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RE: EMI Classics HD remasters

I'm glad you like these, but my experience has not been so favorable. I purchased three recordings, Brahms Deutsches Requiem, Mahler Symphony 9, and Mahler Das Lied. I was not happy with any of these and the sound did not match my (distant) recollection of what the LPs sounded like. Instead, it sounded flat (two dimensional), distorted (probably tape distortion) and slightly compressed dynamically. This was evidenced by the analog gain setting needed to play these recordings, vs. other 96/24 recordings from other labels (including some recent BIS recordings sold on eclassical.com).

I am waiting specific recommendations of individual recordings before I make any more purchases. My general impression is that the people doing the remastering may be workman engineers, but they are not audiophiles, and their equipment may not be completely up to snuff. Just the fact that they worked at 96/24 rather than a higher sample rate is suspect. It may be that they were a bit heavy handed on their processing as well. (I would really prefer a flat transfer of the tapes, as one has gotten on some jazz recordings from other labels that HDtracks.com sells.)

As a music lover, I would be delighted to be proven wrong in this judgment.



Tony Lauck

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

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