"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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I think HMV still hangs on in a few shopping centres and the like, some
specialist shops exist in places like Greenwich and Brighton, but Virgin
sold up to a company nobody ever heard of, lasted a couple of years and
then went belly up.

They only have themselves to blame though. People would go into these
stores, and the spotty youth in charge, no matter what the question said,
don't mate, have a look over there and went on texting his mates and
laughing at his own text jokes.

They had the stock but it was badly presented, and no staff knew the
correct way to file things in any case, so eventually they died out.
Brian



Same sort of thing in MVC (?) St Ives, Cambs - I asked the two (female)
assistants doing *not a lot* behind the counter if they had any SACDs a year
or two back and got blank looks from both of them. (No wonder SACDs didn't
take off!!)

Anyway I got one to try one (stole it from Shiny Nigel) and, having just
topped my stack off only yesterday with my Pioneer DV-575A which plays
SACDs, I popped it in (the only SACD I'm ever likely to own), found Miles
Davis' 'So What' and ended up making this comparison out of curiosity:

SACD:

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/SoWhat01.mp3

Vinyl (no declicking):

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/SoWhat02.mp3

Vinyl (declicked with Izotope, believe it or not)

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/showntell/SoWhat03.mp3


Enjoy!

@:-)