"What you seem to be saying is that you've never heard music played back on anything significantly better than a cheap Best Buy stereo."
What you're revealing is a serious reading-comprehension deficit.
"..that warrant anything better than a cheap Best Buy stereo." shows that you're also a bit out of touch."
Overly broad, perhaps, but essentially true and becoming more so by the day. Yes, there are specialist vendors, but they can offer only a tiny fraction of popular music. And the one you linked to offers (amongst smaller-label issues) pressings from major labels, which are often wrecked even if they're sold in "audiophile" formats like DVD-Audio or SACD. Have you checked out the remaster of Brothers in Arms? Incredibly, this digital recording (which was once included with Sony CD players as a demonstration of digital dynamic range) was dynamically COMPRESSED for "audiophile" reissue.
That's how out of touch the record industry is, and the worst part is that there's no way we'll ever get the record companies or the consumers to recognize this widespread but esoteric-sounding scourge.
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"What you seem to be saying is that you've never heard music played back on anything significantly better than a cheap Best Buy stereo."
What you're revealing is a serious reading-comprehension deficit.
"..that warrant anything better than a cheap Best Buy stereo." shows that you're also a bit out of touch."
Overly broad, perhaps, but essentially true and becoming more so by the day. Yes, there are specialist vendors, but they can offer only a tiny fraction of popular music. And the one you linked to offers (amongst smaller-label issues) pressings from major labels, which are often wrecked even if they're sold in "audiophile" formats like DVD-Audio or SACD. Have you checked out the remaster of Brothers in Arms? Incredibly, this digital recording (which was once included with Sony CD players as a demonstration of digital dynamic range) was dynamically COMPRESSED for "audiophile" reissue.
That's how out of touch the record industry is, and the worst part is that there's no way we'll ever get the record companies or the consumers to recognize this widespread but esoteric-sounding scourge.