That's what Audio Fidelity has found. The CTI catalog today is controlled by Universal Music Group.
Universal Music Fire & Audio Fidelity Multichannel SACDs
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That's what Audio Fidelity has found. The CTI catalog today is controlled by Universal Music Group.
Wow, that's interesting news. Is AF pursuing the CTI albums or is everything under the Universal umbrella still a non-starter?
Audio Fidelity is talking with all three of the major labels - Sony, Warner and Universal - about future SACD releases.
So we could see more Universal releases on SACD down the road. Time will tell.
The Rang
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Albums from the CTI vaults would be cool.
And not just quad, I'm OK with stereo too
And not just quad, I'm OK with stereo too
While we watch for SACDs from the CTI catalog, don't forget the Stereo DSD Downloads from the CTI releases over at eOnkyo.
They are very good!
A couple of years ago, King Records in Japan released 40 CTI stereo titles as both 192kHz/24bit PCM and DSD64 downloads. Unfortunately, e-onkyo, the site that sells them region locked their site shortly after so only buyers in Japan could get them. I managed to get a couple of albums before that happened and they sound phenomenal - flat transfers with no compression done on top of the line gear. I guess if you were really VPN-savvy you could probably get through their region blocks but I failed with the two that I tried.
I hope AF continues to pursue the CTI catalog, their quad mixes and sound quality are both top notch. As with the other labels they're mining, I hope they're not only able to dig up quad mixes but maybe find a few unreleased ones in the process.
I hope AF continues to pursue the CTI catalog, their quad mixes and sound quality are both top notch. As with the other labels they're mining, I hope they're not only able to dig up quad mixes but maybe find a few unreleased ones in the process.
Please have them get that 5.1 recording of Hot Fuss by The Killers that was announced back in 2004 from Universal but never brought out.
After I saw your comment about SACD's...and SHM-SACD's...I posed the question to Toshi Makiya of cdJapan about the end of SHM-SACD'S...his response was that he has never heard about it...but he did mention that very few young people in Japan own a SACD capable player...he also stated that the record companies feel the SACD market is very small...which is no surprise to us in this hobby...but the jazz/classical genres are still pumping out sacds...so SACD production hasn't ceased...
Universal never made Hybrid SACDs, but they did make Single Layer SACDs since those can be made on standard DVD equipment.
Sony continues to make SACDs at their plants in Austria and Japan today.
Same story here. The Elton John Multichannel SACDs I have are all Hybrids.
DennisMoore Jr.
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
Hey m8,
If you still have any interest in buying that region coded stuff you can prolly do it by a three simple tricks:
VPN isn't yer prob., that just supplies a secure connection, the store's servers will still see DNS servers which are probably out of their region.
Three tricks may let you buy from them.
1. Using a proxy server from their region(enter it into your web browser) I can help you get one if you need...
2. Use DNS servers from their region (entered into your computer's "Networking" section)
3. Buying with a PayPal account from within their region(try setting up a PayPal account and give them a Far East address.)
Tricks 1. & 2. might be enough. Using all three should definitely work.
This may be a pain but it would be the only way to buy from out of region. Damn lawyers...
Cheers!
DMJ
I was going to suggest maybe a reissue of The Isaac Hayes Soundtrack to Shaft, but I just did the research and found Stax holdings are owned by UMG. What a drag.
Are you sure, I thought Concord bought the rights to the entire Fantasy/Stax/Prestige catalog a few years ago?
http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/labels/
Paypal would want to match your address given with your credit card billing address. So I doubt your trick #3 would fly.
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Just came here to post this. Any time we complain about multitracks being lost, we should remember this story.
It’s also just a great piece expanding on the process of preserving recordings. Must read for folks on the site.
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It’s also just a great piece expanding on the process of preserving recordings. Must read for folks on the site.
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Fantastic read! And sobering 
"Some of [Steely Dan's] multitrack masters were moved to a different vault before the fire, but others were most likely destroyed."
Yes, can we guess which is lost? Great reading.
"Some of [Steely Dan's] multitrack masters were moved to a different vault before the fire, but others were most likely destroyed."
There was a bit of a silver lining to that section:
I wonder how many of those original five (Thrill through Aja) are left?
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