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Sal, a rare flower of beauty, indeed!

And Hero too. I never used to even imagine going to see this type of movie, but Crouching Tiger made me realize what I was missing!

This was certainly a beautiful movie. Going to have to spring for the dvd.

How's that song go? "She's Got Legs and She Knows How to USE them!"

No kidding on the employment part! The 'feel' of the cinematography and the story telling is different between the two directors, but I feel this compares favorably with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Mark, thanks for the detailed information. I used to have a few of these series of Commodore material on cassette, and thought they were Columbia for some reason. I love the music, just amazing stuff that Gabler recorded for that label!

I loved seeing this movie. . . . It is quite reminiscent of "Hero" by the same director, but I didn't think it was quite as good a movie, as the storyline and the narrative weren't quite up to that high level. . . . But it was a beautiful beautiful movie. The cinematography is wonderful! I thought the "Echo Dance" was a great cinematic event!

Hey Mark, wasn't that one of the Columbia Commodores (not Verve?) Anyway, half.com has it but it's expensive! (25 bucks). Great music!

When the series first started there was an article in Stereophile in which RVG was quoted as using dcs 24/96 converters, "Elgar" model if I am not mistaken. These are very good converters according to the pro and audiophile world! Since then he has talked a lot about DSD remastering in interviews, who knows he may be using a Sony DSD station or some such. The polarity issue is real if you ask me. It's a pain, but I'd rather go through that than listen to McMasters. McMasters in general just sound thin to me at work, and on both my systems at home. I don't have a car so don't have that listening experience.

What was new is old!

That's right, some of us! B-) Welcome!

I've been working for a Texas state agency for twenty years. THe last four have been hell as all our executive management was brought in because they are allied with G. W. They're womenizing pirates. Totally cannot respect them. I'm just hoping that eventually the tide will shift and we'll have competent management that really want to do public service and not enrich their friends. I've got under five years til retirement!

This earlier thread seems to finger Cadence as the best source? Venus thread

Cool, thanks for posting that; I'll have to look into it, I have an earlier cd.

There's not a dip, but I can shelve the treble down on the ribbon tweeters on my speakers by using wirewound resistors and I do lower the output of my tweeters so that the treble is less pronounced (I listen in a small room and I have to in order to get a balanced sound). Also in my opinion a lot of solid state amplification has "grit and grain" in the treble and I dislike that; I find my tube amplification to have a smoother and more tolerable treble. (I'm just not a solid state fan any longer after living with tubes for a decade; I've got a B&O system in the living room now that sounds pretty good--it ought to for what it cost the original owner, I inherited it recently--but I'd really rather have tubes, and I don't really listen to much music on it as my tubes sound more like music). The two lp burns that I have sound better than the Flip Conn to me on my system; the Conn sounds thinner and more digital. I really think that even if he is not using Nonoise, that the Sonic Solutions console imparts something to McMaster's work; I don't dig the sound. JVC's XRCD engineer has commented that he won't touch that console because it makes things sound immediately "digital". . . . I prefer RVGs because they don't sound as thin and brittle as McMasters. Sure there are some duds, but to me there are fewer duds and McMasters I find almost uniformly disappointing in their thinness. I know it's just personal opinion after a point, but I just lately listened to someone else's system with a Denon receiver and some Heresys and I'm so glad to be back to my system! Man it was bright and gritty! The owner thought it sounded great. Ultimately it's mostly subjective. I'd rather have Addey and RVG remaster, but I'm not the producer.

Thanks Free for All! I haven't had one in a long time. Went out on my first date with my wife to Giordano's near UC.

Man I'd love a Giordano's pizza! Tonight at the Armstrong household: Helen's wonderful sofrito!

That's really a good viewpoint. . . I listen to a lot of stuff from cassette tapes dubbed from private recordings, from scratchy lps. . .and am so happy to be able to hear it! I've tried to limit my rebuying of stuff for sonic reasons, b u t it sure is nice if you can buy the better sounding stuff the first time! B-)

Ah yes, likely.

As far as I know there IS no remastered cd version of Exile on Main Street. I haven't bought any of the new remasters; in fact Exile is the only cd I have of the Stones (have vinyl of many I don't listen to) and I'd have bought a remaster; it's my favorite.

Yes, I know. I still don't wear glasses of any kind, even for reading, though I'm almost 50. I guess I'm some sort of mutant. (Fish oil helps!)