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In Reply to: RE: Next she'll tell us she's sold all her Paavo Jarvi recordings posted by flyingdutchman on July 02, 2012 at 17:06:54
I had to sell most of my SACDs during the past year to pay rent and necessities. However first I recorded them to my computer at 24/96 using Audacity. They don't sound quite as good as pure DSD from my SACD player however they still sound excellent. I figured it was better to have 24/96 versions versus being homeless and living on the street.
I am waiting on my disability to kick in, it takes forever. In the meantime my income is $50 every two months, I do get food stamps. Rent is all that I worry about.
The Paavo Jarvi recordings were among the last ones I transferred to 24/96 and even though I have deleted them from my hard-drive with all the other classical works, I still have them on backup DVD-R's if I ever start to liking classical music again. So my remaining Telarc's are jazz SACDs to 24/96 AIFF computer music files.
Currently I have 129 albums on my hard-drive and they breakdown as follows:
Blues 5
Country 2
Folk 9
Jazz 51
Rock 49
Soundtrack 3
World 10
I still have 5 SACDs - all classical and all for sale in the Audio Asylum Trader.
4 24/96 DVDs - Jazz and world music and not for sale.
3 Movie DVDs - all for sale in the Audio Asylum Trader.
In the past I have never went back to music I no longer liked, I have tried though. As you may know I quit liking most symphonies over 5 years ago, with few exceptions such as half of the Mahlers, and a handful of others. Next I couldn't stand to listen to any Mahler Symphony and that was over a year ago. I found myself deleting more and more classical music, I seriously don't think I'll ever like classical music again, however if I do, you can tell me "I told you so".
Here is something else I should say, I have and love every single Rock and Jazz 24 bit music file on my computer that I either downloaded or copied from SACD or DVD-Audio. And before my complete disgust with classical music, I deleted or sold over 90% of what I bought as either not good enough sound, too boring or too atonal. With that high of a rejection rate at first I thought maybe I was too picky. However if one really loves the music such as in my case with rock, jazz and world music one can overlook less than perfect sound.
I now think my 38 years of exploring classical music was a complete waste of time. Today I listened to Duke Ellington's "Blues In Orbit" (SACD to 24/96 music file), "The Body Acoustic" (24/96 Chesky download), and Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" (DVD-A to 24/96 music file). I am enjoying music more than I have ever before. Dumping classical (for me) has been liberating!
"Happy Listening,
Teresa."
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... to hear about your health problems and financial troubles. Best of luck to you as you continue to push forward.
"He was one of those men who live in poverty so that their lines of questioning may continue." - John Steinbeck
"Happy Listening,
Teresa."
Well, for that, Teresa, I certainly feel for you because I know about the rent, lack of funds thing. I still buy an occasional disc, but am selling a bunch of stuff with hopes finances turn soon.
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