If you ran your own audiophile reissue label, and could re-master and re-release anything that hasn't already been given the audiophile treatment, what would be at the top of your list?

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If you ran your own audiophile reissue label, and could re-master and re-release anything that hasn't already been given the audiophile treatment by others such as Mobile Fidelity, etc, what would be at the top of your list?

The Fifth Element and 80/20

I think John Marks has his dollars wrong. An ambitions audio system is around $10K, which is about what I have in mine. I know that many audiophiles spend more, after all, I've read about $60K amplifiers in Stereophile. But tell any non-audiophole even a couple K and they think your nuts. So if you were taking about a music teacher, what you really need todo is give them a system for $2K that will rock their world.

Imposition of "DualDisc" CD/DVD on consumers

I don't know about you, but as an audiophile who prefers Redbook CDs as my only front-end source of music recordings, I'm outraged and disgusted by the recently increasing number of digital music recordings which are being released only in a DualDisc, combination CD/DVD package. (http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=11667428).

Sony's Even Worser Week

Sony's Even Worser Week

As we go into our fourth week of coverage of Sony BMG's digital rights management debacle, it's a good time to review what all the fuss has been about. On October 31, Mark Russinovich <A HREF="http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-righ…; his discovery of a root kit&mdash;a cloaked file that had been inserted on to his computer's hard drive. Cloaked root kit files are popular tools used by malevolent hackers, so Russinovich was curious about how the files he detected had entered his computer. It came from <I>Get Right With the Man</I>, a Sony DRM-protected disc Russinovich had purchased and played on his computer. When he attempted to remove the hidden files, Russinovich lost the ability to use his CD drive.

Born to Run 30th Anniversary Box Set

This is a must have box set. The remastered BTR is a much improved sounding CD than the original CD release. The deal maker though, is the live DVD of a show from London's Odeon in 1975. I was lucky enough to have seen the band in those days in the Bottom Line. This set shows the E Street Band in front of the Brits. They seem nervous( what with the British press of the time being skeptical) but the guys are on f***ing fire,and by the time they hit Rosalita they have the audience eating out of their hands.

Radio Station Discs!

Aloha,

I just got my "KFOG Live From The Archives Volume 12" in the mail and it made me wonder what I might be missing.

KFOG is a San Francisco area radio station that releases an annual compilation disc of cuts by various artists who performed in the studio in the preceding year.

The Fi is quite Hi.

I also search out the WRXT (Chicago?), WXPN (Philadelphia), KGSR (Austin), and a Denver area station who's name escapes me right now - Live on the Mountain?

In general these discs have great sound and provide cool alternate cuts of songs.

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