John Smyth:

>OK, let me get this straight.:)
>
>No performance after 1960 is ever good enough for you guys, yet when
>a company tries to give you the best remasterings they can from those
>wonderful days of yore, no one will pay 'cause it's too expensive.  My
>goodness.

My goodness, I hope you're not talking about me.  I like many performances
past 1960.  On the other hand, as far as I'm concerned, SACD is quadraphonics
all over again.  Unless the price of startup significantly drops, these
wonderful performances will be denied to a large number of people.  Would
it have killed Sony to release "regular" CDs of this stuff?  It strikes
me as a rather cynical marketing ploy, and once which I hope will backfire.
Of course, I don't expect Sony to learn the proper lesson: the company
will most likely simply fall back on its "no interest in this music or
these artists" position.  It's a marketing strategy either clueless or
insanely reckless.

Steve Schwartz