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Audio/Video Gear and Systems => The HiRez Music Circle => Topic started by: SteveFord on 27 Apr 2022, 10:49 am
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It took me years of thinking about it to buy a CD player.
It might be a fad and fade out, who knows with these things.
It took me even longer to buy a BluRay player.
It might be a fad and fade out, who knows with these things but at least it'll play CDs and DVDs.
Then it took me a few years to actually buy a BluRay title.
Yesterday Amazon delivered a copy of The Jeff Beck Story on a BluRay disc so I'm finally going to take the plunge.
Wish me luck!
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I'm also a late adopter, why pay $3,000 for the latest and greatest when it will be $89.95 in a year or two. However you have me beat by a long shot. Enjoy the blu Ray. The experience will be better if you also purchase a companion device called a television. The latest ones can reproduce colors.
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This television you speak of, I will have to look into that.
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Use caution when looking directly into the TV, it will take control of your mind and cause you to buy ridiculously expensive things you never needed before!
You have been warned. :nono:
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Thank you for that bit of advice.
I will put aluminum foil on both the rabbit ears and on my head just to be safe.
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I know I can always get good advice here at AC. I am getting the aluminum foil right now... Also blue-ray discs and ray gun sound similar.... coincidence??? I don't think so.
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I'm really starting to like my turntable an awful lot more.
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Hey SF " do you still have the WTL turntable? That's a good one, is it not?
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Yes, I do.
I liked the Classic so much I picked an earlier square motor as well.
That design totally killed the Upgrade Bug, I never looked at them and thought this is holding me back.
They also never tried to get me to buy a StairMaster, a bath tub liner or wonder if Levitra is right for me.
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way, way back in the dark ages; my boss bought one of the new Sony's for a little over a grand. His boss and I were very good friends outside of work, and he was getting into the hi-fi game. Any we had to hear about how great these silver discs were everyday. I told Dave (don't buy one yet), so instead we went for a listen to this thing.
I rode with Dave leaving my car at his house so I was a captive listener. After about an agonizing hour Dave leans over to me and ask what I thought. I simply said if this is all it's got, then I'm good right now! It just sounded horrible. I told Dave to keep that turntable I set up for him, and maybe add a better cartridge or phono preamp later.
Five years roll by, and I ain't got one and ain't getting one. Dave goes out and buys somekind of Sony ES model, and it was quite a bit better, but his turntable still smoked it seven days a week. About that time I come into an Accuphase intergrated amp and just add an Onkyo T9 tuner. Dave shows up with his wife for a listen. Now Dave wants one! I quietly told Dave's wife he really didn't want one as they were over priced. He ends up with an Onkyo A9 and a T9 tuner (all he needed). That Sony CD player really stood out now once we figured how to set it up. I get a new turn table, and Dave is bugging me for a listen. Tell him he's got to work me a bunch so I can buy the tone arm! He did! So I have an Acoustic Signature Final Tool (still use it after 18 years (more or less). Dave and Bobbie drop by (she really has to go to the mall). Dave wants one really bad, and I told Bobbie he didn't need one! His CD player bites the dust after five or six years. The two of us buy Marantz 8260's and we are happy. Mine dies a horrible death, and his was dead about six weeks later. I send mine back to Marantz as it was still in warranty. Played exactly one month to the day! Dave buys the top of the line Sony (777ES) SACD player. Still has it. I buy a Jolida and I'm happy, and still plays well. I've retubed it twice, but that's about it. Yet the turn table easily smokes it day in and day out. I may never buy another SACD player again and just invest in a good streamer. Dave is still using that Technics D.D. SL1200 table. I did finally talk him into changing out the head shell and getting a new cartridge.
gary
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It took me years of thinking about it to buy a CD player.
It might be a fad and fade out, who knows with these things.
It took me even longer to buy a BluRay player.
It might be a fad and fade out, who knows with these things but at least it'll play CDs and DVDs.
Then it took me a few years to actually buy a BluRay title.
Yesterday Amazon delivered a copy of The Jeff Beck Story on a BluRay disc so I'm finally going to take the plunge.
Wish me luck!
Steve, I can't recommend Jeff Beck Live at Ronny Scott's on Blu-ray highly enough. The performance and sonics are both superb.
Welcome to the rabbit hole!
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Steve, I can't recommend Jeff Beck Live at Ronny Scott's on Blu-ray highly enough. The performance and sonics are both superb.
That is a great Blu-ray!
Another Jeff Beck Blu-ray:
(https://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=240105)
The performance of the Peter Gunn theme is very good.
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I have those two other Jeff Beck releases on DVD, that guy can play.
So many people hit a plateau but he just keeps getting better.
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My one and only Blu Ray disc showed up on 4/27/22 and today I finally steeled myself to watching the entire collection.
The experience was so overwhelming I was forced to put a fedora over my eyes and take a 1 3/4 hour nap to recover.
I can see there being something to this stuff after all.
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Here comes the Ugly!
The only downside to early Jeff Beck, is Rod Stewart. He (Stewart) is far outside of the groove of the group; he detracts from the music.
The above is an "Opinion".