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In Reply to: RE: Ray Charles + Basie Orchestra : y'all need to hear this posted by Joel_Waterman on October 07, 2007 at 21:21:01
Great music, maximum points for effort but this mix has been run through the mill with digital filters to the max and digital mixers all adding to the loss of realism in sound and this lost realism is unfortunate.
Sounds dead, no genuine transiants of instruments just loud or quite, even the instrument do not SOUND REAL OR as if they are in your listening space, no real detail etc...the life has been sucked out of it. Allmost the same argument we had re result of vinyl against bad cd against SACD
This has not been produced as a high-end product but one for the general population with crap equipment to listen on. Very disapointing and not true to Telarc's old philosophy and quality of sound.
Again a great idea, very well executed re time put in and artist co-operation but not real, should have been engineered by audiophiles with audiophile quality not mass market in mind which is sadly a waste.
I would love to hear the original tape....that probably would sound real all be it lost quality. Most of the old tapes were fantastic recordings....i.e Barry Belafonte, the weavers [carnegie hall] etc etc
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