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OK, I know it would never happen, but I would love to be able to purchase reel to reel tapes made from the analog masters at 15ips on two track 1/4" tape. Ok, I will even accept 4 track 1/4" tape at 15ips! Oh, and I want them produced at 1/2 speed. Dreaming? You bet!!

Multi-channel SACD, with tons of Titles.

It would be nice to see DVD-Audio/DVD-Video used appropriately by the major classical record companies. I dream of a set of all Wagner's 10 major operas live from the Bayreuth festival in 5.1 (or better) on DVD-Video and DVD-Audio. Such a set would herald (and how!) the end of stereo. I believe 5.1 sound will be superb for opera where I find it particularly important to capture the ambiance of the hall (and the audience in moderate amounts and at appropriate times [for instance when something funny is happening on stage - what is a joke without the laughter? {Why are comedy shows taped in front of an audience?}]). What if one could choose where in the hall to sit by choosing different tracks/sides on the disc? Say center orchestra and center Parterre? Wow! That would be great! The sooner true 5.1 recordings of great opera performances are put out there, the sooner the advantages of the new media will become apparent. With subtitled, great-sounding DVD-Videos it may even be possible to convert a few more to the cult of opera lovers. As I'm dreaming of this, my first DVD-Audio disc is supposed to be on its way from Amazon.com. It is a recording of Beethoven's 6th conducted by Barenboim and released on Teldec. According to Teldec's web-site: "All albums released by Teldec labels will offer consumers the flexibility of being able to be played in three ways: first, in Advanced Resolution surround sound; second, in Advanced Resolution stereo; and third, for those who own a DVD-Video player but have not yet upgraded to DVD-Audio, DVD-Video compatible Dolby

delius from dcs

The resolution, transparency, and imaging of my Martin Logan Electrostatics with the efficiency and dynamics of my long gone and greatly lamented JBL L200's

Universal CD/SACD/DVD-A Player. The player should also be in the $2500 range.

This is MY wishlist for 2001. As it is a wishlist in December 2000, it WILL become reality in 2001. And the following items that are on my wishlist are (01). DVD Player (02). Dolby Digital Receiver, and (03). Audio Only High-End CD Player Now, if there is an item that I would like to get, but won't become a reality anytime soon, then that would be: (01). REL Strata III Power Subwoofer (x2) or (02). Vandersteen 2Ce Signature Speaker System. Nuff Said.... Any Questions????

A SACD+DVDA transport used with a dCS DAC coonnected to a Lavardin AP (eee.lavardin.com).

Review of Lavardin Model AP poweramp (www.lavardin.com)

My Audiophile dream is a simple one. To have concert hall sound in my house without all the cables, dacs, turntables and interminable cables and speakers. I want music on demand from a voice activated computer system. I noticed on TV Herbie Hancock selling a bose system that suposedly does all this ( well the concert hall sound anyway) so maybe dreams do come true ....

i would make my wish ! That the record industry,would care more about the recordings they make.So that it will be more easy to get good recordings(also from pop music)..

a big phat Burmester digital rig!!!!

that the industry will wake up to the reality of the DiAural crossover and what it will mean for an improved product at a saving to the speaker manufactures.

DVD-A comes to fruition as the only standard and music industry meets the challenge by recording everything in the new format.

my dream is that some day a manufacturer will create an itegrated tube amplifier that will be a class a stereophile recommended amplifier for less than a thousand dollars. yeah sure, when pigs learn to fly!

An end to over-processed and over-priced CD's.

To give away the worlds best NTSC to HDTV Up-Converter to a reader of Stereophile Magazine. Steve Wong TeraNex West Coast Regional Manager steve.wong@teranex.com www.teranex.com

My New Year's dream is for the industry to dump anything digital and go back to vinyl! No more disagrements on what digital format to use. No more overpriced discs that leave me cold. No more digital players (including some expensive ones) that go obsolete in a year. Yes, back to great cartridges at decent prices, reliable quality turntables that do not go out of date (they just get old!), and good-sounding vinyl with great music!

A new form of satellite delivered radio that is truely hi-fi (wideband @ 192kHz & 24 bit--not like the current ventures that claim marginal "cd quality").

I'd like to see the price of CD's/SACD's drop by 50%. Dream on!

That high end journals, talking heads if you will, would focus on proven technology and products over the ephemeral. It does not help to admonish readers to investigate for themselves. Indulgence in the high end is as much about paranoia than about music or the love of music. The persistence of publication who articulate our hopes and sensibilies to hype every new gizmo will prove to be self-defeating in the long run. Who needed the Versa analog front end when Linn and VPI abound? I angst for the suckers who laid out big bucks for the now extinct masterpiece. I know, I know. It is a fine balance between encouraging innovation and paying deserved accolades to proven products with staying power. But finding that balance is precisely the only reason that can justify Stereophile,TAS and other pretenders.

That the recording industry would abolish all copy-protection measures--permanently.

A system that would create a sonic hologram in one's listening room

Here's three: (1)hi end audio becomes popular with the masses; (2) copy protection that doesn't degrade the music is developed; and (3) a dealer opens near me where I can compare all the products I'm interested in.

That the future of digital doesn't go through a "Beta vs. VHS" fiasco. DVD-A and SACD can't both survive; it's questionable enough if there's really a viable market for even one of these to survive. Ideally, one universal standard should exist that everyone adopts, and that will permit hardware that is backwards compatible. And how about some sub-$500 players to make the idea really fly. If the cheapest SACD player is the Sony '777, then the product will forever remain a limited choice for the wealthy who would be interested in only a couple of titles anyway (ie- very few titles exist in SACD). Bottom line- the creators of digital's future needs to get out of their ivory towers and get real.

a reasonably priced combo sacd-dvd player