Have It Your Way

[richardfinegold]

Having read a favorable review of Thielman/Dresden Bruckner 8, when I investigated purchase options, I was amused to discover I was being sold in MP3, standard CD, SACD/CD hybrid, Blu Ray, and in the most expensive option, lp!
I will write DG and complain that it isn't offered in laser disc, cassette, reel to reel, 78 shellac, and Edison cylinders
It is nice to see a company that hasn't completely given up on Physical Media. I wish I was Warren Buffet and could afford to buy all the options to reward them, but we do have the monthly mortgage to make...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes - the new Abbado Schubert "Great" C major disc is also available on vinyl at a higher cost than the digital options.

(yes, Alpie - I know the recording is digital, so the vinyl should be described so, too - but YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! )

[umslopogaas]

This is not so surprising as you might think (apologies if I've said all this before, I collect lps and can never resist responding to posts about them). My local hifi dealer has at least five different turntables and a range of cartridges for sale. He also sells three different types of lp:

Secondhand ones from the sixties and seventies and occasionally the fifties.

Rather expensive (£25 - 30) reissues made in Germany of some of the very rare collectible originals that now sell for hundreds of pounds.

Brand new issues from pop and rock bands of their new albums, which of course they also issue in other formats and downloads. He doesnt stock lps of recent classical issues, I must ask him why not; probably its too small a market.

So, vinyl is not extinct, in fact in a small way it is flourishing. The German reissues worry me a bit, because they look so much like the originals that it would be too easy to mistake them for one, and I might end up spending two hundred quid on one thinking it WAS an original, only to find its a fake.

And collectors pay serious money. An original 4 lp set of the complete orchestral works of Ravel, conducted by Cluytens and issued on Columbia, just attracted a winning bid on ebay of £2400. That's a lot of money for four fifty-year-old lps!

[Roehre]

Yes - the new Abbado Schubert "Great" C major disc is also available on vinyl at a higher cost than the digital options.

(yes, Alpie - I know the recording is digital, so the vinyl should be described so, too - but YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! )

the coding therefore is DDA

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

the coding therefore is DDA

That's good.








(Joculette for Welsh speakers.)

[Roehre]

That's good.

(Joculette for Welsh speakers.)

[richardfinegold]

This is not so surprising as you might think (apologies if I've said all this before, I collect lps and can never resist responding to posts about them). My local hifi dealer has at least five different turntables and a range of cartridges for sale. He also sells three different types of lp:

Secondhand ones from the sixties and seventies and occasionally the fifties.

Rather expensive (£25 - 30) reissues made in Germany of some of the very rare collectible originals that now sell for hundreds of pounds.

Brand new issues from pop and rock bands of their new albums, which of course they also issue in other formats and downloads. He doesnt stock lps of recent classical issues, I must ask him why not; probably its too small a market.

So, vinyl is not extinct, in fact in a small way it is flourishing. The German reissues worry me a bit, because they look so much like the originals that it would be too easy to mistake them for one, and I might end up spending two hundred quid on one thinking it WAS an original, only to find its a fake.

And collectors pay serious money. An original 4 lp set of the complete orchestral works of Ravel, conducted by Cluytens and issued on Columbia, just attracted a winning bid on ebay of £2400. That's a lot of money for four fifty-year-old lps!

Yes, sloppy, I know that vinyl is thriving, and turntable sales are up. I was in a Barnes and Noble store today and they have a large vinyl section (pop only) and have eliminated their CD inventory. I have a nice vinyl set up in my two channel system that I have been listening to a lot lately, mainly because a neighbor has been giving me Classical lps that are in immaculate condition.
What amused me was that this offering was available in so many formats, from the sublime (SACD, Blu Ray, lp) to the ridiculous (mp3). I have seen some High Res formats that will throw in a free mp3 version, which makes some sense to me, given that mp3 cost virtually nothing to produce and distribute, and then the consumer that has shelled out for the expensive version has the conveinence of having it on their portable player.
As ferney pointed out, I do think it is amusing that modern digitally manufactured recordings are pressed on vinyl. If they kep the recording in the analog stage throughout, then it would be logical.