Blu-Spec CDs

Blu-spec CDs are 44.1/16 CDs recently released by Sony in a limited number of titles. As far as I know they are not hi-res.

Jax2,
Any mention of a price on the Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC?
I'll check out the article.

Rja - for the record, I wasn't implying Blu-spec were hi-rez, but the thread seemed to have moved that direction hence the input. I think the price on the DAC was around $4-5K - I'll have to check and get back to you.

Jax2,
I posted that only because this thread seemed to be going in another direction from the original post.
So far, seems I'm the only one who's posted that actually owns one of these. I'm anxiously awaiting delivery of a Blu-spec version of "Kind of Blue" (no pun intended) 8^). It's somewhere between Tokyo and Minneapolis.

Listened to the Blu-spec "Abraxas" last night. Sounds excellent although I'm not sure I prefer it over the recently released Mofi version. Although I could be happy with either one, if I had to pick one, I'd probably go with the Mofi by a very slight margin.

Still have Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited", Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" and "'Round About Midnight" to check out.

I noticed "Blood On the Tracks" is already sold out and it hasn't even been released yet (1/21/09). Abraxas and Tapestry released 12/24/08 are already OOP. Crazy! They sound good but not THAT good!