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Posted by Teresa on July 2, 2012 at 19:33:23

In Reply to: Next she'll tell us she's sold all her Paavo Jarvi recordings posted by flyingdutchman on July 2, 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!

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