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In Reply to: About The Music? I Don't Feel That Is The Main Priority Here posted by Robertc88 on July 2, 2005 at 03:46:59:
I love both composers mentioned and would love to have all of Skryabin's Symphonies if they are recorded correctly. In time I am sure someone like Telarc will make decent recordings of these.
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... I think you ought to do yourself some good and spend money on some concert tickets and a plain ticket... fly to St. Petersburg and see for yourself.
This SACD is anemic in the lower registers, which causes the midrange and the even the high frequencies to sound incorrect. I do not believe for one second the St. Petersburg hall sounds glassy, cold, hard and totally devoid of low frequency energy, if so I never want to listen to an orchestra play there! Check out how realistic the Mercury Living Presence recordings done in the Bolshoi Hall, Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow sounds, it is warm deep bass, smooth midrange and beautiful delicate highs and the sound HUGH with pin-point imaging using 3 microphones. Or for that matter any recordings on Telarc, Mercury Living Presense, RCA Living Stereo or Reference Recordings.The Water Lily SACD is extremely bass shy; live music DOES NOT sound like this. This is why I am letting everyone listen to this disgraceful SACD for free.
... perhaps I am confusing the thunderous bass with local earthquakes, I do live in LA...
The 3 WaterLily SACDs have extremely full and deep bass with remarkable detail.
yours with thunderous bass and mine with no bottom end.
I found the way these open up is to play them really(!) loud and move the listening position forward. Stereo or MCH, although the latter doesn't require as much repositioning.
But sorry the bottom octaves are missing and that just will not do. The low frequencies do not have to have the energy of a Telarc but they should at least be there!BTW you can only listen in 2 channel stereo there is not MCH tracks which makes sense they only used 2 microphones.
the X/Y process does that...
Use a proper headamp to drive the Senns, otherwise you are listening to crap.
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"BTW you can only listen in 2 channel stereo there is not MCH tracks which makes sense they only used 2 microphones."Only the Scriabin. Check with REG about the others.
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