|
Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
|
|
|
Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
|
In Reply to: How important should audio quality be to the enjoyment of music? posted by John C. - Aussie on October 30, 2002 at 16:37:16:
That I guess is the reason why I'm purchasing audio equipment that ate up a substantial fraction of my savings. Whether I like it or not, I do care about the sound. I am an audiophile and I'm not 'ashamed' to be one. Great sounding CDs do sound quite fantastic through my system sometimes, especially solo instruments or small ensembles (due to my room size).But I just cannot resist it. Whenever a recording in the 20s 30s or 40s just strikes me.. it is very hard to resist. I keep my CDs in 2 piles - stereo and mono. And they are about equal. While I have no problems succumbing to Furtwangler, young Rubinstein, Rachnaninoff the pianist, Kreisler... I have to try real hard to try purchasing CDs from LSO Live, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Teldec.. Not that they are not great performances, they are - but it is always so difficult for me to find them. Maybe I have strange musical preferences.
I posted recently about the Tahra CD with the Dvorak Symphonies, which I had commented, had significant amount of surface noise. Performance-wise and price wise I would have just bought the disk without batting an eyelid, but I didn't becuase I had also heard the LSO Live one done by LSO/Colin Davis and I liked that too.
If I can't buy both (as I do not want to develop this bad habit of buying too many recordings and leaving them to rot in the shelf after being played once or twice), then which should I select? These questions often trouble me, and will continue to trouble me.
Just my opinions
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
