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Erik333333, thanks for the tip. i just finished to apply the ers paper as per your instructions. it was easier getting mama on papa then mama off papa, but the sound improvements are amazing. the duet now sounds clear and open, making the listening more pleasant. I am feeding an emmeline HR-2 by Ray Samuels Audio that powers my trusty AKG 701. well done and many thanks again. LL

I think Cookie has done an excellent job with BCC and for the owner of such project and many others, nothing will pay back the satisfaction to be the head behind such musical delicatessens. my point about the price was not related to the fact that it was not worth to pay for high class goods such the BCC that definitely steps up from the crowd because of the technical components and skills used to record, contrariwise I wanted to highlight the fact that the artists, that in BCC outperforms themselves, should be considered too therefore making their music available to a wider public. <br /> It is wrong to think that such work will not sell many copies therefore needs to be priced higher to brake-even with the costs. I think a lot of people are interested in good music and make it available to the general public helps to open the market. It maybe true that some musicians record at home using a MBP and ProTools but I have purchased many records from HDTracks.com (I don't consider iTunes a valid platform to compare) and albums made at Chesky records for example sound fantastic. Of course if David Chesky achieved all that with a microphone and a MBP, then he should make the world aware of his magic. (no magic in music, just art)<br /> <br /> It would be nice to see on BCC's page the option to choose more then just huge .wav file so to appeal to more customers and spread the word of good music around to all the people that don't own $500.000 worth of Hi-Fi. At the end of the day we all want the music and if it happen to me to listen to it on the go or in my $500 stereo at home that should be available and at a different price. The .wav could definitely be flanked by FLAC that nowadays is a standard. In this way the download and bandwidth is cut from the user end and from Cookie end too, that I believe she pays for the traffic she hosts. this should bring already the price down slightly only by doing just a technical distribution modification, then another option is to provide at a more reasonable price an [MP3 - 320Kbs] version that users can play on the go and in their cheap stereos where the master record would not make any difference, if played instead.<br /> this is of course is just my opinion but we are already in a time where huge changes are happening in the music market where Records company are able to jump the distributions channels and get to the customers with just few clicks. few years ago this was not possible. you never know on this new way of distribution who is going to be your customers and how much is going to sell your work for, all you can do is to make it available on a webpage to a variety of people from all over the world. Cookie, think in big numbers and give the chance to your products to get into people's stereos because it is worth.<br /> <br /> Many Thanks<br /> <br /> Luca

to be honest I never heard of Blue Coast Records until I saw the post on this blog. The music out of the album is fantastic, but don't you think that $4 per song is a bit steep in price, specially during this period where our economy is not at its best? that is almost $50 if you are not quick to get the first 3 songs for $3 each.<br /> It should be fare to align the price perhaps to HDTracks.com where a whole album in 96KHz 24bit is just below $16 including booklet and download manager facility.<br /> <br /> Regards<br /> <br /> Luca