Re: You hit the nail on the head, DUI.

Posted by shandor (A) on September 10, 2002 at 19:56:57

In Reply to: You hit the nail on the head, DUI. posted by Guss2 on September 10, 2002 at 17:48:01:

I have similar feelings. When I was younger, I had some of their tunes in my band's playlist. Funny thing though, I have never owned an RS album, CD or even a 45! Never wanted to! I recently added an SACD player to my system, not for the SACD but for the quality of the redbook playback. There were 2 SACD's with the unit. One was Mozart, one was Sacred Feast.

I picked up a few more SACD's. Being truthful, I was not overcome with passion at the resolution of this new format. I did enjoy the Mozart piece quite a bit. Most of the of the others I listened to a few times and then stuck them in the rack, pulled out some of the CD's I really enjoyed and kicked back to warm in the glow of the improvement in playback quality the new player brought to my favorite music.

Then I saw the posts here about the new re-mastered RS albums. I read a few, then a few more. Finally drove to the nearest Circuit City store and looked for them in the rack. I spent a half hour deciding whether or not to buy one fearing that I would end up with yet another placeholder in the CD collection. Ultimately I bought one, Hot Rocks.

I had no idea that these guys I had listened to for ages were that good. Heard things I had never heard before. A wonderful complexity I never suspected existed in their music. I spent several hours just enraptured by the sound. This was what I was hoping for with SACD, (or DVD-A for that matter). It's about the music.

Strangely, it has reawakened my interest in Hi-Rez and the realisation that it's the music that one enjoys, played as faithfully as possible that makes this a fun, engaging hobby.

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Topic - Audio Asylum - oldmkvi 11:29:28 09/10/02 (17)

Come on down and contribute to the Stones/Beatles backmen debate. nt - Methos 13:07:11 09/10/02 (11)

Re: Come on down and contribute to the Stones/Beatles backmen debate. nt - oldmkvi 13:39:43 09/10/02 (10)

Hate Creedence? - Guss2 14:43:32 09/10/02 (6)

Creedence will be like the Stones to me; never bought th CD's - Duilawyer 17:18:06 09/10/02 (5)

You hit the nail on the head, DUI. - Guss2 17:48:01 09/10/02 (4)

Re: You hit the nail on the head, DUI. - Marc P 22:54:47 09/10/02 (0)

Re: You hit the nail on the head, DUI. - shandor 09/10/0219:56:57 09/10/02 (2)

Re: You hit the nail on the head, DUI. - oldmkvi 07:36:17 09/11/02 (1)

Someone else made the great point: everything about - Duilawyer 21:21:23 09/11/02 (0)

different strokes - tunenut 14:23:25 09/10/02 (0)

Yeah, it was better when Demery was around to check some of the most outrageous technical gaffes. n - Methos 13:48:15 09/10/02 (0)

Here, here! nt - Duilawyer 13:41:58 09/10/02 (0)

Re: Audio Asylum - Chris Garrett 12:52:57 09/10/02 (2)

Re: Audio Asylum - oldmkvi 13:50:33 09/10/02 (1)

Trust me......... - Chris Garrett 15:29:30 09/10/02 (0)

This is an asylum, not a website ! [n/t] - Audio Pharaoh 12:26:22 09/10/02 (1)

Re: This is an asylum, not a website ! [n/t] - oldmkvi 13:40:56 09/10/02 (0)

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Re: You hit the nail on the head, DUI. - shandor 09/10/0219:56:57 09/10/02 (2)

Re: You hit the nail on the head, DUI. - oldmkvi 07:36:17 09/11/02 (1)

Someone else made the great point: everything about - Duilawyer 21:21:23 09/11/02 (0)

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