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July 16, 2008
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This review and all recommendations are 2 channel Stereo only, I have not heard the multi-channel program.
Mine is a desenting voice of the Blue Coast Collection as I was not impressed musically, although I was somewhat impressed sonically with this SACD.
This a sampler of Blues, Jazz and Folk ... more |
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April 21, 2007
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Paavo Jarvi finally let me down his Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 is a big disappointment.
Paavo plays it too slow and he misses or under stresses some very important accents though out Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. Plus Michael Bishop let me down as well as the sound texture is too thick, the high ... more |
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MA on SA   (5 of 8 found this review helpful)
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February 26, 2006
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This is the world’s first 3 hour SACD.
“This is no ordinary record, by any stretch of the imagination. Unlike other Hybrid SACD, the music on the CD layer does not correspond to that of the DSD layer! … since it is possible to put 109 minutes of stereo DSD on an SACD , as well as … 74 minutes on a ... more |
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December 15, 2005
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First let me say I am a huge fan of RCA Living Stereo recordings. I've owned them on RCA 7 1/2ips Reel to Reel tapes, on the later Magtec / Stereotape 7 1/2 ips Reel to Reel tapes, on RCA Shaded Dog LPs, MFSL LPs, Chesky LPs and Classic Records 180 Gram and 200 Gram LPs. The RCA Living Stereo ... more |
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October 8, 2005
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Jennifer Higdon is a major discovery for me and I will be looking for more of her music in the future. This SACD was purchased after hearing her "Blue Cathedral" which is the ending piece on Telarc's "Rainbow Body" SACD.
I would say Higdon's music is modern-impressionist-romantic as she has ... more |
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Today 06:21 am
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| I prefer the physical formats of SACD and DVD-Audio with booklets already printed up and stapled and put into super Jewel cases. Some download sights give you nothing but the music others will give you a PDF of the booklet and cover but NEVER the bottom sheet. Each page of the booklet takes an entire sheet of paper to print and you have to cut to ... more |
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Yesterday 04:21 pm
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| I believe it is error correction as implimated in standard "pressed" CDs. If I take a regular decent sounding pressed CD such as a Reference Recordings or a Telarc and load it into my MAC Mini using Apple Lossless with NO ERROR CORRECTION and then burn a CD-R it totally blows away the CD version.
I tried the uncompressed format AIFF and WAV and ... more |
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July 18, 2008
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| I wish that number was 100% use a SACD or DVD-Audio player. I could never understand the attraction of commercially pressed CDs and I have never liked them. Burned CD-R's are easier to listen to but they are still low resolution and I find cassettes as played on my Nakamichi to outperform either one.
SACD does digital right and the powers that be ... more |
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July 15, 2008
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| In defense of samplers may I say there are many recording companies and many composers I will never have discovered were it not for Samplers. Case in point two of my favorite SACD labels DMP and AudioQuest I discovered through Samplers. So I do enjoy Samplers and find them very useful. ... more |
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July 14, 2008
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| All the items on the Sampler are from 2 channel 24 Bit 88.2kHz masters, that is what Reference Recordings was using at the time. When the original CDs were released they were HDCD encoded and that version is on the CD layer. You can thank Naxos Hong Kong for this series as they are taking on the financial risks Reference Recordings was unwilling to ... more |
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