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..on specially priced titles-With the 20% off code HDblizzard20, and specially priced titles this week, you can get 40% off of several springsteen, dylan, simon and garfunkel, pearl jam, paul simon, santana, and miles davis albums and more.
Amazing deal.
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As if at this point in time any audiophile hasn't already owned several versions of those recordings. I listened to The Flaming Lips With A Little Help From My Friends colored vinyl and thought it was pretty darn awesome. And FWIW my CD quality copies of my old Neil Young records sound pretty much as rich and warm as the original vinyl it copied from.
It's hardly a deal even saving 90% to buy something I already own. Personally I wouldn't buy the vast majority of the stuff they are selling even at $5.
But alas why buy new music from new artists, or new music from old artists that I've missed, when I can buy the same music over and over again? I mean GD why not if I can save 40%? LMAO!
Give me rhythm or give me death!
And besides trying to threadcrap and shit on everyone, your point is?
Not only do I buy HEAPS of new music from current artists, archival releases, but also the DEFINITIVE versions of albums I deem essential.
But then again, you are part of the "good enough" crowd.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
"Not only do I buy HEAPS of new music from current artists, archival releases, but also the DEFINITIVE versions of albums I deem essential."
Then how about posting about these "DEFINITIVE" versions as well as those High Def downloads that have fallen short of such a status?
"But then again, you are part of the "good enough" crowd."
As if being a stooge caught up in a marketing hubris is enough to establish one as being better than the "good enough" crowd.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
I already had all of these from HDtracks that I was interested in.
One that is very good is Brubeck's Time Out(176/24). The title track is excellent. The instruments sound individually very realistic. The recording is a multiple microphone mix, not a stereo recording. As such it does not have a real sound stage. Otherwise this track would be demonstration quality. On some of the other tracks the drums, bass and sax are excellent, but there is some distortion on the piano. If I had to guess the piano distortion comes from an overloaded microphone preamp.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Great! I wonder how that compares to the original release and other audiophile reissues.I'm thinking about starting a Jazz collection. If I wanted to base it on sound quality should I go with audiophile vinyl reissues or higher res digital? I think original vinyl would be cost prohibitive. I haven't been posting on this topic was because of this desire, the thought of doing the Jazz in high rez, not vinyl, just came to me this am.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
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...with a net savings of 36%. I did it yesterday afternoon and their system showed the sale price and accepted the coupon. Thanks!
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nt
I tried to buy yesterday evening and all the sale prices were removed even tho' the albums were still listed under the "weekly specials" tab.
Feel free to report back on the quality of the titles.
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic 24/96 is far superior to the old CD that I have..... but I suspect this has at least as much to due to the 2012 remaster.
I haven't listened closely to the others yet. I found Bruebeck's Time Out to be very enjoyable on CD so it will be interesting to compare against the 24/88 download.
I don't have that JT album on my Mac and I'm not going to hunt down the CD in my basement so won't be able to compare that one.
Thanks again for the tip.
Thanks for the report.
All their "specials" are now full price! I guess I'll go see how much Pono is asking . . .
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I was just going to make an impulse buy, but not with the additional 205 gone.
Oops! Well they have rotating specials..I would guess there will be another set of albums at reduced pricing, but the 20% additional coupon will not be valid by then.
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Great deal!
I already own many of those titles including a few of them in 'hi-res'.
I'll probably get Toys in the Attic, JT, and Time Out even though I already have these three on CD.
Toys in the Attic in particular sounds not so great on the CD I bought nearly 30 years ago. It will be interesting to hear the 96/24 download.
Time Out sounds fine to me on CD and excellent on vinyl.
Oh, by my calculations the actual savings is more like 36% if I did the math right and still a great deal!
40%..36%...what's a few percentage points, right? Heheh.
If you have any of the original CBS Aerosmith CDs, you can now use them as coasters. Atrocious sounding like most of the Columbia and Warner releases from that period. All mastered from LP safety copies.
nt
I have a good number of them..if there are some you are interested in lemme know, if I own them i will give you a quality assessment.
In particular, I was looking at the two Simon and Garfunkel albums. I have some recent Paul Simon at 24 bit and one or two cassettes of S&G (which I can now only listen to in my truck) but not even any S&G on vinyl. Two 24/96 albums for <$25 is too good to pass up (unless you tell me that the CD versions are just as good).
I highly recommend the S&G albums. These are brand new remasters from the original master analog tapes, with no corresponding CDs I am aware of. I have them all at 192. If you can stretch for 192 I would, if not the 96Khz version are more than good.EDIT: There is it seems a Complete Albums CD box set that was released in November derived from the 192 masters. Have not compared.
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On the one hand, it's probably the best I've ever heard that album (didn't have a system this good last time I heard it, tho'). Crystal clear vocals and nuances in production that I'd not previously noticed. And on the other, I've never heard a recording with so much tape hiss. It's really obvious on the dynamic title track; my QB-9 lays it bare.
The 2014 192 (and 96) mastering is by far the definitive digital edition.
Tape hiss on BOTW is well known, and has been on every version I have ever had. It was especially annoying on the LP!
The QB9 is primo! I really wish Ayre made a DAC with an AES, BNC, and USB input. I would buy it in a heardbeat.
It has been a long time since I've heard these songs, wasn't aware of the tape hiss issue - lol.
Ayre showed a new headphone amp/DAC at CES with a "Toslink" input (I think that's the same as AES?). The engineer claimed it sounds nearly as good as the QB-9 and at a price point far cheaper. Maybe Ayre will introduce more affordable products?
For some reason, Bridge is the hissiest of the S&G albums, probably, I am guessing, because they probably bounced between multitracks.
Yes! Saw that Ayre product in the various CES reports. Looks nice.
PONO!!!!!!!phew, I almost went 24 h w/o giving NY a BJ
;^)
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LOL..funny, 20% off, and 40% specific titles from HDT a month after Pono launched. HMMmmmmmmmm.
we'll start seeing prices come down w/o having to use sales and coupons (especially 'cuz HDT quit sending me coupons/newsletters and never replied to my request to be added back into their system).
Hey Pono/HDT, what do you say to $8-10 for 16/44 and $10-12 for 24/88-96? I'd buy a lot more music at those prices (try new artists and re-purchase stuff I already have at 16/44).
I agree 100% with your pricing scheme.
However, yet AGAIN we go back to the rotten apple that is iTunes, where lossy albums are priced at 8-13 dollars.
but, as I understand it, the labels sold the files to Apple in full (CD) resolution and *Apple* threw out the "extra" bits. I see no reason whatsoever that Pono, HDT, et al. should charge *more* for 16/44 than Apple charges for mp3.
I do NOT know this for sure, but I was under the impression iTunes did not do any conversions, meaning they receive "mastered for iTunes" files already in AAC, and not the master files.
If somebody knows for sure that would interesting.
Say what you want about apple, but the fact hey convinced people to pay 10-12 bucks for lossy slop is skillful marketing.
In the end it is not who did what, not even who payed whom to do what. In the end it's what's in the contract, since this is all intellectual property rights, not material goods.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
In my trials, I could distinguish 24 from 16 bit but couldn't reliably tell 44 kHz from higher sample rates . . . I usually draw the line at 96 kHz (plus, I'm a cheapskate).
Haha..you will be thrilled with the 96 S%Gs then.
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