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Berlioz Requiem, Colin Davis conducting, LSO Live label. All of Wagner's operas.
Sony announced several new titles for SACD release, including titles by Bob Dylan, The Police, and Pink Floyd, at the recent CES. What titles would you pick for the high-rez treatment?
Fine tunning an stereo system is hard enought, do it properly takes tons of money and time. Fine tunning a surround system, in a normal size room, I believe would be almost impossible if timbral accuracy, dynamics and other important parameters are taken into consideration. Buying a pair of musical loudspeakers is expesive enought, buying 4-6 speakers, plus a subwoofer, for a surround system with the same quality would be out of the reach of most audiophiles, unless I am missing something.
The Jimi Hendrix catalog, the Grand Funk catalog, the Rush catalog, the Led Zeppelin catalog, the Beatles catalog, the King Crimson catalog, early Wishbone Ash, early Black Sabbath (Ozzy era), Ten Years After: A Space in Time, ZZ Top: Tres Hombres, Fleetwood Mac: Then Play On, and Duke Ellington at Newport Jazz Festival (complete, in stereo).
I would like to see more contempary Jazz, and more R&B, and popular music! Classical music controls the new formats. In America the percentage of people that listen to classical music is very small comparied to all the other types of music. If the Sony wants this format to replace the CD, they need to sell to the mass of the people!
Like many people my age, I'm not really into classical or jazz. But I do like well recorded music. Thats hard to come by in rock and pop. I do own a sacd player, but unforturnatly I havn't found many titles I've heard of yet alone like. It would be great if the new bands out there or even in the last ten years would come out with some stereo sacd's. Dave Mathews Band would be awsome.
HELLO! I bought my favorites on vinyl and then on CD when they came out. More recently, I repurchased those titles when they were remastered. That's it, I'm done rebuying the classics. I may well buy a new format player whenever one comes out on top, but it won't be to repurchase all the old classics. It'll be for the new stuff.