In Reply to: Mahler 3: Need Help with High Rez Recording Versions posted by Mel on July 10, 2017 at 20:21:23:
The most important thing to consider here is that this is one truly excellent performance. I loved it the first time I heard it, including especially the Alto, Gerhild Romberger. The relative qualiies of the various formats are mere quibbles, I am sure, compared to the excellence of this performance.
Eat your hearts out guys, but I have a non-commercial, native DSD256 Mch version of the same performance made by a friend and Grammy-winning engineer who works with Jared. It is completely unedited, and the performance is remarkably clean without any obvious faults. He used his own special mikes and equipment in parallel with Jared's. The result is spectacular.
However, my Mch system needs DSP for speaker distance correction, bass management and Room EQ. The DSD256 version sounds amazingly realistic but somewhat distorted spatially on my system. Merging Technologies had been using this non-commercial recording as a demo for their NADAC at shows.
So, I play it as I normally do DSD material via conversion to PCM176 with full DSP processing, where it still ranks as the best recording I have ever heard. My good friend and recording critic for TAS, Andy Quint, agrees.
I am going to also acquire one of these commercial versions also for comparison. This thread now gives me something to think about as to which one. Maybe, it will just be the SACD.
Incidentally, my friend recently gave me a file of the last movement of a Budapest Das Lied Von der Erde also with Gerhild Romberger. Awesome and perhaps even a tad better as a recording. My engineer friend agrees. Really looking forward to the whole release.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Mahler 3: Need Help with High Rez Recording Versions - Fitzcaraldo215 08:01:30 07/11/17 (7)
- Interesting - I bet there will be demand for the unedited file you have too! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 10:21:29 07/11/17 (6)
- RE: Interesting - I bet there will be demand for the unedited file you have too! [nt] ;-) - tailspn 18:54:53 07/11/17 (1)
- Tom - thanks for the elaboration! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 00:54:54 07/12/17 (0)
- RE: Interesting - I bet there will be demand for the unedited file you have too! [nt] ;-) - Fitzcaraldo215 12:10:21 07/11/17 (1)
- Thanks, Fitz - I'm downloading it right now [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 18:09:27 07/11/17 (0)
- I bet there will be demand for the unedited file you have too! - Kal Rubinson 11:32:29 07/11/17 (1)
- Certainly [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:38:27 07/11/17 (0)