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Post by sgb December 8, 2008 (2 of 47)
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I would buy both of these. Any others in this series? Available in the USA?
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sgb said:
Any others in this series?
currently there are 3 DECCA/Esoteric SACD's available
Manuel de Falla : El sombrero de tres picos (Ernesto Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande)
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Dvorak: From the New World (Istvan Kertesz, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)
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Mozart Piano Concertos (Curzon/Britten, English Chamber Orchestra)
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Post by hiredfox December 11, 2008 (6 of 47)
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If they are making DSD recordings from old tapes, the results will be disappointing to most SACD collectors as at the time these recordings were made neither the tapes nor the microphones could record the frequency and dynamic ranges that DSD can accomodate and to which we are now used to.
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Post by krisjan December 11, 2008 (7 of 47)
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hiredfox said:
If they are making DSD recordings from old tapes, the results will be disappointing to most SACD collectors as at the time these recordings were made neither the tapes nor the microphones could record the frequency and dynamic ranges that DSD can accomodate and to which we are now used to.
Are you joking? Have you heard any of the Mercury Living Presence and/or RCA Living Stereo releases? Some of those recordings are the best you will ever hear if you value natural musical realism. Next to a good DSD master tape, I'll take a good analog master tape any day and twice on Sundays.
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Post by mahlerei December 14, 2008 (8 of 47)
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krisjan said:
Are you joking? Have you heard any of the Mercury Living Presence and/or RCA Living Stereo releases? Some of those recordings are the best you will ever hear if you value natural musical realism. Next to a good DSD master tape, I'll take a good analog master tape any day and twice on Sundays.
I'm in full agreement, krisjan. I'm afraid hiredfox's assertions are way off the mark. Another example of fine analogue master tapes would be the RCA recordings of the 1950s, many of which sound superb half a century later.
SACD has many virtues but let's retain a sense of perspective here.
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Post by DSD December 14, 2008 (9 of 47)
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krisjan said:
Are you joking? Have you heard any of the Mercury Living Presence and/or RCA Living Stereo releases? Some of those recordings are the best you will ever hear if you value natural musical realism. Next to a good DSD master tape, I'll take a good analog master tape any day and twice on Sundays.
Yes indeed the Mercury Living Presence and RCA Living Stereo SACDs are superb and offer natural musical realism a lot of modern recording companies don't know or forgot how to capture.
In the area of great analog recordings well served by SACD I would like to add:
Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics, Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra, Gould: Latin American Symphonette
Utah Symphony Orchestra
Maurice Abravanel (conductor)
Vanguard Classics VSD-500
Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics etc - Utah/Abravanel
Virgil Thomson: The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains
The Symphony of the Air
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
Vanguard Classics - VSD 501
Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains/The River - Stokowski
Villa-Lobos: The Little Train of the Caipiria, Antill: Corroboree, Ginastera: Estancia, Panambi
London Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Goossens (conductor)
Everest VSD-512
Villa-Lobos: Little Train of the Caipiria, Antill: Corroboree - LSO/Goossens
Sadly all three are long out of print but they show up on eBay at sometimes reasonable prices. These went out of print when Seymour Solomon died and his children weren't interested in the company and sold all the assets. Artemis Classics bought Vanguard and released 11 SACDs but not these three titles. I have not heard an Artemis release so I can't comment on those. I don't know who bought Everest but some of them have been coming out on LP and DVD-Audio by Classic Records.
Anyway these three are some of the most musically and sonically prized SACDs in my collection and all three graced my "50 Sonically superb SACDs that will easily reveal the superiority of 2 channel SACD over any other 2 channel Digital format list"
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue39/sacd.htm
For master tapes I like DSD followed by well made Analog and then high resolution PCM.
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Post by Alexandre December 21, 2008 (10 of 47)
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Great performances on both SACDs and terrific, "cinemascopic" sound on the Falla SACD.
Zeus, why are they not listed on SA-CD.net yet?
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