Post by aleg December 5, 2010 (21 of 22)
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hiredfox said:
The best? No question about that!
1 Sibelius 1
2 De Falla "Tricorn"
3 Tchaikovsky "Swan Lake"
these are re-mastered from analogue tapes.
Beware the re-masters from RBCD some are truly awful, e.g., Kleiber/ Brahms, Karajan's Schoenberg and Davis/Beethoven Overtures.
All the discs are supplied through High End dealers. Esoteric Japan only wants these discs supplied through Audio Stores and not through companies like Amazon. Indeed for Amazon the limited edition nature of the discs precludes them for re-sale.
Best source I know is Cool Gales in the UK who have an on-line store with all discs listed and you can pay by CC and the UK £ is still bargain basement for most. Even so don't expect 'cheap', Japan Inc apparently doesn't do fair pricing - so as long as you know what you're getting into....
http://www.coolgales.com/store/cart.php?target=category&category_id=153
The Schoenberg/Karajan is one of the best of the batch and it is certainly not sourced from RBCD
Quote from Esoteric website on the Schoenberg/Karajan:
"The master tapes were newly mixed down to a 96kHz / 24 bit stereo master for this SA-CD project, and transfered to JVC mastering studio for the final DSD mastering."
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