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Buidling a Classical Library - MUST HAVES!
Good question Doug, I think that stays well within my intent, thank-you 
Buidling a Classical Library - MUST HAVES!
Thank-you to everyone so far, some great sources to look at. The music I've liked and have includes Prokofiev, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. I live in Minneapolis and try to see Eiji Oui conducting Minnesota Symphony at leas... 
Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list
Sugarbrie, thank-you for all the great ideas. I went to the public radio music store, www.thestore24.com and found 6 disks by Clifford Curzon and cd connection www.cdconnection.com with 10, if your out surfing and I could ask you to give me your o... 
Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list
Vinyl and/or CD, DVD-A, SACD, all formats should be concidered in that so many of us have multiple format reproduction capabilities. (JUST TO HELP CLEARIFY) 
Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list
I guess I should start with my own top five. 1)Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" remastered at the correct speed from the back-up tapes. 2)"Natures Realm", The Philadelphia Orchestra, Water Lily Acoustics. 3)Patricia Barber, "Cafe Blue", Re-mastered by ... 
SACD Players
What the hell does it matter? SACD players sound so much better even paying redbook cds. I just do not understand the argument at all. A $2000 player sounds better playing my existing cds than the $10,000 unit it replaced. Is it that you are so in... 
Has anyone heard Billy Holiday on SACD?
thank-you 
Cheap SACD Player or wait for DVD Audio?
Ral, both the Sony SCD-1 and Marantz reviews in stereophile have direct comparisons to upsampled and standard players. That was actually the major thrust of those reviews. 
Sony sacd "custom setting"
I believe the frequency response for SACD in the custom mode is 50,000 hz, vs 20,000 hz standard (hearing limit). If I'm wrong on this it will be corrected within minutes by great and misterious powers. The specifications of your remaining compona... 
SACD WINS!
The above is a quote direct from an artical at the Stereophile website. I've read numbers even higher at other websites. 180 saz you, 235 saz Stereophile, I say a bunch. 
Sony sacd "custom setting"
I called Dunlavy Audio and spent almost an hour chatting with John Dunlavy. Talk about customer service! I knew my amp and pre-amp would have no problem with the signal in that they are built to recieve and send that. The speakers were the unknown... 
1955-2001 Favorite Top Ten Rock Groups
Partrige Family, Sonny and Cher, Animals, Jackson Five, Rolling Stones, Monkees, Grass Roots, Beach Boys, Donnie and Marrie, Elvis. 
1955-2001 Favorite Top Ten Rock Groups
Cream/Blind Faith, Traffic, Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Greatful Dead, Who, Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers, Nirvana. 
The Beatles
Yea! please stay away Shubertmaniac. My 15 year old daughter loves the beatles, and the Backstreet boys. Or any band that sings love songs "to her" That's there apeal, love songs. It's not original, they just carried it to the next generation, and... 
SACD WINS!
YAWN! All I know as a peon guy who loves music is SACD sounds great, better than anything to date to my non scientificly trained ears. Thanks for the info Dustin.