Dylan SACDs next Tuesday

Patrick M · Postby **Patrick M** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:11 pm

Who is going to discount these things? CircuitCity.com has them for $13.99 each, plus a big box set for $250.

Buy.com has them for $14.99, and Best Buy...well, their website SUCKS.

Oh yeah, and these are DIGIPACKS. ARRRRRGGGGH!

Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:36 pm

I used the super-secret SH.tv code (go peruse the "Dylan SACD Box Set" thread over there for details) to order the box set from Red Trumpet for $176. That's about eleven bucks apiece.

Of course, I cheaped out and took the free USPS shipping, so I probably won't get them until Halloween, but it's not like I'm going to have time to listen to them much right away, anyway.

Can't wait. I've been waiting for a Blood on the Tracks remaster for what seems like centuries.

Ryan

Patrick M · Postby **Patrick M** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 11:46 pm

Rspaight wrote:Can't wait. I've been waiting for a Blood on the Tracks remaster for what seems like centuries.

Have you heard Tangled from the sampler? I've only heard the redbook layer.

I guess the New York versions are lost to the prophetical dustbin of history.

Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:06 am

No, I haven't heard the sampler, though I've heard good things about it. What'd you think of the redbook?

As for as the NYC stuff, we at least got some of it on Bootleg 1-3 and Biograph, and there are always the "real" boots. For me, though, the actual album is so burned into my brain that *anything* other than those versions sounds wrong.

Ryan

Xenu · Postby **Xenu** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:38 pm

Shocking admission: I have the New York boot on CD, but not the actual "Blood on the Tracks" album (I have vinyl, and I like most of you have been waiting for the inevitable reissue program for ages now).

Patrick M · Postby **Patrick M** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:11 pm

Rspaight wrote:No, I haven't heard the sampler, though I've heard good things about it. What'd you think of the redbook?

I'm optimistic. :wink:

I wish Best Buy or somebody would put all these out at $12 next week, though.

Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:37 pm

Xenu wrote:Shocking admission: I have the New York boot on CD, but not the actual "Blood on the Tracks" album (I have vinyl, and I like most of you have been waiting for the inevitable reissue program for ages now).

Yes, I've got a copy of the vinyl that was purchased the week of release (not by me). It's well-loved, but I can tell a clean copy would easily best the CD.

Ryan

Ron · Postby **Ron** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:44 pm

Well, I'm counting on those of you who buy the things to provide A/B critiques of SACD and redbook layers. I don't have a SACD player as there are so damned few titles I'm interested in. Dylan's another story. If the SACD layer *trounces* the redbook, I'll spend the cash. But as Dr. Ron's going to be taking possession of a Benchmark DAC [it's all the rave] within days, the difference between the two layers may not be as great for me as it will be for you guys and your inferior playback systems. Oh. And my computer *kills.* I don't have a car, but if I did it would certainly be cooler than yours. *And* I've been told more than once at the bathhouse that I'm, er . . . rather well endowed as well. You guys are cool, but I be mega cool.

Rspaight · Postby **Rspaight** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:31 pm

It's your humility I admire.

Ryan

Ron · Postby **Ron** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:56 pm

Rspaight wrote:It's your humility I admire.

That's *all*?? Oh. I dig your new a-va-tar. I'm a big Uriah Heep fan myself.