![]() ![]() When it was over I knew I had to buy the 192kHz 24-bit FLAC version. This streaming MP3 version impressed me like playing SACDs or 180g vinyl. I was so impressed with the sound quality of Spotify’s streaming that I wondered how could it possibly sound better. Listening to Moondance has taught me I was wrong to always want to just buy hit songs, and that sometimes a whole album is a coherent work of art that should be experienced occasionally as one performance. I later read that Van Morrison wanted to record the album live, and tried to make it sound like a live performance in the studio. It was like listening to a fantastic concert. I sat and savored the entire album in one sitting. The soundstage was huge, and every instrument was distinct, bright and highly textured. I don’t know if it was my new receiver, or the new remastered CD, but between the two of them Moondance sounded awesome. I fired it up and was blown away by the sound. ![]() I needed to not think about hit songs, but just find a great album.Ĭoncurrent with looking for a FLAC album to buy, I was setting up my new receiver to play Spotify and I thought, “Why don’t I play some albums from my HDTracks wish list to see if I can sit through any of them.” The first one I picked was Moondance, and as an extra surprised, Spotify had a recent remastered 4-CD edition of Moondance. Then one of my readers, paintedjaguar, chided me for not having the patience to savor a whole album, and I realized he was right. At the time I couldn’t decide for a number of reasons, but mainly because I couldn’t find a FLAC album I wanted to spend $25 on that I would enjoy listening to the whole way through. As I wrote yesterday, “ Pono, We Have a Problem,” I just bought a new Denon AVR-X1000 receiver that can play 24-bit FLAC files and I wanted to find the best album I could to test out high definition audio.
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