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Recent comments
Mozart: Complete Symphonies - Böhm | Gordon Lilley - December 7, 2018
I had concluded that some Blu-ray Audio releases had been created from old 16 bit CD transfers. I looked at the packaging for the new Kleiber complete DG bluray + CD set and ...
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Bonus DVD) | John Broadbent - December 8, 2018
Why would Lucy In The Sky be on this album? Goodbye Yellow Brick Road came out in 1973 and Lucy In The Sky was recorded between '74 and '75. It was included, along with ...
Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | phil ugolini - November 27, 2018
a little better than japan issue bluspec 2. great album
Mozart: Complete Symphonies - Böhm | John Broggio - December 8, 2018
Re Kleiber's T&I, this was an early digital recording (and so would likely have been "taped" at CD specifications), hence the apparent discrepancy between the treatment of T&I ...
Mozart: Complete Symphonies - Böhm | Contrapunctus - Yesterday 12:29 am
After listening and comparing some free sound examples on jpc, I think that Symphonies 40 & 41 are the early BPO recordings - not the VPO version from mid-70s. (The VPO ...
Chase: Pure Music, Chase | Dave Lampson - December 2, 2018
The instrumentals in this remastering sound fantastic, but the vocals throughout are buried in the mix.
Mozart: Complete Symphonies - Böhm | Gordon Lilley - December 5, 2018
Thanks Contapunctus, I recently got the Kubelik Mahler Blu ray audio set and strongly suspect it is taken from old 16 bit red book transfers. I've only listened to the 1st but ...
Rachmaninov: The Bells, Symphonic Dances - Bychkov | Gerhard Schulte - December 9, 2018
I just ordered a copy and the SACD layer did not register at all, so I returned it to Amazon.I started looking around and found several references about this disc being ...
Comment by Steven Overkill - November 20, 2015 (1 of 2)
Accomplished 5.1 mix.
Comment by Jonathan Smith - August 29, 2018 (2 of 2)
Much, much better fidelity than my CD, which I found to be compressed and muffled.
As an example, on "Chain" the bass solo is so clear you can hear the bass strings vibrate.
I highly recommend it over the CD version.