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gfraser\@(none) wrote:
How has upgrading you system changed your CD buying habits?

Well, recnely, it has meant I've been buying more DVD-V's of concerts than
CD-A's... :-)


Do you spend more money on demo disks? Do you buy stuff you don't
really like just becaused it is a 'DDD' CD, HDCD, SACD?

No x 2


Ever bought a disk just because you read some one had used it as a
listening test cd in a reveiw?

No

Can you honestly say you just buy the music you want to listen to,

Yes.

or has getting the best out of your system become an obsession? If Dark
Side of the Moon was only in you collection on a chewed-up C-90, would
it ever get played?

Have a copy on LP and CD-A. Can't recall the last time I played either, but
I have enjoyed them on occasion in the past

I'm guilty as charged, and my player isn't even working properly yet...
Being a young dance-aholic, I realised when I set up my kit last week, I
have only 3 CDs in my collection with real instruments in them; the
rest are dance compilations, most recorded as mixes from vinyl - hardly
the best demo disks! I've already ordered a stack of piano, string
quartet and orchestral disks!

Berlin Love Parade to Berlin Phil in under a week!

I recent years when one or two colleagues have asked about how to get
'into' classical music I've tended to suggest:

1) FM tuner. BBCR3. Add a CD recorder. Then record some items and build up
a collection of well-produced and played concert performances you like.

2) Buy BBC Music Mag and collect the cover discs. [1]

My view is that both of these give you access to a lot of excellent music.
Once you know what composers/pieces/artists you like, you can suppliment
with commercial recordings on your favourite medium. :-)

Slainte,

Jim


[1] I greatly regret that "Jazz on CD" magazine did not survive. The
articles were good, and their cover discs were a superb way to get into
Jazz.

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Can you honestly say you just buy the music you want to listen to

Yes

..., or has getting the best out of your system become an obsession?

Yes

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none wrote:
How has upgrading you system changed your CD buying habits? Do you
spend more money on demo disks? Do you buy stuff you don't really like
just becaused it is a 'DDD' CD, HDCD, SACD?

No, I bought a CD very late on, about 1996, simply because I couldn't
get music on LP. And I've never gone for those direct cut master type
things.

Ever bought a disk just
because you read some one had used it as a listening test cd in a
reveiw? Can you honestly say you just buy the music you want to listen
to, or has getting the best out of your system become an obsession?

Well, I'd have to concede a minor-obsessive disorder :-). But that
doesn't extend to listening to music that makes the hifi 'shine' -
rarely do that.

If Dark Side of the Moon was only in you collection on a chewed-up C-90,
would it ever get played?

Ah no, not on the hifi. CDs and LPs only - not because they sound
better, part of the neurosis! I've got thousands of mp3s I play through
an old receiver and speakers connected to the computer. At the moment in
fact. Sounds marvellous.


Rob

none wrote:

Being a young dance-aholic, I realised when I set up my kit last week, I
have only 3 CDs in my collection with real instruments in them; the rest
are dance compilations, most recorded as mixes from vinyl - hardly the
best demo disks!
I've already ordered a stack of piano, string quartet and orchestral disks!

If you enjoy dance music, stick with.

If your hi-fi is dictating your choice of music,
something has gone woefully wrong.

BugBear