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Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5-9 - Herbert von Karajan | John Broggio - August 2, 2026

Maybe the master tapes aren't up to the required standard? (Not that this has ever bothered anyone with that frankly incredible tape wobble in the Wagner overtures set)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery | Downunderman - August 29, 2026

This 2026 mastering by Krieg Wonderlich is a great improvement over the the 2008 Joseph M. Palmiccio remastered version Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery which ...

Di Meola/McLaughlin/De Lucia: Friday Night in San Francisco | Paul - August 14, 2026

This 2026 Japanese hybrid SACD edition of this classic recording is without a doubt THE definitive version of this recording to date. I have the first SACD edition which was ...

Mozart: Don Giovanni - Iván Fischer | hiredfox - September 8, 2026

That's what we were promised so we must trust that the physical disc will be released soon, otherwiswe Mr Sachs will need to explain to this site why he has changed his mind. ...

Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 9; Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances - Honeck | hiredfox - July 30, 2026

Many of Ivan Fischer's recordings were regarded as idiosyncratic simply because invariably he brought a refreshingshingly unorthodox and exciting re-reading of works that were ...

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 - Tchetuev | wilbur - July 30, 2026

These six discs recorded by Igor Tchetuev would have been part of the finest Beethoven sonatas recording venture of all time had Caro Mitis not stopped physical disc ...

John Coltrane: Blue Train | Mark Werlin - August 3, 2026

Paul Brouns, congratulations on finding a copy of this out-of-print disc! As John Bacon-Shone said, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA are lossless compression codecs. The source ...

Mozart: Don Giovanni - Iván Fischer | hiredfox - September 8, 2026

These recordings are in DSD256 and will be available on RBCD. Chat GTP speculates that there is the possibility of all three operas when recorded being released as a SACD box ...

Vanessa Fernandez: Remember Me