In Reply to: SACD is one of many formats, none will dominate. posted by Ole Lund Christensen on January 23, 2005 at 13:19:16:
Nicely stated! LP's are useful and cheap and still must be equalled by all and any digital format. I just think cassette still has utility for car and home with high end deck and metal tape and for spoken voice/FM sources.I listened last PM to "Point 5 (half track mastering) Teldec DMM pressing RCA Red Seal, Rubinstein/Reiner cond. Chicago LP ca. 1956 stereo 3 channel vs. SACD RCA Red Seal, Cliburn with same forces ca. 1962 3 channel SACD stereo track in same hall. Different recording engineer but same general team. Admittedly different, but they were interestingly so as the LP was sonically very smooth and realistic and palpably real but the impact of the SACD was intensely more in the bass and timpani and percussion. But the whole hall ambience and color of the piece was preserved and similar in both. Rubinstein played it better btw IMO--Reiner is Reiner and CSO was great in both (Rachmaninoff PC 2, 2nd movement).
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- Re: SACD is one of many formats, none will dominate. - docw 11:14:47 01/24/05 (2)
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- Re: SACD is one of many formats, none will dominate. - docw 15:23:42 01/24/05 (0)