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User Details - Russell
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Russell Low | |
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San Francisco, CA, USA | |
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Sony SCD-777ES SACD Player (modded by APL) Simaudio Moon P-5 Preamplifier Simaudio Moon W-3 Power Amplifier Dynaudio Special 25 Anniversary Edition Loudspeakers |
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orgrsl@mac.com | |
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April 4, 2012
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Count me as one who loves applause in live recordings. As a veteran collector of 'pirate' opera and symphonic recordings (all live, of course) where applause is left in, I'm very much used to it and I feel it's a natural part of the 'live' experience. It adds immensely to my enjoyment of the performance. I'm always a bit leery of so-called 'live' ... more | |
February 28, 2012
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This is great news, but I won't be happy until EMI releases the Previn/LSO Shostakovich 8th from 1973 on SACD. Don't remember whether it was an original quad release or not, but the time certainly was right... Russell ... more | |
February 28, 2012
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Yeah, until something like a fire comes along and ruins your whole collection, which is what happened to me 6 years ago. I didn't lose all of my CDs--only about 300 out of 5000 or so--but nevertheless many of them were long out of print and therefore hard to replace. Russell ... more | |
February 23, 2012
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Ralph Couzens removed the Reich album from The Classical Shop's hi-res downloads page last year after I ran an Audacity spectrum analysis and sent a copy to him (well, to The Classical Shop, who forwarded my letter to him). The spectrum analysis revealed that the files were brickwalled at around 22kHz. I posted about this experience in the ... more | |
January 12, 2012
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I've only had a chance to listen (via headphones) to the first movement and a bit of the second of the 2nd Symphony, but I have to echo Chris's words about the sound quality: it's really impressive, particularly in the 'blackness' of the background in quiet passages. Interpretively I was a bit surprised to see that Vanska has slowed the pacing of ... more |
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