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There is no universal obligation

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Jim Austin

In Reply to: RE: Did you know posted by larryLR on March 06, 2012 at 16:18:10

to fulfill our consumerist desires.

Today I bought the 50-CD boxed set of Mercury Living Presence CDs (not SACDs) for $99 from Arkivmusic.org. I expect to get tremendous pleasure from them despite the format. The Sousa marches will no doubt drive my wife up a wall, but I will enjoy even them.

No, they are not 24/96.

Jim

Follow Ups:

RE: There is no universal obligation - Tubeham 19:28:13 03/06/12 (2)
I'm heading over to the Arkiv site with my credit. 50 Living Presences CDs for $99? I'm in.
Now - HDTracks is a quiet scandal in the industry. They have been caught repeatedly by denizens of Computer Audiophile issuing tracks that are simply upsampled material. They have responded that they have to trust their source houses for quality checking. More than one member of Computer Audiophile has proven that said quality checking could be done, part time, by a high school kid with a $600 software program. Their response is beyond disingenous. That best way to deal with such folks is with a market response: never buy anything from HDTracks, or, for tht matter, Chesky Records. The Chesky's should be ashamed of themselves.

Edits: 03/06/12
- indeed. and now, - larryLR 22:38:48 03/06/12 (1)
  back to my vinyl ;D
  
  (trying again ~couple years)
  - RE: indeed. and now, - Bromo33333 05:34:34 03/07/12 (0)
    Sorry to call "sour grapes on this"
    
    But
    
    Aren't you throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
    
    "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"

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