultimate Coloring Experience by Roger Burrows.

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It will be someone's Christmas gift.





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post #34 of 43
11/23/09 at 3:09pm
Well...I ordered three SACDs from Deep Discount's sale.

I received my package today containing all three titles:  in CD format.   

Lame.

They said two of the titles they are out of and won't be carrying anymore.  The third title they say is showing "in stock" so they are going to do a "warehouse check" and see if they actually have any before I return all three for a refund.

Wow.  Talk about a bad experience. 
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post #35 of 43
11/25/09 at 8:46am
Anyone know of a Thelonious Monk or Bill Evans SACD worth getting from DD?

I'm thinking of picking up The General BD and would like a jazz SACD to go w/ that to use the $5 coupon.

I saw some that claim to be SACDs there, but I'm not too convinced (judging by the release dates and catalog #s), especially since Mike had his problem w/ ordering SACDs from them.  I guess Monk's Straight, No Chaser and Mingus' Mingus Ah Um are probably actual SACDs, but seems like their quality aren't that good (and they're not hybrid SACDs?).  The others I found seem like they may be erroneous listings.

Thanks.

_Man_
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post #36 of 43
11/25/09 at 9:03am
Man:  I just picked up (at a local FYE) the Monk SACD 5 By 5.

Even though I paid "full price" for this SACD, I have always wanted to be introduced to Monk's music and have been looking for good SACDs.  This is one that sounds great and I'm sorry I waited so long to be introduced to the music of the man who, for me, will always be thought of as "the loneliest monk"--a reference to Martha Quinn's long ago confused slip-up on MTV. 

Not sure if that disc is on the list at DD, but I give it a .  Straight, No Chaser is supposed to be his seminal work, I guess.  

Bill Evans'  Sunday at the Village Vanguard is an awesome disc.  The versions of Alice in Wonderland are incredible.  But I've only got the CD of this one...so I can't tell you about the sound of the SACD.  Check out SA-CD.net for ideas. 



I don't know what to say about the SACD experience I just had at DD, but the oh-for-three sure has left a bad taste in my mouth.  I would hope their jazz catalog isn't screwed up...but one of the discs I ordered was a Tony Bennett SACD. 

I have this totally imagined idea of some warehouse guy going to a shelf and seeing the slot for my order empty and picking the CD-version in the adjoining slot and thinking that there's no difference between the two and sending it. 

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post #37 of 43
11/25/09 at 9:59am
Mike,

Thanks for the recommendations.  Yeah, I did look up some titles on sa-cd.net and was going to get Monk's 5 By 5 or Bill Evans' Sunday at the Village Vanguard *OR* his Waltz for Debby.  The DD site claims to have the SACD version for all of them (in their detailed description for each), *BUT* the release dates don't seem to match the SACD versions (and look more like the older CD versions) and the catalog #s also don't seem to match either.  Those SACDs normally go for a lot more $ too, so I'm thinking they're erroneous listings.

I guess I could take the risk on one of them, if the regular CD version would at least be good CD quality.  But I have no idea whether the regular CD is good.

Yeah, I too had been meaning to get into jazz recordings more, but just hadn't gotten around to them so far.  Only have a small collection of Miles Davis's older classics and some more generic/mainstream stuff.

_Man_

PS: Hmmm...  Think I'll just go w/ the classic Straight, No Chaser SACD this time (although it's currently out of stock).  It gets good reviews for sound and seems to be the one case where DD's listing looks most reliable -- it's also cheaper at just ~$6.  Only catch is it's not hybrid SACD -- guess I'll just have to take the trouble to digitize the analog output from my player myself (like I've done before), if I want to listen to it on my iPod Touch from time to time...

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Man:  I just picked up (at a local FYE) the Monk SACD 5 By 5.

Even though I paid "full price" for this SACD, I have always wanted to be introduced to Monk's music and have been looking for good SACDs.  This is one that sounds great and I'm sorry I waited so long to be introduced to the music of the man who, for me, will always be thought of as "the loneliest monk"--a reference to Martha Quinn's long ago confused slip-up on MTV. 

Not sure if that disc is on the list at DD, but I give it a .  Straight, No Chaser is supposed to be his seminal work, I guess.  

Bill Evans'  Sunday at the Village Vanguard is an awesome disc.  The versions of Alice in Wonderland are incredible.  But I've only got the CD of this one...so I can't tell you about the sound of the SACD.  Check out SA-CD.net for ideas. 



I don't know what to say about the SACD experience I just had at DD, but the oh-for-three sure has left a bad taste in my mouth.  I would hope their jazz catalog isn't screwed up...but one of the discs I ordered was a Tony Bennett SACD. 

I have this totally imagined idea of some warehouse guy going to a shelf and seeing the slot for my order empty and picking the CD-version in the adjoining slot and thinking that there's no difference between the two and sending it. 

 



Edited by ManW_TheUncool - 11/25/09 at 10:23am
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post #38 of 43
11/25/09 at 10:37am
That sucks Mike.
I just had a similar experience (sort of). There seemed to have been a glitch last night and Heroes S2 (Blu-ray) was showing up for $8.99. It was listed that way from shopping cart to after order confirm page, but the confirmation e-mail is showing up as and SNL best of disc. No way to cancel now of course, so this will be going back unopened.
Oh well. Despite having every order shipped in bubble mailers this year, I can't really complain about the prices or service. Turn around times this year were blisteringly fast for me (except for one order that seems to have gone awol).
Personally I think DD's days are numbered in this economy, and despite the occasional problems I hate to lose any more competition.
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post #39 of 43
11/25/09 at 2:32pm
The thing is, Paul, DD simply needs to figure out what it's got in-stock and not-in-stock. 

There seem to be a lot of SACDs on DD's site that I don't think they carry anymore.  That is, I don't think they've been in-stock for quite some time.  And, will they be getting new stock any time soon?  Doubtful. 
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post #40 of 43
11/25/09 at 2:54pm


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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon View Post

Man:  I just picked up (at a local FYE) the Monk SACD 5 By 5.

Even though I paid "full price" for this SACD, I have always wanted to be introduced to Monk's music and have been looking for good SACDs.  This is one that sounds great and I'm sorry I waited so long to be introduced to the music of the man who, for me, will always be thought of as "the loneliest monk"--a reference to Martha Quinn's long ago confused slip-up on MTV. 

Not sure if that disc is on the list at DD, but I give it a .  Straight, No Chaser is supposed to be his seminal work, I guess.  

Bill Evans'  Sunday at the Village Vanguard is an awesome disc.  The versions of Alice in Wonderland are incredible.  But I've only got the CD of this one...so I can't tell you about the sound of the SACD.  Check out SA-CD.net for ideas. 

 

"Man", +1 on Mike's recommendation on that "Vanguard" CD.  Awesome.  I have many of Bill Evan's CD's but that one was one that I didn't get on CD until Mike mentioned it to me a while back.  I had the LP for many years but that was without the alt takes, particularly of "Alice in Wonderland". 

"Waltz For Debbie" is another gem.  The alt take of the title track is amazing.  I don't have these in SACD though.

"Monk"....definitely was cutting edge back then. 

I haven't ordered any CD's from DD previously that I can recall, just DVD's.  For some reason, I've used a couple of other online stores for those although I don't get CD's much anymore...too many in the collection already :)
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post #41 of 43
11/25/09 at 3:53pm
Thanks for adding your 2 cents to the jazz recs, Jeff.

Since I recently found out I can easily get quite a bit of GCs for Barnes & Nobles (from my sizeable balance of Amex rewards points),  I may consider shopping for some of those SACDs from them (w/ the help of a sale and/or coupons).   Just wish I had realized sooner before I bought a few Criterion BDs from them -- well, I did make use of the Amex points-funded GCs for my last purchase (of Stop Making Sense, Wings of Desire and Wages of Fear) just in time for the end of the Criterion sale.

And yeah, I too *used* to have a rather sizeable collection of CDs, but seems I keep misplacing/losing some everytime we move (or have some major reorg around the house).   I can't for the life of me locate much of my sizeable classical CD collection anymore for instance.

_Man_
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post #42 of 43
11/29/09 at 9:57am
Bad experience this year - we got the 5-season set of The Office and then once it arrived we saw that Amazon was selling each of the individual seasons for Black Friday for a total cost of much less.  Their cost of the 5-season set was still larger than DDD, so there is no way to price match.  The lesson - don't order big sets from DDD until Amazon's Black Friday sales come out.
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post #43 of 43
11/29/09 at 12:38pm


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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon View Post

I don't know what to say about the SACD experience I just had at DD, but the oh-for-three sure has left a bad taste in my mouth.  I would hope their jazz catalog isn't screwed up...but one of the discs I ordered was a Tony Bennett SACD. 

I have this totally imagined idea of some warehouse guy going to a shelf and seeing the slot for my order empty and picking the CD-version in the adjoining slot and thinking that there's no difference between the two and sending it. 

Well, I just had my latest contact from DD.  There was still hope they might be able to  find the Bennett title on SACD to send me.  But, no, they couldn't. 

It turned out to be a complete waste of an order.   

They offered me nothing for tying up my money for a few weeks.  I told them to pass the word up their chain of command to fix their website when it comes to SACDs.  And that was pretty much that.  I printed up a label which they e-mailed me to send back the discs and now have to wait for them to receive them and credit my card. 



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