All ripped to my Core, eventually thanks to the mess Rovi made of the metadata.
Discs 2, 4 & 7 were identified as Disc 1.
Disc 5 was totally unknown & Disc 6 was numbered as Disc 3.
Fortunately all easily sorted with a bit of typing but it really shouldn’t have been necessary.
Doesn’t say a lot for the quality of Rovi’s work.
Anyway, from what I’ve heard so far, my £45 CDs sound the same as the 24 bit stream from Qobuz on my system so I am glad I didn’t fork out $105 for the HDtracks.
Before anyone attacks me for the last comment, I accept that the Nova’s streaming abilities may not be it’s strongest suit & that my Core’s WAV files maybe of the same or better quality here.
Enjoying this on Qobuz streaming, will probably buy it less than £17 for sublime members……we pay for this discount, so best use it.
Think they could have come up with a better cover though.
Been playing all night, some great recordings….£16.39 on Qobuz sublime for Hires.
It’ll be CD for me - I’m quite keen on getting the extra tracks from Alchemy and On The Night. The early sessions, perhaps controversially, I’m less bothered about.
The HDTRACKS 24 bit is available with a 25% discount code, so $78, or so.
In my system the 24bit is definitely worth having, but I may yet spring for the CD package, to get the documentation.
We started it last night. I am a sucker for anything live, and for anything Dire Straits. We have the Alchemy album on vinyl. Vinyl is still hard to beat for a Dire Straits live set.
And I am still a little pissed that they edited “That little faggot has his own jet air plane. That little faggot is a millionaire.” out of the recent “Money for Nothing” reissue. Just saying. Hard to rewrite history, and why bother? If I can own mine, surely you can own yours, Mr. Knopfler.
Having now listened to the whole set, I am pleasantly surprised at how good the '79 Rainbow concert is, both for quality of the recording & the content.
It just shows how quickly DS became a fully formed rock band from the time of their first exposure to the wider public.
Despite Mark Knopfler being aknowlaged as a great musician, this compilation, the DS studio output & his solo work do, in my opinion, suggest that as a songwriter/guitarist he is actually underappreciated whenever great modern musicians are discussed & deserves even more plaudits than he usually gets.
PS - Said by someone for whom Eric Clapton is my all time music hero.
Maybe I should have included the word “awesome”……since that appears to be the most used word on cough social media.
But on a more serious note. Following @Mike-B’s post I tried to get onto HighResAudio.com, only to get a 503 error (service unavailable). Anybody tried this today?
This does sound a good price to me but HDtracks $105 (before any discounts) seems very excessive.
I buy very few downloads &, for convenience, have always used HDtracks when I do so. Their pricing of this set will make me think twice, & check other sites, before purchasing from them again.
Hi Canaryfan, yes I saw the HDTracks price, they can sometimes be lower than the European prices. I also checked out ProStudioMasters, this was around $75, better, but still almost twice the HRA price
I think I can understand what you are trying to say…
On a serious note I suspect I was like many when Mark Knopfler released his first solo album & then several subsequent similar albums. Underwhelmed sums it up. I was obviously hoping for Dire Straits under a different name.
As the years have passed I have come to appreciate his solo output more & more & now thoroughly enjoy them all. Not as much fiery guitar playing as the DS days but magnificent story telling in much of his writing & some extremely memorable melody’s in beautifully understated guitar (& other instrumental) work.
Tracker is my favourite album of his, second favourite is usually whatever I am listening to at the time.
I saw him live at the old NEC in Birmingham about 2006/7 & couldn’t believe the sound he was getting from his guitar, seemingly hardly moving his hands. Clapton makes it look easy & Knopfler looks as if he is about to fall asleep at any moment whilst sounding like two or three guitarists at the same time!
Even without the discount, it’s less than $2 per track. Great value considering the SQ.
Prostudiomasters is offering it at circa $78, near $1 a track. I’m nearly 75% through it now and it really is a treat!
