| Excellent transfer of an older ANALOG recording! (review from amazon.com) |
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This is a tranfer to SACD of an older recording. Yes, it is only 2 channels- stereo. However, on any decent system it has a very natural sound with the ambient information conveyed as only SACD is able! Yes, there is some hiss- an artifact of the analog master. It is not a problem for me. The recording and the performance are great!
Something to note: I have the LP, CD, and SACD of this recording. The LP always had a more natural tonality. The CD was always cleaner (being a digital copy), had a harsher top end, and a limited soundstage. Instruments lost their "roundness" and harmonic flavor on the CD version. The SACD is the ultimate: it has the "roundness", smooth treble, spacial detail, of the LP, and the clean pop-free sound of the cd. Simply amazing!
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| 2 channel SACD (review from amazon.com) |
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| I ordered this CD after listening to Appalchian Spring performed at the Symphony. This was the very first SACD I ordered after I got my Pioneer DV-45A. Now, the music is outstanding. It's amazing at how 3 dimensional and wide the music sounds. My dislikes are stronger, however. The CD, though it is an SACD, is only recorded in 2-channels! I ordered this CD expecting to get all 5.1 channels of music. My other major gripe is the amount of background hiss. Being an SACD, I would have expected there to be practically no white noise/hiss on the recording. WRONG! There is quite a bit of the noise that is plainly audible, and you can hear it at every quiet moment of the SACD. The music is outstanding, the performance was great, BUT there are only 2 channels to listen to, and there's way too much unwanted noise for being an SACD! If I had it to do over again, I would have purchased the regular CD version of this and saved 10 bucks.
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| Great performance, great recording. (review from amazon.com) |
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| This is one of the SACDs that can make anyone a believer in the new format. The performance is top notch to begin with, but it's the quality of the recording that caught my attention, even though I have other good recordings of these pieces. Instruments truly sounded live and spread across a 3 dimensional space. Hall sounds were distinct from the music - you could tell the hall was empty when the recording was made and you could easily time the primary reverbations. Every instrument and distinct sound seemed to exist in its own space. Only complaints are that overall sound is a bit bright, typical of the era of the recording, and the hall reverb was too strong, probably due to the empty space.
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