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Shostakovich: Symphonies 1-15 - Barshai | hiredfox - December 10, 2024
We were fortunate enough to have Rudolf Barshai as Principle Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony for six years in the 1980's ('82/'88) when the Shostakovitch symphonies were ...
Allan Holdsworth: The Sixteen Men of Tain | Downunderman - Yesterday 07:07 pm
The situation looks a little more complicated to me. The 'Unofficial Releases' over on Discogs seem to be only for live bootleg albums. There are also plenty of non-bootleg ...
Bach: The Vocal Works - Suzuki | Mark Arnest - December 4, 2024
This is a great set if you can get it at a good price and don't already own a lot of it. But it's not all high-resolution audio. It all sounds good, but the works originally ...
Allan Holdsworth: The Sixteen Men of Tain | John Bacon-Shone - December 10, 2024
I certainly do not believe that there is any basis for accusing this label of being a bootleg ...
Shostakovich: Symphonies 1-15 - Barshai | ubertrout - Yesterday 02:39 pm
This is of course a fantastic set of recordings, and I've owned the CDs for a long time. However...these were digital recordings made 1992-2000 and do we have any reason to ...
Haydn: Symphonies 94, 95, 98 & 99 - Järvi | Contrapunctus - November 30, 2024
This album is also available on qobuz in DSD64 for the same price as the SACDs. I just listened to the complete album and quite enjoyed it.
Bach: Matthäuspassion - Leonhardt | Andre Vital - December 5, 2024
I‘ve just bumped into the SONY CD Version (2011), and it says that this recording was remastered to 24/96. I Wonder If this remastering/upsampling was the same used by BMG ...
Shostakovich: Symphonies 1-15 - Barshai | Dave Billinge - December 6, 2024
Given that my CD set cost less than £20 many years back, and given that the set is now on Discogs for just £2.18, this is very interesting indeed. But the cost to bring this ...
Hootie & The Blowfish: Cracked Rear View
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Comment by Downunderman - October 9, 2024 (1 of 2)
A pleasant enough listen through and through, though undemanding artistically and sonically.
It is somewhat flat sounding. A determinedly inoffensive presentation seems to have been the objective here and on that score they have succeeded handsomely.
It was SACD mastered by Ryan K. Smith, and he seems (I'm not familiar with the original 1994 CD) to have done a good job. Instructively the Average Dynamic range is now 13. When first released it was at 8. So, a big change and it sounds at its best at higher volumes as a result. For fans of the album, it will likely sound quite different to the original CD.
There is also the multi-channel Blu-ray version from 2001 to consider Hootie & The Blowfish: Cracked Rear View which has an average DR of 12. Again, I have not heard it.
Comment by analogue - October 16, 2024 (2 of 2)
A good sounding version of this huge seller.
Not much to add but for a 90's album.............decent all around.
I also have the Stone Temple Pilots core sacd and this one.......another 90's album was not so much to my liking. So I was pleasantly surprised with Hootie.
Cheers, Analogue