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RE: Some Recent SACD Acquisitions

I have not yet heard a BIS recording that has too much dynamio range and I have hundreds of them. The quiet passages are quiet because the musicians played them that way. I can think of a few reasons why someone might not like the wide dynamic range:

1. They are listening as background music while multitasking.
2. They have no clue as to what live classical music sounds like while sitting in a good seat of a good hall at a good concert.
3. Their domestic situation precludes listening at natural concert levels
4. Their system is incapable of reproducing orchestral sound at a natural row 10 concert volume.

If a system is incapable of producing undistorted sound peaks of at least 115 dB at the listening position then will be inadequate for reproducing large scale classical music in a natural way, except for a few recordings that are made with a more distant perspective, in which case 105 dB might suffice. It will be necessary to find a volume control setting at which a recording sounds "correct". This will require setting the correct playback level within about 1 dB and will be impossible with some equipment that has larger volume control steps.


I find the sound quality of BIS recordings to be mixed, with some of the recordings having a bit of a grainy sound. Their tonal balance is fine on a system that has been voiced so that the vast majority of recordings sound natural.

Tony Lauck

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


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