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Recent comments

Van Halen: Van Halen | aubullience - August 25, 2024

I can't say it better than Downunderman did. IMO his characterization of it is accurate in all respects. And oh yes, misspent youth!

Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle | Downunderman - August 5, 2024

Not an OMR but MoFi seem to have got lucky with their source tape all the same. My experience of this album on CD has been of a very clean, slightly bright and thin sound ...

Foreigner: Foreigner | Downunderman - August 2, 2024

This one was released in June 2024, some 14 years later than the original appearance of this title on SACD in August 2010 which was mastered/released by MoFi ...

Stravinsky: Symphonies - Slobodeniouk | hiredfox - September 8, 2024

Thanks for your excellent review Graham. I follow your advice on the Chandos recording and have deleted this one from my wish list.

John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard | Downunderman - August 18, 2024

This version was released in May 2024 and the jacket advises it is mastered by Ryan Smith of Sterling Sound. The Obi. advises it as "Verve Label Group 2024 DSD". It is a ...

Yes: 90125 | analogue - June 10, 2024

Hello. Hate to bicker with you....but if you will peruse the back of the actual sacd and visit the sites that sell this disc, you will notice a very small disclaimer ...

801: 801 Live | Downunderman - August 23, 2024

Released April 28, 2024, as a single disc SACD hybrid in a card sleeve. A bit surprisingly for a Japanese SACD release the disc is made/glass mastered by Sony DADC in ...

Yes: The Yes Album | Downunderman - August 6, 2024

Agree with Analogue on this one. Really surprisingly good.

Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Solti

Decca Classics 4853162 (4 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Opera

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde)
Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried)
Gottlob Frick (Hagen)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther)
Christa Ludwig (Waltraute)
Claire Watson (Gutrune)
Gustav Niedlinger (Alberich)
Helen Watts, Grace Hoffmann, Anita Välkki (Norns)
Lucia Popp (Woglinda)
Gwyneth Jones (Wellgunde)
Maureen Guy (Flosshilde)
Wiener Staatsopenchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti (conductor)