What Are You Listening To?
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goaliechris
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It's a Porcupine Tree playlist kind of night:
Pure Narcotic
The Rest Will Flow
Lightbulb Sun
Shallow
Pure Narcotic
The Rest Will Flow
Lightbulb Sun
Shallow
garypf
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Pauly, the Silk Road is outstanding. Basically Yo Yo Ma playing with various musicians from the countries along the trade route known as the Silk Road. Kazaam, the Tom Petty format I was listening to is in Apple Lossless on my iPhone via USB to my Ford Focus MySync system. It's a 550-watt system with trunk mounted subwoofer. I do have the box set with the BluRay audio - its one disc that contains all five CD discs. The deluxe box set has 5 CDs while the regular CD set has only 4 CDs.
Oh, and Botch, the "costing me some coin" works both ways. I should receive the following from Amazon on Wednesday:
1) Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road SACD (the DVD-Audio version is over $100 bucks!!!!)
2) Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms SACD.
3) The Beatles - Love DVD-Audio
Let me know of any other SACD or DVD-Audio recordings. And what were those other discs you were telling me about? AIX?
Oh, and Botch, the "costing me some coin" works both ways. I should receive the following from Amazon on Wednesday:
1) Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road SACD (the DVD-Audio version is over $100 bucks!!!!)
2) Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms SACD.
3) The Beatles - Love DVD-Audio
Let me know of any other SACD or DVD-Audio recordings. And what were those other discs you were telling me about? AIX?
Thanks, I'll add silk road to my list!
Some of my favorite SACDs are:
- Volodos plays Liszt: absolutely THE most amazing classical piano recording I own, both musically and technically.
- Junior Wells, Come on in this House
- Spyro Gyra, the Deep End
- Karajan's 1962 recordings of the Beethoven symphonies, especially #9:
Some of my favorite SACDs are:
- Volodos plays Liszt: absolutely THE most amazing classical piano recording I own, both musically and technically.
- Junior Wells, Come on in this House
- Spyro Gyra, the Deep End
- Karajan's 1962 recordings of the Beethoven symphonies, especially #9:
garypf said:
AIX Records: http://www.aixrecords.com They don't re-release anything re-mixed from prior, tape or digital recordings (everything mentioned above
) but do new, original recordings in 24/96, very expensive microphones, and a naturally-reverberant space (no digital 'verbs, as most use today). The last three recordings I got have two different mixes, a "stage" mix wherein it sounds like you're setting in the middle of the band (fun surround, and great for listening to just a single instrumental/vocal part), and an "audience" mix, wherein it sounds like the whole band is in front of you, and the surround speakers carry just the hall/reverb sounds in them (more realistic, and my preferred option, although they're both fun!). The final results are recorded on Bluray disks, the bonus being they film the performances with unobtrusive, yet panning/tracking cameras. Because they're all new recordings, there's a lot of up-n-coming artists (the only names I've recognized are Mark Chesnutt, Albert Lee (blues) and the great Rita Coolidge :bow-blue: ). The disks are $25 to $35 each, its a guilty pleasure for me (when I was working construction during the summers, getting through college, after cashing my check on Friday I always hit the local audio salon and picked up a direct-to-disk vinyl record from Sheffield Labs, Mobile Fidelity, etc; then bought enough groceries for the next week! I still cherish those disks). Sorry to hear you had to pay >$100 for the Elton John disk (Funeral for a Friend will be a treat!). One of my top-five-of-all-time disks, Roxy Music's Avalon, was available used for $125 and was my "reward" for retiring my mortgage a couple years ago. A few others that may still be available are a couple Steely Dan/Donald Fagen disks, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and the first (only) Toy Matinee disk. When most of us were still over at S&V Forum, someone alerted us that Amazon had all their Spyro Gyra SACD's on sale for $5.99, I grabbed four or five. There are a precious-few artists that are still giving Surround a try: Tom Petty, Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, King Crimson. With home theater surround "HTIB" systems being so popular, I'm disappointed more surround music isn't available...
garypf
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And thanks for the info about AIX. I'll give them a listen. I remember the Mobile Fidelity discs I used to see them in local audio shops. Alas, stand-alone audio stores are few and far between. Never bought any of the Mobile Fidelity discs because I had a cheap crap all-in-one stereo.
Kazaam
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Botch said:
Yeah... I think there were tons more of the SACD pressed than the DVD-A for GYBR. If I'm not mistaken, it might've even been a single-inventory type of thing regarding the "deluxe edition" back in 2005.
And to top it off they had two "deluxe editions" of the SACD/CD version. Both with the same SACD mix, but one of the edition came with a 3rd disc (a bonus DVD-Video... a making of the album documentary, I think).
The SACD sounds incredible from what I can remember.
Kazaam
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Harry "Sweets" Edison
The way I came to acquire this album is strange. Years ago I bought a Teenage Fanclub CD. It was an import maxi-single CD, but from what country I can't recall. Anyway... When the Teenage Fanclub CD arrived in the mail, the paper digi-pak was shrink wrapped shut. Nothing out of the ordinary. But when I finally opened the case I found a little surprise. For in addition to the Teenage Fanclub disc, there was also a disc of this Harry "Sweets" Edition album, entitled "For My Pals". Now how exactly I got a bonus disc of trumpet jazz with my powerpop rock, I'll never know.
The way I came to acquire this album is strange. Years ago I bought a Teenage Fanclub CD. It was an import maxi-single CD, but from what country I can't recall. Anyway... When the Teenage Fanclub CD arrived in the mail, the paper digi-pak was shrink wrapped shut. Nothing out of the ordinary. But when I finally opened the case I found a little surprise. For in addition to the Teenage Fanclub disc, there was also a disc of this Harry "Sweets" Edition album, entitled "For My Pals". Now how exactly I got a bonus disc of trumpet jazz with my powerpop rock, I'll never know.
garypf
Active Member
Fell in love with the Flaming Lips again with this release. I think I bought it back in 2004. The album has special meaning to me. "Do You Realize" was the song my wife and I danced to at our wedding reception. This release also includes extra tracks and all the videos from the album.
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I have a couple Flaming Lips disks that I like. I did see them open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers a few years back, and couldn't stand them live! Odd how that works. :?