Redbook Keeps Surprising

To the original topic,...RBCD does keep surprising both in terms of RBCD traditional formats that are on the market as well as what I would consider RB variants/offshoots like XRCD, XRCD2 and XRCD24.  There are some phenomenal discs on my shelves (Cafe Blue from Barber is indeed among them) as are various Shelby Lynn and Melody Gardot discus and myriad others of all sorts of musical styles that amaze me daily as to how they sound. Part of it is the front-end i have is known for extracting every bit of detail there is precisely from the disc and the downstream system/cabling is chosen for its overall musical effect however, there is no mistaking that the quality of RBCD format pressings and the mastering that goes into them from many labels such as Venus Records, Stockfisch Records and many others has gone off the charts compared to ten, twenty and thirty years ago.  The format and peoples' creations for it have finally (IMHO) become audiophile-grade over the last few years....

zephyr24069

" ...consider this scenario; I buy a disc from a regular retail source, pay the prescribed market price, listen to it, don't rip it or save it in any way and then grow tired of it, and give it to a friend/donating it; is that a violation of copyright law as well?"

No, that would be perfectly legal. If the disc became a collector's item and you sold it for substantially more than you paid for it, that sale would be legal, too ... as long as you didn't retain a copy for your use.

Thank you very much for the answer on that; can I assume the same would apply to (after my death and therefore no longer using my discs) giving it all to my son or if he does not want it, to a music library as a donation?

Your son/estate/heir is free to sell or transfer ownership of the discs to anyone at anytime. But they can't also retain copies for themselves.

Thanks...that helps alot!