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RE: BIS dynamic range

A few hours ago I was at a live performance of Rossini's Cinderalla. I was sitting in the front row, some 20 feet from the soloists. The peak volume levels were well above 100 dB and I suspect that most people's systems would not be capable of reproducing these levels undistorted. If you try to play a wide dynamic range recording on a crippled system the results will be pathetic at best. If you want to listen to solo harpsichord, then Quad 57's will do a superb job.

I have no problem with the BIS dynamic range, but I do find that many of their recordings have a "grainy" sound quality. I've tried to correlate this to the listed equipment on the album art, but I have not yet found an explanation. Because of this problem, I do not consider BIS to be an "audiophile" label, but their musical selection is excellent and I have purchased hundreds of downloads at low prices via eclassical.com. Over the past two years the vast majority of my purchases have come via this web site because of the excellent musical content and the "daily specials". Most of these recordings have been in 44/16 or 44/24 format. Only the newest BIS recordings are at higher sampling rates, but these don't necessarily have better sound than the earlier 44/16 or analog tape recordings.









Tony Lauck

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



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