Post by Johnno December 12, 2008 (61 of 84)
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I've been corresponding with Jack Lawson of Audio Salon, with the view of buying these recordings from him, and it seems that Esoteric was really intending them as "carrots" for customers who bought its CD/SACD players. When the discs become available in Japan, there is quite a delay before the export market is considered.
An article in my local newspaper this morning made alarming reading. The yen is at an unprecedented high, which obviously affects Japanese exporters, and Sony is considering laying off 16,000 employees world-wide as well as either cutting back or closing down products that are proving to be uneconomic. (I hope that doesn't include SACD!!) Panasonic is considering similar moves.
What that means is that these Esoteric SACDs are now going to be mighty expensive, no matter what.
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Johnno said:
...Sony is considering laying off 16,000 employees world-wide as well as either cutting back or closing down products that are proving to be uneconomic. (I hope that doesn't include SACD!!)
I hope not, high definition music is the future, moreover SACD's aren't that big cost generator for Sony, so they have to look for savings in other areas, maybe Sony will finally dead CD's as CD sales are dropping 20% each year bringing millions if not billions of dollars losses in sales worldwide, there's no future in low resolution discs...
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Post by tcdk September 23, 2009 (63 of 84)
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Alexandre said:
I got it last week and I strongly recommend it. The piano and the orchestra sound wonderful. There are lots of detail: you can hear and "see" through the orchestra and you can hear all the nuances and interjections of the piano. The lows are powerful and the highs are extended and clear, wih the exception of 2 or 3 ocasions, where I detect some congestion on orchestral tuttis. The sound is more analogue-like than the the sound of the Decca SACDs released by Universal Japan some years ago. Curzon's playing is very delicate, which I think is very appropriate for these concertos. The packaging is similar to the packaging of the xrcd's from Japan. I hope this will be the first of a (long) series of Decca SACDs from Esoteric.
I wonder if the congestion that you talk about may be caused by the fact that some peaks are clipped at full scale.
The disc sounds pretty good though.
I hope that they will do the Curzon-Szell Brahms 1
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tcdk said:
I hope that they will do the Curzon-Szell Brahms 1
would be great! I only have it on CD as the current SACD version is unfortunately OOP :(
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Post by tcdk September 27, 2009 (65 of 84)
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audioholik said:
let me look again, hmm... you're right, there is only an information on how they plan to release a DECCA Esoteric SACD Series, and the title of next release
but please check for example stereosound.jp ...
http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=pl&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://www.stereosound.co.jp/hivi/detail/newsheadline_2655.html&usg=ALkJrhhkDbjPQsdI3PJ4UVOkzlDSPxWEhg
My analysis indicates that the SACD was derived from the Decca 96/24 re-mastering that was used by Decca in generating the Legends series re-issue of the Curzon disc (468-491). A frequency analysis of the Esoteric disc shows exactly the same CRT monitor peaks in the region of 15500-16000 Hz as occur on the Legends CD - something extremely unlikely to be by chance, especially as more modern monitors do not have this characteristic.
You can make the Legends CD sound much more like the Esoteric by boosting at 70 Hz (about 2 dB gain), 400 Hz (2.3 dB gain), and 4 kHz (about 1.8 dB gain), use a Q ~ 2.25, except that the saddle will be about 0.5 dB high.
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Post by Peter October 27, 2009 (66 of 84)
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Post by Alexandre November 19, 2009 (67 of 84)
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Post by hiredfox November 19, 2009 (68 of 84)
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But where is the promised Kleiber Brahms 4?
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Post by Peter November 19, 2009 (69 of 84)
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hiredfox said:
But where is the promised Kleiber Brahms 4?
I don't think it's in the UK yet - we get stocks if no-one else wants any.
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Post by Peter November 19, 2009 (70 of 84)
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Peter said:
I don't think it's in the UK yet - we get stocks if no-one else wants any.
The repressed DGs are being shipped and are due in the UK during the first week of December, as are the Deccas.
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