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Is there any good websites that also rates their sonics let alone the music?
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...then SACD.net is a place to check out. They use several regular staff reviewers but also allow registered participants to post reviews too. Performance and sound are reviewed. And, they deal with all genres of music.
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Though it has been criticized over the years, to me there is no substitute, in English anyway, for Fanfare magazine, in print or at fanfaremag.com. Lengthy and (mostly) thorough and knowledgeable reviews, and the same recording is sometimes reviewed multiple times by different reviewers when they feel different points of view are useful.
At one time the knock on Fanfare was that its reviews were arbitrarily positive in order to maximize advertising revenue from the labels. That is most certainly not the case in recent times. I have seen many harshly negative reviews there, and even more lukewarm ones.
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I dropped Fanfare years ago because of some caustic remarks about the artists reviewed. Really unnecessary.
American Record Guide is interesting but I haven't made a decision yet. Got tired of the gung ho writings in BBC Music Magazine and Grammophone.
2 cents.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
thanks for all the recommendations. I'm really interested in websites that deal with all genres of music.
Understood.
I was answering rbolaw.
I don't do a lot of reading from a screen.
Good Luck!
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
I hear ya, but sometimes I think we expect a bit too much from today's classical music review sites/magazines. I don't accept any of them as anywhere near authoritative, but I'm glad and more than a little surprised there are any left out there at all. At least they call your attention to some of what's available.
As for your comment about "caustic" reviews in Fanfare, no doubt you're right, but in the past others have slammed them for shilling for labels that give them advertising revenue and not writing negative reviews. I just see it all as informational and don't worry too much about some over the top invective.
Of course you're right. I use them mostly for informational purposes as well and maybe Fanfare has changed its tune(!) but what I read was overly nasty and I have little patience with the denigration of serious artists who have spent their lives trying to do the best they can, especially coming from someone who may or may not even play an instrument.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
Print magazines- Stereophile, TAS, HiFi+ and HiFi News & Record Review do.
Classics Today (www.classicstoday.com) rates every title for both artistic and sonic quality. There's a British site called Musicweb International (www.musicweb-international.com) that posts reviews daily. The site often provides multiple reviews of the same disc for a broader perspective--an interesting approach. The reviews on Audiophile Audition (www.audaud.com) tend to be brief. As the website's name implies, they focus on hi-res media focused at audiophiles.
I'm sure other inmates can and will add to this list.
I just discovered this new site:
http://www.newrecordday.com/
Haven't had a chance to look at it in detail yet, so YMMV.
Happy Listening!
DeeCee
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