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Re: My first SACD in over a year: the Channel Fischer Mahler 2nd.

As everyone knows, the Channel dynamics are indeed explosive. SACD, after vinyl, sounds hyper-realistic in this respect. Listening the SACD was a feeling akin to being consentually "man-handled." Fun, but not real. Lps can be just as thrilling, (take EMI's Muti/Philadelphia Rite of Spring, or EMI's Svetlanov/LSO Sheherazahde, for instance), but the sound is set back, much closer to what one hears live.

Funny that you mention the Muti "Rite." Superb performance and interpretation, but it suffers from horrible overload distortions. It sounds like EMI wanted this to be a demo record for show rooms, but they got greedy when setting the levels.


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