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In Reply to: RE: Analogue Production's RCA Shaded Dog reissues posted by bassrome on April 15, 2014 at 08:53:34
I decided to sit down and do some comparisons of the 3 Analogue Production disks I have - Pictures at an Exhibition, Lt. Kije/Song of the Nightingale, and The Reiner Sound. Here are my notes:
Pictures:
AP - very dynamic, great instrumental timbres but a little bloated in the mid-bass
Classic - a little leaner but still deep bass, more transparency
Shaded - 23s/23s - lean in the bass, not as dynamic as the reissues, lovely midrange
(perhaps the fact that the AP pressings are 200gm and the Classic is 180 could explain the mid-bass issue)
Lt. Kije/Nightingale:
Classic - very good
AP - more transparency, better transients, good bass without the bloat
I had never played this piece (I'm a professional musician) and didn't realize that the Perfect 5th (pizzicato harmonics) played by what I thought were two cellists is actually a cello and a double bass. The AP pressing finally made that apparent.
Shaded - 24s/19s - leaner, less bass, not as dynamic
Ravel (Reiner Sound):
Classic - good
AP - more mid-bass bloat, pizzicato basses are not as precise
Chesky - good but not as transparent or dynamic, transferred at a lower level but with a deeper soundstage, slightly leaner in texture, still very good
Shaded - lower level in the bass
I still think the Classic has it all over the AP pressing in the Isle of the Dead.
All in all I think the new pressings are good but I'm not going to run out and replace my Classic reissues unless I hear different or the music means enough to me to want to try another one out. I'm looking forward to LSC-2111 and LSC-2395, neither of which were pressed by Classic Records.
Follow Ups:
I've heard yet.
At least pick up and sample the London orange label Treasury.
It's a sleeper demo disc for the ages.
Many of the Decca Ansermet recordings were done in Geneva and engineered by Roy Wallace. They are almost all wonderful recordings. Can sometimes be a little bright like the Mercurys but very realistic. Anytime I see a Decca or London Ansermet recording in the used record bins I snatch it up. I have seldom been disappointed. Ansermet was a great conductor
Alan
I agree the Ansermet is quite nice both in sound and performance. But, Stravinsky thought so highly of Reiner's interpretation that he was reluctant to record it himself thinking it couldn't be bettered.
...I humbly think Ansermet "gets down" more in the dance riffs toward the beginning.
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