The Fifth Element and 80/20
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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).
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.
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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.
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.