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RE: Storgards has been a bit under the radar for many of us

Chandos have not released it in SACD. It is only available in 16/44.1. stereo. This is because it is not originally a Chandos recording but a BBC one made at their new(ish) Media City studio in Salford (Manchester). This is home to the BBC Philharmonic and they have the luxury of a state of the art space designed for the purposes of recording and broadcasting. I regularly listen to broadcasts from there and SQ is uniformly excellent. So good that I wonder if you would know that it isn't a higher resolution format if you hadn't been told ( absence of surround sound notwithstanding)? BTW I don't suggest that the original recording format was 16/44.1. I think it may have been 24/96 given the new facilities at Salford.

Although I agree with your stance on avoiding format conversions to carry it to a logical conclusion would mean not buying SACD or DSD recordings. All will have been sample rate converted. The majority from PCM masters and those remaining during editing. Whatever the demerits of conversion are they will remain audible even if the final stage is conversion back to the original DSD.

Incidentally I have the Neschling Respighi Roman Festivals recording in both SACD and in its original recording format of 24/44.1. The latter sounds better than the SACD. I ought to check this again though as I believe that my SACD player was due a service at the time I did the comparison.

BTW have you noticed that Chandos appear to have removed that highly useful section on their website which gave details of all recordings in their catalogue including original recording format?


Edits: 11/08/16 11/08/16
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