Post by wolfE September 2, 2004 (1 of 21)
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to the first MLP-SACDs which will be officially released in Germany next week. I was impressed and enthusiastic!! IMO the best sound quality I ever heard from SACD. I compared the Rimskij-Korsakow and "Espana" with the CD, the Firebird with the CD and my LP (Olympian Series from EMI), and the SACD always was the winner with big distance: More space, more details, the same warmth and same natural sound that I know from LP and that I love. The direct-to-DSD-remastering is a great success for the Emil Berliner Studios, which I often criticized in the past because of their 96 khz / 24 bit - remasterings. I hope the series will be continued, as the Decca press release promised.
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Post by tream September 2, 2004 (2 of 21)
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I placed my order yesterday for the entire RCA series and the entire MLP series. I talked to the folks where I placed the order (Acoustic Sounds) who told me they have an enormous order list for these SACD's (in the US, both are on preorder status). I trust that this will encourage these labels to give us more, despite the Dual Disc announcement (actually I can't imagine why I would want to buy a Dual Disc, but I have to understand this a little better). I hope that other labels will also be encouraged.
BTW, this will be the fourth version of "Ancient Airs and Dances" that I will buy-I had the open reel, a reissue of the LP, the RBCD and now the SACD. Still have the open reel and the RBCD-I can do an A/B with the RBCD and the SACD, but unfortunately it has been many years since I've had an open reel deck.
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Post by zeus September 2, 2004 (3 of 21)
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Post by wn September 2, 2004 (4 of 21)
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wolfE said:
Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to the first MLP-SACDs which will be officially released in Germany next week. I was impressed and enthusiastic!! IMO the best sound quality I ever heard from SACD. I compared the Rimskij-Korsakow and "Espana" with the CD, the Firebird with the CD and my LP (Olympian Series from EMI), and the SACD always was the winner with big distance: More space, more details, the same warmth and same natural sound that I know from LP and that I love. The direct-to-DSD-remastering is a great success for the Emil Berliner Studios, which I often criticized in the past because of their 96 khz / 24 bit - remasterings. I hope the series will be continued, as the Decca press release promised.
Very interesting conclusion because this is how I finally expect the sound from these SACD releases. I have ordered the entire batch and are counting the days until I get them delivered. I also hope that the commercial success will be big enough to convince Decca to continue with the MLP series perhaps even in shorter intervals.
Kind Regards.
- Wilfried
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Post by seth September 3, 2004 (5 of 21)
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wolfE said:
IMO the best sound quality I ever heard from SACD.
Compared to what SACDs?
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Post by wolfE September 5, 2004 (6 of 21)
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seth said:
Compared to what SACDs?
Regarding the naturalness of the instruments charakter, which in German is called "Klangfarbe" (does the word "sound colour" exist in English?), these analogue-to-DSD-remasterings seem to be better than many of my other classical DSD-recorded or analogue-remastered SACDs, which are great and which I also like very much: SACDs produced by Polyhymnia, that means Pentatone, Philips and Caro Mitis; also Telarc, BIS, some of the analogue transfers from Sony, to name some of my collection. A bad example are the early Deutsche Grammophone remasterings using 96 khz/ 24 bit - copies, which are disappointing. Last week I received the Traviata of Kleiber - one of the reference interpretations, but it was remastered using a PCM-copy, and so it sounds, no improvement over the last CD-re-issue using "Original image bit processing".
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Post by mdt September 5, 2004 (7 of 21)
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wolfE said:
Regarding the naturalness of the instruments charakter, which in German is called "Klangfarbe" (does the word "sound colour" exist in English?), these analogue-to-DSD-remasterings seem to be better than many of my other classical DSD-recorded or analogue-remastered SACDs, which are great and which I also like very much: SACDs produced by Polyhymnia, that means Pentatone, Philips and Caro Mitis; also Telarc, BIS, some of the analogue transfers from Sony, to name some of my collection. A bad example are the early Deutsche Grammophone remasterings using 96 khz/ 24 bit - copies, which are disappointing. Last week I received the Traviata of Kleiber - one of the reference interpretations, but it was remastered using a PCM-copy, and so it sounds, no improvement over the last CD-re-issue using "Original image bit processing".
Klangfarbe=timbre
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Post by Johnno September 5, 2004 (8 of 21)
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I've earmarked five of the MLPs (that's including the Howard Hanson 1st and 2nd symphonies from the second batch) to order
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Post by Johnno September 11, 2004 (9 of 21)
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I've just ordered four of the first five MLP SACDs (two copies of each -- the others being for my brother) from CDZone in the UK. I thought £9.30 was a pretty good price per disc. I might get the Starker/Bach Cello Suites later but neither of us knows the music. The other four are however, superb and definitely familiar fare.
I have been advised by Acoustic Sounds that the RCA "Living Stereo" SACD set should be despatched this week. I'm really excited about it.
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Post by zeus September 11, 2004 (10 of 21)
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Johnno said:
I've just ordered four of the first five MLP SACDs (two copies of each -- the others being for my brother) from CDZone in the UK. I thought £9.30 was a pretty good price per disc. I might get the Starker/Bach Cello Suites later but neither of us knows the music. The other four are however, superb and definitely familiar fare.
I have been advised by Acoustic Sounds that the RCA "Living Stereo" SACD set should be despatched this week. I'm really excited about it.
Given that both CDZone and Acoustic Sounds are charging more for these discs than the vendors linked from this site, it seems somewhat perverse (and ultimately detrimental to the site's ongoing existence) to repeatedly promote the fact that you've gone out of your way *not* to buy from this site. Ultimately, whether you do so or not is up to you:
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