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DGG Orchestral recordings are poor quality

"*Sidebar: Using the sound of live music as a reference is a great idea, but there are pitfalls in reality. I love Anne von Otter's Mahler "Urlicht," but the Deutsche Grammophon CD of it is as spot-miked and close-up as the average Diana Krall or Patricia Barber release. Andris Nelsons' new BSO CD of Tannhauser overture and Sibelius 2 is great, but... the soundstage is from Alice in Wonderland, it seems to me. So, at least as far as orchestral music goes, unless a loudspeaker designer is very very picky about chosing test tracks, he might be fooling himself."

I have long made a practice of avoiding Deutsche Grammophon recordings of orchestral music because of their use of multiple microphones, spot miking, and other practices that produce recordings that can not sound natural. I originally reached this conclusion back in the 1970's, and every few years update myself, with inevitably the same result. DGG solo music recordings and chamber music recordings seem to be OK.



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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