Phild, I agree with your asessment. PA is following the footsteps of Clarity Audio who put out a good record by a good singer (Mary Stallings). Good as she was it didn't make me want to buy another for $20+ and I never forgot Ella, Billie, or Dinah while listening to Mary.
Not only do audiophile companies fail most of the time but they ususally put the blame on the consumer and not their lack of taste or mismanagement. They want to force what they like down our throats not necessarily what we want or like. The real music industry can do this and does as it has millions and millions of potential buyers. Not so with audiophiles, its just a big club in my view and way too classic rock oriented in the case MOFI and DCC. None of these companies have ever released any r&b of any significance or even blues (except Muddy's Folksinger). I'd pay dearly for a audiophile version of Sam Cooke's Mr. Soul or Nightbeat (which made a brief appearence no matter how mediocre) or some of the Atlantic catalog Ray Charles. I'm sure any self respecting rocker can name a Motown album or two as well. Instead we keep getting hit over the head with the same same ole now. I can't think of one decent classic rock album that hasn't been reissued at least once excepting Cream's Disreali Gears and the Hendrix catalog. PA might be good and Karrin Allison might be ok too, but for $50 they can keep the record and their day gigs.
But I'm willing to keep an opened mind. I do a mean Sinatra, want to make a record of me?
Not only do audiophile companies fail most of the time but they ususally put the blame on the consumer and not their lack of taste or mismanagement. They want to force what they like down our throats not necessarily what we want or like. The real music industry can do this and does as it has millions and millions of potential buyers. Not so with audiophiles, its just a big club in my view and way too classic rock oriented in the case MOFI and DCC. None of these companies have ever released any r&b of any significance or even blues (except Muddy's Folksinger). I'd pay dearly for a audiophile version of Sam Cooke's Mr. Soul or Nightbeat (which made a brief appearence no matter how mediocre) or some of the Atlantic catalog Ray Charles. I'm sure any self respecting rocker can name a Motown album or two as well. Instead we keep getting hit over the head with the same same ole now. I can't think of one decent classic rock album that hasn't been reissued at least once excepting Cream's Disreali Gears and the Hendrix catalog. PA might be good and Karrin Allison might be ok too, but for $50 they can keep the record and their day gigs.
But I'm willing to keep an opened mind. I do a mean Sinatra, want to make a record of me?