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This is fabulous news for those of us who are pure Neil Young fans and audio freaks :-) Neil Young, well known for being an audio freak himself, has announced that he will launch his “Archives” on Blu-ray. The Archives project has been going on for a while, and will be a complete biography of Neil Young’s more than 40-years musical career. First out is the ‘Volume 1: 1963 - 1972′ a ten-disc collection including previously unreleased studio recordings as well as live performances. Release date will be sometime this fall. The 2006 ‘Heart of Gold’ DVD was fantastic! This will probably be even better!!!

Previously Neil Young has released many of his albums on DVD-Audio as his high-resolution audio format and I guess Blu-ray will be comparable to DVD-Audio regarding quality both formats supporting 24 bit/192 kHz in stereo, although it will not match SACD :-(

One of Young’s main arguments for using Blu-ray is the possibility to navigate the extras while listening to high-resolution music. He also plans to release even more extras via the Internet. To get this you will need a player supporting the Internet functions of profile 2.0.

Tags: audio, Blu-ray, music, Neil Young

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