Hi-Rez Highway: The SKRYABIN / SVETLANOV Water Lily SACD is a sonic travisty and a slap in the face to anyone who loves realistic sound! by Teresa New high resolution SACD releases, players and technology.

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Posted by Teresa on July 21, 2005 at 19:26:11

In Reply to: Waterlily recordings posted by regreene on July 21, 2005 at 09:55:36:

Hi Mr. Greene here are some of your comments and my responses:

"But to object to lack of bass, say, or to claim there is no "midrange warmth" is just foolishness."
Why? enjoyment of orchestral music requires a solid bass foundation. And one should be able to hear the fundamental tone of String Basses, Cellos and Timpani not just the overtones, which is NOT the case on this poorly mic'ed Water Lily recording.

"There is as much bass on the recording as was actually there."
Untrue NO concert hall I have ever been in is totally devoid of low frequency energy or a glassy and cold sounding as this recording!

"I personally think that the recorded reality is the only way to go."
I agree but the SKRYABIN Water Lily SACD is NOT so recorded. Check out the single stereo microphone recordings by Bert White on Crystal Clear Direct to Disc of the London Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. Or the single stereo microphone recordings from Sheffield Lab of the LA Philharmonic and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Or the 2 and 3 microphone recordings on RCA Living Stereo. Or the 3 microphone recordings on Mercury Living Presence and Telarc. These all reproduce the bottom 2 octaves and actually sound like a real orchestra playing in a real hall or in the case of the Sheffield LA Phil LPs MGMs large studio. The Water Lily does not!!!!!! Also check out other Realistic sounding SACDs from Telarc, BIS, Delos, AudioQuest and others.

I can only comment on the SKRYABIN / SVETLANOV SACD as I have not heard the Shostakovich and Mahler ones.

Robert the registered posters on Hi-Res highway would not make illegal copies of SACDs and anyway SACDs are copy protected. To imply such a thing is a huge insult to everyone here! . This is only the third SACD in which the sound quality was so poor that I have issued a warning. The other two are Ozzfest 2002 Live Album and Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade with Valery Gergiev on Philips SACD.

Happy listening,
Teresa

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