In Reply to: Plangent system - Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 Detroit/Paray/Dupre posted by Bill Way on April 3, 2016 at 14:45:43:
This was a very nice download. It's been over 40 years since I heard this recording on a 7.5 1/2" 2 track prerecorded tape. I recognized the performance immediately, but the sound of remaster didn't match my recollection. After listening to the remaster three times, I finally figured out what the differences were:1. All the tape artifacts of the original were gone. No saturation distortion at all.
2. There was no background noise that I could hear at any reasonable volume setting. (Possibly resulting from less sensitive hearing than in my youth.)
3. There were no artifacts resulting from amplifier distortion or over driving my KLH 6 woofers and/or my Citation II amplifier. Hence no "impressive" hi-fi sound. My present Focal monitors have more than enough headroom to play this recording undistorted at full concert levels.
4. I don't recall hearing as wide and deep a sound stage, but back in those days I hadn't figured out that aspect of system setup.
5. The tonal balance seemed more or less the same as I recall from the 2 track tape, however the beautiful sheen of the brass was totally unexpected. I don't recall hearing an LP or CD of this performance, but the Mercury CD's were generally over bright, perhaps the brightest of any recordings in my entire library.
By the way, there don't appear to be any organ pedals below 30 Hz. Looking at the spectrum, I see some noise around 20 Hz, but it appears to be hall noise, as it does not vary with the music. The liner nodes claim that the organ had a 32 foot stop, but I didn't find evidence of its use.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Edits: 04/09/16
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Follow Ups
- Wow!!! A VERY nice download - Tony Lauck 11:02:45 04/09/16 (7)
- BTW - I notice Alan didn't link to the discussion over on Music Lane - Chris from Lafayette 10:31:54 04/10/16 (2)
- RE: BTW - I notice Alan didn't link to the discussion over on Music Lane - ahendler 19:41:01 04/10/16 (1)
- Saw your reference, but I didn't see a link - in any case, thanks! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 22:44:10 04/10/16 (0)
- I think everyone who has heard it (including Alan and me) has been REALLY impressed! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 08:42:42 04/10/16 (1)
- Thanks, Chris... - srl1 13:40:25 04/12/16 (0)
- RE: Wow!!! A VERY nice download - Bill Way 19:17:01 04/09/16 (1)
- RE: Wow!!! A VERY nice download - ahendler 19:46:08 04/10/16 (0)