Tower Japan have it listed on their site with catalogue number CHSA5294 - they are usually accurate and if correct that would certainly make this a SACD.
At about 6:30 into the second track, "Strange Meadow Lark" (2012 AP SACD, stereo program), Brubeck plays a chordal passage very forcefully. There was probably some mic preamp ...
Ah, completely missed the Kofman's in every way.
I'm not exactly short of recordings of the Shostakovich symphonies with the Rostropovich and Ashkenazy rbcd box sets and ...
This sounds pretty much like the record versions, I think. I say this because on both record versions (33 1/3 , 45) I have terrible distortion all throughout the piano ...
A caveat...
The 'secret' of the "Grand Opera" EMI-Toshiba series is that it never ever sacrifices the total quality of its transfers to avoid background noise in older analog ...
The 3 channels used to record this are put to perfect use. Generally, Sam's voice is perfectly centered. On the left we have the piano/keyboard, and on the right we have the ...
3 of 3 recommend this, would you recommend it? yes | no
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Comments (2)
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.
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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.