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In Reply to: RE: Plangent system - Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 Detroit/Paray/Dupre posted by Bill Way on April 03, 2016 at 14:45:43
This was a very nice download. It's been over 40 years since I heard this recording on a 7.5 1/2" 2 track prerecorded tape. I recognized the performance immediately, but the sound of remaster didn't match my recollection. After listening to the remaster three times, I finally figured out what the differences were:1. All the tape artifacts of the original were gone. No saturation distortion at all.
2. There was no background noise that I could hear at any reasonable volume setting. (Possibly resulting from less sensitive hearing than in my youth.)
3. There were no artifacts resulting from amplifier distortion or over driving my KLH 6 woofers and/or my Citation II amplifier. Hence no "impressive" hi-fi sound. My present Focal monitors have more than enough headroom to play this recording undistorted at full concert levels.
4. I don't recall hearing as wide and deep a sound stage, but back in those days I hadn't figured out that aspect of system setup.
5. The tonal balance seemed more or less the same as I recall from the 2 track tape, however the beautiful sheen of the brass was totally unexpected. I don't recall hearing an LP or CD of this performance, but the Mercury CD's were generally over bright, perhaps the brightest of any recordings in my entire library.
By the way, there don't appear to be any organ pedals below 30 Hz. Looking at the spectrum, I see some noise around 20 Hz, but it appears to be hall noise, as it does not vary with the music. The liner nodes claim that the organ had a 32 foot stop, but I didn't find evidence of its use.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Edits: 04/09/16Follow Ups:
. . . so here it is:
Yes I did. The discussion about buying music over again and further dow you bring up the Saint Saens? I am all over that conversation including providing links to the CD
Alan
for mentioning this album. It so happened that I had been listening to the second Living Presence box, and I had come to the Paray Saint-Saens 3rd. It sounds pretty good all by itself, but I ordered the CD from Amazon and just had a chance to hear it. It is wonderful! Hard to believe it's 59 years old.
I've downloaded the 24/96 FLAC and hopefully will give it a listen in the next few days.
Now we just have to convince young Mr. Fine to do the Freddie Fennell records. Imagine what the Crown Imperial March would sound like. The last time I heard that live it was done by a high school band playing in a big tent at a flower park in Chujikan. William Walton in Japan, surrounded by camellias the size of LPs. Lots of wrong notes, but they had the right feel for the piece. Japan always surprises.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
It was not Mr. Fine that produced the new processed 3 track. It was the Plangent people. That is the major source of improvement in sound. Tom Fine mixed the new 3 track down to a 2 track master. Believe me I could do that even with my 74 year old ears.
Alan
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