Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! McSorley's!!!! I would sleep on the floor there - but they always had sawdust and peanut shells down there so that you wouldn't. Gotta admit - I haven't been there in 20 years.... I love vinyl - I like the high-rez sound (continuous analog). Yep - some pressings...
I have that 2 lp issue of Truth/Beck-Ola as well. Have you noticed that those albums are the blueprint for Led Zeppelin? Seriously - give them another listen with Zep I and II in mind. J.P. Jones even plays on some tracks.... as does Keith Moon (listed as "you know who" in the credits). I...
Well... if you happen to be "vinyl enabled", I would also recomend "Taking Liberties" - which you can probably get used in great shape for $3-$5. Almost all of it is available as bonus tracks spread out through the first four CD's - but there is a real nice "flow" to this lp, and it covers 20...
I think that Get Happy and Imperial Bedroom are as essential as the first three (Get Happy makes me think of his classic period as the "first four"). Trust came in-between those two and I can't dismiss it, many Costello fans feel it to be essential - but somehow it worked on a much lesser scale...
Strangely enough - I had a reel to reel back in the day, and we recorded several people clearly articulating the words "Number Nine". When you played it backwards it always sounded like turn me on dead man. It also sounded like "rerm me ahh ded ma", which is what it really sounds like on The...
Just to add a ditto - I also experience a "freeze up" and skip back about 10 seconds into chapter 51. Also a Sony - S530D. After running a fast forward over the spot, I experience a 3 or 4 second pause at the spot, and pick up in sequence, loosing about 5 or 6 seconds.
I really don'y have a demo favorite - but I do gotta (sorta) echo Frank S's sentiments. I had an old friend over a few weeks back, and I put on "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles... He said that it sounded great - he never thought that CD was any good. Before he started taking stock of my...
I think there are still some bugs in this whole 5.1 deal (not only hi-rez either). I have a Sony S530 that refuses to output the .1 channel on the dts CD of Wings Venus and Mars. Yeah, Yeah - I know that it is essentially the quad mix, but so is the dts CD of Wings Band on the Run, which does...
As far as the topic goes, I agree - the LFE channel should not be utilized for SACD/DVD-A. That is NOT the same thing as saying a subwoofer should not be utilized in a music system. IIRC - subwoofers with internal crossovers for music systems were first introduced for home music systems in...
There were 2 legitimate Beatle albums called Rarities - A UK version (Parlophone) with a blue cover that compiled songs that were not on the UK albums. A Capitol US Rarities, which was different animal. The UK version made little sense to release in the US as most of the singles, B sides...
I'll also chime in as a Capitol Sinatra fan. I too am an ols rock n' roller who found pleasure in those 50's recordings. Another plus - the album titles accurately describe the tone of the music therein. You wanna swing, go for the "Swingin'" series of lp's. Mellow out, go for Nice n Easy. Sad...
Tom - you cannot replace the Anthology CD's with the DVD. Most of the songs are on the DVD, but they are often incomplete and sometimes used as background music under the narration. The DVD also features some songs in their "originally released versions" as opposed to the alternate takes often...
Any "Beatle-philes" notice that I Am The Walrus is in true stereo/surround all the way through the song?? For those that aren't aware, this song always went into "fake stereo" about midway through, because a radio broadcast of Shakespear was overdubbed live onto the mono mix. As that sequence...
Probably the best was Springsteen at Nassau Coliseum Long Island, late December 1980 (River tour). He also played there New Years Eve - it was his longest set ever. I saw him on few days earlier - and he was surely warming up for that show. It was his SECOND longest set ever. These shows were...
Yes - I think it is fair to lay the confusion retailers are having on where to stock these items at the manufacturer. The success of the Stones titles should have been a barometer - total overhall of the catalog with hybrid capability. Easy to stock and display. I mean really, Best Buy (and...
I have the 2 box sets, and I have found myself programing the original album sequences in a multi-changer a number of times. It's a pain in the butt. Go with the complete studio recordings. The 1 or 2 "bonus tracks" on the box sets aren't really essential - and no-one ever needs to hear the...
I hope they present the sound taken from any mono source as 2.0. Faux surround sound is nasty (re - A Hard Days Night), and "center channel only" of a musical performance isn't very musical.
I may have been mis-interpreted (by my own words). I thought I emphasized a PERSONAL reaction to the value of an SACD vs. a DVD-A - but to make it MORE personal......... I am so much of a music lover, and find music sooooo involving, that I do not use portable equipment. I am of the "home...
DSOTM has been around for so long, it could attract sales from even disinterested fans (yawn). My own spin - - The SACD hybrid factor is only important if there is a market for Floyd fans for ANOTHER 16 bit re-mastering of this all-too-many-times-remastered classic (yaaaaawwwn). If we are going...
I for one hope that the title is released in both SACD and DVD-A. Settle once and for all the question over which format is superior. P.S. - I own neither hi-rez formats. With 2 kids thatclose to entering college, extraneous purchases are the stuff of the future. I HAVE TO BE ABLE to afford...
I agree that a DVD-A release would make the surround mix accesible to the greater amount of consumers. I think that the Stones have blazed quite a trail for SACD, I'm sure many artists with thick catalogs are looking at that deal in awe. If I were Floyd, and looking at the bottom line - a...
As the live "Wall" and "Echoes" appeared under an existing format (CD's) re-negotiation wasn't necessary. Both of those releases smack of either contractual obligation or simply a money grab - an easy way to pick up some cash using vault material. Just as many bands DID NOT automatically appear...
Mono is mono (one channel) but all of the Beatles material was recorded on at least 2 track stereo. The majority of their work was recorded on 4 track. The final 3 albums were recorded on 8 track and 16 track equipment. Each "track" is the equivalent of a discreet channel. There is no real...
I would rather her the hiss as well. His does not reside in a single frequency, it exists in a "range of frequency". Any noise reduction technique that eliminates a a range of frequency is also removing musical information in that range. Analog noise reduction techniques out and out cut...
Seems to me that - if adopted, this would signal the end of DD and DTS compatible surround mixes on DVD-A's. Unless the format is capable of supporting a THREE layer disc, where would you put the DD and DTS versions? On dual sided multi-layer discs? At what point does this become cumbersome to...