On the note of Intrada digital releases, is anyone making a running list of them? Perhaps including albums that Intada mastered and compiled but were released by a different label (I mean the right holders, not like Quartet or something doing a reissue on CD)
On the note of Intrada digital releases, is anyone making a running list of them? Perhaps including albums that Intada mastered and compiled but were released by a different label (I mean the right holders, not like Quartet or something doing a reissue on CD)
The sound quality on this is stunning! I’m hearing stuff I’ve never picked up before. AMAZING!
After all these years of only the LP quality sound (which I purchased from Virgin Megastore in London in the early 80’s) and the terrible sounding bootleg…this is THE release of the year/decade/EVER!!!
Thank you Intrada so much for all the hard work involved I’d finally getting this out to us.
This means for me there’s only one more Grail to come (and sadly I don’t think it ever will…):
I planned on getting the digital release, but now I think I will get the CD. I don't know why I've become so attached to 44.1Khz and 16-bit, but I guess I prefer it to 96/24. I know, I really should seek professional help!
Update! Qobuz gave me the option to download it in my beloved/familiar CD quality (44/16), so I went with that!
I planned on getting the digital release, but now I think I will get the CD. I don't know why I've become so attached to 44.1Khz and 16-bit, but I guess I prefer it to 96/24. I know, I really should seek professional help!
Many people claim they can't hear a difference. I can't. For me the physical package is the difference. It's worth $20+. A digital release would have to be far cheaper to get me to jump.
Update! Qobuz gave me the option to download it in my beloved/familiar CD quality (44/16), so I went with that!
You can also convert it. There's a program named Sox (and probably some others) that does it in a lossless way (reletively speaking), in a process called Demuxing.
I planned on getting the digital release, but now I think I will get the CD. I don't know why I've become so attached to 44.1Khz and 16-bit, but I guess I prefer it to 96/24. I know, I really should seek professional help!
Many people claim they can't hear a difference. I can't. For me the physical package is the difference. It's worth $20+. A digital release would have to be far cheaper to get me to jump.
The digital IS far cheaper. The Intrada CD set is $31.99. The 16bit/44.1 kHz lossless download on Qobuz is $9.99. That's less than a third of the price. Meanwhile the 24bit/96kHz is only $13.99 -- still less than half.
A digital release would have to be far cheaper to get me to jump.
Where I am, the digital is literally around 6-7% of the price, plus I get it today rather than waiting a month or longer. Unfortunately I have to buy on iTunes, as there are no lossless sites that sell here, but I can acquire more than 10 albums digitally for the price of one physical speciality release (depending on digital availability of course). As much as I love having physical media, it's really gotten to the point where I'm purchasing more and more stuff digitally, primarily due to economic considerations.
A digital release would have to be far cheaper to get me to jump.
Where I am, the digital is literally around 6-7% of the price, plus I get it today rather than waiting a month or longer. Unfortunately I have to buy on iTunes, as there are no lossless sites that sell here, but I can acquire more than 10 albums digitally for the price of one physical speciality release (depending on digital availability of course). As much as I love having physical media, it's really gotten to the point where I'm purchasing more and more stuff digitally, primarily due to economic considerations.
I am the same except for when it comes to James Horner. I am prepared to fork out for physical for his scores. Otherwise is iTunes for everything else or eBay for secondhand cheap!!
I am the same except for when it comes to James Horner. I am prepared to fork out for physical for his scores.
For me that applies to John Williams (Dial of Destiny excluded). Goldsmith and Horner are dealt with on a title by title basis. For example, I had to get Intrada's Willow and Land Before Time on CD but I'm ok with just having the OSTs of Sneakers and Mask of Zorro. For other composers I tend to be much more selective as to which expansions I purchase on CD, although premieres tend to force my hand (if it's a title I want that is - for example Bernstein's Rat Race).
