hdcd

Mick,

Try here.

George.

I buy a lot of stuff from Elusive Disc

I don't know what shipping is to England, but I buy stuff directly from Naim and it's no more than buying in the US.

BTW - all Linn recordings are HDCD playback on the stereo layer. Fantastic recordings if you can find artists you like. I think the Martin Taylor guitar stuff is quite nice.

It appears to me that since Microsoft bought hdcd form pacific systems in 2000 that the number of cd's using it has decreased. Did they buy it to kill it? if so why?

or is it a case of sony and warners or whoever putting thier stall behind sacd and dvd-audio?

whichever it is we seem to be loosing as the latest Lucinda Willaims cd (fillmore) is not hdcd encoded whereas her other lost highway albums are.

Several HDCD albums in my collection are not listed in that catalogue. Short production runs? They don’t seem to be coming thick and fast (have they ever?) but just last week another little treasure popped up (or at least came to my attention – I don’t check the listings weekly). I’ve found them to be a mixed bag. Some better, some worse but none the same as the originals.

The hardest part seems to be finding the little bleeders and ascertaining that what you’re buying is actually the HDCD. Listings on Amazon and CD Universe (to name but two) are sometimes ambiguous, but so far research and cross checking (where necessary) have proved successful.

Cheers

Harry

I agree with Harry. No single definitive list seems to exist. A lot of remasters on the Rhino label light up the HDCD light on my CDX2. Evidence, a blues label, seems to have released a lot of stuff with HDCD encoding. Not every label bothers to put the logo on the CD artwork, so it's often a pleasant surprise.

I have a couple of albums in original and remastered CD versions, for example "Manassas", which I have also though to be Stephen Stills best work, and the HDCD version definitely sounds better.