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In Reply to: vinyl outselling hi-res digital?!?! posted by troporobo on August 1, 2005 at 19:04:48:
The entertainment conglomerates that control music distribution have decided not to release very much popular music in the SACD or DVD-A formats.
In effect, they're strangling the format(s) to death.
I have an SACD player, and I'm sorry I wasted the money on it. The sound quality of a good SACD is just fine(though not as good as vinyl--still more compressed, narrower soundstage, etc). Unless you're a hardcore classical guy, or heavily into lite jazz, there just isn't that much available.
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It also seemed that both the SACD and DVD-A releases for a given artist were fairly often not very carefully chosen, sometimes obscure
and far from the better stuff, maybe they were cheaping out ?The SACD Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones Hybrid releases alone are IMHO worth the cost of a Deck with SACD capabilities, and it seemed to me that the SACD performance was often quite good even on some of the really cheap decks.
And judging from comments here perhaps SACD will soldier on as an Audiphile Niche format, I see MFSL just released an early Frank Zappa
that I'm definately going to snag.
I'm all innerested!
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It is just a MFSL gold CD. I emailed MFSL on this one a while back, and they told me they couldn't get permission from Capitol to do an SACD.
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I'm really curious how it's going to sound. The current Ryko CD leaves a lot to be desired, and I'm really surprised that Gail Zappa would let them have access to the master tapes, as she's really protective of Frank's music. Oh well, I'm willing to take a $30 gamble. If nothing else, it'll make a neat little collector's item.
...But I am a bit lost on that topic...
...The Ryko reissues were tinkered with, some more than others, by FZ when they were first released. Zappa was unhappy with the sound of some of them ans added and deleted various elements 9check out "Hot Rats," for instance - a very different album). On others, the tapes (Ampex) had allegedly deteriorated to the point that the low end was unusuable, so he rerecorded the bass and drums. Perhaps the Ryko masters were what Gail sold, while retaining the real original masters of the stuff.Does Capitol really have a say in this? The control of his stuff has gone through so many hands, it's hard to tell. I know they briefly distributed Barking Pumpkin, but I was under the (quite possibly mistaken) impression that, if anyone held some kind of rights to these early albums, it would be Universal, through Verve (which originally released them). Frankly (no pun intended), I don't think anyone but the family trust can give thumbs up or down at this point - unlike so many others, FZ was able to retain or regain the rights to almost all of his work.
You might be right there. I think she sold the rights all of his original albums, but I think she still owns the physical tapes. Who knows.
I haven't talked to you in ages. Did I ever tell you that I switched tonearms on one of my Thorens?
but the Dylan ones are patchy. Some of them (Blood on the Tracks, Blonde on Blonde) are pretty compressed and edgy. I mainly use them in the garage and the car. The Stones disks are very relaxed and sound very pleasant for digital. I'm not too familiar with the original LPs but the Stones SACDs get the thumbs up in a big way from me. Aside from that, for the most part SACD is a disappointment.DVD-a titles that I have tend to use a remix for the stereo track (Brain Salad Surgury comes to mind) which annoys me. The only titles I've liked so far are the Steely Dan and Fagen ones. They're still no match for vinyl, however.
It's very good indeed, but I like the vinyl copy just a bit better.
I'd be very happy with SACD if it received some support from the entertainment conglomos.
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