Keith G wrote:

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
m...
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

Is that the SACD with this written on the back?
" ... this reissue was remixed on an all-tube three-track machine,
an old Presto much like the one used for the original recordings."


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Eiron.