Hey, ya'll. After working 11 hours today, I'm taking a little break at home before going back into work for more.
I just want to quote briefly from an article in Stereophile. The guy being interviewed is talking about how people have stopped listening to music: >>It's very consistent. People find CDs irritating, fatiguing, boring. Maybe it isn't even something as overt as that.... Maybe it's "Well, I just kinda stopped listening." People who used to listen to music a lot "just kinda stopped listening." At the same time, you see people who buy audio equipment getting more and more and more equipment- more expensive, more complicated: very expensive cables, D/A converters, this, that, and the other thing, loading themselves up with tons of gear, still not happy. My associates and I have discovered two ways to make this problem go away. One is the LP; the other one is SACD- if it's implemented properly..... <snip> My first experience with the (SACD) technology, <snip> from the time I played it back, it was clear that this was something special. It didn't feel ike digital. It felt like my old analog master tapes, basically - this clear, natural, enjoyable medium that suddently afforded the passon of analog and th convenience of digital. It had a profound effect on me>>> Mark Levinson, who's a musician too, talked about his recordings: >> We just lock the door and turn on one or two lights and play. I feel the greatest musical magic happens when musicians are playing together, close to each other, with no headphones, no glass isolation booths, no cue tracks, no amplifiers if they can help it. If we can just capture that in a very simple, non-invasive way, then we have a better chance of getting magic moments. We've had some fantastic evenings, and we plan a series of recordings that are basically just that - musicians making music in an old-fashioned way captured with two mikes and going straight to (SACD recording technology called) DSD. <snip> There are some recordings I made in the 70's that I think are musically significant, and I wanted to see what happened when we transfered them to (SACD technology). It was a miracle. I was deeply moved when I heard the SACD pressings for the first time. (Unlike CD) it's like being able to give people a near-perfect copy of my 30 inches-per-second (master) tapes for $20. (SACD technology) allows people to get so much more of what the musicians intended that it's staggering. When recordings sound so natural, you don't need systems with battleship amps and huge speakers.>>> Somebody say "AMEN!" Lama Refreshed and ready to go again..........
