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...or the spring, the year:Bach lovers, rejoice:
Sony Japan has been putting out its back catalog of Glenn Gould Bach tapes in limited-edition (re)issues, all newly remastered in DSD.
All new covers (miniature reproductions of the original LP sleeves) and all new sonics: the DSD transfers audibly clear up the piano sound, enhance the details, improve dynamics, and open up the acoustic space (the last one not the easiest feat, given Gould's preferred close-up miking).
These will not come in SACD, I'm informed, so this is the chance to hear Gould's Bach digitally like never before. The catalog numbers run from SICC639 to SICC659. Of these, the '81 Goldbergs, the Italian Concerto/Partitas 1 & 2, and the Inventions & Sinfonias were issued in SACD already back in 1999, so no need to rush for those if you already have the SACD.
The attention to the detail goes as far as to accurately replicate the different coatings used in LP covers between the mid-'50s and the early '80s when these originally came out. That's for all the die-hard nostalgics.
Let's just hope there is enough demand to prompt Sony to give us the concertos and sonatas as well.
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1,890 Japanese yen per disc at HMV.co.jp, or about 15 bucks. Can you find a flawless mint audiophile-pressing LP edition for the same price?
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What, then: the distortion, the hum, the rumble, the constriction of dynamics, the available frequency range, the user-(un)friendliness, the expected life span, or...what? The smell? These also take a lot less space on your shelf.
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Or both. Very few here are former, too many are latter.I do prefer the smell of LPs, however. It's nice and vaguely evocative of something I can't quite put my fingers on.
Speaking of fingerprints, did I mention error correction capability?
Even mediocre LP system can give a sense to the music that CDs can't. Why do you think they are finally acknowledging the fetishism?
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