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<\/a><\/p>\nFigure 2 – Blue Coast Records website page for their sampler. Notice the pricing model.<\/p>\n
Cookie Marenco believes in premium pricing. She was interviewed on NPR (I was part of that piece) because she charges up to $5.00 for a single song…and they can be as short as two and half minutes! At the DSD 64 level, you’ll pay $50.00 for just under 60 minutes of music. I didn’t purchase the BCR Sampler.<\/p>\n
I have to question the philosophy behind such extravagant pricing…and apparently others have too. Here’s a quote from the newsletter:<\/p>\n
“Some of you have been curious about how we price our music. For the last 6 months we’ve been offering a SUPER SPECIAL discount for new music on first launch. The discount lasts through two weekends. This is the best way we can reward our most loyal music lovers. <\/p>\n
Then we go to a MID DISCOUNT pricing for another two weeks. Still a great value. The following two weeks the pricing shows as full price but we offer our members a 20% rebate when forwarding the Paypal receipt. Rebates continue until the music slows in sales. We have also begun a “Featured Music Month” where the rebates are offered. <\/p>\n
We hope this pricing model works for those on a budget and those who want to better support our activities.”<\/p>\n
So the 20% discount reduces the price down $40.00 for the album in DSD. I can appreciate paying more for great recordings…and Cookie and Blue Coast do make very good tracks. But ALL of the various formats are derived from the same analog tape master, which has less potential fidelity than any of the delivery formats she offers. If these were sourced as DXD files like 2L in Norway, maybe I would feel differently about the very high prices.<\/p>\n
The new downloadable sampler from AIX Records will have 18 full length tracks and be available as a 96 kHz\/24-bit PCM WAV or FLAC file. It will be priced at $11.00 and come with a PDF booklet.<\/p>\n
My 41-track Blu-ray HD-Audio Sampler 2013 with three different mixes and HD-Video of every track can be purchased at the AIX Records site for $25.00. I know the quality of my tracks and I want people to experience them. In fact, I give the sampler away for free with any purchase of $50 or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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