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Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts - Pappano | hiredfox - January 16, 2022
Hi. Just to confirm that I am a stereo listener as Graham recalls correctly. I will listen to the disc again, it's quite a while since my last 'audition'.
Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts - Pappano | john hunter - January 11, 2022
Will have to agree with Brian. Why record and release in MC and then ignore the spatial effects that the composer wanted. This is a great disappointment from such a well ...
Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts - Pappano | ged - January 12, 2022
According to Michael Steinberg in his book "Choral Masterpieces" Berlioz does not call for the brass choirs to be in the four corners of the hall. He calls for them to be ...
Berlioz: Grande Messe des morts - Pappano | Graham Williams - January 15, 2022
BRIAN SMITH you are quite correct in expressing your disappointment with the spatial effects on this recording, and I agree wholeheartedly with your findings. Those listening ...
Bolcom, Foss, Gandolfi, Golijov - Boston Symphony Chamber Players | hiredfox - January 16, 2022
Those were the days.
Eagles: Eagles | Downunderman - January 7, 2022
It's partly about the Australian GST and Amazon's refusal to apply it......don't get me started! That said though, it is also OOS at MoFi so it appears there is a 'mismatch' ...
Spain - Halasz | Mark Werlin - January 11, 2022
The BIS recordings of Franz Halász and of the duo Débora and Franz Halász, were produced by the artists. Although these albums were not recorded by BIS's usual engineers, ...
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 - Honeck | hiredfox - January 13, 2022
Thanks for this. I recall others had confirmed at the time Sound Mirror's involvement.
Mission of Burma: ONoffON
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Comment by Ben Leggett - November 26, 2021 (1 of 2)
I won't lie - I mostly picked this up because I'm a fan of MoB's early stuff, and the novelty of finding literally anything from the post-Boomer era of recorded music on SACD was too strong to ignore.
Thankfully, and somewhat surprisingly, this is actually a decent stereo SACD that is NOT merely converted to DSD from the 44.1khz source, like a lot of popular SACDs tend to be.
Comment by Downunderman - November 29, 2021 (2 of 2)
And if more encouragement were needed the average dynamic range figures favor the SACD.
The 2004 CD comes in at 8, whilst the (2004) SACD is at 11. Not the last word on SQ, but it is nice to see average dynamic range in double figures all the same.