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Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan | EugenF - July 13, 2025

Indeed hiredfox, DXD or DSD will be the ideal for an audiophile, but 192/24 is better than nothing. Maybe they keep the DXD/DSD transfers in their vaults for another 60-70 ...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan | EugenF - July 12, 2025

Quoted from Presto: ' New high definition 24-bit 192 kHz transfers from the original 1975 master tapes.' and form JPC: 'The recording has been remastered from the original ...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan | John Broggio - July 12, 2025

I've not heard this but the improvement of the equivalent Britten War Requiem release is astonishing; it could have been recorded yesterday.

Breaking Waves - Broman | hiredfox - July 14, 2025

Intriguing release, should be worth a punt. Grace iWilliams s another well kept Welsh secret, like Sir Karl Jenkins who's compositions although outstanding and hugely popular ...

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 - Storgårds | Adrian Quanjer - July 15, 2025

John, I love it. ChatGPT can do wonders. Thanks for having it sorted. I use it, too, for drawing all sorts of info out of the net. AI can turn the pages faster than we can. ...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan | hiredfox - July 13, 2025

Thanks for the info EugenF. That is certainly a step in the right direction but is not DXD or DSD.

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 - Rubinstein, Barenboim | EugenF - July 13, 2025

I fully agree with Adrian Quanjer. And wanted to add another suggestion to the other side, producer/labels: make more accessible (aka lower prices) all these classical music ...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan | David Snyder - July 10, 2025

I agree the price is dumb, but it should be pointed out that the La Boheme release of the same type that preceded this sounded phenomenal; better than Esoteric. If this one ...

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