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In Reply to: To those who were looking forward to SACDs from Dorian and Reference Recordings.... posted by Russell on December 22, 2004 at 10:20:15:
but thanks for the link.and happy holidays to you, Russell...and to the Bears in San Diego.
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Happy Holidays to you, too, Jim!
with JTH about the possibility of RR doing some SACDs. After several days, he sent me an email saying that they had decided to do five of them (Norvo's Foward Look among them) and were going to begin negotiations with Sony soon.He said that then that he would have preferred to do them in DVD-A, except that it was clear that the audiophile market seemed to have embraced SACD.
I had read many years ago in TAS that the end was near for RR. It's just too bad that some white knight with a big pocketbook didn't come to their rescue sooner. Perhaps the merger with Dorian put an even larger strain on their finances, and quickened their demise. I don't know.
A lesson is to be learned from this, I think. RR concentrated too much on quality classical releases. Some of us audiophiles found great joy in that. But we are just a small minority of the people who enjoy good music along with their great sound. RR should have, I'm guessing here, released at least as much pabulum for those with the short attention spans as it did the classical stuff just to keep the red ink from flowing.
Those with short attention span are unfortunately more than catered for!!!
Luckily, BIS and others are still around,and with all the Mercuries and Living Stereos still to be released things could be worse.
I was also looking forward to Reference Recordings in true Hi Res!
would have been a winner. As coincidence would have it, I'd just snapped up the Music Direct closeout of the Farnon Hornblower vinyl...beautiful recording at $6.99 for a pair of LP's.Although I agree that concentration on quality-engineered classical releases was a factor, I don't know that pablum in and of itself would have saved RR. Their marketing has been as low-profile as their production values are high, and they simply never got--nor seemed to go after--much beyond-the-audiophile-beltway exposure for even their jazz releases (e.g., Norvo and Kitaev).
Oh, well...I'm glad I just yanked my long-in-tooth SOTA out of the closet and put it back on line.
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