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It seems unlikely to me that SACD will ever support digital outs. . . just my gut feeling about the intent of the system re: copying, etc. I would definitely think it worthwhile to find a player that had a CD digital out, and a DVD digital out if you go that route. I just don't have the time to follow the industry any longer, but it would seem to me that if SACD is heavily adopted (and I think it likely will be/is beginning to be) then you're future proof for some time with CD and SACD playback as good as it can be. I'm a big believer in a quality source, and in the importance of a sturdy power supply and quality components in a source component; I would rank that high in what I would look for in a machine. I would at least look at a midline player, not a universal lightweight machine like the new Pioneer universal player that sells for about 175 dollars that I see people beginning to talk about elsewhere. Still, I'd be interested to hear the impressions of users of inexpensive SACD machines, ESPECIALLY re: cd playback and cdr playability. Just to bore you further, here are my amp and speakers: Select amp Radial RL-2 speakers

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Beautiful Austinite Lauren (Lo) Fine.

If/when I am/will be in the market, I'd follow Greg's advice and go for a dedicated SACD player and for quality. Personally I'm in no hurry to go to SACD, and am waiting to be able to afford a really great player, hopefully one with a tubed preamp output. I have 'hot rod' inputs on my amplifier (and I'm NOT changing amplifiers, I love my Decware Select!) that allow me to run an input right into the wire leads of my input driver socket, and this makes for a level of transparency that the normal inputs can't match. However there is no real gain control this way, and I don't want to add a preamp and another interconnect into the signal path, so I want to have a source with a preamped out. I have a Dynaco CD-2 that works very well in this role, and I can use the same brand and type of tube for the input tube of the amp and the output tube of the source (Siemens 6922). I'd probably consider a similar SACD player HARD. It's in the future for me, but I'm in no rush. I've worked hard on my system and room, and am very happy with it now, and enjoy just listening to music without obsessing too much about sound lately. And I still haven't seen too many SACD only releases I really really have to have, so I'm just chillin' til I have the kind of choices in players that I want.

Several weeks ago I had emailed Columbia/Legacy, then forgotten about it, and this morning I received this reply: The rumors are correct. A 4CD collection of the bands materials ranging from 1936-'50, including several editions of the band in numerous configurations along with cameo's on disc 4. You will see that no corners were cut and that the very soul of the music shines. Look for a release in September.

Those jazz photos are cool. . .but this one was truly a favorite for some time! Also there is a photo of my wife hanging upside down in gravity boots from about the time that I first met her that is a favorite. . .

A friend of mine would say "she'll clean up REAL GOOD."

I have vinyl of those that I want, the one that really tempts me is Planet Waves, which is my favorite of the lot! I haven't bought that on cd, and I've wanted to, so I may buy that when released. I have a nice tape copy of Blood on the Tracks, the other masterpiece here, and may buy a copy of that on cd down the road as well.

After trying for like the third time to read Hugh Schoenfeld's "The Politics of God" I have started "A Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Mecca" (Volume Two) by Richard Francis Burton. I read an interesting little book called "Pioneer Preacher" by Leigh Opal Berryman before that. A "memoir" of a West Texas woman and her late nineteenth century upbringing in the home of a Baptist preacher in a newly founded town. I thought it would be lightweight and it was instead very clever and enlightening in its way.

Yes, I think you should. IF their management coughs up a good enough rental fee.

My twelve year old nephew bought his copy at 9:01 yesterday morning and finished it at 3:06 am this morning! Very impressive. You couldn't pry him from it except for a fiftieth wedding anniversary dinner for his grandparents! And then. . .only briefly. I've tried reading them. . .not my cup of tea.

Well, the tape doesn't sound that great, when I've heard it, but we've listened to worse. . . it would be nice to have a better tape and of the whole festival, yes it would but probably isn't avaliable anwhere. . . too bad.

Hey Chuck, that forty minutes or so on tape of Shepp with the Quartet puporting to be from that Chicago festival show. . . are they?

I must say that other than rereading reprints of The Spirit, I haven't read comics in YEARS nor am I going to start to! But I have enjoyed the Marvel Comics movies and will be seeing the Hulk eventually (not this weekend; this weekend is a celebratory one for my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary) and really hope the FF and especially the Dr. Strange movies become made and distributed!

I seriously doubt she's the only female trumpeter/singer! The world is a big place! She's an interesting player. What I have heard of her work is quite nice.