In Reply to: The Authorities could rename this place Paranoia Pass... posted by frankwm on September 20, 2016 at 01:29:18:
. . . why the CD and SACD reissues sound so much better than the LP did! As you no doubt recall from my earlier post on this thread, I mentioned "I used to have both of these [Tchaikovsky Stokowski recordings] on vinyl, and found them a bit diffusely recorded on that medium". So it's pretty clear what must have happened: when the CD's (at least in a couple of incarnations) and the SACD's were released, they went back to the original recording, rather than the re-recording inside the church. And I'm certainly far from the only listener to have made this observation:"The present performances were not served well by the long-playing record, as they were taped quadraphonically but issued only in cloudy two-channel sound. Pentatone's remastering of the Philips tapes has resulted in conventional stereo reproduction of great sweetness as well as clarity, and those with SACD players can finally hear the vivid four-channel versions for the first time. Stokowski often was ahead of everyone else in sound reproduction-and here again is exciting proof, discovered 30 years later."
-Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune
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- Wow - Sorry! - My bad then - So perhaps that explains. . . - Chris from Lafayette 09:37:26 09/20/16 (0)