Another Grateful Dead entry here. I've got all of the Dick's Picks, Road Trips, Dave's Picks, miscellaneous live releases, box sets - plus all of their other studio releases. Some of the releases aren't exactly reference level listening, since they were mastering live to cassettes in the 80's. But some of the recordings made by Owsley "Bear" Stanley in the 60's/70's, Bob & Betty Cantor in the 70's are still stunning recordings by any measure. It makes me still want to have an HDCD option via CD player or DAC, just on the off chance that it actually *does* bring a little higher level of performance on the discs that are encoded with it. The Grateful Dead might be the only band still mastering CDs with HDCD encoding. They started back in the middle of the Dick's Picks run, and have continued on. Additionally, now they also using the Plangent system to correct for tape speed variations.
Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer
I went and purchased two more John Coltrane CD’s, "Blue Train" and "Traneing In", in spite of, relative to other artists, having way too many of his albums already. I do love his music and just now counted having forty-eight of his albums, not even including the ones he recorded with Miles Davis.
Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.
Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.
Mike
Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.
Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.
Mike
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