Classic Records keeps the DVD-A Faith

I am utterly unimpressed by this company. I ordered a NEW copy of this disc:

Slatkin/SLSOC
Prokofiev/Rimsky Korsakov Alexander Nevsky
DAD 24/96
DAD 1021

from a online shop but found out after a few months (my first listen) that the right channel of the last two tracks are defective. I emailed Classic Records twice about it and never received any response. Given the high prices of their discs I would not take a chance to by another one.

BTW, over the years I have had two defective discs from Telarc. In both cases they sent me replacement discs right away.

I had a problem with the Classic Records Skrowaczewski/Ravel set, posted on September 27, 2009 at 12:22:03

Chris from Lafayette
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One of the discs in the two-disc DVD set was defective - same defect on two different copies. Also, some of the tracks had the channels reversed. I assume this affected the whole pressing run (although all the reviews I've seen do not mention the defect at all - it's a kind of distortion which sounds as if an FM station is mistuned). A couple of reviewers did mention the reversed channels. I later got the MoFi SACD's of these performances, which were fine.

I did not contact Classic Records directly about the problems. The odd thing though, is that I actually prefer the sound on the Classic Records 24/96 DVD's (on the non-defective sections - which is, to be sure, most of the set) to that on the Mobile Fidelity SACD's - just slightly. The Mobile Fidelity SACD's actually sound great too.

If you've seen discussion on this board about previous releases in the Classic Records Everest HDAD reissue series, you'll know that there have been multiple threads about the pitch problems with these discs - most of us think it's due to the stretching of the master tapes (or, more correctly, master films). Nothing we can do about it - I guess those of us who are interested in this series are masochists to a certain extent. :-)

RE: I had a problem with the Classic Records Skrowaczewski/Ravel set, posted on September 28, 2009 at 18:23:10

Tony Lauck
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It is possible to correct tapes that have pitch problems, including stretched tape. It requires specialized equipment and technology, and might not be available for the 35mm tape used by Everest. However, if some rich collector wanted to provide the necessary funding to build the needed equipment, this problem could be overcome.

If you go to the web site below, you will find samples of what is possible.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

http://www.plangentprocesses.com/

Well, all I can say is. . ., posted on September 28, 2009 at 22:35:15

Chris from Lafayette
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I wish Mr. Grundman had had access/inclination/funding to be able to employ the PlangentProcess discussed on the site in your link. How long has this process been around? I see it was used for some DVD reissues, so it must have been around for awhile.

The thing that makes the Classic Records Everest reissues pitch problems difficult is that they are not regular and recurring - they're liable to just pop up out of nowhere.

Anyway, thanks for the info.

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