It'd almost be worth buying the whole SACD surround setup just to hear Dark Side Of The Moon! But I agree that having two competing formats is bad for both. Re your David Crosby disc: There was a Crosby/Nash album called "Live"....is it that one? Great long version of Deja vu. Croz had another live post-prison disc "It's All Coming Back To Me Now", and he also did one for King Bisquit Flower Hour. There is also, floating around in bootleg-ville a tape of the show billed as "Dave and the Dorks" which was recorded in Marin with David backed by the Grateful Dead around the time of his first solo album. ps if anyone has a good copy of this, please contact me! Regarding Joni's BSN dvd audio, Jerry Notaro told me:
Joni's BSN, because it is a new recording, is quite different in DVD-Audio. The orchestra surrounds you, with Joni firmly planted up front and center. Very, very nice. But you pretty much have to sit in the sweet spot to enjoy it. RR > > It's a real 5.1 version by "longtime Pink Floyd producer/engineer" > James > Guthrie. I guess they couldn't persuade Alan Parsons to revisit his > crowing > achievement? Dunno if Waters or Gilmore were involved. > > http://store.acousticsounds.com/store.cfm?Title_ID=1053 > &do=detail&keywords= > newsletter > > That's good news for the 2 people on the planet who have SACD > players. The > rest of the world is sleeping through the revolution and that is why > it will > "fail". > > For non-audiophiles: This material will NOT be on the final exam. It > will > be just another Good Idea That Didn't Catch On like the Elcaset and > Beta and > Laserdisc and FM radio. (Okay, I slipped in a ringer.) SACD is one > of two > higher-rez formats. Yeah, there are combination players that decode > both > Sony's SACD and Panasonic's DVD-Audio. As you would expect it's the > usual > battle: Sony-Columbia versus the rest of the world. There is already > one > Joni Mitchell title available on DVD-Audio but no one on this list has > ever > reviewed it. There are no Beatles titles yet. The revolution will > not be > buying airtime on the Super Bowl broadcast. > > Lama > > np: a superb sounding David Crosby solo live disc. I found it in a > gas > station for $8 or something. The title is "Live" and on a label > called > "EMI-Capitol Special Markets". Cat #72435-24498-2-8 (c) 2000. The > dynamics > are intact and that, my friends, is half the ride. (That's what was > so > disappointing about the latest live one from the E Streeters. You > would > think that Sony-Columbia would have figured it out by now, but no. > Even > "Live Rust" comes up lacking in the dynamics game.)
