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Re: Cassandra Sibilance - Recording Noise

I've noticed that (sibilance) too on more than one of her CD's! It occurs on both my home and work systems and both are (modest) tube systems. This leads me to another question that may be a bit naive, but here goes: On many of the instrumental and classical CD's I listen to, when I raise the volume to a 'satisfying' level for me (most folks tell me I like to listen at louder volumes) there is a marked hiss that is constant as long as there is recorded music (disappears with no signal, or in the short gaps between cuts). This hiss is quite distracting to me in silent or quiet passages where it is most apparent. It occurs on both of my (tube) systems, as well as in SS when I had it, only with specific recordings. Is this solely a function of the way the music is (originally) recorded? Would a better top-end improve this? I have this ideal in my mind to eliminate the hiss and have the instruments all occuring holographicly in a 'black' silent space. Perhaps this can never happen with these particular recordings. My systems are listed under the Inmate Sytems section, but I have a feeling they are not to blame. Two recordings that come to mind that this 'hiss' is apparent on are Rubenstein's Beethoven Piano Concerto's remastered from a 1956 recording on RCA, and the wonderful Ry Cooder colaboration with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt called A Meeting by the River.


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